Well it’s getting to be the hottest part of the summer, and that means it’s time for the big trips to the middle of now where to come grinding to a hault. In the mean time, I have an individual project to keep us all on our game. The project The assignment is simple, photograph [...]

 July, 2008 Something to do in the Mean Time.

Well it’s here! Finely! Adobe has released the full version of Photoshop Lightroom 2. There’s nothing to see here, move along, move along.

 July, 2008 Photoshop Lightroom 2

I just saw this on Wimberley’s site, apparently the new Arca Swiss Z1 ballheads, at least those produced between some undetermined time and June 15, 2008, are composed of a 2-piece shaft, that is only glued together. This can result in the top of the shaft and clamp breaking away from the ball potentially causing [...]

 July, 2008 On Ballheads, a warning

Since the EOS 40D Canon has provided a way for users to save custom camera configurations, including shooting virtually all shooting and metering functions. Inside, we look at setting up those functions and how it works to use them.

 July, 2008 Canon’s Camera User Settings

The key to facilitating success is the three P’s of p-p-photography; preparation, patience and perseverance. Actually, that’s not quite true, it’s more like perpetration, perpetration, perpetration and luck. Keep in mind, shooting fireworks is about as close to shooting on an assignment for a newspaper, wire service or client as you can get without actually [...]

 July, 2008 Fireworks Post Show Thoughts

That’s right folks today is Independence day, at least in the USA, and to celebrate there’s nothing we like more than shooting off big things that explode! That’s right it’s fireworks time. So it’s time once again to get out our cameras and point them skyward and hopefully catch the fun as the heavens are [...]

 July, 2008 4th of July, Fireworks, Flashes and Funstuff