Photography

Peter Phun on July 15th, 2009

Jude Dettman from upstate New York is a recent switcher to Macs. She did so apparently after my advice? Brave soul.
For starters, no, I do not own Apple shares. Wish I had some.
I happen to think if you don’t have a boatload of applications for photography and other graphics programs for the Windows platform, you [...]

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Peter Phun on July 4th, 2009

Fill-flash to the rescue–Taken in San Bernardino during a citywide tribute for  Winter Olympian Derek Parra, this picture would have been a disaster given the high noon lighting, baseball cap on my subject’s face. My flash was not on-camera. I held my flash on its extension sync cord with my left hand and aimed [...]

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Peter Phun on June 11th, 2009

There is a disturbing trend I’m spotting as more and more hobbyists turn to their new found passion/talents for digital photography.
Corporations like camera manufacturers, airlines and other high profile companies offer a meager prize and then in bury in the fine print or legalese somewhere that by entering this contest you hereby agree:

to grant the [...]

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Peter Phun on May 9th, 2009

If I were a pig, I’d be very bummed.
Lately I’ve been given a bad rep.
For one thing, folks think nothing about yelling “Swine” and using it as a curse word.
Didn’t anyone like the movie “Babe?”
I found this picture in my archives recently as I was looking for inspiration.
These newborns were under a heat lamp, enjoying [...]

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