Zac Garrett

My niece Nora knows that there is a picture of herself on the back of the camera. She would sit on my lap waiting for a new photo to be taken and then say “Baby!” and look at the photo of herself. Luckily I was using the Canon EF 17-40mm F4L USM which focuses at eleven inches which allowed me to take some really neat photos really close up.

I also found the real reason for a UV filter: to small finger prints off the actual lens. With her pretty much sitting in my lap she would play with the lens. This did turn into some really interesting photos, but I would have been much less likely to allow her to play with the camera.

Female Anna’s Hummingbird

This photo was taken with Canon Rebel XT, 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM, Speedlite 580EX II Flash, with the Gary Fong Origami Diffuser. Taken at my parent’s house in Tacoma, Washington.

I really like this photo, however I wish I used shutter priority instead of aperature. While the movement of the bird looks interesting, there is just too much of it in my opinion. The bird would sit still until the flash went off. The sucker is so fast that I was unable to get any shots of the bird without movment when using a flash.

My niece Nora at 9 months with her mom Holly

This photo was taken with Canon Rebel XT, 50mm f/1.8 II, Speedlite 580EX II Flash, with the Gary Fong Origami Diffuser.

This is the first photo I am posting to the site in an effort to keep the site updated. If you have any questions geeky or not please feel free to post them in the comments.

It’s hard to remember the number of times I’ve went to update this site and just drawn a blank. Writers block is a horrible state that happens to just about everyone. Skribit is a way to get around that. It allows your readers to suggest ideas and then vote on them. It is about the best idea for a widget I’ve seen in a long while. However it is still in public beta and has its flaws. Continue Reading »

I never understood the reason behind so many geeks being obsessed with cameras before I actually started taking pictures. That was because I never really understood how to take a good picture. It is very technical.

First, you have to understand the various settings on the camera. You can go out and use auto mode, but you might as well just have a point in shoot camera. To get the most out of a camera you should really learn it inside and out. This is like any other technical project. Understand the hardware so its just second nature. Continue Reading »

In my attempt to keep up on podcasts I finally gave up with Miro and found a great shell script called BashPodder. This is a very simple script that keeps all of your podcasts up to date with very little effort. It was missing a few features that I wanted, so I updated the script and am now releasing it to the general public under the GPL. Continue Reading »