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Photo-dodo

The purpose of this lens is to focus on photography -- the tools, the techniques, and the photographs themselves.

Contents at a Glance

San Diego Lion
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
The New Photo-dodo Store!
The Most Important Thing
Starter Photography Lab -- The Basics
Photography:

San Diego Lion

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Hopefully, soon, I'll be getting a copy of the new version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Recently, I've been using the free Google Picasa for my cataloging and Elements for my retouching (and RAWShooter Premium for my RAW editing.

Lightroom will do it all. I'll still have to use Photoshop for some tasks, but not nearly as much as I do now.

The New Photo-dodo Store!

Online store featuring the best photography equipment

Photo-dodo Digital Photography Store: Photo-dodo's online digital photography store featuring the world's best brands: Canon, Nikon, Epson, Kata, Adobe, Apple, and more!

Important!

The Most Important Thing

...is to enjoy yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't know the difference between aperture and shutter speed or if you don't know how to make Photoshop do this or that.

Experiment! Find out what works for you.

Starter Photography Lab -- The Basics

Tools of the Trade

These are the tools you will need to begin your digital photography journey.

Photography:

Art mixed with science and creativity

Starter Photography Lab -- Next Steps

More Tools of the Trade

You don't absolutely need these items, but having them makes digital photography much more convenient and fun

Tools I Use

Hardware & Software

Canon Rebel XT w 18-55mm kit lens
Tamron AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di
Remote shutter release
Sony DSC-S85 (mostly for taking mpeg movies and for "tourist-y" pix)
Canon ZR60 MiniDV camcorder
Motorola RAZR phone (yes, I use this for photography, too!)
Lightweight tripod
Kata R-103 Rucksack (holds my Canon Rebel and my Mac laptop along with all my camera accessories)
Sandisk Ultra II CF cards, 3 x 1GB with case
USB Card Reader for the CF cards
Athlon-powered PC with 1.5GB of RAM
3 200GB Hard drives, 1 250 Hard drive
PowerPC-powered Mac laptop with 512MB of RAM
Canon PIXMA IP5000 inkjet printer
Canon photo paper
HP flatbed scanner
RawShooter Premium
Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Premier Elements
InfranView
Cleaning kit
Set of filters
Extra battery and charger

Starter Photography Lab -- Accessories

More Tools of the Trade

These won't make you a better photographer, but they will make your photography sessions much more care-free. It is assumed that you own a computer. If you don't, just go out and buy a Mac! They work with virtually all software now and they run Windows better than PCs!

Photo-dodo Feed

Photographs of people, places, and things

Practical photography tips, tricks, tools, and techniques for aspiring photographers.

Reference

Photo-dodo: My photography web site.
Enjoy Digital SLR Cameras: Neat resource from Canon to learn how to do some basics.
Short Courses on Digital Cameras and Photography: Great resource for courses on learning various photographic techniques as well as how to use your camera.
Photography on the Net -- Canon Digital Photography: Handy bulletin-board style forum for Canon equipment.
BobAtkins.com: Nice site about all things photography.
Steve's Digicams: Comprehensive site that covers a lot of ground, from cameras to software to technique. This site's got it all.
dpreview.com: Another comprehensive site.
Photoworkshop.com: Another Canon site to learn about photography.
PopPhoto.com: Informative site on various photography topics.
Ken Rockwell: Fantastic photographs from a fantastic photographer.
Everything Photography: Squidoo group that covers a lot of photography ground.
Picnik: Online photo editor. All AJAX-y and Web 2.0.
Digital Photography School Blog: Nice site for learning about photography.

New Twitter Follow

Photography Books I Own and Recommend

Shooting the Moon

Taking photographs of the moon can be challenging, if you don't know how. However, once you know how, it's super-easy. You'll get great results if you follow these simple rules:

1. Set your camera on full Manual mode.
2. Set your shutter to 1/250
3. Set your aperture to f/11
4. Shoot on a tripod
5. Use a shutter release or your timer to minimize shake
6. Zoom in as close as you can get (a 200mm to 300mm telephoto lens works well)
7. Set ISO to lowest possible value (generally, ISO 100 or on some cameras ISO 50)

That's about it. Your image most likely will need some touch up in Photoshop, but it shouldn't require a lot of modification. If it does, shoot again!

My Photos

Some photos I have taken

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Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

The New Photo-dodo Store!

Online store featuring the best photography equipment

The Most Important Thing

Starter Photography Lab -- The Basics

Tools of the Trade

Photography:

Starter Photography Lab -- Next Steps

More Tools of the Trade

Tools I Use

Hardware & Software

Starter Photography Lab -- Accessories

More Tools of the Trade

Photo-dodo Feed

Photographs of people, places, and things

Reference

New Twitter Follow

Photography Books I Own and Recommend

Shooting the Moon

My Photos

Favorite Flickr Fotos

These are some of my favorite Flickr photographs

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