Posts under ‘Photography’

Sometimes the first shot is all you need.
I was at work on a DVD and photo slideshow on Friday, so while it was rendering and burning I thought I’d try to set up a basic flower closeup. I took a few test shots, then set up the tripod and started playing with the exposure triangle: [...]

I decided to inject a little marketing into this week’s Photo Friday.
Thanks to the magic that is Amazon Kindle, you can get a copy of The Pack: Winter Kill on most mobile devices. Here we’ve got a MacBook Pro, an iPad, an iPod touch, and my wife’s Kindle. If my particular BlackBerry had been supported, [...]

Your eye doesn’t always have to be behind the camera to get a good shot.
I rather like this tight portrait of my son, and I shot it from about hip level as we were standing up. I just aimed the camera at him, he looked over at the camera, and I gave the camera half [...]

The Squirt’s class had an egg drop this morning, and I stopped over to take pictures as the custodian dropped box after box off of the roof. I took a nice picture of the custodian and one of his drops, flanked by the Squirt and one of his friends in the foreground. Unfortunately something went [...]

It was graduation night at the Academy of Okinawan Karate, making this week’s Photo Friday entry subject a no-brainer.
Tonight the school’s newest black belt, Mr Jason David, was the featured graduate. He performed three times, demonstrating an empty hand kata, a kobudo (weapons) kata, and put on a board breaking demonstration.
I cranked up the ISO [...]

This is what obsolescence looks like: a table full of VHS tapes.
We’re participating in the town-wide garage sales this weekend, and a big part of our sale is old VHS and audio cassette tapes. They’ve been sitting in storage beneath our stairs for a good two years now, and we don’t even have a VCR [...]

Friday’s Clutch concert and the ensuing chaotic weekend were not conducive to photography, so I’m posting late. Of course, I did post a bonus photo last week, so things balance out, yes?
Tonight I noticed the sun blazing orange in the sky and decided to jump on Lenore and shoot some pics from the saddle. I [...]

A little bonus photo:
When I fired up the grill, we had clear skies. Half an hour later, we had what you see above. The winds picked up, the temperatures dropped, and the clouds rolled in and took on these strange shapes. There was no lightning and there were no warnings on the weather sites I [...]

I get asked about process by other writers from time to time, so in light of yesterday’s blog post, I decided to make today’s Photo Friday a self portrait with a glimpse into a portion of my process.
If you click on the picture you’ll find some notes on the Flickr page, but in a nutshell, [...]

This week we staged a quick photo based on a fortune the Little Bird got at a Chinese restaurant:
If you click for the full-size, you’ll see the fortune says “An alien of some sort will be appearing to you shortly.”
Best. Fortune. EVER.