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#Photography Digital Camera Infrared ConversionSince the 1930’s, photographers have enjoyed the use of infrared films for both scientific and pictorial use. The infrared spectrum is beyond the ability of the human eye to see, and …

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I started playing with cameras and computers in the same summer back in the 1970's. Yeah, they really had computers back then. Or, what passed for them. Cameras had to be fed what we used to call "film" -inconvenient stuff that made you quit taking images and change rolls. I do freelance photography and graphics work. I'm learning about video production and editing. I play tennis. Traded in my TV habit for the internet - I spend about 20 hours a week surfing. What else? Well, fiscal conservative, social moderate, immigration isolationist, pro-choice, heavy drinking (Dr. Pepper), artistic computer nerd. That about sums me up. I have a wonderful wife and three-too-many teenagers at home.

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Digital Camera Infrared Conversion
March 15, 2010 – 8:26 am | No Comment
Digital Camera Infrared Conversion

#Photography Digital Camera Infrared ConversionSince the 1930’s, photographers have enjoyed the use of infrared films for both scientific and pictorial use. The infrared spectrum is beyond the ability of the human eye to see, and …

Bundles of MacFriendly Joy for a Great Cause
February 11, 2010 – 1:30 pm | 2 Comments
Bundles of MacFriendly Joy for a Great Cause

#mac #app @friendlymac bundles to support #animalrescue If you hurry and check out www.macfriendly.org, you can get two truly great deals. First, you can treat yourself to twelve Mac applications that are worthy of your …

Random Musings on Apple’s Migration Assistant
October 14, 2009 – 6:46 am | One Comment
Random Musings on Apple’s Migration Assistant

Well, this sums up my recent experience with Apple’s Migration Assistant. I just received my new Snow Leopard, 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor Mac Pro. It came with 8 gig of RAM, …

Analog to Digital Part 2: Interview with Craig Strong, Inventor of the Lensbaby
June 22, 2009 – 10:20 am | 2 Comments
Analog to Digital Part 2: Interview with Craig Strong, Inventor of the Lensbaby

In the beginning, there was light, and we captured it with film. Next came digital cameras, and then came the Lensbaby. Created by professional photographer Craig Strong, the Lensbaby has had an impact on photographers, …

Analog to Digital: Exclusive Interview with Photographer Craig Strong, Inventor of the Lensbaby
June 15, 2009 – 8:33 am | 9 Comments
Analog to Digital: Exclusive Interview with Photographer Craig Strong, Inventor of the Lensbaby

In the beginning, there was light, and we captured it with film. Next came digital cameras, and then came the Lensbaby. Created by professional photographer Craig Strong, the Lensbaby has had an impact on photographers, …

Enable ICC Profiles in Firefox 3.x
April 13, 2009 – 6:03 am | One Comment
Enable ICC Profiles in Firefox 3.x

The folks at Mozilla have quietly trumped all the other browsers (with a notable exception) in the area of more correctly displaying colors in photos. So quietly,in fact, they aren’t enabling it in their browser …

Be My Lens, Baby…always
March 18, 2009 – 9:10 am | 2 Comments
Be My Lens, Baby…always

Pt. 3 of 3:  Lensbaby Composer, Selective Focus SLR Camera Lens
Another improvement over my Lensbaby 2.0 is the lens cap – the 2.0 shipped with a nice, heavy solid metal lens cap that screwed in …

Be My Lens, Baby…again
March 17, 2009 – 7:21 am | 2 Comments
Be My Lens, Baby…again

Pt. 2 of 3:  Lensbaby Composer, Selective Focus SLR Camera Lens
Remember our fun with the Sima? The Lensbaby Composer (and all the Lensbaby line, since they use interchangeable elements) is 50mm in focal length compared …

Be My Lens, Baby!
March 16, 2009 – 8:08 am | 2 Comments
Be My Lens, Baby!

Pt. 1 of 3:  Lensbaby Composer, Selective Focus SLR Camera Lens
Soon after receiving my first 35mm camera, I found that photography was a little more difficult than it had first looked. Ok, it was a …

Ray Flash: The Ring Flash Adapter
November 24, 2008 – 10:56 am | 3 Comments
Ray Flash: The Ring Flash Adapter

Ray Flash, a portable ring light for your Canon or Nikon DSLR camera system
Tonight I was making whipped cream for my wife’s dessert. It brought back fond memories of my mother making whipped cream, usually …

Photojojo can set your creativity free
November 3, 2008 – 7:50 am | One Comment
Photojojo can set your creativity free

No kitsch here. Photojojo.com is an original, exciting breath of fresh air. The slightly irreverent tenor and decidedly different ideas and photo projects make this site required reading for photographers and other artists in general.

Musings on Washing Machines and CompactFlash cards
August 4, 2008 – 3:37 pm | No Comment
Musings on Washing Machines and CompactFlash cards

If you have read any of my previous articles, you will already know that as a writer I tend to ramble, and that I am a photographer and computer geek. I like cameras more than …

The Nikon D3
May 26, 2008 – 12:45 pm | 2 Comments
The Nikon D3

I was always an F kind of guy. My first Nikon pro camera was the original F – a 1971 black body FTN. It supplemented my FM2 and I had it until just a couple …

Adobe Bridge
December 4, 2007 – 3:35 pm | No Comment
Adobe Bridge

Wow, what a great title for my first article on Adobe CS3 Bridge. Really, I came up with it myself. Me, you ask? Well, I’m kind of a manual/mechanical guy. I’m a photographer, and somewhat …

Adobe Bridge Revisited
December 3, 2007 – 3:14 pm | No Comment
Adobe Bridge Revisited

I’m a rambling man, but I generally ramble with a purpose. I love CS3 Bridge and Camera Raw, and can talk all day about how I use them. However, I understand that most folks kind …