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This is the first part of a multi-part series of articles I’m writing about digital photography, as I learn more about it. You can find links to the other articles at the bottom of this one.
So, you just got a new Digital SLR for your birthday, or mabye you’ll get one for Christmas, if you’ve [...]

Composition and Impact: It’s a beautiful photograph, but do you know WHY it’s beautiful? - I know understand a little more about my camera’s aperture setting, the Golden Mean, Framing and lots of other useful photography stuff.
Speaking of, what do you think of this photo I took of young Jack last night:

Or this one:

It’s my [...]

Ars Technica on Aperture 1.0 - this is the review I’ve been looking for. If you’re interested in Aperture, read this review.
update: After reading the review completely myself, I’m left thinking that maybe Aperture isn’t what I need, and maybe it is something I’ll want, evenutally. I don’t know, and haven’t made up [...]

A few friends of mine and I ‘volunteered’ to put together a movie for a couple of friends of ours that are getting married this weekend. I got roped in because I’m the one that owns a Macintosh, which means I have iMovie and iDVD…
The goal: a 10-20 minute video that gives the couple’s [...]

I needed to buy some rechargeable batteries today. I thought about stopping into a store to buy them, but then I realized, I didn’t really know where to buy them. Radio Shack? Best Buy? CompUSA? Circuit City? Fry’s?
So, I came home from lunch and started with Amazon.com, mainly because I [...]

So, the kid is two weeks old as of yesterday. The day after we brought the kid home, I headed up to Fry’s for the after Thanksgiving sales.
I was in the market for a new digital camera. You see, the one we had was an old PowerShot S100 DIGITAL ELPH that we bought [...]

The wife and I visited the Grand Opening of the Barton Creek Apple Store today, and while there, we spotted a Fischer FVD-C1 CameraCorder. The CameraCorder is an amazing little piece of engineering and swayed me with it’s tiny form-factor and great specs.
The machine is small (very small). It’s less than 3 inches front [...]

I’m researching digital video cameras. I’m in the market for one for the wife and I, and I’m finding that figuring out which one to buy is tough. The big publisher’s guides to camcorders are useless to me, either not providing enough information, or not providing enough facts on which they base their [...]

On the plane back to Dallas, I figured I’d play with creating an iMovie of our photos, since Steve Jobs showed such a cool demo of his kids at the last MacWorld Expo Keynote I went to. It was a good two years ago, but the demo was cool, and I still haven’t played [...]