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January 11 I've heard a rumor from Ground Control Oh no, don't say it's true... The world lost a giant today. RIP, David Bowie.

January 10 Some interesting low hanging clouds following the rain this morning.

January 9 "Little Christmas" was Thursday. Guess what we're doing? And for poops and giggles I decided to see what this would twirl like...

January 8 Today's lesson, take the road you haven't taken before. Drove to meet my brother for lunch today and decided to go the back way into Flemington, NJ. Haven't driven that route in at least half a decade, so as I came into town I was stunned to see this on the side of an old abandoned...

January 7 Shot something for a photo challenge that I'll link back in a week or so. What you get today is a failed attempt to get a bird in flight shot. Just over top of the building in the background are some hills and what was a really nice morning sky, and my attempt to get these Canadian...

Do you mean in terms of MP's? That's actually quite typical in the Pro series cameras. 20MP's vs. 24MP's means you're losing 10% in image size, but the gains in IQ are more than made up for in the "loss". Larger pixel sizes are going to help tremendously with reducing noise (which to...

January 6 Was hoping for a little more than what I got when I stepped out into the frigid morning yesterday for the 10 minutes of free time I had as the sun was shining on the frost all over everything. Alas, I had the wrong lens and the sun was at a bad angle (20 minutes later would have been...

January 5 And continuing on with the Circle theme, here's another that wasn't submitted. Anyone remember "Picturediscs"?!

January 4 I needed to shoot a Circle theme for a photo challenge (the circle shape is a key element in the photo). Had a few ideas and shot a bunch of stuff. Here's one that didn't make the cut.

January 3 I've always liked shooting landscapes and outdoors in general. I've also taken an interest in learning a bit about art history and it seems that the first thing people learn to paint are landscapes... I managed to acquire a bunch of the Topaz tools and I've found myself drawn to...

Thanks, but this is one where it's all about the technique and what the software can do not a whole lot else, the photography in particular. So, while I'm happy this came out the way it did and that it's eye pleasing, I find the results almost always cool enough that someone would go "Wow"...

January 2 I suffer from occasional and severe bouts of insomnia. Almost never is it an issue with falling asleep, but it's an issue with getting back to sleep after waking up. When I know it'll be hours in bed before I get back to sleep I've taken to heading downstairs so I don't toss around...

January 1 Had a couple inquiries about my Sigma macro as a lens for non-macro functions. Questions about bokeh when used in a non-macro context were among them, so I shot a set of samples in a "near but not macro" context. Here are the results... f4 f5.6 f8 f11 f16 f22 f32...

OK, so I have some specific photography goals I want to accomplish this year, as well as some equipment decisions I need to make that I've talked about elsewhere. Anyway, there will be artifacts, many of which I probably wouldn't post elsewhere, but anything I might gain from them should...

Haven't posted shots in a while. I wish these were better but this is a "life" bird for me - a Crested Caracara in NJ. These aren't supposed to be anywhere north of southern TX and parts of FL, but one decided to park it about 15 miles from my house so I went out and froze until it showed (24...

What would it take to get you to abandon your Nikons for another camera? Better yet, what would it take to get you to switch even if you were absolutely happy with the equipment you have? That's the question I'm currently asking myself. Why? Because circumstances are such that I may be...

I'm finishing up a bunch of work in prep for a couple weeks off over Thanksgiving, so I've not had a moment to play with this - but I hope to soon. Here's what I gather from my reading so far. The issue is with the ACR/LR engine and how it interprets the RAW file. For some cameras and makes...

I've been using Adobe tools for almost 5 years now, since I got into DSLR photography. I've been mostly happy with the products I've bought/rented and didn't really bother to question what I was seeing in them until I bought the D750 and was forced to do a work around using a beta version of...

@Blacktop, with all due respect, you've obviously never visited NJ. You may have landed in an airport, but you've never been to my neck of the woods, or you're simply speaking in ignorance. Next street over we have two people with shooting ranges in their backyards - all perfectly legal and...

One of the things I've lived with since making Lightroom a critical part of my workflow over 3 years ago was the abysmally long import times. If I shoot 100 IR images on my D800, I can essentially stick the card in, start the process (which adds copyright metadata, a custom camera profile to...