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.

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.

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.

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.

Chapter 10: Never trust a histogram.

The Leica Q2 Monochrom journal.

We commonly rely on histograms for exposing our DNG files, but they’re often incorrect. The histogram in the Leica Q2 Monochrom (and most cameras for that matter) is taken off the JPG preview image. You’d think it’s a conservative indicator of the eight-stop light range of a JPG, but it’s often wrong. Some DNG files can look dark because they don’t make full use of the light range of the sensor. Other images may have highlights burned into pure white when the histogram indicates you’re well within confines. This entry will help you get more accurate exposures by forgetting the histogram.