A Photo a Day
The real trouble with photography is doing it often enough. When it’s a hobby or a side profession, it is all too easy for the day job to get in the way, to eat up all your time and energy, so that when you finally get home and have the chance to grab the camera, [...]
Bird Studio – Feeders
As my project to build a backyard bird studio gets underway, the first step is finding a bird feeder, because they’re not going to just show up on their own and twitter, “Hey, we’re here!” (Of course, this presupposes that you have a location for the feeder; if not, then you’re SOL.) My mom had [...]
Backyard Bird Photography
Over the past six months I’ve devoted a lot of my photographic energy to tackling bird photography. It’s a field that I find very rewarding and continue to have a lot of fun with, to the extent that I’ve adjusted some of my equipment to meet its specific conditions. What hasn’t changed, however, is that [...]
Some thoughts on location
On the DPChallenge forums the other evening, someone asked the question, “Do you ever feel limited by your location?” I found it interesting because it echoed some of my own thoughts lately on the same topic. The replies that were posted weren’t quite what I expected. I figured that most photographers would be like me [...]
Have Fun with Your Photos
Sometimes as photographers, I think we all forget to have fun with our photos. This is especially true for working photographers, who must always be running that ragged edge, getting the shots that really count, pleasing the client, on time and on budget. But it’s true for the hobbyist photographer as well – he who [...]
On the Road
Leaving soon to tackle the 5-hour drive to Vermont for a combination family visit/vacation/photo expedition. For those of you who might be geographically impaired, Vermont is a state located between New York and New Hampshire. It borders Massachusetts on the bottom and Canada on the top. Yes, it is rural and, in places, rustic. No, [...]
For the Birds
Wildlife photography is difficult, and bird photography, as a subset, is certainly no exception. As promised, I went out Saturday morning amid dense fog to see how I’d do. It was challenging, to say the least. In the fog, I was shooting the 50D+Sigma 70-200mm+2x teleconverter, which gave me f/5.6, ISO 1600, and about 1/320. [...]
Bird Photography – The Plan
What I know about photographing birds comes mostly from looking at photos others have taken and thinking, “Huh, must be a long lens.” But I’m going to give it a try. Birds are interesting in general, and as photography subjects I think it would be very rewarding to document their behaviors. They’re also devilishly trick [...]
Coming Attractions
* Just ordered a Speedlight Prokit 6 softbox; full review to come shortly. From what others are saying, this should be an interesting kit – the lit is modular plastic and breaks down to fold flat, which will be a great advance over my current DIY foamcore softbox. MPEX, the only American supplier, is out of [...]
New Project in the Works!
My posting may fall off here for a little while, as I’m neck-deep in projects. I seem to have become a builder of websites in the past month; I’m working on three different ones now, one of which is a personal project that will hopefully solve a problem that I’ve long been pondering. It’s a [...]
