It’s my greatest creative outlet, a dog with a camera.
Springtime at home means a steady stream of macro sots of flowers, and I am rarely disappointed to find a new way to photograph something I have done before. A key of course is a sharp lens, I doubt you get real crisp shots with a zoom lens. This one is with my trusty nifty […]
Sometimes I do not get what I intended in a photograph, and end up trashing them. In this case, I got something different, but better. This was a series where I was attempting to get a panning photo of something in motion, where you use a relatively slow shutter speed, and move the camera at […]
This week in ds106, my class starts a week of looking at visual storytelling, primarily in working with their own photographs. For me, this is some of my favorite stuff since I love taking photos. I’d like them all to get better at taking interesting photos, moving from snapshot mentality to be composing in their […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Stuart`Dootson I remain a big fan of compfight as my favorite tool for finding creative commons licensed photos from flickr. Just tonight I noticed the interface is updated- previously, clicking one of the small icon results launched the photo in flickr, now you get […]
You may not be aware of it, but your digital photos have more in them than colored pixels, modern cameras, mobile phones attach extra information that travels with the photo. This came up with discovery because a commenter on my site about returning a found camera asked about finding her own lost camera. I came […]
I’m sure someone who knows more about HDR or High Dynamic Range will shoot my stuff down, but I ran a fun photo experiment today (FWIW probably the best HDR tutorial is from Stuck in Customs). Basically it is a way to enhance photos that have a rane of dark and light values that are […]
If you engage in daily or at least regular bouts of photography, it can be easier to find interesting topics when traveling as you are constantly being bombarded with new visuals. But back at home, you may have to get inventive to find interesting subjects. I’m starting in my sixth year of doing a daily […]
Some of my favorite photos are ones that do not reveal themselves until I look at them on my computer, and see something I perhaps did not visualize when I took the photograph. I find the process of cropping my photos to be often one of those magical acts of creation by deletion. In this […]
This year marks the fifth I have run my own “daily photo” project (2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008), going back to that first year when D’Arcy Norman had invited others to join along with him. The act of focusing time every day, for over these 5 years, has very much helped me improve […]
It was more than a year ago that I got an email request from Millenium Press asking about license to use one of my Gigapan images for what sounded like an interesting project- they have published the world’s largest atlas of the world. Earth Platinum is a printed atlas that is 6 feet high! The […]
