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These folks take better food pictures than me

I could write up a post about how to get better food photos, but you should really check out this post from the New York Times about how to get better food photos. It’s definitely geared toward the phone-photographer segment, which I suppose is most everyone. While I’m at it, I have to give a … Continue reading “These folks take better food pictures than me”

One tip and a complete fail: iPhone meets snowblower

So this week I was planning on taking advantage of Snowstorm Jonas to offer some tips on timelapses. I usually like to do this when I’m shoveling and you can see the whole progression of snow cleanup. Actually I didn’t do so bad with that for Snowstorm Hercules in 2014, but I wanted to do … Continue reading “One tip and a complete fail: iPhone meets snowblower”

I've worked as a multimedia journalist (that's pictures, video and words) at newspapers in Florida and upstate New York, I've got a master's degree in photography from Syracuse University, I've taught multimedia journalism at Stony Brook University for almost 6 years, and was a technical specialist at Canon USA.

I've used (and at one point or another, owned) everything from point-and-shoot cameras to full-frame DSLR and mirrorless cameras from Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, Sony and Fujifilm. I know my way around them all pretty well as that was what I was paid to do (and enjoyed).

That said, if I'm ever dispensing advice about medium format photography, film photography, or life, I'm probably wrong and/or lying. But you can believe all the other things I say about digital photography.