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Posted on June 27, 2020June 27, 2020

Brand New Minneapolis

The year is 2020. Minneapolis – my city – is going through some tough times

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Posted on May 14, 2020January 13, 2021

Dynamic Range For Dummies, By A Dummy

Recently I spent some time reading explanations of dynamic range, on various photography web sites. It was heavy going.

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Posted on January 6, 2020January 21, 2020

Winter photos on overcast days

On a sunny winter day there can be so much dynamic range in a scene that you may decide to use HDR techniques to reduce it. Even then you may end up with a lot of washed out white and noisy shadows. And the heavy contrast of brilliant snow and dark shadows may be just a big distraction from the real subject.

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  • Color Spaces and POD sites: a gamut of confusion
  • DPI: a concept you should forget.
  • Blue Tracks on Vinyl
  • Carhenge, and car keys
  • A Train to Nowhere
  • OneDrive photo backup: keywords vanish in the cloud…
  • A Megamall Parking Ramp
  • IDS Center, MinneapolisThe “Shift” of a Tilt-Shift Adapter
  • Referrer spam: with friends like these…
  • Power on the Mississippi
  • Minneapolis, darker
  • The Dance of Sitemaps
  • The ‘duplicate content’ myth
  • Insects with an LED ring flash
  • Halactid beeInsect photography: it’s all in the wrist
  • Honeybee on ButterflyweedA Bug’s World of Color
  • Sitemaps to Nowhere
  • Facebook For Photographers: a Black Hole
  • MinneapolisBrand New Minneapolis
  • Google Lets Me Live – Barely
  • Google Takes It Back
  • IDS Center, MinneapolisIDS Center : Icon of 70s Cool
  • Dynamic Range For Dummies, By A Dummy
  • Macro Confusion
  • High Density Heron Housing
  • Dodging Security Guards
  • Whale Photography For Dummies
  • Not Taken By A Phone
  • Rule of Thirds, and the “Armature”
  • Ancient Tail Lights
  • The Pigeon Photo
  • See it in B&W with “Picture Control”
  • Sometimes the photo just sort of appears…
  • Nicollet Mall In Limbo
  • The Problem of Unloading Old Gear
  • Birds’ Eyes
  • Winter photos on overcast days
  • Google toys with me
  • Skyline of Minneapolis MinnesotaMinneapolis Panoramic
  • Foshay Tower
  • Lenses are the real deal
  • I don’t know this guy.
  • Google is now indexing my photos! Well maybe.
  • Mirrorless: It’s The Little Things
  • Walking the Skyways
  • Z6 IBIS with manual lenses
  • Cattail seeds
  • Minneapolis from the Guthrie Theater
  • SmugMug via a subdomain
  • Vinyl LP records have magic

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