Have you ever wondered what makes a movie presented in the IMAX format different than a traditional movie? Behind the scenes, a lot of technology and science goes into capturing, editing, and presenting a movie in the IMAX format. Things from larger film negatives to the overall weight of a movie (Oppenheimer weighed in at …
On this data, WAAAAAAAAY back in 1990, Adobe Photoshop version 1.0 was released. If memory serves me correctly, I started using Photoshop on version 3 at Indiana University. It’s amazing how this one piece of software has transformed visual communication—both for the good and evil. Today, I use Photoshop—or its “cousin” Lightroom—consistently when editing every …
I took advantage of a sunny afternoon today to take the new lens to Swan Lake Iris Gardens to see how it performs in “the real world.” It was easy enough to shoot with, even though the larger diameter of the zoom ring is going to take a little getting used to. Back at the home …
For the past few years, I’ve had what my wife calls a “nose-hair lens.” It is a massive zoom lens that I’ve used for many football, soccer, baseball and softball assignments. I like the extra range it provided over other photographers because it enabled me to capture images others miss out on. But it wasn’t …
After spending a few days with the Nikon Z6 II and doing a photo shoot for Alice Drive Baptist Church, I just couldn’t get comfortable with the handling of the camera body. My experience with camera is to use ones with either a detachable battery pack or one where the body has a larger grip …
Today, the final piece of the new mirrorless camera kit arrived, thanks to the fine folks at UPS. The Nikon FTZ II allows me to use my legacy camera lenses with the new lens mount of the Nikon Z series cameras. It’s funny to be going thru this process again. When I was a student at …
Well, the first shipments of new camera gear arrived today. The first thing to arrive was a pair of SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO SDXC cards for the new camera body. I unpacked them—and the other non-photo related items from the order—and set them on my desk until later. Shipment number two contained some extra batteries …
Upgrade #3 is now complete; the blog has a new home! Last night, I registered the new domain—ericscottmillerblog.com—last night and went to bed waiting for my host provider to do their thing to process the order and deal with all of the geeky stuff that has to take place for a new domain to go …
Oops, I did it again. Yes, a second upgrade. I took advantage of an Amazon Prime deal to pick up a new mirrorless camera to add to the toolbox.The deal saved me a few hundred dollars over the current asking price. The technology side of the upgrade advances my camera optics by about seven years. …
Over the past several days, you may have noticed some redirection issues when visiting my photography portfolio site. The geek in me understands what went wrong during some routine site maintenance in anticipation of some upgrades I have been working on for a few weeks. Needless to say, that routine maintenance resulted in some things …
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