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I finally got the opportunity to spend two days in the company on Joe McNally at a seminar arranged by Sharlie Douglas of Nikon and Larry Wheeler of Houston Camera Exchange. While the audience was primarily made up of Nikon users, I wasn’t the lone Canonista. I also learned some areas where Nikon Speedlights have advantages over Canon Speedlites. Like the David Ziser ‘Captured by the Light’ evening I attended the previous week, the two days with Joe were both […]
Over the Labor Day weekend I was trying to catch up on some of my personal photos and came across this image I took in May 2009 while cleaning out my junk from my mother’s attic. My sister had been badgering me for a couple of years to clean sweep so I finally took a flight across the pond to do the deed. Initially I found the task quite difficult – the attic housed much of my first 30 years […]
I was working on some client files over the weekend when the ‘accident’ above occurred. I was in Photoshop CS5 and going to add a layer mask to the image when I accidentally clicked on the add adjustment layer icon, then the Posterize… feature, et voila!, the image above appeared. I was quite taken by the result have never posterized anything before.[ad name=”post”] According to Wikipedia, posterization, “entails conversion of a continuous graduation of tone to several regions of fewer […]
It’s HOT in Texas at this time of the year! Having lived in the Houston area for all but two of the last 15 years, you’d think I’d be used to it, but I’m not. Sure it was hotter in Libya, I recall a few days when the thermometer showed 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) but that’s only because that was the top of the range for the thermometer at the airstrip. I’ve no idea how hot it really was those […]
I recently had the opportunity to photograph the interior of a house decorated by my wife, Karen Davis, of Karen Davis Design. The house was remodeled and extended by Artisan Brothers of Sugar Land. Photographing interiors is a new field for me, I’m more comfortable with exteriors, but then pushing on the boundaries of our comfort zones is how we grow and learn. This gallery is a small sample from a half-day on location. With little time available to shoot […]
So this is the only Mig I could find in my archives – a Mig 17A on display at the The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler, GA, just west of Savannah. But this post has nothing to do cold war era Soviet fighter planes, this post is about MigRecover, a utility for recovering files from Windows Easy Transfer .mig files when your upgrade goes west, as mine did. Back on April 28th I posted on how Dell had […]