And with all the flair of Leap Day William, we are at the end of the second month of the year! At the start of the month, I wanted to better learn the ins-and-outs of the Sony a6000 that I have had for four years and to develop a system for organizing, editing, and exhibiting …
Guerrilla Journalism
So yesterday evening got interesting. After I got home from work I had some quick dinner and then grabbed my gym bag and my camera. The plan had been to take a couple quick pictures around town and then head to the gym. When I was walking toward the Prefecture, I saw a bunch of …
Shutter Delay
One of the challenges edits photos on my laptop is that the anti-reflective coating is coming off in some places. This creates blemishes that are sometimes hard to tell if they are part of the photo or on the screen until I scroll the photo to see if the blemish moves as well. It is …
Spotty Reception
So a few days ago I was looking through my photos and noticed that I had some spots on them. UFOs in the sky? To be totally honest, I have seen these in some shots for a while now, but I didn't know how to fix it. I figured it was either on my lens …
From Camera to Instagram
Wow, more than two thirds done with February already! Feels like it has gone much faster than January did, but time is weird a lot of the time. The last couple days I've been watching more tutorial videos and doing a deep spring-cleanesque organization of my hard drive. But I've developed a very rudimentary process …
Introduction to Adobe Lightroom
So at the encouragement of some friends, I decided to try the free 7-day trial of Adobe Lightroom. It seems to have many of the adjustment characteristics of Camera Raw in Photoshop, but the interface feels much cleaner than at least my CS6 version. Additionally, I like how it helps to select photos upon upload …
Self Portrait
Recently I went through a Self Portraits class on Skillshare. I was inspired by the creator's upbeat attitude, as well as some of the camera placements she used for the shots, like putting the camera in the dryer or refrigerator. It reminded me of watching Good Eats, in which Alton Brown was one of the …
Cityscape Photography
So I thought I would start looking at some new shooting styles by taking online classes. To begin, I started with this class from Skillshare on Cityscape Photography. In it, the instructor goes out into the Financial District of New York to take three styles of shots: SymmetryThe Look-UpThe Stride-By Afterwards I grabbed my camera …
Work in Progress
Not a ton to report on today. I've been looking at some Skillshare classes and YouTube videos for 'microproject' ideas. Since I work well with constraints, I feel like that will help foster creativity while adding diversity through doing a variety of them. Otherwise, just trying to do some research on the broader arcs of …
Menu Du Jour
I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos over the last few days on everything related to my Sony a6000. Some of them are travel videos showing off what the shots can look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyzZFpLeBk&feature=emb_title Others compare the a6000 to the other cameras in the Sony mirrorless family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Daqp35zNj0&feature=emb_title It was interesting to see that …
Chortles and Harrumphs 