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Posted on May 17, 2022May 19, 2022

White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy

Confused by “White Balance”? It’s not just you.

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Posted on December 21, 2020March 2, 2022

DPI: a concept you should forget.

The question of “what DPI do my photos need to have?” comes up often in forums about online photo sales. It can set off a firestorm, with some replies containing total misinformation. Arguments can ensue.

A newspaper photo up close.
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Posted on October 11, 2020February 24, 2022

The “Shift” of a Tilt-Shift Adapter

I like doing photos of city scenes and tall buildings. There’s always the question of how “vertical” those buildings should look. Point the camera up and the vertical lines converge in the distance, making the building seem really tall. Sometimes that’s exactly what I want.

Photograph of  IDS Center, Minneapolis
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  • Red-wings
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  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
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  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • Why Is Facebook So Bad?
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Downtown In The Rain
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge
  • Our Photo Bandwidth Is Declining
  • Just The Street
  • The Nautilus Spiral
  • I Gained Ground against Google – Or Did I?
  • Sky Replacement: Go Big or Go Home
  • My 1x.com Experience
  • Eternity, in Google Limbo
  • Photograph of the Old Cedar Bridge in Bloomington, Minnesota.Start by giving up.
  • Photograph of the Ford Parkway bridge in MinneapolisThe Fence
  • What Chuck Close said…
  • 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

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