Reed Hoffmann’s Photography Blog
Birds, Lenses, Autofocus, Exposure
Last weekend the Kansas City Star had a story about the snow geese migration happening just north of here. My first thought after reading it was, “I’ve got to get up there.” I’d visited a few years back, but that time there weren’t many birds. This trip promised to be different. A million birds different. […]
Optical Shop Shoot
Computer Upgrade
Computers are a fact of life for most people today, and that’s especially true for us photographers. What that inevitably means is a constant process of upgrading or replacing them. I did just that with one of my older laptops, thanks to a new SSD drive. For well over a decade we’ve been told that […]
Exposure Compensation
Recently I got a case of tennis elbow from shoveling snow (a rare one-day, 12-inch snowfall here). And since we don’t get snow very often in Kansas City, and it never lasts long, I decided to make that elbow pain pay off. I got out my cross-country skis and took one of our dogs for […]
Ten Best
I recently suggested that a good exercise for every photographer at the end of the year is to go through and pick their ten favorite photos. Then a friend linked me to her ten favorites, and asked if I’d share mine. Oops! I responded that I tell other people to do that, I don’t do […]
End of Year Organization
Staying Warm in the Cold
Basketball Remote
Dirty Sensors
