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An affair with Instagram

“Practice your ABC’s.”
That is a phrase I have heard a few times in the photographer circles. It stands for “Always Bring Camera.”
But what kind of “C” are we talking about? If we are referring to a professional camera, then I used to practice ABC all the time. In college, while an intern and even as [...]

Posted 22 February 2012 † Beck Diefenbach § Personal ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Hiatus

It’s been a while since my last post. In the mean time I have been in Italy for a a week and a half, moved to a house and taken on a few projects.
I took a break from blogging mostly because I wasn’t feeling motivated to post anything. And this blog should never feel like [...]

Posted 24 June 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Personal § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

The new (temporary) pwned

As you can see there is a new look to PWNED. This was not entirely by choice.
Around 1:30 A.M. I decided to finally upgrade this blog to the latest Wordpress 2.9.2 only to cause a fatal error, crashing this site. I’ve had this blog for a while now and I didn’t realize my MSQL database [...]

Posted 19 May 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Keeping track of photo gear

Last October, when the officer asked what was missing from my trunk, I grabbed a loose piece of paper and began to write the huge list of gear that was stolen. After I gave him the list, I continued to remember the other pieces of gear I forgotten about. In fact, the next day I [...]

Posted 10 February 2009 † Beck Diefenbach § ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , ,

Playing with tilt-shift

Possibly the most exciting lens I purchased when I went Canon was the 45mm f2.8 TS-E, or better known as tilt shift. While normal lenses allow for control of depth of field and focus distance, tilt shift photography allows for control of the pitch of your focal plane. I don’t want to get too technical [...]

Posted 06 February 2009 † Beck Diefenbach § Sports ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,