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Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

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 August 25, 2020November 5, 2020

The ‘duplicate content’ myth

No, Google will not ‘penalize’ your photos if your descriptions of them contain quotes from Wikipedia.

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Posted on January 8, 2020August 26, 2020

The Problem of Unloading Old Gear

Recently, I almost talked myself into buying a new camera; I’d been wanting to switch my travel setup from Sony APS-C over to Nikon and the new Z50. But then I thought about all the used gear I’d have to sell to rationalize this move, and my enthusiasm fizzled out.

Yes I actually own this camera.
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Posted on December 6, 2019January 8, 2020

Cattail seeds

Cattail photograph

It was a very wet year here in Minnesota and that’s good for cattails like this one, opening in November to release its roughly 25,000 seeds.

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Posted on November 30, 2019December 30, 2019

Vinyl LP records have magic

Vinyl 33 RPM LP record
My photo of a 33rpm vinyl LP, with a tricky bit of lighting .

There’s a great cartoon showing 2 guys standing in front of an obviously very pricey audio system featuring a high end turntable. One says to the other “The things that attracted me to vinyl were the expense and the inconvenience.”

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All Posts

  • 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
  • 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

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