A simple gallery of standalone photographs—spirals, sunsets, city streets and waterfalls—each shared with minimal text. It’s my place to let pictures speak for themselves.
I’ve started to take more digital video now, and I was appalled by the quality of audio I was getting on my camera. My video camera is a high-quality camera, but it suffered miserable audio quality. This quote from a shotgun microphone comparison about sums it up. In case you …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Shotgun MicrophoneFor my birthday this year Tammy surprised me with a new lens for my camera. She got me the Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM ultra-wide zoom lens. I’ve wanted an ultra-wide lens for a while because I find wide, landscape photography to be so much fun. Here is an example shot with …
Keep reading · 1 minute: New Camera LensI have decided that as of 2006, I’m going to officially make the transition to shooting all digital photos in RAW instead of JPEG1. I’ve been thinking about making this transition for a long while now, but I’ve always had reasons not to. I’ve decided I just need to “bite the …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: The Year of RAWI sent my Digital Photography Storage Explosion article to our editorial team at MarketWatch to see if they would be interested in an article version of it for our site. They said it looked interesting so I wrote up a much smaller version and it was published today. I got a …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Photo Storage Article PublishedThis is also avaiable in PDF format. You can also download the data used for analysis. Abstract Digital cameras have spread at an amazing rate. There are almost no film cameras being developed anymore, having been relegated to antique status. In fact, at the most recent …
Keep reading · 16 minutes: Digital Photography Storage ExplosionA couple of years ago when Tammy and I visited Disneyworld I was struck by the pervasive use of digital cameras and digital video equipment. I started to wonder, as I watched everyone around me merrily clicking away megabytes of storage, how much data is all this? This train of …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Terabytes of DisneyworldI’ve been going on and on for a while now with all my friends about how I’m not going to get a new digital camera until I can get one that has no focal length multiplier. (Not familiar with focal link multiplication? Read this.) Unfortunately there is only one camera I would get …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Camera Upgrade: Canon 20DThe weather in the mountains here is very erratic. On our final day at Star Hill we woke up to snow falling with high-winds and bright sun! Odd combinations. It was very windy, gusts over 40 mph the entire day and cloudy. The clouds departed as night approached but the wind did …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Final Night at Star HillThis morning we had a mini-fiasco right here at home! Tammy was taking pictures with the Canon Digital Elph. If you are not familiar, this is a tiny camera that you can put in your pocket. Great little camera. She was sitting on the floor taking pictures of Gypsie. I got my big …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Fiasco!It’s a week later and we finally finished putting up everything from our trip. It takes a while to sort through over 2,200 pictures! We were thinking of having some family over to go through some of our selected shots but decided against that in favor of putting up our photos …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Vacation Recap