Night shot in Hood Rive...

I image that you’re getting a little tired of me saying that I always have a camera with me, but it’s true. Jasmine and I were having dinner at a restaurant that sits on a hill overlooking Hood River, Oregon and the Columbia River. As the sun went down and the lights of the town came on...

A DIY Pancake lens

Today’s blog post is a video DIY (do-it-yourself) project to make a lens for a Micro Four-thirds camera. I hope you enjoy it.—Mark...

Remote Mirrorless Shoot...

More and more cameras are including a built-in Wi-Fi connection for remote shooting and transferring files to a tablet or smartphone that will eventually be uploaded to social media sites. I’m not quite sure how this is going to fit into my personal photography but I thought I’d better...

When Video is Better Th...

I still see the world though my camera mainly as still photos but I’m now trying to notice when a scene really benefits from motion and sound. The two examples below are an obvious time when video showed the scene more as I experienced it. I came across these falls behind a hotel without...

How I Made “Sunse...

I’m usually not a landscape photographer but when I came across this scene when Jasmine and I were walking in Hood River, Oregon I couldn’t resist. Since I always have a camera with me I shot this with the Panasonic Lumix GX7 and the Lumix 12-32mm lens at ISO 200. I love this camera/lens...

Mirrorless Glamour Phot...

You may be interested in trying glamour photography but think it’s too difficult and requires lots of expensive equipment but all you really need is a camera and a subject. I’ve experimented with using Micro Four-thirds cameras for studio portraiture and Mark Toal wrote about a...