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  • Pacific Palisades 4th of July Parade

    A tight knit community. You can tell the people here are setting their kids up for success. People there are very nice and polite. Very well off as well. Reminds me of the affluent communities in suburban Cincinnati. Such a positive energy. People in this neighborhood love America. I don’t blame them. Look at their Read more

  • Tweaking JPEG Settings

    I tweaked my High Contrast JPEG settings today. The HC is too strong, so trying out Hard BW instead. A lot of my photos were turning out underexposed. Even adjusting my exposure compensation, they were too dark. Just looking at the few photos I took today with the new settings, they look very similar to Read more

  • LA Street Photography

    I think it’s way underrated for street photography. In LA there’s such a wide variety of places to shoot that all look different. Easier to make a nice image that looks very different from one another. And there’s no reason not to come away with decent photos on a daily basis. You could bike down Read more

  • Color in Photos

    If the only thing interesting is the color, is it an interesting photo? Probably looks good on the wall but has little emotional value for me, at least. I see a lot of good color photos but seems like there is a tendency to match colors in the frame. The photo becomes more about the Read more

  • Ricoh GRiii Street Photography Settings

    I’ll start with shooting settings. 99% I’m using snap focus. I use snap distance priority so I can easily change distance using the front wheel. I start at 2m and change accordingly. You’ll have grainy files using my ISO settings. Adjust the lower ISO setting if you want cleaner photos. Here are the JPEG settings. Read more

  • 3200 ISO

    Looks fine to me, even in bad light. Read more