Gnarbox 2.0

What is a Gnarbox? Gnarbox is a rugged backup device. It’s a tiny computer, that you control with your phone and can be used to back up your photos from memory cards, USB card readers or external drives. I first heard about it from this website: https://www.hdrshooter.com/2019/06/08/gnarbox-rugged-backup-device/ But it seems to have been updated with...

HDR in a pandemic

Since we are going to be off for spring break, my digital classes are doing HDR images for the first time. I thought it would be a great time to show some of the images my students from the last year during the pandemic using hdr, as well as some others that I didn't have...

New (free) Raw Editor

Filmulator is an open-source RAW photo editor based on the process of developing film, and while far more limited than software like Lightroom or Capture One (it lacks tags, for example) its tone mapping algorithm is supposedly designed to be faster and easier to get a good result that mirrors the depth of color film.  Filmulator...

Quarantine Photography

A Photographer’s Hilarious Photos of Being Stuck in Quarantine with Ex-Wife and Mother. When I read that title, I absolutely wanted to take a peek. I think this is a great article and series of images to start the semester on, since we're still stuck at home, taking online classes. For photographers, I think this...

New Lightroom Tip!

I tend to use photoshop more than lightroom because I don't do massive files (like wedding photography).  However, I think anyone using lightroom would be pretty pleased with this latest feature! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HzUXR8V-Qo&feature=youtu.be

Drone Photography

I found this article from Design You Trust while surfing photo contests.  Drone photography used to be grainy images or super expensive machines, and now they are commonplace enough we have whole photo awards for them! Most people don't know but we have drone photography classes at ARC.  A drone photographer has to have passed...