Setting White Balance on iPhone
With the cameras steadily improving on smart phones more people are starting to use their phones as their go to point and shoot camera. I decided to test the boundaries and try to do an entire product photoshoot using nothing but my iPhone. The results? Surprisingly good with some catches. Specifically the inability to opt out of the automatic settings was a problem. It kept changing the exposure and white balance values based on the...
Daylight Fluorescent Bulbs for Digital Photography
Among the hardest things to do in photography is establishing the right light. At least for someone like myself that knows very little about photography or lighting. I do however know one thing for sure. I don’t like yellow photos. Old tungsten lights make my pictures yellow. Florescent lights (office kind and curly household variety) make my pictures yellow. I don’t like yellow photos (I know I already mentioned it) There...
Using Portfolio Pages Instead of Traditional Gallerys
Traditional galleries are great. You select an entire folder full of pictures, upload and you are done. It’s easy an almost completely useless. That’s correct I said useless. There is little interaction, searchability or info associated with such an approach to galleries. What if you could create galleries where each picture was tagged with relevant information, users could comment on the picture, rich amounts of...
LUCK & Photography
Ever hear a really great pro say they got lucky? It does happen however more often than not you see a great image and comment on it or ask the photographer about it and they reply I was quite fortunate (or Lucky) to get that image. That’s because with all the planning and research into a location, weather patterns for that time of year etc.. there is always the unexpected. What they fail to mention is that while luck has a bit...
Falling Waters
It’s no secret I love waterfalls, the beach and moving water. It soothes and centers me, the percolation of water stealthily traveling beneath rocks, the rhythmic raspy friction of receding waves grating over sand on its return journey to the sea or the steady trickle that eases my mind when I allow it to enter my consciousness. It literally washes away the dis-ease that tugs at my mind after a long week or a particularly stressful...
Enders Falls, Granby Ct
Took a trip to Granby Ct over the Labor Day Weekend and went to Enders State Forest to check out Ender’s Falls. Enders Falls is comprised of a series of 6 waterfalls that are easily accessible from the parking lot and although a bit steep in places it is not daunting. So we, my girlfriend and her 12 year old daughter, headed out from our base in Middletown CT and arrived around 11ish in the morning. The parking lot already had 2 or 3...