My copy of iPhoto’09 is finally here.
Apologies to Windows users, you can skip this post, it’s Mac specific.
 My favorite Fedex gal just dropped it off.Â
Most of my “stuff†comes via UPS or Fedex.
I’m backing up my iPhoto library to another volume before I install it.
Never upgrade without doing backing up.
Baseball was not my favorite sport to cover. Bases can be loaded inning after inning and no one scores. Then out-of-the-blue, all hell breaks loose and a collision at home plate occurs. Thankfully I wasn’t asleep here. Picture taken with a Nikon F4 triggered by a foot pedal. 180 f2.8 lens prefocused at home plate. Fujichrome 100 1/2000 @ f2.8 . Angels Stadium, Anaheim.
So let’s assume you’re in and you’ve gotten the nod to shoot your first sports assignment.
Sorry, those professional baseball, basketball and Big 10 college football games will be covered by the staff photographers because they’ll appear on the cover of the section.
Don’t despair, as you get better, you’ll get to the front page of the Sports section. If you have a really good picture, it may run on the front page, but  let’s not get ahead of ourselves yet. Continue reading Freelancing for Newspapers–Part 3
When the light levels are so horrendous that photographers describe those arenas as “dark as dungeons,” you may not have a choice but to “pan” with the action. ISO 1600 1/60 sec @ f5.6 80-200 zoom at 200 mm.
A few posts back, I mentioned blurry basketball pictures. As I think about it now, sometimes even with the most expensive equipment, all you can do is get by.
I dug through my personal pictures recently and I found some of my own. So Jane, you are not alone. Even professional photographers take bad pictures. They just don’t show anyone. Well, I’ve been showing them to my students. Continue reading My Blurry Basketball Pictures
If you’re lucky enough to live in Southern California or are visiting during holiday season between Thanksgiving and the New Year, you have to check this out.
No, you don’t have to be a photography buff to enjoy this free attraction in the city of Long Beach.
I have a minivan that seats 7, so I somehow ended up with all the kids by myself while the adults hopped into 2 other cars. Continue reading Naples Island at night with Christmas Lights