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“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.” – John Waters, a fellow native Baltimorean and one of my cinematic heroes.

Since you are the final arbiter of what’s “correct” the Exposure Compensation feature lets you increase or decrease the automatic exposure in one-half or one-third tops to get exactly the exposure you like. Using the camera’s LCD screen and histogram function will help you home in on what’s correct.

Garden of the Gods is a public park (free admittance) that’s located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971. I recently visited with my friend Mark Toal and we shot many of the images, (including the below photograph) in digital Infrared.

I haven’t written any business-oriented posts in some time but I know that many readers of this blog and my articles and columns are aspiring professionals. So I’d like to present a few business-related tips that you might try keeping the rest of this year and in 2024.

Lots of people are happy as they can be shooting their DSLRs and I am genuinely glad they’re happy and would not dream of changing their enthusiasm for their gear. Because that’s what photography is all about —excitement. It doesn’t matter what kind of camera you prefer to use—DSLR, APS-C, mirrorless or even film—what matters is that you are having fun. And to me that’s what photography is all about.

The Panasonic Lumix GF-series camera aka “girlfriend camera” in the Japanese home market. The Lumix GF3 was the eighth camera in Panasonic’s Lumix G-series…