| Glenn Campbell's Photo Albums from Outside USA |
| Glenn Campbell's Photo Albums from the United States |
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See my Facebook Albums for nearly all of my recent photos. Most of my albums are public and visible to any Facebook user, but you may need to log in to Facebook to see them. According to Facebook, I have over 30,000 travel photos in 600+ albums.
I post many photos "live" on my twitter feed as they happen. See @BadDalaiLama for the raw feed and my permanent archive and index at BadDalaiLama.com. To see nearly all my photos on twitter search for "TwitPic" in my archive. Most photo tweets are geotagged. (Look at the original tweet to see the actual spot on Earth where I uploaded the photo.) Most of my tweeted photos are stored on my TwitPic account. Most of the photos posted to TwitPic are also stored in my Facebook albums, but TwitPic is a more selective feed. (I usually post the photos to Facebook hours or days after the Twitter photo, usually after editing the photos.)
I used to repost some of my best new photos to my Google Plus Account along with links back to my Facebook albums. (I joined Google+ on July 11, 2011.) However, I discontinued this at the end of 2012. (Too much work!) Although most of my photos are still stored on Facebook, Google+ provides a selection of the best ones. This feed includes new photos uploaded from the place there were taken, samples from old albums I am currently reviewing, new and old videos and miscellaneous links. (All of the photos posted to Google+ are also uploaded eventually to Facebook.)
Before August 2010, I indexed all of my albums (including Facebook albums) on RoamingPhotos.com. You can still browse this website for my photos before Aug. 2010. This is a well-organized and searchable site, but indexing became too much of a burden. Most of my new photos are now stored on Facebook with the only index being the master list above.
In early 2010 (before Google+), I tried to maintain a "best of" feed for photos and videos on Tumblr.
Initially, I stored all my photos on my own website, RoamingPhotos.com, but I eventually migrated to Facebook. I joined Facebook on Jan. 1, 2008, and by the end of 2008, nearly all my new photos were being stored there. I also upload photos to Twitter, but these are usually duplicated later on Facebook.
During 2011, I devoted more attention to learning video and less to still photography. (For a history of a my video career, see Video Page.) For most of 2011, I had no dSLR (It was stolen in Canada.) and I didn't miss it. I took still photos only with my iPhone. In late 2011, I came back to still photography and now do it much more than video.
For more about me and my other creative work, see my home page:
Glenn-Campbell.com
A good photographer can take great photos with any camera, and bad photographer is
going to take lousy photos with even the most expensive one, but a good camera stacks the
odds in your favor. With a fancy dSLR and the skill to use it, you can catch more
of the margin shots that would slip by otherwise.
After owning both Canon and Nikon dSLR cameras, I am back to Canon permanently. I think of
Nikon as a bad relationship. I tried to make it work, but Nikon was just too dysfunctional.
(Bad placement of controls and fewer features than Canon for the price.)
For years, I got by with the "low end of the high end" in digital cameras. The Canon Rebel
series has stood by me well, and that is what I recommend to newcomers who want to
move up from a point-and-shoot. As of late 2012, however, I am now shooting with the
semi-professional Canon 60D. I am embarrassed by its huge and intrusive size, but
it gives me so much better control that it is worth it. (However, I wouldn't know
what to do with all the features of the 60D if I hadn't already practiced with the Rebel for years.)
For a lens, I only use the 18-200mm lens that came with the camera.
(It is affordable only when you buy the lens and camera as a package.)
This is the best lens you can possibly get for shooting in a wide range of circumstances.
I never remove the lens from the body because this lets dust get onto the
camera sensor. (I learned that from previous dSLR. Dust on the sensor is a much bigger
problem that scratches on the lens.) I keep a lens hood permanently attached to the lens, not to prevent glare but to protect the lens from scratches. That way, I don't have to
use a lens cap (which I would lose anyway).
After the photos are taken, I download them to my generic laptop and usually crop and brighten them with a photo editor. I use both Corel Paintshop Pro and Photoshop.
Frankly, I like Corel a lot better for everyday editing (and it's a lot cheaper) but Photoshop gives
you more control for complex projects.
(I recommend Corel to all non-professionals.)
Some photos I enhance with an HDR application, Dynamic Photo HDR, which pumps up the contrast and heightens the color.
I rarely use multiple frames for HDR but simply enhance a single frame using tone mapping.
Although I may use software to enhance the color and contrast of a photo, I rarely "Photoshop" an image to change the details of it. (I just don't have time!) The forms and details you see are the same ones the camera recorded.
For most of my iPhone photos, I use the standard camera app. Sometimes I upload iPhone photos directly to Facebook without editing, and sometimes I crop and brighten them first with the photo editing software. A few of my iPhone photos are taken using the proHDR app, which takes two photos at
different exposures and combines them into one (for richer colors).
Beginning Aug. 2011, I also use PhotoSynth to take wide-angle photos and 360-degree panoramas with my iPhone.
I have a small waterproof Fuji Finepix camera for underwater shots, wet circumstances and a few panoramas (but I rarely use it).
In the early days, I tried to label each photo with a visible caption with my website, photo location and a copyright mark, but this became too much of a burden. (My photos may still be invisibly watermarked, and I am not relinquishing ownership of them.)
Be sure to check out my Videos!
Current Equipment and Software
[Updated May 1, 2013] I usually travel with about five cameras, but I mainly use a Canon 60D (with Canon 18-200mm lens) and an iPhone.Permission Notes
You may feel free to link to any of my photos and albums, or share
them via the Facebook "share" feature, but please don't copy them to another website without permission. For permission,
contact me.
(I am usually pretty liberal about giving permission, especially for not-for-profit sites.)
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