October 7, 2024

What’s new in the iPhone 16 and iOS 18 Photos.

10th Anniversary edition of The Crap-Free Guide to iPhone Photography.

Every year I update the definitive guide to mastering your iPhone camera: The Crap-Free Guide to iPhone Photography. For many of us, the camera is the most important feature of your iPhone and the new Pro models always bring some slight improvements to better your photography.

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Photography
August 23, 2024

DIY Rav Moon PVC wall mount.

Those nice Orbis Magneto wall mounts? $120-150. Needing at least two, they’re definitely out of my price range. So I made my own wall mounts out of ½” PVC scraps. To buy the parts, it’s less than $10 per mount. Here’s how to do it.

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Music TongueDrum
August 18, 2024

Rav Moon tongue drum: A beginners guide.

If you are lucky enough to play a Rav Moon as your first serious idiophone, this article is for you. This covers fundamentals of playing as they apply specifically to the Moon.

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Music TongueDrum
July 1, 2024
Cemetery statue, Tilt movement, ISO 200, -.3 EV, ƒ︎11, 1.6 sec

Chapter 12: Painting with light.

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

Translated literally, photography means painting with light. I often take this idea literally as well and move the camera during a long exposure as if it were a brush. The resulting photos often combine blur, stuttering shadows and streaks of motion captured in the sweep of the camera. There’s much experimentation required to create an intriguing image with intentional blur. While techniques are open to interpretation and your own trial-and-error, here’s my workflow.

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Photography Leica Q2 Monochrom
June 23, 2024

Chapter 11: Recovering highlights in your DNGs in Lightroom for iPad.

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

Why are highlights so important to an image? For starters, overexposed highlights lost to pure white are more obvious than shadows lost to pure black. But sometimes with DNG files, highlights may look like they’ve been lost when they haven’t, so they’re recoverable. Other times they can be made less obvious in editing. This entry gives you some techniques for restoring them, as well as some tips on how to make overexposure not stand out as much.

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Photography Leica Q2 Monochrom
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