Category Archives: Techniques
Identifying Stars with Lightroom
This week I’ve been on the hunt for Comet ISON, but that’s a post in itself. This one is about a trick I stumbled upon that helped me determine that I had, in fact, captured ISON this week and it’s … Continue reading
Want to critique my photos? Well, buddy… SIT and SPIN.
So I was working on a presentation for a local photo club on how to give proper and useful critiques and I wanted to come up with a mnemonic to give people for remembering the parts that go into a … Continue reading
Calculating Stops
Understanding stops (and how to calculate them) is a very important skill that is becoming all but lost in the age of built in exposure meters. Not that there’s anything wrong with letting the camera do the mundane work, but … Continue reading
Clone Shot: The Rock Tour
During Spontaneous Art Week my very cool friends invited some very cool KIVA kids to the newly built outdoor auditorium at a local park to break in the new stage by playing on any instruments they could scrounge up (including … Continue reading
Burning Filament How-To Video
Ever since my flaming 1up mushroom picture went semi-famous I’ve been getting questions about how it was taken. I’ve found some good write-ups online that talk about it, but nowhere that shows the whole process, so here you go. I’m … Continue reading