Photography

I was out last night taking pictures of the fireworks in the neighborhood. Click here to see the whole fireworks slideshow. … [Read more...] about Last Night’s Fireworks

Well, no, just a photographer. A less wussy photographer. Digital cameras capture images using a light-sensitive sensor at the point where the lens focuses the image. In compact fun cameras, it's sealed away safely inside the camera body, so it stays clean all the time. In a DSLR like mine, however, it can get a little dusty. That's because I can swap the lenses on my camera, … [Read more...] about Today I Am A Man

One of my new favorite sites is Photoshop Disasters, which features actual commercial photoshop work that is bad or stupid. Check out, for example, this ad for Elizabeth Arden lipstick, where they've gone to the trouble to hire Catherine Zeta-Jones, and then photoshopped away all her actual facial features. Or how about this impossibly thin babe? Or this jaw-dropping horror? Or … [Read more...] about Photoshop Disasters

By the way, for anyone tempted to be impressed by some of my photography, when I was getting the photo of the toilet and plunger for the previous item, I had to take nine shots to get a composition I liked with the correct exposure to show details in both the white and the black objects. And I still had to use Photoshop to crop it a little and adjust the contrast curves to … [Read more...] about Eight Crappy Photos Lost to History

This last Sunday I got together with three other Chicago-area photographers for a model shoot at the Morton Arboretum. I'm trying to learn how to take attractive pictures of people, and this was a chance to learn and practice. I'm planning to post a few of the photos later. Meanwhile, what sort of complications do you suppose might arise while trying to photograph models in … [Read more...] about Complications at the Model Shoot…