During last weekend

  Something is going on, and I do not know what it is. There are no birds in my favorite park. So I'm walking around the trails, taking pictures of whatever I see that catches my imagination. Like this black racer. 

Or this beautiful landscape. 

Even here in Florida, colors are shifting to fall hues. You do not need a camera to capture all this beauty. Look at this picture that I took with my iPhone.

With a little bit of post-editing, this picture ends looking as good as the one above that I took using my Canon R6. 

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Getting Everything in Focus in a Landscape Photograph

This is not a simple task, even when you set your aperture as high as possible for the given lighting conditions. In such situations, one effective solution is photo stacking. This video explains how to do it.

 

I have to confess that I don’t have the temperament to use this technique. I don’t carry a tripod, and without one, stacking most likely won’t work.

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Yet another video about the invisible black background

Many people believe that to achieve a black background in your photos, you need to buy a black backdrop. That’s one way to do it, but there’s another method that costs nothing. This video will show you how.

 

Luminar Neo for editing portraits

Luminar Neo, a user-friendly photo editing software, enables photographers to effortlessly edit portraits in just a few seconds. In this three-minute video, I showcase the software’s capabilities. 

Bokeh, a matter of opinion

 Bokeh (from the Japanese blur or haze) refers to the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus areas in a photograph. It’s not about how blurred the background is (that’s simply “shallow depth of field”) but rather how that blur looks — whether it’s smooth and pleasing or harsh and distracting.

Camera NewB just posted a video exploring this important photography concept in today’s world. I highly recommend checking it out.

 

One thing is what I think and...

 One thing is what I think about my pictures, and another thing is what people think of them. 

 The above is a mosaic created by Flickr with the most popular pictures taken by me according to Flickr users. You can enjoy this mosaic, visiting this page and scrolling all the way down to the bottom. 

My favorites shots from Mayan Challenge

I recently photographed a karate event in Clearwater, Florida — the Mayan Challenge by USA Sport Karate. I put together a YouTube Short with my favorite shots, but I felt it deserved a second part.

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