Feb 10, 2013

Today is Chinese Lunar New Year, the year of the snake. To celebrate the holiday I’ve put together a short time lapse of the Xihu flower fair that opened on Thursday. The Xihu flower fair is one of the largest and longest running annual flower fairs in Guangzhou. Each year in the days leading up to Chinese Spring Festival, the lunar new year, the...

Jan 6, 2013

AT THE end of the year each of us will go through our own ritual of shedding the old and donning the new; resolutions will be made and broken, donation boxes will be filled and carted to shelters, papers will be filed and sealed, and images and video will be archived in an effort to neatly pack up the past and step into the future. My contribution to 2012 as...

Oct 29, 2012

Last month I posted a time-lapse of dusk that worked out so well I wanted to try another. In that shot I was concerned about the camera’s ability to capture the cooling tones of the sky as the sun set further under the horizon. The way that the camera balanced the darkening blue sky against the expanding intensity of the street lights was quite a pleasant...

Sep 29, 2012

You’re watching a one-hour+ span of sunset compressed into six seconds. After the first time-lapse I posted last month, which was captured mid-day with relatively little variation in exposure settings, I wondered if it would be so easy at another time of day when the light was much less consistent. I chose sunset over sunrise for the simple reason that I...

Sep 22, 2012

Set your camera’s default color space to Adobe RGB. For most professional photographers, setting the color space default capture is one of the first few steps in setting up a new camera for use after unboxing. It is nearly a reflex. The rest of the photographic community may not be so aware but should enjoy the...