May Assignment Ongoing Nature and Sprng
Flowers, trees, birds and bees, you name it.
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Altering Pixels or DPI??
Okay smart doodle pawrents hoping you can help a girl out with a non-doodle photo submission?
I have 3 pictures I was considering but not sure if the pixels and dpi's can be altered to meet their requirements?
2 pictures are 2048 and 1536 pixels with
Read more…Looking for a camera recommendation
Just looking for something nice for a beginner, nothing too fancy, something that the wife & I can take high quality pics or our son & of course our doodle. Not looking to spend a fortune would like to keep it around $500 or less. Really I guess firs
Read more…April and May Photography Lesson: Before and After
Everyone loves seeing before and afters. Me included! But I don't want this to be just a show and tell. My goal is that this is a place for us to learn.
Editing is such a complex subject and we are all at such different levels of experience. I think
Read more…Interesting APP for photography
Have you ever wanted to shoot a sunrise or sunset in back of or near a specific point?
I learned about this APP when I wanted to shoot the moon rising behind the San Diego City Skyline from Coronado Island across San Diego Bay/ Of course, I had a gen
Read more…March Assignment Trees
Anything and everything about trees. They are preparing for spring.
Read more…March Photography Lesson: New perspectives.
Trying new concepts or looking at an old subject in a new way can jump start our creativity and take our photography to a new level. So this month's assignment is about trying new things.
The Assignment
Go to a location of your choice and take as man
This would be a great character costume for a Star Wars episode.
Actually it is a barn owl, AKA: Screech Owl...
I went to a Raptor presentation at a wildlife conservancy and got a lot of great pictures of some beautiful birds like this Gyrfalcon...
And this Red Tailed Hawk
Hooterville
Here are some shots of the Hooterville model train layout at the Old Town San Diego Model Train Club. The trains run through two gigantic rooms, one set up as daytime and the other set up as night.
February Photography Lesson: Composition
Such a big topic and only one month! And a short month at that. I should have saved a longer month for this one.
One of the big things that separates a good photo from a snapshot is that extra attention to composition and detail. That second look befo
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Ideas for February Discussion
Help. Hardly anyone participated in January so we need a good dea for February that people will be drawn to.
Read more…January Assignment: Photographing your doodle indoors.
It's cold outside. So it's a great month to focus on indoor shooting.
For this assignment I'm not going to request that you use a flash or any fancy lighting. Natural light should be fine. We can take the principles for shooting outdoors inside. We wi
Read more…Plugable Microscope
Otis gave me a great toy for Christmas. It is a Plugable USB Microscope. Here are some of my first images.
While cleaning out my greenhouse I found two dead butterflies.
Black Swallow Tail
Monarch
Grain of pepper
Knuckle of little finger
January Assignment Wishes for the New Year in images, composites etc.
no politics please :)
Read more…December Assignment Suggested Day Photos
At last a December Assignment. We are going with the list Anne suggested but as usual anything goes, especially doodles.
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Holiday Lights Tutorial
The last couple of months I have been out in the garage trying to get Christmas lights bokeh in the background of shots I am taking of the dogs. This combined with the fact that I am also trying to use Off Camera Flash to really light the dogs has be
Read more…Photo Lesson 2: November. Aperture and Depth of Field
I was going to label this Aperture and Bokeh. But the definition of bokeh is the quality of the out of focus part of your image. I don't want to make this assignment more complicated than necessary so I am addressing just the technical aspect, and l
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