Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

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Ordered some long overdue prints finally

I finally ordered some prints! It has been a few years of built up frustration over not making prints.

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Adding Facebook Comments to a Lightroom HTML Gallery template

If you prefer displaying your photos on your own website using Lightroom’s web galleries over uploading your photos to Facebook then one of the drawbacks is the lack of commenting. Fortunately, there’s a way to add Facebook Comments to your own website and gallery. See an example here. Step One: Enable Your Website To Work [...]

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Photo: a double rainbow in Haifa

Late March is one of the best times of the year to visit Israel. Spring has just started. There’s not a lot of tourists. And from time to time it rains — as it did for us driving up Mount Carmel to discover a beautiful double rainbow across the lower city of Haifa. It’s strange [...]

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Photo: playing around with the Canon 180mm f/3.5L macro lens

My uncle Jack is an avid photographer and has taught me most of what I know about photography. He’s also a great source of expensive lenses. Yesterday we played around with Canon’s 180mm f/3.5L macro lens. Most of the shots were out of focus, had too little depth of field, or the lighting translated badly [...]

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Photo: High Park in February

It was a beautifully sunny and still cold day in Toronto when we decided to go trekking in High Park. Unfortunately, so did half of Toronto. The only place to find some privacy was actually on the ice of the river itself. It was a bit scary at first, at the edges, but seeing others [...]