tim’s photos

While shooting the women’s basketball game last week (see Wildcats v. Falcons in the Paper), I took of few pictures of the cheerleading squads. Despite not having thrown enough light their way, several shots came out reasonably well. This one above is the best of the cheerleader series. It is popular on Flickr as...
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The Southern California College of Optometry Eye Care Center has posted their call for entries for their next annual Shared Visions Art Exhibit. The show features work by blind artists. Andrew Bedo, a blind photographer and fellow member of the Blind Photographers Flickr group, has three images featured in this year’s exhibit. Here is...
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This morning, the Chapel Hill News published another of my photos. This shot is part of the story, Wildcats make the grade, from the basketball game shoot that I have previously mentioned. Here Wildcat Hannah Elledge (#12) goes up for a layup in the first half of the game. I had the flash, my...
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As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I shot a local high school women’s basketball game last night. The assignment, for the Chapel Hill News, was to shoot the East Chapel Hill Women Wildcats’ basketball game at Jordan High on 2/6/09. ECH won easily, taking them one step closer to the league championship....
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Out of all the shots that I have taken, this is one of my all-time favorites . We were sitting at a restaurant with wonderful floor-to-ceiling windows. My niece sat across from me and we were at the end of the table next to the windows. While the family was chatting, I pulled out...
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I am off to shoot hoops tomorrow. The Chapel Hill News has asked me to photograph the East Chapel Hill Women Wildcats’ basketball game at Jordan High. I shot an ECH men’s b-ball game for the News just before Thanksgiving. Let’s see if I can learn from that experience to get some better shots....
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The other day, one of the NY Times’ tech blogs reviewed  Photojojo, a service I only recently came across, in Photojojo Just Wants You to Have Fun. As the Times put it: Are you lacking imagination as the winter doldrums set in, using your digital camera for the same ol’ snap and shot? If...
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On the same snow day that we took the dogs for their romp in the snow, we also took them for a short walk around the nearby geese-filled pond. I had much better luck with the camera here. The images were much sharper. Using Lightroom’s auto white balance and tone features gave the images...
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On a recent snow day, we took our dogs and the camera for an outing in one of the local dog parks. The pups are almost one year old, so this was their first real snow. The romp in the park was a real joy for them and fun for us to see. With...
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Another Carrboro Goose Originally uploaded by Oberazzi Last week, we had a snowstorm here and a day off. We took the pups to the dog park for romp in the snow and a walk around the pond. My camera came along as well. After trying to tire the dogs out in their piece of...
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I have been remiss in not blogging earlier about a great resource for blind photography, Vince’s Parallax. As Vince puts it: The pages referred to here are about blind photographers and their work, techniques that anyone could use to take photos, and ways of representing the finished images. Vince has done an amazing job...
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Great for Beginners to Flash Photography As versatile as the SB-600 flash is, Nikon’s SB-400 is a much less intimidating start to flash photography for the beginner. Using the 400 opens your eyes to the possibilities of bouncing and diffusing the flash. When used in the manual or priority modes on the D40 (and...
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The Blind Photographers group on Flickr has its own blog, Best of Blind Photographers, now. The blog highlights a few of the best photos each week from our community of over one hundred blind and visually-impaired photographers. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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Twitter today pointed me to the Boston Globe’s blog, The Big Picture. As the blog describes itself, The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, entries are posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s...
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Following up on my Strobist-for-the-visually-impaired posts, Didacylos’ Strobe and the first update, I have received some great suggestions. The first suggestion is about using a portable DVD player as a tethered LCD. David Tejada discusses Proofing with portable DVD on his blog. This neatly finds the middle ground between the camera’s tiny screen and...
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