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Entry #35: Photography

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Duane Storey

Based on a suggestion by Raul, I’m going to talk a little bit about my entry into photography. I originally got into a photography because I wanted a hobby that exploited my creative side without all the trappings of the … Continue reading →

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Raid 5 & Cheap Storage

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Duane Storey

I finally got around to finishing off a little project of mine at home. As everyone knows, I take a pile of photos. So many in fact that I have a hard time finding places to store them all. In … Continue reading →

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Title Tags And WordPress

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Duane Storey

I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last few months trying to understand how search engines work, and how sites get indexed. In my last article, I recommending that the XML Sitemap generator for WordPress should be installed … Continue reading →

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How To Make Your Website Or Blog Faster

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Duane Storey

There are a lot of different ways you can increase the speed of your website, even if you have relatively cheap hosting. If you’re lucky, your blogging platform already has a caching engine built in (Drupal does). If you’re unlucky, … Continue reading →

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WordPress Viper Cache Alpha

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Duane Storey

I’ve been dabbling with a new caching engine for WordPress over the last few weeks. While WP-Cache does a pretty decent job, it falls short in a few areas, and it’s something I’ve been trying to fix. In particular, here’s … Continue reading →

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How To Make A Better WordPress – Entry #1: Sitemaps

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Duane Storey

I’ve decided to do a multipart series on how to take your WordPress installation to the next level. Most people seem to have an out-of-the-box WordPress installation, and I think they are really missing out on a few things that … Continue reading →

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The Digital Camera Histogram

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Duane Storey

One of the main advantages of digital photography over film photography, at least in my mind, is the ability to view the histogram shortly after taking the shot. While viewing the image on the LCD is obviously an advantage as … Continue reading →

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Photographing a Wedding

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Duane Storey

As I mentioned in my last blog entry, the other day I had a chance to photography my first wedding. All in all, it was a pretty rewarding experience. The day started at around 11am for me and Hesty. We … Continue reading →

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From Digital Back to Film

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Duane Storey

Tonight I did something that I’ve been thinking of doing for a few weeks now — I picked up a film SLR body so that I could once again shoot film. And to even write that statement down now seems … Continue reading →

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HDR Photography

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Duane Storey

So there’s this buzz amongst photographers about this new technique called HDR (high dynamic range). The basic idea is that a camera isn’t capable of capturing nearly as much dynamic range as what our eyes can capture.? With HDR, you … Continue reading →

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