On Assignment

So, last night my assignment was to take photos of the xmas lights at this house being featured in a Detroit newspaper (can’t say which one cuz it hasn’t gone to press yet…) for story on people who go nuts decorating for the holidays…

My problems: It was really really cold, 18 degrees F, it was in the boonies, the yard was still buried in a foot of snow, and did I say it was really COLD!!??

So my solution: Threw my Canon 40D on the end of my monopod, threw on my 15mm fisheye lens, attached the wired remote cable, and for the first time since I bought this camera I put the LiveView feature to good use. With the live preview on the LCD, I was able to easily compose my shots of the stupid lawn ornaments and snap some shots with the camera extended on the end of my monopod without getting myself into the snow.

That penguin thing above was 6 inches off the snow, where I basically stuck the camera extended on the end of my monopod in front of it……where otherwise I would’ve had to lay down in the snow, get wet, get dirty, and freeze my nose off.

Thank you Canon, LiveView rules.

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As an unofficial educator that works for a higher-ed institution, I feel the call of tutelage once in a while. So, starting today, i’ll amass on this site all the howtos, tips, and other tutorials on photography and computers i find or come up with myself. I’ll save permanent links to them in my “TUTORIALS” section tab at the top of the page. (Many of the tutorials will be flash videos, so please make sure your computer has the right plugins to play them.) Hope you can find something in these that’s useful!

To start, there’s my first tutorial:

How To Smartly Use PhotoMechanic:

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Look at that credit line closely… No I wasn’t in LSU following the action for the AP. The NYTimes simply screwed up…

Way to go people!

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