Reed Hoffmann’s Photography Blog
Making Photos Last
In the old days, photographers worried about keeping track of their pictures and how long they would last. Both film and prints deteriorate over time. With digital that’s no longer a worry – digital files can last forever, since they’re just numbers. The trick is keeping track of them and making new copies as storage […]
Shooting, not Skiing
This December was the fourth in a row I’ve spent a week at a ski resort in Colorado, doing very little skiing. Instead I’m shooting pictures and video. That’s because I’m there to help Disabled Sports USA document their Ski Spectacular, a week of teaching disabled people to ski. And it’s become one of the […]
Family Picture Time
Time for New Computers
As digital photographers, computers are an important part of our lives. That means keeping track of software and system updates as well as hardware compatibility. And, at some point, replacing the computer itself. That’s one of the things I’ve been working on the last few weeks, and just finished. My first computer was a Mac […]
Advantages of High Resolution
In 1996 I started shooting digital for my newspaper with the latest, greatest digital camera, a Kodak (Nikon) NC2000e. It cost $15,000 and gave me 1.3 megapixel images. The quality wasn’t very good, but it was state of the art at the time. A couple of years later I was shooting a 2.7 megapixel camera […]
Viva Las Vegas
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Las Vegas for some time now. As a photographer, I love the strip at night – it’s well lit with great locations to shoot from and subjects to take pictures of, from the Eiffel Tower to the elevated crosswalks to the fountains at the Bellagio. But the excess also […]
Making Lemonade
Managing Large (and lots of!) Files
I received an email recently from a friend who went to China with me in May. He was shooting with the new Nikon D800, and had a question: “How do you cope with the mass storage requirements of the D800? With the volume of photography you’ve done lately I have to believe you have a […]
Teaching Photography
Most of my work these days involves teaching. And I’ve learned that no matter how much I think I know about photography, there’s always more to learn. You see, I spent 25 years taking pictures before I really understood what was behind much of that photography. And that’s changed both how I shoot pictures, as […]
Learning DSLR Video
Last weekend I was in Lake Tahoe to teach another Popular Photography Mentor Series workshop. This one had a bit of a twist to it – we were going to teach video too. The Nikon D90 was the first DSLR to offer video, and now it’s a given that any new DSLR will have that […]