Reed Hoffmann’s Photography Blog
Photographing Baseball
With spring upon us, now’s a great time to talk outdoor action photography. Sports in particular are fun to shoot because you never know what might happen, and what picture might result. Of all the sports to shoot, I think baseball’s the most difficult because there’s relatively little action, and what there is usually happens […]
In the Zone
Lately I’ve been reading about some past photographers and how they approached their work, and came across something that really hit home. It was the idea that to be successful as a photographer, you needed to clear your mind of all other thoughts. You had to be free from the daily worries, responsibilities and distractions […]
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
