Every digital camera made comes with a promise of making perfect pictures with the click of a button. The algorithms used to deliver on this promise, however, are by no means perfect, including the auto white balance algorithm. →

On April 2nd, I was pretty optimistic that I was just a couple of weeks away from launching an online store with the first of my prints for sale. As you know, I asked for a bit of help from all of you to help out. That process turned out to be a fantastic experience and resulted in a lot of feedback. →

As part of Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008, Brady Forrest and company hosted an Ignite SF at the DNA Lounge last night. Ignite nights are always a good time. What's Ignite? Take 14 or so speakers, give them 5 minutes each to talk, and see what happens. The result is almost universally fun. And, thanks to the format, if somebody's talk is a dud, well, you only have to wait 5 minutes for the next one. →

I've been in Santa Clara, California this last week photographing the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo. This is the fourth year that I've been the official photographer for this conference. Wow, has it really been that many years in a row? The big difference this year: MySQL is now part of Sun Microsystems. →

Color temperature gives a way to describe the composition of light, specifically the spectrum of colors in light used to illuminate a subject. Once we know the color temperature of the light used, we can correct the information received by the sensor to make an acceptable image. →

White light is composed of different colors and, depending on the type of light, has a different overall color. Incandescent light is more yellow than the light emitted by the sun. The unit used to describe the color of light are degrees Kelvin. It's an odd unit to understand at first, but a bit of explanation takes care of things. →

While Flickr loves the metadata that is in your photographs when you upload them, merrily adding the information to its database, it then turns around and strips it in its resized versions that it presents to the world. This leads to headaches tracking down creators and only adds fire to the orphan works problem. →

Last Wednesday, I asked for help selecting images that I should consider launching my upcoming print store with. The response has been awesome. Out of the collection of almost 6000 images in my photo stream, 129 were tagged with print requests by a virtual army of people. This has been crowdsourcing at its best. →

I'm within a week or two of opening up an online storefront to offer prints of my photographs for sale. I've tested out all of the vendors involved and had test prints made of several images in sizes large and small. Now it's time to build the launch catalog and I'd like your help. →

Copyright is supposed to protect the creator of an original work. When applied to the mass of creativity that is being unleashed by the general public on the Internet, however, its default protection is something akin to that provided by a piece of tissue paper when an elephant sneezes. This isn't how it was supposed to be. →