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Did you all forget?

Anyone who read my article: Setback for Digital Cameras should have remembered this: Have you all been shooting with your cameras set to Standard Time when Daylight Saving Time began 7 days ago? If you don’t plug your camera into your computer regularly...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 11:38 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Gear Tips, Photography, camera, clock, standard time, daylight saving time

1000 Words: Resplendent Quetzal in Flight

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 10:33 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography

Here, Take My Camera …

As a follow-up to my previous post on borrowing a camera from a fellow photographer and the copyright issues that ensue, I offer the following. On the Worldesigns Photo February tour of Costa Rica we did a little scouting and found this delicious sunset...

Published Wed, Mar 3 2010 9:59 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Travel, Copyright, Costa Rica, sunset, Rikk Flohr

Hand Me Your Camera-Quickly!

In a pinch friends can share many things, up to but not including a toothbrush. Sometimes in the heat of battle (photography) it is necessary to borrow another person’s camera in order to get the shot. When this happens, a curious legality emerges: that...

Published Mon, Mar 1 2010 11:45 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Travel, Copyright, Costa Rica, sharing cameras

Check out the Fleeting Glimpse Images Channel

Quietly, over the past couple of years, I have been building a YouTube Channel to hold various photographic, image editing and presentation related videos. Currently on the Fleeting Glimpse Images Channel you will find time-lapse videos, a short documentary...

Published Wed, Feb 3 2010 9:06 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, corel, photoshop, video, lightroom, Retouching, tutorials

One Week Left to Sign-up for Worldesigns’ April’s Costa Rica Tour

Sign up before it is too late! The February Tour registration is closed and we are preparing to embark on a journey of photographic discovery. The April tour, however has one week left for you to sign up to join us on the trip-of-a-lifetime. Registration...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2010 11:56 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Travel, Costa Rica, worldesigns

New Software on Old Images

It is time to dust off those images you captured in the dawn of digital and reprocess them in the software from the decade of the teens. This image, Stone and Spray was one of my very first bracketed sequences. I had heard (in May of 2005) that you could...

Published Tue, Jan 5 2010 13:28 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Image Editing, Software, processing, lightroom, hdr, Noise, High-ISO

2010: Remember to Reset Your Copyright Date

With 2010 looming around the corner, it is time to think about those things that photographers should be doing in advance of the coming year. 1. If you have your copyright date imbedded in your Creator’s Name Field (see link), it is time to change...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 11:34 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Copyright, year-end, date

What Metadata Reveals the Photographer Inside

Using the metadata filters on your photograph library can tell you a lot about the type of shooter you are and the subjects you tend to prefer. The amazing feature about metadata and programs which wrangle metadata is that they allow for analysis in minutia...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 10:23 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Pretty Pictures, Opinions and Musings, lightroom, metadata, full-frame, wide-angle

New Lightroom™ Keyword List Announced: Birds of North America

Fleeting Glimpse Images is pleased to announce the availability of a new Lightroom Keyword List. The newest list is born of the popularity of the Mammals of North America and the work I’ve done previously on the Birds of Costa Rica keyword lists. 2000...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 10:17 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Software, lightroom, metadata, Keywords, north america, birds

SpyderCube™: Don’t take a digital picture without it!

Well, don’t edit a photo in software without one anyway. I just received what will likely become my new favorite photo gadget. It is a little piece of plastic with a metal insert to screw it down to a tripod. It is called the SpyderCube and it is made...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 7:04 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Gadgets, white balance, exposure, SpyderCube

Drive By Shooting

Well, Point-n-Shooting, that is. Sometimes you find yourself strapped into a seat, hurtling at 75 mph in a car, down a highway, on the back roads of whatever land into which you are currently imprisoned. Beside you the guide posts whirl by, much...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 12:32 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Travel, Pretty Pictures, window, windshield, drive-by, car

HDR: The Results Show

Well, I received a good response off the last post. The image in the previous post was not an HDR image but rather one that was recovered strictly through the RAW converter. Below is the same file processed with the benefit of a three-exposure HDR. You...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 10:11 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Image Editing, raw, Costa Rica, hdr, waterfalls, realism

To HDR or not to HDR?

That is the question. I get this question at just about every presentation I give. Oh, the question may take a different form such as: Is that HDR? What HDR program did you use there? Photoshop? Photomatix? That has to be HDR, right? Novices in the art...

Published Sun, Nov 22 2009 10:57 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Photography, Image Editing, raw, Costa Rica, hdr, waterfalls

At the Ready

Keeping a camera handy and ready-to-shoot is a great way to capture fleeting moments. Today’s Catch: Albino Squirrel Personally, I keep a camera charged and ready-to-go, sitting on the shelves next to my desk should something interesting happen by. ...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 13:55 by Fleeting Glimpse Images Weblog

Filed under: Gear Tips, Photography, albino, camera handy, squirrel

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