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Do yourself a favor and watch Eclectic 2.0 by Ross Ching.  What a great thing to wake up to!  And if you’re interested, here’s how he made it. I’m already looking for this equipment…

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A photo from last night’s walk in Milwaukee

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Two new applications I’ve been impressed with are Piclens and Animoto.

Piclens is a plugin for Firefox that lets you view photos on the web in a new, completely immersive way. Once you have it installed, it integrates with all the major photo sharing sites: Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Smugmug, etc. With [...]

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Light painting is brand new to me, but I saw a few examples scattered about the Internet, and decided to try it last night.
Here are a couple of the better pictures:

And here’s how you do it:
Ingredients:
1. Camera that can be set to have a long shutter
2. Flashlight
3. Pitch Black Room
That’s it…
Ok, so if you’ve [...]

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The photo above has received more comments and views than any other picture I have ever put on Flickr, so I thought that I should post it here. What do you think? I’m a big fan of night photography like this. I’ll post more of an update soon. I’m in London [...]

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