Hunter Donald

After seeing this picture on Flickr, several co-workers were debating whether or not the photo was real. Shortly thereafter, we found the "how to" picture that showed how the water hat was created. I was hooked! I really wanted to replicate this shot. My first attempt was during my lunch hour at work...

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Recently, there was talk about the water hat shots , and people debated whether they were real, etc. During our lunch hour on the Charlotte campus, we decided to give it a go. First – some lessons: Noon hour light (as always) can be hard to work with Don’t step in fire ant hills trying to find the right...

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If you're using Entourage 2008, you might have noticed that some of your contact groups may not be working anymore. When trying to send to a group of recipients, you might get a 5.1.3 error. Whenever I got that error, I’d open the group from within the email to see the bad address, and there was always...

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This is a video of the Top Ten Angry On-Camera Meltdowns. Hope you enjoy.

Today my wife wanted to take a picture collage she made in the print module of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and save it to a JPEG (JPG) file that she could then take to a printer like Shutterfly or Target. In Lightroom 1 (LR1) there isn't an easy way to do this. Apparently in Lightroom 2 (LR2) you can ...

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This website is freaking amazing! Stuff White people like is a list of items with commentary that explains why exactly white people would ever like a certain thing. The list ranges from architecture to hating parents to Japan and The Daily Show. Take several minutes out of your day to read this site...

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I tried to upgrade to Graffiti 1.1, and I ended up losing some data because I had to restore from a backup... Sorry. I'll need to backup my stuff more often. Sigh.

Hunter Donald

Sometimes you may want to consider renting a lens instead of buying one. Maybe you have a specific shoot in mind, but you don't think you'll need the lens you need beyond the shoot, or maybe the lens you want is just way too expensive, and since you're using it on occasion anyway, renting is your only...

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Lots of people want to create an expensive look for their knickknacks. Maybe they're wanting to sell stuff on eBay, maybe they're just wanting to highlight products or their own art. A great way to do this is to have the background be a solid color with no distraction from the item in question. You can...

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<<This post was written before our trip to Italy in June 2006>> Well, we continue to prepare for Italy. I still haven't received my backpack from the eBay purchase I made a while ago. I hope it gets here in time for me to pack. :-) International Service Assessment fees - how did I hear about...

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