by LeeVaris | Oct 12, 2017 | Photography, Technology Reviews
Consider Using a Professional Service Instead of Investing in Expensive Hardware! You may notice that I am not asking whether you need a print! All photographers need to print their work—printing is part of the image creation process, part of the visual learning...
by LeeVaris | Jul 7, 2017 | Technology Reviews
Testing the Ultimate Technical Camera – part 2 This 2nd part of my examination of the Cambo Actus GFX system focuses (literally) on the lens tilting functionality. The tilting lens stage allows the photographer to alter the plane of focus, usually to match the...
by LeeVaris | Jul 6, 2017 | Technology Reviews
Testing the Ultimate Technical Camera – part 1 Cambo USA recently contacted me with an opportunity to test the Cambo Actus technical camera with the FUJIFILM GFX—this was very exciting for me because I could renew my experience with view cameras in a new digital...
by LeeVaris | Mar 27, 2017 | Technology Reviews
The search for the ideal Jpeg leads to…JPEGmini? This is going to be a long post… sorry about that! I’m trying to avoid a simple opinion review, or a review that says something along the lines of “Check out this cool product!” While not...
by LeeVaris | Mar 16, 2017 | Photography
Pixelstick meet Fujifilm… now lets create! While we were on our photo tour of Venice Carnival, Bobbi Lane and I had a great opportunity to test out a prototype of Fujifilm’s new medium format camera, the GFX. I had been planing to create some images using...
by LeeVaris | Mar 9, 2017 | Technology Reviews
An Adventure in Venice, Italy for Carnival Bobbi Lane and I had the great fortune to shoot with a prototype GFX on our tour of Venice Carnival 2017 this past February. Needless to say, we were extremely excited to put the camera to use in the incredible magical...
by LeeVaris | Jan 31, 2017 | Photography, Technology Reviews
Happy New Year everyone! The holidays are finally behind me, and I can start digging out from all the decorating, gift giving, parties, and other activities associated with the beginning of winter cold weather. Part of what I was occupied with was beta testing the...
by LeeVaris | Dec 20, 2016 | Tutorials
Best Practices for Better Printing Well now… finally getting back into posting here after a hectic several months searching for, and purchasing a house, moving into said house, dealing with various government bureaucratic snafus related to change of address,...
by LeeVaris | Jul 13, 2016 | Video
by LeeVaris | Jul 11, 2016 | Photography, Technology Reviews
The Quandary of the Most Important Purchase After the Camera The investment in a new camera is really a commitment to an image capture system that includes additional lenses, a speedlight and any number of other accessories. Arguably, the most import decision any...
by LeeVaris | Jun 27, 2016 | Tutorials
We are halfway through 2016, but it looks like we’re going to have at least one more “point” upgrade to Photoshop CC 2015 before they unleash a 2016 version! As updates go, this one is better than most because it contains some improvement in a core...
by LeeVaris | Jun 20, 2016 | Photography, Technology Reviews
Don’t just pre-visualize—see the shot! My “Re-Thinking the Raw File Workflow” post stirred up quite a storm of protest from photographers so thoroughly invested in a raw-file workflow that they missed the point of the whole post! So… consider...
by LeeVaris | Jun 15, 2016 | Photography, Video
Here’s the June 2016 Mandala of the Month: This mandala meditation features more architectural images, but includes a piano—see if you can spot it!...
by LeeVaris | May 31, 2016 | Photography, Video
Just got this one in under the wire! Here are the individual mandala...
by LeeVaris | May 15, 2016 | Photography, Technology Reviews
Jpeg is My Friend with Fuji X-Pro 2 Its been a very busy month with travel, multiple workshops and a brand new Fuji X-Pro 2 to test! I’m finally getting a moment to post before we run out yet again. Today I’m going to be talking about how the mirrorless...
by LeeVaris | Apr 22, 2016 | Video
Many Mandalas in One Movie I thought I’d share the individual mandala images here in a gallery—click on each thumbnail to see a larger version: April Mandala-18 April Mandala-17 April Mandala-16 April Mandala-15 April Mandala-14 April Mandala-13 April Mandala-12...