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Photography tips: The meter wants to see gray

In this post I’m going to try to explain in simple terms how a camera meters, and why you should take control of metering to achieve good shots.
Your meter is calibrated to produce the correct exposure for average scenes.
As it turns out, a good rule of thumb for average scenes is a particular shade [...]


I’m back from Mt. Blanc

I’m back from Mont Blanc - unfortunately due to extreme weather (it dumped more than 3 feet of snow one night), the normal routes on the Blanc were not available to us. Nonetheless we did some nice climbing and skiing so it was still a good time.
The full photoset is at fotki because I didn’t [...]


Amazing Thailand Pictures

Amazing Thailand Pictures

I just came back from Thailand where I took a ton of photos. This is probably my single favorite shot from the trip although there were many other great ones.
 If you have 15 minutes, I strongly recommend viewing those as a slideshow (use links in the upper right hand corner) to view them framed on [...]


Snowstorm

Snowstorm

I thought we were going to skip winter altogether this year with the unseasonably warm November we had, but I was wrong. All of a sudden 3-6 inches are upon us. This was taken at the beginning of the snow as I was leaving the office.