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Sony A7RV Users Manual – Recommended.
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 and how to use them. Although I have studied the…
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To shoot or not to shoot? That is the question.
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 my “library” and past it into another image for artistic…
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Downtown Portland Maine
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 Park. That’s the home of the Bug Light Lighthouse (see…
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Knife collection (folding knives only).
[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 in the summers. He was a rugged old Korean war…
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Shoot RAW!
[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 image during processing. 2) You can recover most, if not…
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Painting with light – (well not really)
[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 and backdrop. 2). Modeling clay was used at the base…
