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Helping Hands
My son’s Scout Troop has been helping out at running races for several years now. Usually, we’ll work a water station, handing out water and/or sports drinks to the runners. Today, we worked a...
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Firelight
Here’s an unusual shot from a campout a couple weeks ago. We had a pretty nice fire going, and I got some shots of the fire, but I also got a few shots looking straight up at the trees overhead to...
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Walnut
The more photos you take, the more you’ll start to see the world as if you’re looking through a viewfinder. Good photos aren’t always the obvious ones. While hiking last weekend, this shadow jumped...
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Packed away, but not forgotten
When I last visited Slate Run Metro Park, it was January. Snow covered the ground, the house on the historic farm was closed up, and the staff was preparing for maple syrup season. Half a year later,...
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Pseudo-HDR in Lightroom
In an earlier post, I showed how you could synthesize an HDR effect by applying several different exposure settings (in sequence) to a single RAW image. Since I’ve started using Lightroom, I’ve gone...
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Giving me the Eye
I entered this photo in the photo.stackexchange.com picture of the week contest last week, and quite unexpectedly, it won. I say “unexpectedly” because I considered this a fairly unremarkable photo,...
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I know fireworks photos are a little cliche, but I’m fairly pleased with how these turned out. I shot all of these on a tripod at somewhere between 3 and 5 seconds’ exposure, and right around f/11...
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Making the most of bad lighting
A few weeks ago, I went for a hike, and needless to say, I brought my camera along. Although I started my hike fairly early in the morning, it was mid-morning before I knew it, and the sun was shining...
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If my last post was about making the most of bad lighting, this is about great lighting. If you read any photography articles, you’ll hear about “golden hour” — the hour just before sunset, or the...
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This shot was mostly about being in the right place at the right time — and having my camera & tripod in the back of my car. Just before sunset, I was on my way home, and I saw the storm on the...
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Textures
I came back from a recent trip to Gettysburg, PA with around 1500 photos, most of which were battlefield shots. Although some of these turned out well, most were “shot from the hip”, so they’re fairly...
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The Show Must Go On
If you’ve been watching my gallery and/or Facebook page, you’ll know I’m up to my eyeballs in EAA photos, but I thought this one was interesting because there are a couple of stories wrapped up here....
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Cleared to taxi
No matter how many times I hear a WW-II warbird start and throttle up, it never fails to send a shiver up my spine, and P-51′s are right up at the top of the list. When I got to the warbirds area,...
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Catch some Lightning
I was lucky enough to catch some great summer storms rolling through central Ohio last week, and I snagged a couple fairly decent lightning photos. Although it’s not as difficult as you might imagine...
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Double Wasp
Peering into the cowling From its huge prop to its signature gullwing stance, the story of the F4U Corsair is the story of a plane designed around an engine. When originally designed in 1938, the...
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Shoot a Silhouette
Silhouette photos can be a great way to handle tough lighting situations. Whenever you’re shooting into a light source, it’s tough to expose a subject properly without blowing out the background. You...
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Tripod shopping 101
For some people, money is no object when buying photography equipment. If you’re one of those people, you can stop reading now — this column isn’t for you. If you’re still here, you’ve probably had...
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The Basics of Exposure
Photographs are created when a medium of some sort is exposed to light for some period of time; hence, exposure. For digital photographers, the medium we’re exposing is the sensor of our camera....
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Adding textures in Photoshop
I’ve seen some nice examples of this technique, now, and I’ve been meaning to try this for a while. You can see what I’m talking about here — there’s a texture added to the photo here, helping to...
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StepShot review
Last week, I tried sharing my most recent post as a quick how-to example for someone who was trying to accomplish this same effect in Photoshop Elements, and my tutorial was found somewhat lacking....
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