By 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 ought to seriously consider switching.
It’s like getting 2 computers for the price of one. A word of caution here though. Some of your peripherals may have driver issues. But there shouldn’t be anything major except..
When you hit the “Eject” button to open the DVD drive, (your cup holder) it might close spilling your cup of coffee.
Anyway, Jude was kind enough to share some of her pictures from Flickr with me. Continue reading What’s in the Edges of Your Pictures?
By 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 downwards. Had it been on-camera, the foreground subjects would have been over-exposed. Compare this against the vertical picture after the jump.
In my earlier post “More Beginning Photographer Mistakes” I mentioned how not having an understanding of flash can be a source of problems. (See #15 in that post)
Camera manufacturers for prosumer models often include a built-in flash for convenience.
The high end professional models don’t feature such built-in/pop-up flashes because Continue reading Using On-camera Flash
By 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 contest . . . → Read More: Photography Contests & the Uninformed
By 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 the warmth of each other and the soft straw.
I don’t need to mimic the very nasal grunts I heard, do I?
As much as I like my picture, I have to share this other one with you all. Continue reading Swine
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