As Jenn mentioned in her last blog post, we just finished a 6 week course on basic digital photography at our local community college. While it’s always great to teach the exposure triangle, indoor and outdoor lighting tips and how to store and mange your pictures, we always leave the last class for a little clean-up of topics not covered and also a little
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You may have noticed I’ve missed a few Tuesday Tips lately… sorry ‘bout that.  Stan and I have been teaching a great Digital Photography class over at our local community college, and it’s taken up a bunch of time. But we had a great group of students, and a lot of fun! (At left is the circle picture we took tonight!) So that you
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Photography has been used since it’s start to challenge and change our minds, show the beauty around us, document everyday and world changing events. (See my earlier post on the power of photography.)  And of course it’s been used in advertising. I just wish it hadn’t been used for this advertising…. I assembled these album covers of questionable taste from a variety of sources
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Tonight the moon will be closer to the earth than it has in a long time, resulting in a big, beautiful moon! It should be easier than ever to see the man in the moon – or the Moon Rabbit! Also called the Jade rabbit, in Chinese, Japanese and Korean folklore, the rabbit pounds medicine or rice cakes.  Similar legends occur in Mexican folklore.
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Want to play a little game? These are all extreme close-ups of common daily objects. While we’ve written about macro photography before, these are beyond what we can capture with our cameras and are actually done under a scanning electron microscope. Some of them are beautiful too. Get the answer to what it is by hovering your mouse over a picture. Fun huh? Did
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