Take pictures of things with great color – The best advice I ever received on color photography was to seek out shots with great color already present. No amount of vivid film, filters, or photoshop can ever add color like finding something with great color already there.
Take pictures of things with great color – [...]

Finally got some time to put up a header pic here at SyncSpeed. Browsing through a bunch of old photos turned up some interesting ideas. I thew a couple together, which can be seen on the right. I needed something relativly dark because of white font of the single theme option (Chris, where are the [...]

Because time is short and I have a family, candid photography takes up a large part my photographic hobby. Candid’s happen to also be some of my favorite shots. People look real. And done correctly, they can make you feel like you’re part of that momment in time. Like you know what it feels like [...]

Tonight, as I stirred some melting caramel for my wife’s homemade brownies, I was trying to come up with a clever way to introduce myself and SyncSpeed. I was already feeling a little bad that out of the four blogs that are up on dpblogs.com, mine was the last without a post. No post. No [...]

Just went to the Getty Museum in LA to check out the exhibition of photographs by Weegee. The exhibition was good, showing a great variety of his photography subjects.
Seeing his photography in person, rather than in print, was awesome. The shots he got primarily with his trusty Speed-Graphic camera were a joy to behold. The [...]

When it comes to photography today, no previous iteration can provide the features-to-benefit ratio that digital photography can. perhaps that is why major manufacturers like Kodak, Nikon, Agfa, Fuji and others are slimming down or (hopefully not) eliminating film from their line-ups. This is also why digital-photography is growing at an unbounded pace and may [...]

Hello and welcome to my first photo-blog! What’s a blog you might ask? Dunno..sounds like a verb to me…”Honey, I’m going to go outside and blog around the block.” or maybe…”I shouldn’t have eaten that bad tuna…now I feel like I have to blog…” , even, “Man! An hour-and-eighty-five minutes to drive home from work. [...]

My favorite subject to photograph is, without question, Chloe. I mean, look at her, she’s awesome. We were being goofy on the bed and played “follow the orange light” with my digital camera. Whenever I push the shutter button down, an orange light shines and Chloe is fascinated. It makes [...]