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Results tagged “photography”
Advice for the $2K Camera Budget
It's impossible to give generalized advice about what kind of camera to buy. However, I've recently been asked for what I'd recommend buying with a $2K budget. Here's the answer. Read on...
It Takes a Team to Photograph a TED
I've talked about what it was like to photograph at TEDGlobal 2009, but there's a lot more to getting the job done than my own contribution. It takes a full team of talented and dedicated people to get the job done. Read on...
Yellowstone Photo Double
Reading through my blogroll, I came across the announcement for a book. On the cover was a photo that I instantly recognized. A little digging turned up a neat double photo. Read on...
The Golden Bay
After a long and busy week, I stopped off on Treasure Island again and made some photographs in the golden light. Read on...
Our Pictures are Our Footprints
In many conversations, I hear some people suggest that snapshots aren't worthy as photographs. It's a notion I resist strongly. But, I've never said it as well as Joe McNally just did. Read on...
Treasure Island Pier
While on my way to SFO International Airport yesterday, I stopped off on Treasure Island and spent some time soaking up the views. Read on...
The Third Bucket
For more than a few reasons, I've been thinking about the various skills of photography and how they naturally group together. I think that there are three major groupings and have found that they serve to be a useful mental construct. Read on...
An Opportunity and Obligation
A few years back, I made a list of things I'd like to do as a professional photographer. This week, one of those things suddenly moved from the category of wish to that of opportunity. Read on...
Three Sisters, Three Portraits
While with family for the holidays, I was able to take a break from the typical Christmas day photographs and made some one-on-one portraits. Here are three portraits of three sisters. Read on...
Changing Your Point of View
A sure way to photographic dullsville is to take a picture from the same point of view that everyone sees the same scene from day in and day out. I think that this must be because we assign the viewpoints from which we’ve viewed the world from as boring. Read on...
The Store is Open
After a long time of wanting to do something like this, and after asking for your opinion about what photos to include, I'm happy to say that as of today, the store is open. I'm launching with 20 photographs and will be adding more to the collection as time allows. Read on...
Why Auto White Balance Isn't Perfect
Every digital camera made comes with a promise of making perfect pictures with the click of a button. The algorithms used to deliver on this promise, however, are by no means perfect, including the auto white balance algorithm. Read on...
Print Store Update
On April 2nd, I was pretty optimistic that I was just a couple of weeks away from launching an online store with the first of my prints for sale. As you know, I asked for a bit of help from all of you to help out. That process turned out to be a fantastic experience and resulted in a lot of feedback. Read on...
MySQL User Conference 2008
I've been in Santa Clara, California this last week photographing the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo. This is the fourth year that I've been the official photographer for this conference. Wow, has it really been that many years in a row? The big difference this year: MySQL is now part of Sun Microsystems. Read on...
Color Temperature and White Balance
Color temperature gives a way to describe the composition of light, specifically the spectrum of colors in light used to illuminate a subject. Once we know the color temperature of the light used, we can correct the information received by the sensor to make an acceptable image. Read on...
Measuring the Color of Light
White light is composed of different colors and, depending on the type of light, has a different overall color. Incandescent light is more yellow than the light emitted by the sun. The unit used to describe the color of light are degrees Kelvin. It's an odd unit to understand at first, but a bit of explanation takes care of things. Read on...
Crowdsourcing a Catalog
Last Wednesday, I asked for help selecting images that I should consider launching my upcoming print store with. The response has been awesome. Out of the collection of almost 6000 images in my photo stream, 129 were tagged with print requests by a virtual army of people. This has been crowdsourcing at its best. Read on...
Help Me Build a Catalog
I'm within a week or two of opening up an online storefront to offer prints of my photographs for sale. I've tested out all of the vendors involved and had test prints made of several images in sizes large and small. Now it's time to build the launch catalog and I'd like your help. Read on...
The Copyright Conspiracy
Copyright is supposed to protect the creator of an original work. When applied to the mass of creativity that is being unleashed by the general public on the Internet, however, its default protection is something akin to that provided by a piece of tissue paper when an elephant sneezes. This isn't how it was supposed to be. Read on...
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