qDSLRdashboard in action

Yesterday I wrote about my acquisition of a battery-powered router to use as a wireless tether for my Nikon DSLR. Today I have a short video ready to show it in action. This demonstrates the router working in conjunction with my iPad, which is how I’ll be using it 1. The image to the left…

DIY Wireless Photography Tether

Over the last few years, I have greatly enjoyed my transition to DSLR photography. Using this tool I have been able to explore taking the photographs I’ve always envisioned in my imagination. Taking photos the traditional way, raising the viewfinder to my eye and framing the shot, is absolutely my preferred method of capture. A…

Amazing Grace

A couple of years ago I reconnected with one of the leaders from my high school youth group on Facebook. He’d been a good friend, but after he graduated from Eastern and gotten married we’d lost touch 1. Much to my surprise, when we reconnected I discovered he had written a show which he hoped…

Crafting Story-Mode

Yesterday Minecraft’s “story mode” was released into the iOS app store. I’ve been looking at this with interest for some time, so I decided to pick it up and see how it played. Story Mode is an episodic adventure game developed by Telltale games, in conjunction with Mojang. As the name suggests, the game is…

Goodbye Nook

Several years back I received my first eBook reader for Father’s Day. It was a Nook Simple Touch with glow-light, and I loved it. I took it with me everywhere and found reading on it extremely pleasurable. So much so, in fact, that purchasing printed books became reserved for special volumes which I wanted in…

Comparing Cameras

After I got my iPhone 6s+ last week, one of the questions posed to be by some folks was, “How is the camera?” I honestly couldn’t say. I’ve never been a good “snapshot” person, so once I acquired a DSLR I essentially stopped taking pictures with my iPhone camera. I figured if I was going…