How to | DIY Speedlight Beauty Dish

In all her glory, here she is. You can see the light isn't coming out completely balanced because the speedlight gets tilted slighty because the gutter piece was doomed form the beginning as mentioned above.

[facebook] [retweet] Let me start this blog post by saying you can pick up a beauty dish from Amazon for $89 by clicking here. But if you’re a savy DIY-er you may want to try your hand and making one on your own. My original idea was to make a video tutorial on how I [...]

How to | Play “In My Life” on the piano

I’m just learning to play the piano, and with John Lennon’s birthday yesterday I thought I might share one of the few songs I know how to play. I learned how to play it on some random video site that had horrible video quality, split the song into two separate videos, and had confusing instructions. [...]

How to | Custom Bokeh

I’ve seen this effect used in some wedding photographer’s images with the heart shaped bokeh (blur) is in the background so I did a little investigating into how this effect is accomplished. You can watch a video tutorial on how I did this above, or buy your own kit that B&H sells, click HERE. This [...]

How to | Chia Fresca (Iskiate)

I decided to share a wonderful drink I discovered when reading Born to Run. It’s called Iskiate in the book and is otherwise known as Chia Fresca. It’s main ingredient is the same Chia seed that you used to grow your Chia pet as a child, or maybe even as an adult. The big selling [...]

How to | Flying the “Milk Run”

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This isn’t really a “How to,” but thought it would be more appropriate than the “Blog” title. Above is a video where I talk about the flight over the track log in Google Earth – hope it’s not as boring as that sounds. I’ll go ahead and apologize for no in-flight pictures, my wife took [...]

How to | iPhone Photography HDR

Here is a quick video that shows how I took a photo with my iPhone 3GS for my 365 day photoblog. I took it on New England Road at sunset and I took it not only because the sun was setting but also for the location and conditions. What I mean is the fact I [...]