Cheap, quick, DIY light tent for product photography
A quick setup on my kitchen counter using printer paper propped up on drinkwear and natural light. (The antique pipe is compliments of my wife’s Father’s Day present.) Final ImageSpeak No Evil [featured]
Self Portrait – Oftentimes the simplest of words get people into trouble. For some of us, we wait to have something to say until it’s enough to ensure our demise. This particular setup was rather simple and consisted of: The camera on a tripod utilizing a...A Simple 2-Light DIY Photography Setup
I dug this out of my archive while continuing to work on further organizing my image library in Lightroom. The Setup This is a very simple (and cheap) DIY lighting setup that I executed in our living room near the front door entrance. Using my daughter as a model, I...2 Cheap and Easy Studio Lighting Setups
Anyone think it’s difficult or expensive to get professional quality lighting? Here are a couple lighting setups to debunk those myths. I was inspired to try out a couple ideas that I had generated on the drive home from the office recently, so immediately upon...
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.