A good ACDsee photo studio workflow eases the pain of cutting dozens, if not hundreds, of insect or wildlife photographs down to a few “keepers”. Here’s how I use it. Because a live subject is constantly moving, one tends to take too many similar shots, “just in case”. There just isn’t time to examine each […]
Back in the 1980’s I had an extensive collection of Olympus camera equipment, including an OM2 and an OM2N. Better yet, I had a bellows attachment. Well, actually, I still do. I have this hoarding affliction, especially when it comes to beautifully machined equipment. Fast forward to 2020 and I treated myself to a Nikon […]
I recently posted a picture of a frog in our garden pond to a neighbourhood facebook group. One comment I received was “What a click! Amazing”. And that (besides being gratifying – one likes to have one’s efforts praised) got me thinking what a tiny part of the photo the “click” really was. Before the […]
When it became obvious that the orchid I had been tending for almost five years was about to open its first flower, I decided on an impulse to make a time lapse video to capture the event. It’s possible that I should have put some more planning into this project. I started by setting up […]
The problem From around 1969 to 1991 I took slides, not photos. Probably earlier that that, as well. The ones I can find are stored in a filing box, in either the original slide box or in proprietary Bell and Howell slide cubes (small plastic boxes with up to 40 slides which one loads into […]
Sitting on the back deck on late Summer afternoons, there always seems to be a dragonfly flitting to and fro. They are way too fast and unpredictable to capture in flight, and they don’t seem to ever alight, so my challenge was how to get a decent photo. [Jump right to the photo gallery!] How […]
