Day archives: April 18th, 2007

Flash to subject distance – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

This week’s tip is about controlling the brightness of your background when using your on camera flash. Controlling the brightness of your background relies on a little technical knowledge, the inverse square law. The brightness of the flash output is relative to the inverse square of the distance from the flash from the subject. Sounds …

Create an ISO

Last week I shared a tip about a free utility from Microsoft that lets you use an ISO image of a CD as if it were a real CD. I was asked how to create an ISO image, so I did some research into some available software. There are commercial titles such as WinImage and …

Paint Drying? Sorry, Wrong Link. This Is Cheddarvision

From the New York Times: The cruel randomness of celebrity became clear to Tom Calver in February, when the cheese got a romantic Valentine in the mail and he did not. “What has he done?” Mr. Calver asked of the cheese in question, a 44-pound round of cheddar currently maturing on his farm in this …