Finding Oregon – Time-lapse Photography on Meth
Check out this great time-lapse project by Oregon-based night sky photographer Ben Canales and Uncage the Soul Productions featuring some amazing photography of Oregon’s natural beauty. Creating a video is one thing, creating a time-lapse video is something...
Allen’s Vintage Wedding #4 – Free Lightroom Preset
I think there is something to be said for vintage photography and the varying looks that often accompanied it. But, what do you do to achieve that look in the digital age? Lightroom presets. This is a custom-developed preset specifically crafted for images shot in RAW...
Sehran Oksay – The Annie Leibovitz Lightroom Preset At Work
Last week I had posted the Annie Leibovitz Lightroom Preset, generating a decent amount of buzz within certain circles of the photographic community. Montreal-based photographer Serhan Oksay picked up the preset and put it to work. While his use wasn’t exactly...DIY Lightsphere – A Good, Cheap Gary Fong Alternative
Get great results from your photography while saving a ton with this great little do-it-yourself alternative to the Gary Fong Lightsphere! While I would love to claim the original concept for this little project, I must give credit to Artur Gajewski and his wonderful...Q & A: Three Tips for Better Home Studio Lighting Results
For those becoming interested in photography, “strobism,” or artificial lighting, can sometimes be a daunting prospect. I recently received an email from a frustrated reader who was trying to set up a small studio and was having some issues with getting...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.