A few days ago, around sunrise, the sky was just incredible. I couldn’t stop right then, but I rushed my errands and stopped at a local pond on my way back. No camera, just my phone. The phone automatically selected “sunrise/sunset” mode and did a good job of capturing the sky and clouds, but I […]
What looked like it was going to be a tiny amount of snow followed by rain which would wash it away, turned out to be a day of mixed precipitation with maybe two inches accumulating in places. Most significant though, was this mixture’s ability to stick to tree boughs and twigs. So the next morning, […]
I used to be very disappointed with my Fall photos not being as vivid as the colours I remembered. Over the years, cameras have got better at choosing a good exposure, and editors have added more tools for extracting a “look” from RAW images. Now I worry about having my photos look more real than […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
