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Why Bother?

Just a quick rant today. The proliferation of poor stock photos or stock photos used poorly has reached its culmination. Someone figured out that people are drawn to pictures. Those same people figured out if they wanted their text read by casually browsing...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 9:06 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Opinions and Musings, Tongue in Cheek, stock photography, bad image selection, blogs

2012: Looking Back at 2011

In my next-to-last post, I showed you the 12 monthly images deemed worthy in my mind to hold a special place. They were the watershed moments, flashes of insight and fortuitous circumstances that melded into an image of unique meaning to me and perhaps...

Published Mon, Jan 2 2012 9:45 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Gear Tips, Photography, Behind the Shot, Opinions and Musings, workshops, Camera Settings

What’s In A Name? Google+ Censorship – That’s What!

Apparently, as evidenced by this example, Google’s new Social Media darling, Google+ loves to censor photos based upon certain keywords. I posted a picture on September 1st titled “Full-Frontal Hummingbird: Yesterday’s best capture.” A few days later...

Published Tue, Oct 25 2011 13:49 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Opinions and Musings, netiquette, Tongue in Cheek, Shameless Self Promotion, Hummingbirds, Google+, Google Plus, Full-frontal, Censorship

The Three Laws of Image Use–Simplified

© The answer this burning question with which so many struggle, I have devised these three perfect laws: IF I choose to create an image, it is mine. IF I choose to share it with you, you may look at it, but it is still mine. IF I choose to license it...

Published Fri, Jul 15 2011 9:10 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Copyright, Opinions and Musings, Image Use, Fair Use

Don’t Become a One-Trick Pony

For a Digital Imaging Blog and a haven for Photography this is going to be an odd post. There are no images in this story-save the pictures suggested by this treatise and conjured in your mind. Disclaimer aside, let’s talk ruts. One of the things I love...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2011 13:11 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Opinions and Musings

No, It Isn’t Public Domain

Read these words carefully. Just because something exists in a public domain, doesn’t mean that that something is public domain. Let me paraphrase. Just because a picture is posted on a website, doesn’t mean that it is free for all users without consequence...

Published Sun, May 1 2011 8:11 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Copyright, Opinions and Musings, internet, intellectual property

Catch Light: Necessary Aesthetic or Photographer’s Phantom?

At a recent seminar (the Hobby/McNally Flash Bus Tour) the subject of the catch light intruded. Commentary from the sage teachers was to minimize its importance. A quick read of the linked Wikipedia article above will give you the theory and practice...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 11:29 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: flash, Opinions and Musings, lighting, catch lights

Flags, Stars and Labels, Oh my…

Programs to manage our images have a proliferation of tools with which we can rank, rate and identify our photographs. Sometimes it can be a little daunting keeping track of what the difference is in a 3-Star and a 4-Star image. What does a red label...

Published Wed, Mar 23 2011 11:15 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Software, Opinions and Musings, lightroom, DAM, Organizing, Digital Asset Management, Ranking, Pick Flags, Rating, Star Ratings, Color Labels

Fleeting Glimpse’s Top Posts of 2010

Every year, I like to conduct a brief retrospective of the top posts for this blog. In the event you missed one of the more memorable posts of 2010, here follows a recap. #3 Passport Photos: This article features a down-and-dirty way using Adobe Lightroom...

Published Mon, Dec 27 2010 11:53 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Opinions and Musings, Top Posts, 2010

Better Sunrise Pictures By “Waiting For It”

One Sunrise-One Location-Many Different Pictures Sometimes, just anchoring on a location and letting light happen is the best way to get several amazing shots. I was shooting in rural North Dakota over the July 4th weekend. Sunrise, being one of...

Published Fri, Aug 27 2010 11:29 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Pretty Pictures, Opinions and Musings, dawn, sunrise, Barn, Farm, Rural North Dakota

Fallen Arches: Nine Amazing Images before the Stone Collapsed

In the days prior to August 22, 2010 the Arch Rock formation at Tettegouche State Park on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior fell into the water. The Duluth Tribune reports the story here. Here are nine of my favorite images which I captured in...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 10:15 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Travel, Pretty Pictures, Opinions and Musings, arches, Lake Superior, minnesota, North Shore, Gallery, Images, fallen, Pillar, Tettegouche State Park, Keyhole Rock

Regular or Extra Crispy?

Everywhere you look today, images are getting, well…, crispy-crunchy-edgy-gritty; choose your adjective. Grunge • Crunch • Crispy • Edgy Some of this is the result of the the incredible infatuation both the viewing public and photographers have for HDR...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 8:00 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Image Editing, Opinions and Musings, grunge, hdr, Topaz

A Stray Light Doth Glance Lightly Upon Yon Distant, Blushing Cliff

Light pollution is a real problem-especially for the night-time long-exposure crowd. You never think about the cumulative effect of reflected photons until you allow a device to gather them for you over a period of time. Case in point: The forecast...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 11:19 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Opinions and Musings, lighting, Lake Superior, northern lights, Star Trails, Shovel Point, light pollution

But Is It Really That Blue?

I don’t blame most of the world for having become more skeptical of the appearance of photographs. During the past decade the acceptance and explosion of digital photography coupled with the proliferation of image editing programs has given, I think,...

Published Mon, Mar 8 2010 8:23 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Image Editing, Opinions and Musings, color, Costa Rica, Color management, Tongue in Cheek, saturation, vibrance

Bittersweet Software Decisions

The occasion of rebuilding a computer means that you can clear away the clutter of years of aggregated software installs, previous versions and flat-out mistakes in strategies. It also means that old, disused, obsolete and no-longer-compatible software...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 11:49 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: corel, Software, Opinions and Musings, Windows 7, Ventura, previous versions, fresh install

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