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This is the follow-up to my Galaxy Buds 3 Pro video from six months ago. That one was about the microphone. If you are thinking of recording video with these as your mic, don’t. It was horrible. The audio quality is fine. They’re earbuds. How much noise canceling were you expecting? But I didn’t get…

Whiteout up on the mountain. Blizzard-like conditions. Not that I was going to ski anyway. But here is the thing they don’t tell you. These conditions make for great photography. Flat light, falling snow, the world reduced to shapes and weather. Everybody else goes inside. The street photographer goes out. This is why you keep…

The number one thing you need to know when chasing your dream job, whatever it is, entertainer or anything else. Be debt free. You’ve heard it a thousand times from people my age. I heard it too, and I didn’t listen. Before I knew it I was ridiculously in debt, and there is nothing more…

Heading to Montreal and Quebec City to shoot, and I want your thoughts before I go. First, the pronunciation. People from Quebec say “ke-BECK.” Alex Trebek said it. I’ve always said “kwe-BECK” and I’m trying to be respectful, but it’s a war in my head. Bear with me. Second, the real question. A photographer friend…

Fresh off my film sim versus film recipe video, the follow-up that turned out to be a whole lot of nothing. Sorry again. I’m heading out for long lens street work on a Saturday morning, keeping my distance, because you know how people are after a Friday night, when I have an epiphany. Or the…

I have done it. I am fairly certain I have created the worst comparison video in the history of gear comparison videos on YouTube. Film sims versus film recipes. At the edit, watching the results play out, I thought, I should disclaim this thing right off the start. The recipes and the sims weren’t that…

There is a vigorous debate happening in the comments of a news story right now, and it lands right on us. Tennessee’s legislature has a bill, the Voyeurism Victims Act, extending the statute of limitations from one year out to several, so victims who find out they were taped without their knowledge have time to…

The Society of Photographers has released their Photographer of the Year winners for 2024, and I am the kid who loved the film strip machine in school and sat front row for the neighbors’ vacation slideshows, so of course we’re going through these. The overall winner proves to me that animals don’t have taste buds.…

I hope you get as big a kick out of this as I did. I goof off with AI. Meta AI, Claude, ChatGPT, asking weird questions to see what it actually knows. So I listed out all my cameras and lenses, pretended I had Gear Acquisition Syndrome (pretended), and asked it the question. With all…