Lee Jinks's (leejinks) Blog

During the summer, South Padre Island has a fireworks show every Friday evening.  This gives me multiple chances to work on my firework photography.  Once you understand the principle it's really quite easy. Here's one of my most recent attempts. It's really just a form of light painting and you ...

To continue, one thing I like about my dSLR that just wasn't an option with my point and shoot is the high ISO.  With the dSLR, I can push it up to ISO 3200 with only moderate grain.  With my older P&S, anything above ISO 200 was unacceptable.  For real estate, I shot at ISO 50 and used a three s...

  Gene Allen has written several blogs on why he likes small sensor cameras.  I was shooting at the beach the other day and was thinking about why I like large my sensor camera.  So I thought I would write about it.  This is not to contradict what Gene has said.  In fact, I like small sensor came...

I've posted this type of stuff before, but I thought I'd tell you how it was done this time.  First I built this seven foot sand sculpture.   Then I waited until dark, hoping no one would knock it down.  Now that the hard part is done, I set the camera on a tripod and shined a light on the sculpt...

I came across this video tutorial on how to shoot great listing photos.  I'm quite mixed about the video and would like your opinion about it.  Some of the information is very good, but some could be questionable.  Before I give you my opinion, I'd like to know what you have to say. How to shoot ...

I brought this to you once before, but since I revealed the How to Photography Houses booklet by Stan Barron yesterday and the fact that Larry Lorhman's guide was featured in the WSJ yesterday as well, I thought I would give it another mention.  This is a two page guide that will give you some po...

In reading a blog by Eric Kodner, I got some information about a booklet on real estate photography written by Stan Barron, a real estate broker and marketing expert in Austin, Texas.  I have to admit that I found several things I didn't like about the booklet such as his full frame Canon bias, u...

As much as I have liked the Panasonic LX3 over the years, it's a joy to see its replacement, the LX5.  Probably what I like best about the LX5 is that they didn't make any major changes from the LX3.  Of course, there have been a few improvements such as an improved sensor, a little more zoom ra...

Every once in a while I get to spend the weekend on South Padre Island, Texas.  I find laying on the sand waiting for the sun to bake my skin to a golden brown to be way too boring, so I have to find something to do.  In my case, I like to build sand castles.  Sometimes they don't look like cast...

I'm the MLS Chairman this year and I see those issues with the MLS before they come to the committee.  I get this email from the MLS secretary asking if this type of verbiage is allowed under REALTOR remarks:  "Easy to show MLS lockbox.  Call CSS 956-687-6700. Trespassers will be violated."  I di...