I downloaded the much hyped version of Photoshop for the iPhone today and wow what a disappointment. The number one photo manipulation software in in the world for desktops and they produce a hobbled app that is not worth the price of free. Sure it has the following: crop, rotate, and flip, exposure, saturation and [...]

So I just heard about this amazing site called Blurb.com. I guess they have been around since 2005 and sold 300,000 titles in 2008 alone. Who knew….Well I guess 300,000 people did and now there is 300,001 that think it’s cool. It is a site and software that lets anyone publish a book with little [...]

When I announced the contest I was not sure how many would actually respond. My blog is not the biggest in the way of traffic after all. I am happy to announce that there were enough to make it an actual contest. There were all kinds and it’s pretty amazing to see what this great [...]

I discovered this free service today that lets you create badges of your most intersting photos acording to most viewed, most commented and favored. It’s free and when you click through it’s nice to see your photos on black instead of the usual white background that Flickr uses.

I have been posting the raw and un-retouched photos on jaypiddy.com at the bottom of each relevant story for a while now. Some people already know that I have been working on a different series and positing it to Flickr. The theme is kind of a homage to Lomo photography, the Russian camera that is very popular with the hipsters. [...]

For those of you that know me you know I am a bit of an iPhone nut. I have been using the crap iPhone 2.0 megapixel since August of 08. I have managed to find ways around the out of the box limitations that most people suffer through. [See iPhone Camera tips post] The latest weapon in [...]

This was photo was shot on a road trip that the three of us took through eastern Washington, Oregon and Northern California in the spring of 2004. It was Easter and both Denise and I were a little stir crazy from the long winter shut indoors figuring out how to be parents with and infant child. We blasted south and [...]

Well as we head into the new year and begin 2009 with a clean sweep of all things 2008 one can’t help but run into ghosts from the past. It seems that it was just yesterday that Noah was fascinated and could not get enough of all things Toy Story. It was only a year ago that [...]

I was thinking to myself today, as the snow finally started to ease it’s icy stranglehold from around the neck of this ill prepared city, I could use a vacation in the sun. It was exactly one year ago that we were prepping for the sunny sub-tropical climate of Orlando and Key West. That margarita actually cost [...]

So you have an iPhone and the pictures that you take, well no offence but they probably suck! Am I right or am I right. Well even if you have little to no training there are a few things you can do to improve your shots. Here is a handy list of things you can do to make the [...]