Inspired by another Flickr member’s project (which is a very cheap, homemade version of the expensive Saberstrip), I took a few minutes and made this Pringles can strip light. (Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
Between 2001 and 2009, I recorded many thousands of sports images, mostly as part of my job for The Seminole Producer, a daily newspaper that covered Seminole County, Oklahoma. Over the years, I’m more able to see the faults in many of those images, but some of them stand out as really good, at least[...]
One concern of beginning photographers is their “keeper ratio” — the ratio of “keepers” versus total number of images recorded. This phase usually happens after they feel fairly comfortable with their cameras and after they’ve begun to settle into a photographic niche. I saw this question in a Canon forum recently: “I have owned my[...]
My curiosity was piqued by this thread in a Canon 60D group on Flickr, where the thread originator said: ” In the 2500 through 6400 ISO setting, the camera’s light sensitive [sic] changes very little”. He meant sensitivity. He included a chart showing how his shutter speed changed with each change of the ISO setting.[...]
“One of the things I like to do in my spare time is trying to capture a specific film look.” (Source) What the author meant is: I like to use software to force an otherwise decent digital photo to resemble a photo taken with a specific type of film.
(Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.) Some moments are fleeting — like sunsets. As a strong wind moved these clouds quickly northward, I found myself on the back porch with a 50mm lens on my Canon EOS 60D — effectively the field of view of an 80mm lens. That focal length[...]
In this YouTube video (be warned; it’s 16 minutes long), Kai Wong of Digital Rev pits the Nikon D70 and Canon 400D against a series of mishaps to show how durable they are (the video is mistitled regarding which cameras are tested). He drops them, bumps them into walls, lets elevator doors close on them,[...]
Will your DLSR’s battery drain quickly if you use the auto power-off (“sleep”) function instead of switching off the power manually? In my non-scientific study, I say it doesn’t matter. The issue came up when I answered an unrelated question (here) and I made the statement that I haven’t turned off a camera’s power switch[...]
In order to view raw file thumbnails from newer DSLRs in normal Windows 8 directories, you’ll need the Codec update found here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34871
Your DSLR came with a camera strap. But it was the uncomfortable kind that camera-makers always include in the box. So you bought a more comfortable strap with padding around the neck area and perhaps some elasticity. That’s better, right? And it’s probably enough if you’re a casual shooter who rarely wears the camera for[...]
Following are some passages I underlined during a reading of To Sail Beyond The Sunset (1987) by Robert A. Heinlein, the last novel he published before dying in 1988: “I remember Earth. I knew her when she was clean and green, mankind’s beautiful bride, sweet and lush and lovable… It is futile to mourn over[...]
There is a school of thought, albeit a relatively unpopular one, that poor grammar or punctuation on printed signs should be corrected with a Sharpie or other tool, vigilante style. In the News: Vigilante Copy Editor (New York Times) And there are older instances, such as this one (The Virginian-Pilot).
Following are some passages I underlined during a reading of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners (1985) by Robert A. Heinlein: “It does not do to encourage bad banners; one should retaliate, urbanely but firmly.”
In The News: Adobe starts subscription for Photoshop and Dreamweaver (BBC News) This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone; many software companies are moving in this direction. Instead of having to ship millions of boxes and discs every year when they upgrade the software, they’re just going to add the updates to the online[...]
Following are some passages I underlined during a reading of I Will Fear No Evil (1970) by Robert Heinlein: “…most people think of money as something to pay the rent. But a money man thinks of money in terms of what he can do with it.” “…it’s impossible for a woman to lay it on[...]
For about $5, I made this measuring cup holder that’s hidden inside a kitchen cabinet: (Copyright © 2013 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.)
My wife and I invoked our “30 minute rule” when watching this movie. The rule is: if the movie can’t interest either of us in 30 minutes, then we turn it off and quit wasting our time. According to Wikipedia, this film is based on a 1974 novel and “the story follows the hunt for[...]
Following are some passages I underlined during my 2002 reading of Stranger In A Strange Land (1961) by Robert Heinlein, of which I wrote on Nov. 14, 2002, “Perhaps the best book ever written.” (I no longer feel that way, but it’s still a pretty good book.)
There’s a new White House Tumblr page, and the first entry includes an image with this lettering: “ANIMATED GIFs (HARD ‘G’)”. First, let me say I’m proud that they didn’t put an apostrophe in “GIFs”, as so many on the internet seem to do these days.
Because I assume everyone wants to know my opinion (ha!)… In the News: Is Handwriting Still Important? The Digital Generation Skips Penmanship (BBC News) While I’m admittedly old-fashioned in many ways (for example, I don’t have a “smartphone”), I can usually argue practicality (for example: there’s no point in me having a smartphone). But the[...]
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