Among my photography friends I continue to have this running debate regarding one of landscape photography’s standard films, Fujifilm’s Velvia 50. I often maintain that the look and feel of this film cannot be replicated in digital photography nor accurately in post processing. Of course, some of my more computer savvy friends claim one can achieve anything with enough work in Photoshop and I have to admit this is true. However, several times over the years I have made a run at

My wife and I returned from a rather long trip to Washington DC, Long Island NY, Connecticut and Pennsylvania for a combination of family functions, photography, and work. I would say that about 2/3 of the trip represented cold, cloudy and rainy weather. However there were enough sunny days for me to obtain some decent images.
Most of the lighthouse images are of the Fire Island Light on Long Island. I found it to be a rather photogenic light and I

Having begun shooting in the days of film, I must admit that I have had this long established process of capturing images and  reviewing them after they were in my computer, whether it was a workstation or laptop; kind of the same process as with film. In my just completed trip to Arizona, I was committed to using live view; the Canon terminology for viewing the image ,”before” taking the picture. With Live View, one is able to “see” the

Just got back from a trip to Scottsdale to see family and a chance to enjoy some warmer weather. While down there, I had a chance to drive up to Bartlett Reservoir and photograph some of the Sonora Desert wildflowers that were in full bloom. Thanks to the Desert USA web site and their wildflower report, I would never have known to search this area. As it was, getting to Bartlett Reservoir was an hours drive form the family’s place

I though I would put together the cost for me to develop this WordPress site. Not included in this figure is my time in developing it, but I am not a programmer or developer. I do have a very limited knowledge of web site design and I am willing to get my hands dirty. That does mean that one makes mistakes, but if one fallows a process of backing things up and making copies before experimenting, you always have a

It is not that I haven’t known that iPhone/iPod Touch apps existed before even though I do not presently own an iPhone. As a Verizon user, I purchased an iPod Touch last year to install a couple of photography apps to use out in the filed, one being a Depth of Field calculator and the other was the On One app for controlling ones camera. However, with the introduction of Robert Giroux’s Easy Release, an app designed to allow photographers

Since my wife joined the Board of Trustee’s for Wilson College, the women’s college she attended in south Central Pennsylvania, I have the advantage of tagging along with her  three times a year. This year found us slotted between two storm systems. I was hopping  for snow but we got  warm weather. One sunny day I was able to get out and get some nice images of the country, barns and some horses.
Here are some of the images from this

A recent driving trip to the San Francisco Bay area gave us the opportunity to visit the Northern California coast. Although time was limited and the weather not necessarily cooperative I was able to capture some nice images of the Cape Cabrillo Light just north of Mendocino, Ca.
Here are a couple of those images along with a highlight of others of the Oregon and Northern California Lighthouses captured over the last several years.

Mr. Jack Dykinga had a rather interesting article in the March 2010 issue of Outdoor Photographer titled “Transforming Large Format.” Mr. Dykinga, a long time user of large format cameras, described a technique that he uses a standard DSLR and tilt/shift lenses to produce a image file the seize of a medium format camera. While the description of the technique was a little ambiguous in the article, essentially one mounts a DSLR vertically on a tripod with a tilt/shift lens

A photographer friend passed along to me the request by John Nack of Adobe for samples of images processed from another raw converter in which the photographer felt that their processor  did a better job than Lightroom. Of course the message was accompanied with a challenge for a couple of us to prove our Capture One Pro was a better raw processor than LR. I took on the challenge and I have spent the better part of the  last several