Eric Mesa | February 9, 2010
Sometimes the simplest things in life give the best pleasure. I love watching animals do the things they do. I pass by this lake chock-full of geese every day on my way to work. They’re only there in the morning before they go out in search of food and whatever it is [...]
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Eric Mesa | February 5, 2010
In this post I decided to take you through my thought process in lighting the photo. Because I wanted the knife as close to the camera as possible (while still being in focus), I had to lower the intensity of the flash on the camera. But that meant I would end up too dark, so [...]
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Eric Mesa | February 3, 2010
This one’s another subtle one because it’s so obvious, but if, like me a few months ago, you’ve only shot with available light, on camera flash, or bounced your light because you were told to – you probably haven’t thought about how light affects your portraits. And so you have always taken portraits where they [...]
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Eric Mesa | February 1, 2010
You may have seen a photo like the one above where the light fades away as if it were a flashlight. How do photographers do that? It’s pretty easy, they snoot their flashes. A snoot is basically a light tunnel and professional snoots have a honeycomb grid at the end. The snoot directs the light [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 31, 2010
Here’s a non-obvious problem that photographers come up against all the time – I bought a white background so why doesn’t it look white in my portraits? The reason that it’s a non-obvious problem is that you have to remember that the camera doesn’t see the world the same way you do. The internal circuitry [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 30, 2010
Here’s the calendar for February. Click on it to get the full size so you can make it your background. (edit: I noticed a bug in the way the calendar appeared and fixed it on 31 Jan 2010 so just download a new version, thanks!)
For square screens:
For wide screens:
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Eric Mesa | January 28, 2010
This Northern Mockingbird is one of the many birds in my yard. I can’t quite pinpoint what it is about birds that fascinate Danielle and I, but we love to watch them cavorting around the yard and interacting with each other.
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Eric Mesa | January 25, 2010
This was taken as I was testing the effects of different f-stops on diffraction.
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Eric Mesa | January 24, 2010
It’s been a very snow-filled winter this 2009-2010 winter season compared to the last five or so years I’ve lived here. I think I’m over it. Spring couldn’t come quickly enough.
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Eric Mesa | January 22, 2010
This fox likes to sleep on a pile of grass in the back yard. This grass came from the first time I cut the grass after buying the house. The grass was so tall that it filled the compost unit and there was still too much grass. I didn’t know at the time we had [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 18, 2010
This time last year I was in Hawaii on a business trip while most people here were at the Inauguration. See this photo capsule online at the photojojo site.
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Eric Mesa | January 12, 2010
I was reading Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography books when he suggested making a background calendar to get my photos out there. A lot of people at work like to have these types of backgrounds and I follow another photographer/blogger that does the same. Here’s my January 2010 calendar. To make these your background, click on [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 5, 2010
Today I worked on a python program to create a graph of the views of all my photos in my 365 Project set. Here’s the result: (click for full size)
I was curious how they stacked up and I wanted to see if I could detect any patterns. Except for a few outliers, they’re mostly [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 4, 2010
Kids at Christmas are awesome! Nearly every present that Anthony, Alex, and Lizzie got received a loud, “This is the best present ever! This is all I ever wanted!”
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Eric Mesa | January 3, 2010
My mom usually sets this up under the tree (although never this elaborately). By moving it to a table in the living room she was able to do a really amazing job. Also kudos to Denny who helped her with the landscaping.
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