The Marine Layer in Playa Del Rey (a.k.a. fog)
September 2, 2009

I've been hearing mixed terminology in Southern California for what I would call "fog" back east - this term "the marine...

Toying with a Polaroid 350 Land Camera
November 8, 2007

A photographer-friend was showing me some of the shots that he was taking with an old Polaroid 350 Land Camera (circa 1970)...

Tilt Shift Experiment – Part 2
October 7, 2007

A friend and I took a drive up the Pacific Coast Highway and wound up snapping a few shots around her beautiful campus. I took...

Experimenting with Tilt-Shift Photography
September 15, 2007

One of my facebook contacts forwarded me a link to an interesting photoshop article that had me digging through my image archive for a suitable photo to experiment with. Photoshop is great...no matter how much I think that I know, there is always something new that can be done with the application. This article discussed tilt-shift photography, which uses the Scheimpflug principal to obscure the focal plane of the image relative to the camera. It seems that a photoshop technique can be applied,...