Category Archives: technique

Astrophotography on the Beach

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Rob

Tofino is a remote town.  Being on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, it is a long way from built up areas with only Ucluelet being anywhere close and that does not provide much light pollution.  Combine that with cold … Continue reading →

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Polarizer Effect on the Water

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Rob

If I remember – which I frequently don’t – I take my polarizer with me when I am going to photographing scenery.  With our trip up into the Cascades, we went to the overlook of Diablo Lake and the sun … Continue reading →

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Dropping the Shutter Speed in Bad Light

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Rob

My cloudy Vancouver shoot also gave me the chance to play around with some lower shutter speeds.  I have done this for the turboprops before but this time I decided to play with some of the jets.  A really low … Continue reading →

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Negative Lab Pro 2.0 Update

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Rob

A while back, I bought the Lightroom plugin, Negative Lab Pro.  This is a plugin that converts digital images of negatives to a positive image.  I wrote about it in this post.  A short time ago, the developer brought out … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Bay Pano

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Rob

Long distance views are not normally very clear but on this day, the view across the bay was pretty sharp so I shot a long distance panorama and Zoomified it.

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How Slow Can I Go With the Turboprops?

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Rob

Shooting Dash 8s and Q400s at YVR is not going to be particularly interesting so I was able to spend some time playing with shutter speeds progressively lower and lower.  Shooting very low shutter speeds on the 500mm handheld is … Continue reading →

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Staring at an Escalator

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Rob

I was waiting for some visitors at the airport.  At SeaTac, you stand at the top of the escalator waiting for people to come out from the shuttle station.  I was starting at the escalator for quite some time and … Continue reading →

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HDR Tech Comparison – What’s Up Lightroom?

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Rob

A while back I saw a Scott Kelby video on YouTube about the HDR functionality in Lightroom and that in Photoshop.  I had assumed that they were the same prior to seeing his video but he showed that the Photoshop … Continue reading →

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Recovering a Crashed Card

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Rob

I was downloading shots from two cards into Lightroom when one of the downloads seemed to hang.  I have seen this before and on those occasions, removing the card and starting again did the trick.  This time it didn’t and, … Continue reading →

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Negative Lab Pro

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Rob

In previous posts I have described my efforts at scanning old negatives using a digital camera, macro lens and a light table.  I have had mixed success with the process for converting the negatives into positives with some films responding … Continue reading →

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