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Great concept, and a wonderful experience to have 4 generations together. I find myself wanting a little more contrast between the oldest hand and the wood/fabric she's resting her hand on. There's so much character in her skin, but it gets lost against the contrastiness of the surface. I...

2014-052: Part II Funny how you can look through shots immediately after taking them and pick one as the shot, only to come back the next day and find another. The shot above I really got excited about because of what happened with the top light. This morning, I seem to like this one better...

2014-052: I've seen this shot done a number of times and always liked it, so I decided to see how long it took the Mrs. to yell at me that I, "better not drop that on the bedroom carpet!!" For the curious, I used an umbrella off the front left and a constant LED handheld over top and behind...

2014-051: Snow's melting away, but not all that quickly. Canadian Geese Heaven Froze Over Too, Apparently Some ultra-wides of the Blue Army Shrine I was very fortunate, these skies lasted about 3 minutes and then closed up.

2014-050: Another (bit of a) throw-away, but the rains started, temps almost reached 40F, and the snow is starting to recede. I even managed to (finally) break up 20 feet of inch thick ice that engulfed part of our walkway and the front step. Snow levels seemed to have dropped about 4 inches...

Composition should start before you ever raise the camera to your eye, but that said, there are times when you need to square things away after the fact. Sometimes it's simply a matter of straightening a horizon and others it's all about cropping away the extra stuff you planned to crop before...

2014-049: Really can't wait for things to slow down and for the snow to melt so I can get out to shoot, and there's actually something besides piles of snow to take pics of. For now, another view of a very small corner of my office.

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Just got an email from B&H with some amazing deals, including LR5 for $69. Each email has a single use promo code, so you need to be on their list to get it, but there are some deals in their that don't require one, like... D7100 w/ 18-140mm bundle for $1296.95 Tiffen 77mm ND400 (10 stop) for...

2014-046: So, when are you guys going to come out here and feed me?!

Got notified that there was an update to Creative Cloud this morning. After the update was applied, the first image I opened sat there in Photoshop all by itself - all the toolbars and workspace palates were gone. Thankfully I have my default saved and it was quick enough to get it back, but...

2014-045: After 4 more inches of ice and snow last night the squirrels finally emerged to join the birds. Outside of some backbreaking shoveling and ice breaking I was too tired to do much more than shoot through the windows (hence some reflection). Thankfully I had a bunch of posers...

2014-044: 13 inches of snow, on top of the snow we already had, brought snow levels on our deck up to just below window sill level. This made for some interesting bird watching. So, I squatted down next to the window, grabbed the 70-200mm and tossed some seed out.

From watching the video on their site it seems that there's not much here that isn't in PS Elements already (and obviously LR & PS), and if the video is in real time the tool works much slower. That said, free is free. I had to chuckle at the opening frame of the video as I immediately found...

2014-043: Went in search of photos today and went down a road that I knew led to an old concrete quarry dug by folks working for Tom Edison. Found it, but had no way of getting to it in the snow (12' fences didn't help), so it may be a summer project. But a piece of "Private Property - No...

Thankfully my office is one door from my bedroom and I don't have to go out in this stuff except to clear it. We're supposed to get anywhere from 8-14" tonight, on top of the 8" of powder and ice we've got, but at least we know how to handle ourselves in it. ;) I've actually enjoyed going out...

2014-042: Long tables, lots of snow.

As if the timing couldn't be better, a friend of mine posted this to Facebook this morning - "Part Of My Tung Sol Collection - Life Is Too Short For Crappy Tone"

Since I first learned about the differences between DX and FX cameras (which, to my great embarrassment was not until after I purchased my first DSLR) the mathematics explaining the differences between them has always been a little confusing to me. For example, they say the DX sensor has a 1.5X...