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Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:30 AM

Photos of Photos

There was a great post on Mental Floss pointing to a site called Dear Photograph . To participate, you dig up an old photo, go back to the place it was taken, hold it out in front of you so it lines up with the real scene and then snap a photo. There...
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Monday, July 04, 2011 12:30 AM

David at the Zoo

We headed over to the Woodland Park Zoo while David was here and had a great time. I’m not sure who was more excited to see the animals: Tyla or David? Photos can be found in the photo gallery (look at the photos from June 28) and a few are included below...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011 12:30 AM

Grand Coulee Dam Photos

We snapped almost 600 photos last weekend plus another 500 for a timelapse video of Banks Lake. Good thing we got the 32GB memory card! I’ve uploaded a collection of them to the photo gallery and a few of my favorites are below. The photo gallery is a...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:30 AM

Secondhand Lenses

Ok camera people, I have a question for you: what recommendations do you have for buying a used lens? I’m ok with paying full price for a new lens if needed, but I’d love to save a few bucks and pick up a used lens where possible. Do you try to find local...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:30 AM

T2i Panorama on PhotoSynth

It was so nice on Sunday that Tyla and I walked down the street to the park so that I could try my first big panorama with our Canon T2i . I set up the tripod, switched to manual focus, switched to aperture priority, set the ISO, and I was off. I used...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:30 AM

T2i Video

One of the reasons I chose the Canon T2i over other cameras in that price range was for it’s excellent video performance. I still have my eye on a full camcorder in the future because the T2i is difficult to focus for moving subjects, but for situations...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:30 AM

Wide-angle Distortion

If you make that zoom lens wide enough, you’re going to end up with some distortion. I noticed it quite a bit on a photo I took of the Seattle skyline. I had the camera pointed up from the horizon to capture the clouds and the result had a lot of...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:30 AM

Tulip Festival

The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is a pretty big shin dig in these parts. Imagine 100,000 of your closest friends driving up I-5 and then getting off on some tiny exit to sit in traffic in fields. Usually Tyla and I head up there on the motorcycle with...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:30 AM

Foray Into HDR

There are an incredible number of things to learn with our new Canon T2i. I was reading about HDR on stuckincustoms.com and decided to give it a shot. Trey, the author of that website, recommends Photomatix which is a $99 package. I haven’t sprung for...
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Monday, February 07, 2011 12:30 AM

Twenty Four Hour Time Lapse

The Make Magazine blog recently posted a link to an incredible twenty four hour time lapse photo. There’s a forum topic where the author goes into detail about exactly how it was done. He used the same camera that I have (Canon T2i/550D), a lot of time...
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Friday, February 04, 2011 12:30 AM

Cascade Quest Dog Sled Race

Last weekend, Tyla and I headed over Stevens Pass with Tim and Chelsea to check out the Cascade Quest dog sled race. We had no idea what to expect, but we knew that races were leaving at 2, 3 and 4:00 so we arrived around 12:30 to give ourselves time...
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Friday, January 21, 2011 12:30 AM

Timelapse With A Canon T2i

There's a great application that comes with the T2i called EOS Utility. One of the main features is that you can connect to your camera via USB and then remotely control everything on the camera. It also functions as an intervalometer (takes a picture...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:30 AM

Canon T2i Review

I’ve been longingly reading dSLR reviews for the past year, and it all paid off because Tyla and I got one for our Christmas gift to each other. The hardest part of the whole thing was deciding between Nikon and Canon. I got a lot of recommendations for...
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