Monthly Archives: March 2010

Blogging can be a pain in the butt.

Especially when you have a life. I was ahead of the game on my blog posts and then it all went to hell. I had to go back to Texas to attend a funeral.  That killed 6 days of productivity. Then yesterday morning I got a call asking me to do photography for Tuana Hair Design.  They are doing the hair and makeup for the CSU Fashion Show. I’ve got over 3000 photos on the … Continue reading

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BoP Episode Two: Sunlight and photographing people.

  The Basics of Photography (BoP) This is part of my series on the basics of photography. The purpose of these short tutorials is to teach you principles of photography which can be utilized regardless of what kind of equipment you have. These principles apply to cell phone cameras, point and shoots, SLR cameras and even shooting video. Nor does it make any difference if you’re using film or digital medium. Most of these techniques … Continue reading

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BoP Episode One: Placement of the subject and cropping.

  The Basics of Photography (BoP) This is part of my series on the basics of photography. The purpose of these short tutorials is to teach you principles of photography which can be utilized regardless of what kind of equipment you have. These principles apply to cell phone cameras, point and shoots, SLR cameras and even shooting video. Nor does it make any difference if you’re using film or digital medium. Most of these techniques … Continue reading

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Adobe Lightroom 2.6 review: follow up

A few follow up comments on Adobe Lightroom 2.6 I’ve noticed three things that are really annoying. 1. When working with really large (400 MB and up) tiff files I often get a message that says “An unknown error has occurred.”   So far I haven’t actually noticed any effects of this error, but since I don’t know what’s happening I can’t really say that “nothings happening”. 2. Memory management needs some help.  When working with … Continue reading

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Coworking in Fort Collins

Coworking is coming to Fort Collins.  Thanks to Angel Kwiatkowski and her obvious passion to do something new there will soon be an out-right honest-to-goodness kick-ass super-cool coworking organization right here in FoCo. Get involved!  You know you want to. You can check out some updates here on tumbler, and Angels twitter page is here.  Or you can join up for the fun via meetup: Cohere Coworking on meetup.com. Here is the latest update from … Continue reading

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