Graduated Neutral Density Filters For Better Listing Photos A Neutral Density Filter reduces the amount of light that passes thru the lens on your DSLR or film camera. Either a larger aperture, or a slower shutter speed must be used if you want the same exposure for your photograph. If your
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12/12/2009
Reminiscing On Last Christmas I have been reminiscing about our Christmas last year, spent in Oregon with my brother and my niece. One of the highlights of the trip was a walk my brother and I took into the woods around his town of Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Oregon is a small, old gold min
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12/11/2009
Baby, It's Cold Outside! We have had some seriously cold weather the past week or two. Currently, (according to the Weather Channel), the temperature in Colorado Springs, (about 6500 feet in elevation), is 4 degrees below zero, windchill of 17 below. Of course, here in Woodland Park, at an ele
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12/09/2009
On this, the 68th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the morning of December 7, 1941. "Unconditional Surrender" The famous World War ll photo of a sailor kissing a nurse at the announcement of V-J Day, first seen by millions in Life Magazine, was memorialize
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12/07/2009
When Trying To Make A Good Impression Goes Wrong... You know what it's like when you're doing everything you can to make a good impression, and things, well, things just don't go right? I was witness to just that experience today. This is the story as I watched it unfold. The little lady w
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12/06/2009
Metering the Shot - Sounds Complicated, But It Isn't!First, I want to say that this post was inspired by a comment from Myrl Jeffcoat in one of my posts. This is the scenario: You are outside on a sunny day. A beautiful scene lays before you, and you are so excited to capture it with your camer
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12/03/2009
Photography - Simple Lighting Techniques - Improvize! I like to play with lighting for different effects when I shoot indoors. While having special equipment and flash is great, if you don't have it, you can still make some very nice photographs by using 'on hand' lighting tools. Buy both a bla
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12/02/2009
The Active Rain PhotoBlogger Group is excited to announce an Active Rain FIRST! The Active Rain PhotoBlogger Group "Award of Merit Ribbon for Excellence" The PBG Award Of Merit Ribbon will be a
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12/01/2009
Converting Color to Black and White - Photography - NX2 I love black and white photography. Especially the work of Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams was a photographer and an environmentalist, and is most famous for his photographs of the American West. In 1941, he contracted with the US
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11/29/2009
Our Nation's Symbol Was Almost The Turkey... After the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, a committee was formed to come up with an idea for the new country's seal. The committee members were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. The idea they
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11/24/2009