In the coming week, I will have the best of my photos up for sale at http://larsrc.zenfolio.com. I'm doing it as a test run - ZenFolio is a pretty slick site and has very reasonable pricing for sales, but they charge $100 per year for the account where you can sell your photos. I'm using ( Read more... )

Getting up early to a very different morning (not raining! Sunny!), we got the earliest breakfast we've had in a long time, and after the morning get-together set out on our bikes at 9:30. I was armed with my camera and 18-125 mm walk-around lens, set at f/8, 18mm and a fixed focus distance for quick snapping of any interesting houses we might ( Read more... )

Unless the MTF charts lie or there are other serious flaws, I know what my first ultra-wide lens will be: http://www.sigma-photo.co.jp/english/lens/digital/8_16_45_56.htm

The Christmas hustle is over, and we're now enjoying some relaxing days at my in-laws in Winfield, KS. We've had a nice white Christmas - almost got snowed out on the way in. I've been working on the Joomla templates for my photo web page and reading one of the books I got for Christmas, "Best Business Practices for Photographers", which is quite ( Read more... )

While I've done some talks and informal explanations of things at various points in the past, I have never really done any teaching per se. I somehow managed to get through Ph.D. without even doing a TAship. But now I've taught, and apparently taught well. After some interest from my co-students on the photography class in the spring, I signed up ( Read more... )

...I did some stuff. Not nearly as much as last weekend ( Read more... )

The contrast of a photo of a face affects whether we see it as male or female, with more contrasty faces being female. However, making male faces have less contrast or female faces have more contrast makes them less attractive.

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Ever since I started reading about photography from serious sources, I've known that wedding photography is one of the hardest jobs in the business. The expectations, the one-chance-to-get-it-right, the high contrast black and white, the amateur snapshooters getting in the way, equipment failuers etc etc etc. I'd sworn I would avoid it like the ( Read more... )

Yes, I have sold my first photograph (not counting the one my mother bought, the cheapie postcards or the $2.20 sale at iStockPhoto). This one actually paid enough that it was worth the time I spent on it. There was a call on Photographers Direct for shots of Buddhist temples in Denmark, and there just so happens to be one near here, where they ( Read more... )

At One Image, you can bid on photographic art to support children in the Philippines and Haiti. There's some seriously nice photos on there, including ( Read more... )