Whosyer Photography

Photo of the Day

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:12:06 +0000

Proud to be American

Shopping for a new camera

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:01:40 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me the reviews on Amazon.com about various cameras. Every so often you’ll find someone saying that “this camera doesn’t perform as well as my Mark 1″ or “the autofocus doesn’t work” or “this camera’s flash doesn’t peform well.”

One of things that I’ve learned is that crappy pictures are often the result of user error, not the camera’s inability to perform to expectations.

Granted, you pay for what you get. Naturally, a $9000 camera isn’t going to peform as well as a $600 camera. If you’re expecting the same quality, then you’re in for a real quick surprise. Or saying that the internal flash is slow to respond is pointless. You’ll get that with any camera. The best answer to a flash problem is to go to an external flash.

So, when you go out camera shopping, keep that in mind. Great photography is about 90% mental and 10% user.

ISO test

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:25:24 +0000

A friend from the board that I manage wants to see some images. So i’m posting a couple ISO photos for him. I think the quality of the image speaks for themselves. Note, I snapped this pics real quick. lighting is bad.

1600 ISO

80 ISO (with flash)

Photo gallery online

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:03:24 +0000

I’m slowly getting the photo gallery back online. I’m using a gallery software to help speed up the process of getting photos online in a gallery format. So far, I’ve gotten three galleries up from three South Bend Silver Hawks games, a gallery up from my city’s Memorial Day ceromonies and parade and a gallery up from my trip to Chicago in July.

In the coming days, I’ll get galleries up from the White Sox game, the fireworks, images from my university campus and images from around the area. You can access the gallery from the link at the top of the page.

Back online

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:54:56 +0000

For some reason, whenever I would go to update WordPress, my server would kill the original installation. I got tired of fixing it, so I just killed the original and restarted the website. Since I didn’t have the sense to back up posts, I lost all of the original posts.

Not great loss, I believe.