Helping Small Businesses
I am just about finished my Business Administration Course (I know I have been saying this for a while, but it is a bit more complicated than it really should…
Web Pages
I came across someone asking for help for his website. He has lofty goals, but I think he has bitten off a bit more than he can chew. I will…
How to buy Canadian
A friend sent me the following.... [gn_quote style="1"] Christmas 2012 -- Birth of a New Tradition As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high-gear to provide…
retouching
In one of the LinkedIn groups I follow, Davesh asked for help with this image taken with, I am guessing, a cell phone camera with a dirty lens: with a…
Perfect Images
In the days of film, we photographers never really knew what our pictures looked like until we had the film developed{{1}}. When I was a kid growing up in a…
Watch for updates
I had a look over my gallery today and realized it needs some love. I will be reorganizing, updating and purging items over the next little while. I will also be fixing search terms to make it easier to find items. Quality over quantity.
technical info after the break…
Why I don’t like Haunted Houses (Way off Topic)
I took my daughter to Galey Farms Corn Maze tonight. We also went through their haunted house. It was all kind of fun, but I found out one thing that…
Printing and DPI vs PPI
I have seen a question asked in a number of forms (and forums). The most common variant seems to be along the lines of, "Why does my super expensive uber-camera…
Goldstream in the fall
I went to Goldstream Park today. The leaves are starting to change, and the morning light was pretty good. Because the park is I'm a narrow valley, the sun doesn't…
Old Photos
I randomly came across this image I had taken last year. At the time I put it in my rejects pile. One of the problems with the image was lack of sharpness, but the biggest issue was that I could not figure out how to make it work as an image.
As it happened, I came across this image shortly after meeting a graphic designer named Boo. Although she is just getting back into photography, her work has a gritty style I like. It seems to work well for this image. It also hides some of the flaws in the original capture. I have not printed it yet, but I like the story it is trying to tell. A little bit more tweaking and it may end up in my portfolio…