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Category Archives: Photography
Why I Use Professional Exposure Mode
A couple of months ago, Damien Franco of YourPhotoTips.com wrote about why he uses Aperture Priority Mode for most of his photography. It is an excellent article which shows how a photographer thinks through the exposure triangle of Shutter Speed-Aperture-ISO. … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged 18-200mm vr, aperture priority, nikon D70, professional mode, program mode, shutter
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Links to Better Photography
I have found Twitter to be a great resource for photography information, inspiration and education. I tend to collect things on the Internet. I have thousands of bookmarks and, with Twitter, I have a lot of Favorite tweets saved now, … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged beak, behavior, birds, bokeh, captive, darren rouse, humboldt penguin, mike panic, new york, nikon D70, rosamond gifford, scott bourne, syracuse, tips, zoo
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Two Photos for Every Scene
When looking through blogs and flickr photostreams, one can tell who are learning and who are the more experienced photographers. How? If you go through many posts or pages of photos and they are all in a Landscape orientation like … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged 18-200mm vr, boat, boating, lake, Lake Ontario, landscape, new york, nikon D70, orange, Photography, portrait, sunset, water
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The Star Spangled Banner
The flag flown by the Privateer Lynx was the same 15 star-15 stripe U. S. Flag which was over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. In 1814, the flag was still there in the early morning after a major … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Travel
Tagged 18-200mm vr, america, apple aperture 3, blue, cloudy, flag, history, mast, nikon D70, overcast, privateer lynx, red, rigging, ropes, sky, star spangled banner, tall ship, united states, war of 1812, white
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