The Carey Adventures

Location: San Francisco Photograph Copyright Manuel Guerzoni Buy A Print Of This Photo Share

Creating star trail images is a fun technique that can deliver a wide range of results depending on location, foreground objects and number of visible stars.  While the technique can be relatively simple, proper setup and then proper post-processing are essential.  To get started, let’s look at the equipment and tools needed for a normal [...]

Location: San Francisco Photograph Copyright Manuel Guerzoni Buy A Print Of This Photo Share

Ok, it’s not really a hack.  It’s just a way to see how many subscribers a particular site when they don’t advertise it themselves.  This only works if the site uses Feedburner (owned by Google) but since 80% or more of the blogosphere uses Feedburner, odds are with you. All you have to do is [...]

Let’s face it, today’s digital cameras come packed with a LOT of features and buttons we never use.  Snow Scene Mode, flash bracketing, infinity mode and the list goes on.  One feature that deserves a bit more attention is automatic exposure bias.  It goes by various names depending on the brand of camera you own [...]

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Welcome to Day 12 on Peter’s Peru Adventure. Day 11 can be found here and all previous entries can be found here.  To get updates sent to you via email, subscribe here Rafting!  How I love rafting.  And chocolate mousse.  The most scrumptious desert description is directly plagiarized from the menu and reproduced at the [...]

Location: San Francisco Photograph Copyright Manuel Guerzoni Buy A Print Of This Photo Share

Whether traveling for business or just on a well deserved vacation, there are times when we all don’t feel like carrying around our full compliment of lenses, flashes and accessories. During trips like this the inner photographer in each of us starts to panic; “What if I need my wide angle lens?” “I want to [...]

Location: San Francisco Photograph Copyright Manuel Guerzoni Buy A Print Of This Photo Share