Darryl Brooks
Bio
I am a writer with over 16 years of experience and hundreds of articles. I write about photography, productivity, life skills, money management and much more.
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In Photography, What is Dynamic Range?
Depending on how long you have been a photographer, you may or may not have heard the term, dynamic range. But unless you’ve been living, and photographing, in a cave, you have certainly heard the term HDR used as a technique. HDR is an acronym for High Dynamic Range. In reality, the dynamic range part of both terms means the same thing, but HDR means a look, rather than the light in a scene.
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Photography
How I Wrote 424 Articles Last Year and You Can Do It Too
Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash Before the lockdown, our little community started a writing club. We only had one meeting before we couldn’t meet anymore, but the subject of prompts came up. As a first exercise, they gave us a prompt to write on for our next meeting. I’m still waiting for that next meeting, but it’s what happened on the afternoon of the meeting that was interesting.
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Journal
How to Set Priorities and Get Things Done
Remember the game, Pick-Up Sticks? You had a pile of sticks on the floor and the goal was to pick one up without disturbing the others. Or for those of you born in the last few hundred years, how about Jenga? Remove a single block from a towering stack without crashing the entire thing to the floor.
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Lifehack
Welcome to the World's Largest Drive-in Restaurant
What'll Ya Have? What'll Ya Have? What'll Ya Have? Amid a cacophony of sights, smells, and sounds, the famous catch-phrase rings out above the din. No matter what time you show up at the world's largest drive-in, you can be assured of the smell of fried onion rings, and the constant call of What'll Ya Have?
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Feast
How to Have Peace of Mind as a Travel Photographer
Focus on getting the shot, see what I did there? But seriously, travel photography isn’t the endless vacation that non-photographers think it is. You’re up and gone long before sunrise and you probably miss the evening meals more often than not. You will spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for people to move out of the shot, waiting for the light to get just right, or waiting for the composition to be perfect.
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Photography
Quit Getting Things Done and Get Things Done
This week I am changing my task management application. I would tell you what I am changing from and to, but that’s not what this is about. I don’t want you to follow me to a new platform. I want you to use the one you have. I want you to stop spending all your time planning what to do and actually do something.
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Motivation
At Least We Don’t Have to Worry About These Things
As a kid, growing up in the sixties, I watched a lot of television. Probably not more than 12 hours a day, which didn’t seem like so much. Of course, we only had 3 channels, but I couldn’t watch more than one at a time, so that didn’t matter. I didn’t know anyone who had more than one TV.
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Humans
How to Find Things to Look Forward to While Socially Isolated
As we enter the third year of isolation, I finally took some action. Actually, it’s the first year for us, but you know what I mean. I know that, depending on where you are in the world, the schedule may be different for you. This has affected many of you much longer than us. But the problems and principles are the same.
By Darryl Brooks3 years ago in Longevity