Use Pictures, Videos, and Sound Files to Get Your Message Across While text is an indispensable medium for Web communication, it cannot be consumed in large quantities. Computer screens, no matter how good, tire the eyes; and scrolling down to read more text gets wearisome quickly. Pictures help to communicate without words, music adorns and [...]
I noticed in my hometown paper that I have been part of a recent consumer trend: increasing demand for outdated equipment, like wind-up watches, and film cameras. I’m trendy, all right, guilty on both counts! If you happen to be fond of excellently made but technologically obsolete cameras you may be interested in the following [...]
A neighbor gave me a good old Minolta manual focus camera a while ago (an SRT 101), so I decided to put a couple of rolls through it, and was pleased with the outcome. Then, since I already had a collection of good Nikon lenses, I decided to buy a Nikon F3, which was produced [...]
Beginning digital photographers are likely to start with “point and shoot” cameras which do everything for you: focus automatically, expose automatically. Some of these cameras have rather low resolution capabilities. My first was a 2 megapixel Fuji. Nevertheless, even with simple and inexpensive cameras like that you can take some terrific photos if you are [...]
EXIF stands for “Exchageable Image File Format”. EXIF information is embedded in the code of photos taken by most digital cameras. If a Flickr member has allowed “More Properties” to show in his/her photo stream, then viewers can see EXIF information by clicking on “More Properties” under “Additional Information”, to the right of each photo. [...]
On a recent Meet-up outing to the beautiful little town of Chesapeake City, Maryland, I tagged along with my Brandywine Photo Collective friend, Gerry Meekins, to learn how he shoots with a vintage 4×5 camera. (That’s photog speak for four inches by five inches, the most popular negative size for large format photography). What is [...]
I’ve had the opportunity to help a number of organizations prepare digital pictures for their websites, and I observe that the poor quality of some of those photos has more to do with the way people use their cameras rather than the quality of the cameras themselves. Here are the three most frequent mistakes: 1. [...]
Recently I purchased SoundSlides, a software program designed for photojournalists who want to tell their stories with pictures easily and quickly. You open a folder of .jpeg pictures and an .mp3 sound file in SoundSlides and the program handily makes the slides into a show whose length coincides with the length of the sound file. [...]
I never got much interested in birding earlier in life because I found it difficult to identify a bird upon recollection of a mere glimpse in the field. Now, with telephoto lenses I can record what I see and identify it later. Great fun! Shooting birds with a camera has made me much more aware [...]
