The photo below, of pizza at a cafe, appeared on my previous post. It was taken with a polarizing filter on the lens adjusted to block glare from the window in the background. Mouseover the "Without Polarizer" button below for the same scene two seconds later, without the filter...

With Polarizer   -   Without Polarizer mouseover button to see that image

The difference is striking.

Without the filter, the reflections on the pizzas, table, and glasses of water just destroy the scene. I'm glad I happened to have brought the my polarization filter that day. In the "Without Polarizer" [...]

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High-dynamic-range – HDR – is an image-processing technique that's been gaining popularity over the last few years. HDR can be used to create some amazing, impactful, stunning images. For some eye-popping examples, see this page, which is just one page of many that are linked from this HDR roundup.

I haven't created anything amazing with HDR, but I utilized HDR in whipping this image together, just for this post...

HDR attempts to overcome a limitation of current camera technology... a limitation that disallows a camera from picking up fine detail in the dark shadows and bright highlights of a scene [...]

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More pictures from Kevin and Yoko Parrington's wedding.

Kevin is the youngest of 10 kids, and – according to the "life history" that he wrote about himself for the reception guests – the cutest of them all. Not all his family could make it to Japan for the wedding, so I thought I'd publish a few more pics right away, for their benefit...

Their time was divided pretty evenly between posing for photos and other stuff (where "other stuff" encompasses random little things like actually getting married, visiting with guests, cutting the cake, etc.). There was a lot of posing.

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I attended the wedding of an old friend yesterday; Kevin and Yoko tied the knot on the 68th floor of Yokohama's Landmark Tower, the tallest building in Japan. They appeared on my Impromptu Portraits in the Park post last year not long after they got engaged, as well as in followups here, here, and here.

Kevin is one of those guys who looks better and better with age, but really, you almost didn't notice him or anything else when Yoko was present. "Spectacular" just doesn't do her or that dress justice.

Kevin's selection for the engagement ring – seen out [...]

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Photo metadata has evolved a mix of seemingly comparable ways to label a photo. Lightroom allows you to enter a "Title", a "Caption", and a "Headline", among others, so which should you use when you upload your images to an online photo-hosting service? That depends, of course, on how what fields you've entered into Lightroom, what you've entered into them, and your goal for the label.

My plugins for Adobe Lightroom that allow you to export photos to online photo-hosting services (for:  Zenfolio   -   SmugMug   -   Flickr   -   Picasa Web ) allow for a [...]

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