Category: Photography Topics

GVM Double Sided Mini Bi-color/RGB LED video Light, P/N GVM 7SM Usable for both video and still photography. 7 watts Kelvin – 2700 – 6500K, CRI rating of 97 Full spectrum RGB color 0-100% dimmability Packed in a hard case with dense foam separating the components. Thick nylon case with […]

The Friedman Archives Guide to Sony’s A7RV by Gary L. Friedman. I’ve owned the, rather complex, Sony A7RV for over a year and have used it extensively.  It wasn’t until I purchased Gary’s online edition of this book that I came into a nearly full understanding of all its features […]

So for years and years and years I would not shoot landscape photography unless it was an overcast sky.  Reason being I didn’t want shadows in my scene, but in particular on my buildings.  I found them rather unsightly.  I also sometimes will take a portion of an image from […]

Downtown Portland Maine Cheryl and I stayed a few days at the Westin Hotel in downtown Portland ME during mid September of 2018.  We spent a lot of time in South Portland and surrounding towns as we preferred that to the city scene.  This shot was taken from Bug Light […]

[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”4000″ lightbox=”true”]I like folding knives.  We used to call them “jack knives”. I like how they look, I like how they feel and I like using them. There… I said it. My fascination began with an Uncle of mine.  He would come down from Boston and visit us […]

[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]If your camera has a RAW setting you may just want to use it.  This is particularly important if the photograph is important to you and you want it to look it’s very best.  Here is why: 1) RAW format does not lose any information from the […]

[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] I belong to an online photography site that has weekly “challenges”. This challenge was: “Make RED your focal point in the photograph”. As a result I came up with painting the light bulb. Here is how it was done: 1). Black 1/4″ sheet of plexiglass bottom […]

I belong to an online photo community called Digital Photography Challenge.  A recent challenge was to photograph 7 of any object as long as they are all the same.  My wife Cheryl and I came up with the idea of photographing 7 flaming shot glasses.  Sounded cool to me because […]