I haven’t done a photography post in awhile. I have been doing a little nerd bashing (not that I think I am not a nerd, more segmented nerd bashing) and I thought I would take a break for some positive and uplifting thoughts on photography.
If you don’t look at flickr regularly, you should. Their [...]

We have all seen these wonderful photos. There is a subject in very sharp focus, and everything else fades to this soft blur. In photography, this blur is called Bokeh, and the cause is something called Depth of Field. This article is targeted towards those of you with point and shoot cameras or perhaps a [...]

So last night, I decided to go take some photos to give Aperture a real workout in RAW image processing. I love the view of Seattle from Gasworks Park and thought that if I hurried, I could catch it at sunset. I drove like hell and unfortunately just missed the sun.
I decided to take [...]

I have played with this before, but a co-worker, Steve Handy, did something really interesting with it, so I decided to play with it some more. There are several shots on my Flickr feed, but here is one I particularly liked.

So you just plopped down $1,000+ on one of the latest hip digital SLR cameras. You got hooked on taking photos and on your next trip to the camera store, or bhphotovideo.com if you are smart, and burned up your plastic for another $1,000 in a nicer lens, tripod and flash. You ate up [...]