Photography Notebook: What's New

2021-12-28

Created the page on phone camera.

2015-11-18

Created the page on mirrorless cameras.

2014-01-15

Added Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM Lens to lenses page.

2013-08-19

I gave my talk Photography and the Web at Open Doors, Summerfield United Methodist Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2012-10-24

Updated the page on filters.

2012-10-22

Updated information on my full-frame camera and prepared a page on full frame lenses separate from the page on EF-S lenses. Set up small-frame camera to document my past choices.

2012-06-06

Updated information on my full-frame camera.

2012-03-02

I make plans for a full-frame camera.

2011-09-26

Added The Digital Photography Book, Volume 1, The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2, and The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3 to the books page.

2011-08-24

Added Image Makers, Image Takers by Anne-Celine Jaeger to the books page.

2011-05-10

Updated the books page.

2010-08-25

Added Digital Photography's Dirty Little Secret.

2010-08-20

Updates to the HDR, books, and software pages.

2010-05-19

Updates to lenses since I just got a new lens, a 30mm prime lens.

2010-03-28

A question-and-answer interview of me about my hardware and software setup (and camera use) appears as "The Wisconsin Setup: John December," March 28, 2010, on blog.mattgauger.com.

2010-02-20

Updates to the HDR page with an HDR example of the Lakeshore State Park bridge.

2010-02-19

Updates to lenses since I just got a new lens, and the HDR page with some more tips and illustrations.

2010-01-22

Started the HDR page to begin more coverage of this technique. Updated the Software page.

2010-01-20

An article about my photography work appeared in Third Coast Digest: "Winter Scenes: Guest artist John December’s HDR Milwaukee River," by Brian Jacobson, Third Coast Digest, January 20, 2010.

2009-09-21

Started the Pack page and the travel kit page. The pack page will be expanded more to show how I pack my cameras and lenses.

2009-09-01

Started the Maintenance and Repair page.

2009-08-18

Started the Exposure page.

2009-08-06

Started the Software page.

2009-08-06

Added neutral density filters to the Filters page.

2009-07-21

Started the Metering Mode page.

2009-07-20

Updated the F number page with example photos.

2009-07-06

Started the Utility Kit page.

2009-07-01

Started the F number page.

2009-06-23

Started the Points of learning page.

2009-06-22

Started the Books page.
A big revelation--the definition of SLR on the lingo page.

2009-06-15

Started the Workflow page.

2009-06-10

Started the photography notebook as a hypertext work by expanding a one-page writeup of my camera choice and notes on its use. Started crop factor and lingo pages.