Travels with Rhody

I journeyed to Alaska from December 18 to December 30 to spend the Christmas holiday with my family. My brother Jamie, his wife Jen, and their 2-year-old son Kieran (my nifty nephew) live in a beautiful house in the hills outside Fairbanks — which is about as far as Boston as they could live and [...]

I finished converting all of the bracketed photos from my Columbus Day Weekend leaf-peeping trip with my parents into high-dynamic-range (HDR) fusion images. You can view the whole lot in this Flickr photoset. Now I’m experimenting with different ways of presenting the photos. Animoto, a cool New York-based startup, offers an interesting tool for making [...]

Believe it or not, I have friends who come to this blog to find out what Rhody’s been up to, not me. I guess I provoked that situation by calling the blog “Travels with Rhody.” And the truth that for as long as I’ve had a personal blog—and TWR goes back to 2004 now, though [...]

I’d hoped to get out to World’s End yesterday, but didn’t have time. Instead I grabbed my camera and headed out on a walk around the South End, with the goal of taking some auto-bracketed pictures that I could use for my first experiments with high dynamic range (HDR) photography.
I’d read about Photomatix, a program [...]

Seattle-based commercial photographer Chase Jarvis is known for his arresting, color-saturated images of people in motion—skiing, swimming, somersaulting. He’s also known for (literally) trademarking the phrase “the best camera is the one you have with you.” His point is that you don’t an expensive SLR to take great pictures. You can do a lot with [...]