I’ve read several articles doubting the value of 100% crops or of tests at high ISO. I disagree strongly. Test it ’til it breaks. Find out what your camera will do; then you will know what it is going to produce when you shoot in poor light.
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Quillcards- Clocking Sunshine: Why We ‘Spring Forward, Fall Back’The Fading Of The Light It’s that time of the year again when clocks have been set back and darkness now descends early in the evening – and gone is the lovely daylight that buoyed our spirits throughout the long-lit summer evenings. Human Conventions And The Sun So how did this convention of human beings setting back time [...]Clocking Sunshine: Why We […]
- Advertising the UnobtainableWartime Advertisements The following advertisements are from two British newspapers dating from the Second World War. This first one is from The Sunday Pictorial edition of March 11, 1945. Alongside the advertisement for bananas you can see reports that war was almost won. And so it proved to be with the war ending formally on May 8, 1945 [...]Advertising th […]
- Climate Change and A Memorable Web AddressLeader of the Pack Of all the Web sites that I’ve read, heard, or seen, there is one above all others that I am quickly finding the most memorable, namely www.350.org. Why is that, you may wonder… Global Warming and the Domino Effect Easy: Because I didn’t know much technically about global warming, I’m grateful to the people at [...]Climate Change and A Mem […]
- How Much Discarded Plastic I Found In 350 Seconds350.org is an international campaign whose aim is to bring pressure to bear on world leaders to make effective decisions based on good science at the Copenhagen Conference in December. Its plan is to do this through actions and events starting today, October 24th. The principle is simple: If enough people make themselves heard, politicians will be [...]How M […]
- The Friendly Horse and The Australian GovernmentHe was such a placid and friendly horse. He came over and without any nervousness, smelled my hand and took the grass I held out. Looking at him in the photograph, I thought of the word ‘Dobbin’ used to describe a placid, patient, plodding farm horse. It turns out that Dobbin is an old word. It appears, [...]The Friendly Horse and The Australian […]
- Clocking Sunshine: Why We ‘Spring Forward, Fall Back’
