Month: November 2009

Let's talk about shooting when there is no light. Really, plenty of light is often available; it just takes a while to get enough of it to make a photograph. There are special challenges in photographing low-light situations, and the long shutter speed is just one of them. This article explores ways to achieve the best exposures when the light is low or seems to be missing completely. We'll be using examples ranging from landscapes and sunset scenes to cities and fireworks!

This article is about why educational performance is critical to a society's wealth, how the modern university is not appreciably improved over the template established in 1088, and proposes some simple changes that should greatly improve the effectiveness of undergraduate education.

Showtime is an iPhone app which keeps track of your favourite TV shows and lets you know when new episodes are available to watch.

Luttwak, who says he has studied Byzantine documents and other writings for two decades, advises Americans to learn seven lessons from Byzantium.

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X-plorers is a “what if?” role playing game. In this case, what if the fathers of the role playing hobby were more into science fiction than fantasy when they wrote that first set of official rules back in 1974? What if that game was about humans expanding and exploring their universe, instead of delving into deep dungeons to kill monsters to earn treasure? These are the questions X-plorers attempts to answer.

Photography is an art and a craft. Getting better at both requires practice. Lots of practice. Daily practice if you can manage it. Sometimes, more often than we’d like to admit, it can be hard to pick up the camera and start using it. Usually when this happens it’s not that you don’t want to make a photograph, but more like you don’t know what to go shoot or where to get started. You just need a little inspiration… That’s where @dailyshoot comes in.

Photography is an art and a craft. Getting better at both requires practice. Lots of practice. Daily practice if you can manage it. Sometimes, more often than we’d like to admit, it can be hard to pick up the camera and start using it. Usually when this happens it’s not that you don’t want to make a photograph, but more like you don’t know what to go shoot or where to get started. You just need a little inspiration… That’s where @dailyshoot comes in.

"I wish there was a way you could give me an assignment every day of something to go shoot."

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