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Bradley : Photography

Photography and Random Thoughts

Category: Random Thoughts

Let’s Build a Photography Company

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Bradley Molnar

  Alright, here’s the ‘big’ announcement.  I’m going to start selling prints at those pop up art fair type things.  I’ll use this to document the whole process, my thoughts, options, and choices. The first two decisions are in the works —

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How I Shoot and Edit an Aurora Photo – Part 1

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Bradley Molnar

  What is an Aurora While I can’t give a definitive answer, it is the solar winds and other things the sun ejects interacting with the upper atmosphere of Earth.  Probably the magnetosphere, but I won’t guarantee it. The different colors are

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Learning to Photograph Waterfalls – Discovering What Works, What I Like, and Finding my Style

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Bradley Molnar

Let’s Go Back in Time Once upon a time, even I who know everything, had much to learn. Below I have posted an image, one of the first mildly successful images of a waterfall. This is a 5 second exposure at f/22. 

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That Light Meter or the Very Basics of Manual Metering

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Bradley Molnar

The demise and then undemise of TikTok has been polluting my Instagram feed with lower quality photography information.  So here’s what I saw and what is correct.  This is based on my experience which goes back to film, where this was a

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2024, a Review

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Bradley Molnar

  Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went.  It gives me a chance to reflect on what I managed to do, and get my plans together for the next year.  Since

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Photo Contest or Photo Scam

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Bradley Molnar

  Wait,  a photo contest? Today I received an e-mail about a photo contest, with the final deadline quite near. I thought ‘hey, maybe I should apply’ and then spent a few hours getting ready and making sure I followed the rules. 

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How I Manage my Photo Archive

Posted on April 22, 2024 by Bradley Molnar

  This will be a bit more technical than normal.  This is also the post that has taken me the longest to get correct.  I think I started this this post 4 years ago. I have a lot of photos.  My first

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Giving Out Your Locations – Some Thoughts

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Bradley Molnar

    6 months ago when I starting writing this post, I was in an area of Ohio with low cell service. It was nice. But this place is recently on the map and it is getting crowded,  But at least for

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2023, a Review

Posted on February 8, 2024 by Bradley Molnar

  Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went.  It gives me a chance to reflect on what I managed to do, and get my plans together for the next year.  Since

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2022, a Review

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Bradley Molnar

  Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went.  It gives me a chance to reflect on what I managed to do, and get my plans together for the next year.  Since

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I Had ChatGPT Write a Blog Post For Me

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Bradley Molnar

Prompt: “write a blog post for me on photography” —– Photography is the art of capturing light with a camera to create a visual representation of the world around us. It’s a medium that allows us to freeze a moment in time,

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How to Allow Your Computer to Multitask when Lightroom is Busy

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Bradley Molnar

Lightroom can be a systems resource hog It is true, we all know it. However, sometimes you want to actually do other things on your computer when Lightroom is doing something intensive — like a big import or export.  Is there a

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2021, a Review

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Bradley Molnar

  Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went.  For previous years posts, see the Year in Review category. It is now 2022 and the previous year was 2021.  In 2021, I

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Why I Buy Rugged Cameras

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Bradley Molnar

  A Look at the Nikon D8X0 Series of Cameras If you don’t want to read too much, just look at the photos and that should tell you why I like to use the more rugged type of camera.   Despite how

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Adventures in Color Calibration

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Bradley Molnar

  Common online advice is that it is important to color calibrate your monitors.  But if you are like me, you probably have struggled to get through this. In this post, I’m going to talk about my attempts to get my monitors

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Greenland Series Part 2: The Equipment Dilemma

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Bradley Molnar

This post is part 2 in a series about Greenland Part 1 is the intro and can be found here. This post will give some background on how I ended up on this trip, but will mostly discuss the gear required for

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How to pick a Photography Workshop

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Bradley Molnar

As a follow-up to my earlier post in which I talk about liking photography workshops, here are some recommendations for picking a photography workshop. While this is focused on landscape / outdoor photography, much of the thoughts can apply to other forms

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2020, a Review

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Bradley Molnar

Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went.  For previous years posts, see the Year in Review category. It is now 2021 and the previous year was 2020.  In 2020, I did

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You Can (Almost) Always Return to the Location

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Bradley Molnar

This post is an expansion of my previous post about the compulsion to click the shutter. Much of the inspiration for this post came from a friend who last year went to London for the first time. She made a big deal

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Photo Results : New Years Eve Seattle Space Needle Fireworks

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Bradley Molnar

Note: This post was started, but never finished, several years ago and references an event that occurred on January 1, 2017. Due to the lock-down, I have lots of time on my hands. As a result, I’m working on finishing some of

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