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June 10, 2009

A Concise Guide to Essential Photography Accessories

So, maybe you have a telephoto, a standard, and a wide angle lens in your bag? Maybe your camera body is top-notch, and you also have a great flash? Well, what else can you spend good money on?

Joking aside, accessories aren’t simply ways to spend money, they’re tools that’ll help you create the image you want to show and share. “Accessories” as a term makes them seem ‘extra’, but those that I’ll list are in fact essential to how I construct photos.

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June 08, 2009

Why Digital Photography?

Once you’ve metered the shot, determined the right combination of shutter speed & aperture, you then create the composition.

If you’re one of those delayed-gratification people, digital may not be for you.

The fact of the matter is, digital photography is immediately rewarding. That is its asset.

Is digital photography fundamentally different from film? No, it really isn’t. Both types of systems work via the same principles; capture light via shutter speed, aperture, and sensitivity (ISO) controls.

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May 08, 2009

Are Websites Designed Entirely in Flash Good or Bad?

The short answer leans closer and closer to “bad” as the years move on. But I’ll explain…

From the perspective of a photographer and graphic designer, there are a number things to be said about HTML vs. Flash.

The Pros: dynamic aesthetics are under full control by the programmer (with HTML, you’re limited to static pages, for the most part).
The Cons: Google (or Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, etc.) doesn’t recognize anything inside Flash, it simply recognizes the Flash object itself. With HTML pages, Google will recognize all the jpegs and text, and index it that way.

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