Yesterday I was helping a neighbor make an under-two-minute video for a TV announcement at a community cable station. See it below. Beforehand I had had my friend write a narration, and then asked him to meet me at a local greenhouse, where I knew the light was bright Continue Reading
SoundSlides: A Quick Tool for Making Slideshows
Recently I purchased SoundSlides, a software program designed for photojournalists who want to tell their stories with pictures easily and quickly. You open a folder of .jpeg pictures and an .mp3 sound file in SoundSlides and the program handily makes the slides into a show whose length coincides with the Continue Reading
Photographing Birds
I never got much interested in birding earlier in life because I found it difficult to identify a bird upon recollection of a mere glimpse in the field. Now, with telephoto lenses I can record what I see and identify it later. Great fun! Shooting birds with a camera has Continue Reading