Jeremiah Tolbert

Writer | Photographer | Web Designer

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How to get Images Back out of Microsoft Word

One thing I run into some­what fre­quently is con­tent being pro­vided to me in a Microsoft Word file with embed­ded images.  I used to strug­gle with get­ting the high­est qual­ity ver­sion of those images back out of Word and into Photoshop.  If you cut and paste into Photoshop, you often get it at the resolution […]

Five Things I Have Learned About Wildlife Photography

For a lit­tle over a month, I have spent every week­end morn­ing and some after­noons after work out pur­su­ing local wildlife to pho­to­graph.  I’m not inex­pe­ri­enced when it comes to spot­ting and observ­ing wildlife, but throw­ing pho­tog­ra­phy into the mix has forced me to relearn a lot of old skills and add new ones to […]

CSS Tutorial: Cleaning Up Footer Code

For my first web design/css tuto­r­ial, I wanted to talk about a prob­lem that I had, and how I solved it. This is pretty sim­ple stuff, but it took me a while to grasp the idea, so I thought I’d share it with the half-dozen of you who do this sort of work. Below is a […]

Anatomy of a Steampunk Photoshoot

This was my first seri­ous shoot with logis­tics involv­ing a model, cos­tum­ing, and a shoot loca­tion. To spend an hour and a half behind the cam­era, I spent prob­a­bly 4 hours doing the var­i­ous admin­is­tra­tive tasks to set up. Here’s an overview of the process we went through to get the pic­tures I wanted. The […]