http://photography.dustindiaz.com/blog Photography using your "available" lights Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:54:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tonight was an interesting case where I had full intentions of doing the usual selfy albeit uninspired and tired. Not to mention I've been a bit out of my rhythm not having my own camera while I borrow my wife's 5D2. The controls are not intuitive (for me) and ... http://photography.dustindiaz.com/blog/archives/photos-of-strangers/ It's a big lame that I have to go with such a trite phrase, but it's true. After tonight's photo of day 151, I had to cut a piece of commentary from the video (due to Flickr's 90 second cut off time) that I'd like to share in this ... http://photography.dustindiaz.com/blog/archives/ordinary-objects/ First and foremost, let me just tell you that there is no set rule on what applications Google employees can or can't use. Even as a web developer on Google apps, I've been an avid Flickr user well before I joined the troops to take over the world (kidding, sort ... http://photography.dustindiaz.com/blog/archives/quickr-flickr-greasemonkey-script/ With the most unbiased thoughts I could gather, I wrote a basic comparison review of Canon's 5D Mark 2 versus the Nikon D700 with a strobist twist. That article can again be found on SLR Geek: See 5Dmkii vs. D700; Strobist Edition. Comments are welcome, and please, by all means ... http://photography.dustindiaz.com/blog/archives/5dmkii-vs-d700-strobsit-edition/ Today I wrote a post over on SLR Geek titled Flash photography, and pwning the inverse square law. If you've been considering buying a flash, or you own a flash and have no idea how it works and have never bothered to take it of i-TTL mode (which is basically ... http://photography.dustindiaz.com/blog/archives/flash-photography-and-pwning-the-inverse-square-law/ Every blog needs to have a first post. This is that one, right now. Unfortunately I don't know the formula for writing one since I haven't had many blogs in my life. Everything I knew and did up until now has mostly been poured into the site that supersedes this ... http://photography.dustindiaz.com/blog/archives/hi/