Photographs, Photographers and Photography

It’s tough to remember everything when doing those panoramas!
So I made a small check list which I embossed and which now happilly resides in my camera bag:

You may like to do something similar. In my early attempts I kept messing up exposure for some reason …. not good for a guy who grew up […]

This is only a test. Answer Yes or No.
1 - I believe cameras are objects of beauty to be collected and should only be kept in climate controlled display cases.
2 - I like the strap lugs on my Leica M like on the early models where they are too far up and back, ensuring […]

Your intrepid photographer gets grilled by the law.
Now I’m not the sort of person to flout the law. Except that I speed, now and then, just like you do, the better to avoid being rear-ended by some poorly endowed guy in the Hummer behind me, I have always believed that doing things the legal […]

The whole megillah.
There are times of the year you really do not want to be driving on Highway One in central California. This is one of them. Make it a weekend and you would probably have more fun doing your taxes. You see, for reasons known only to the drafters of the […]

Some serious heaviosity, as Woody Allen once remarked.
Putting it all together calls for one more test; namely, combining High Dynamic Range photography (HDR) with QuickTime panoramic images. Not just a dry academic exercise as I propose to put this to work on my first field trip to the redwood forests where the dynamic range […]

A great utility program to gauge your picture size.
Free Ruler is just that. A small OS X application that shows a ruler on your screen which can display inches, centimetres, pixels or picas.
Here’s a screen shot in Photoshop S2 with FreeRuler set to show inches:

The ruler can be dragged around with the mouse and […]