FStoppers Article Titles

 Like many photographers, I regularly check out the Fstoppers website. It contains a wide variety of content for amateurs and professionals alike. 

During the pandemic, I've come up with some titles for imaginary Fstoppers articles that sound almost like real ones, and what's shown below is my final list. 

Fstoppers (Fake) Articles

Is the Sony E PZ 18–110 mm F4 G OSS  the Best Cheese Portrait Lens? 

7 Mistakes Photographers Make When Starting Fights on Airplanes

What Makes a Good Mud Photo? 

Three Tips for Using Off-camera Lighting During Tornadoes

Why You Should Be Using Extension Tubes for Landscape Photos

Creamed Corn Photographer Shares Her Tips

Using a 20-pound Sack of Rice to Save Your Camera After a Downpour

Behind the Scenes at a Piano Tuning Shoot

Should You Use Bar Soap to Clean Your Lenses?

Improving Low-Light Photography By Adding Light

Adobe Announces Discount Photoshop Version That Only Allows Actions Used in YouTube "How To Select Hair" Videos.

A Look At the New Fujifilm 1mm Hyperfisheye Lens

Using a Long Stick to Get A Drone off Your Roof

How To Remove Skin Blemishes With Windows Notepad

This Is An Article about Micro Four Thirds Being Dead Intended to Infuriate Micro Four Thirds Users And Drive Comments

The New iPhone Rumored to Have 11 Cameras And No Longer Capable of Calling People

All Of Your Photo Equipment Should Have Those Peak Design Red Disk Thingies Hanging Off Them

Which Is Better, Red or Blue? 

OM Systems Announces It's Not Legal to Use Olympus E-M1X On Anything Other Than BIF or Motorcycle Races

12 Things I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Stealing Film Cameras in the 1980s

Make Your Compositions Better By Leaving the Lens Cap On

Should I Stop Using Photoshop And Start Using Microsoft Paint 3D? 

A Beginner's Guide To Alcohol Flasks That Look Like Binoculars

FStoppers Reviews PetaPixel

6 Reasons Why You Should Always Do Free Work as a Photographer

6 Reasons Why You Should Never Do Free Work as a Photographer

Why I Sold My DSLR And Bought a Table Saw

How Not To Photograph a High School Football Team's Car Wash Fundraiser

Using a Tripod To Carefully Nudge Something Off A High Shelf

Traveling Light: The 32 Large Things You Should Always Have With You

If You Could Only Have One Lens, Would It Be An AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 G ED VR?

What I Learned When I Listened To The Person I Was Photographing In A Thunderstorm

I Smashed My Mirrorless Camera With a Hammer And Never Looked Back

Super B(ow)logging Books

Here are some books that I've read in the last few years that were notable. Read one, or read them all!

Every Day is for the Thief
Teju Cole

A bittersweet homecoming to Nigeria for the narrator, who reconnects with people from his past, and is frustrated by the ubiquitous local corruption.   

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
A.J. Jacobs

I'm not quite done with this book, but it's a winner. The author wants to become smarter, so he buys a complete, printed edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and reads every word. He shares some of the fun facts that he learns along the way, and shares the times that he attempts to inject his knowledge into everyday social situations. Can he one-up his brainy family members, and impress his coworkers?   

Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop
Nick Offerman

You may know Offerman from the dry-humored characters he plays on TV shows, but he is also a first-class woodworker. He introduces you to his woodshop and his fellow craftspeople therein. His explanation of wood and woodworking tools is terrific. He's as good a writer as he is a comedic actor.

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Roz Chast

If you read New Yorker magazine, you know Roz Chast. In this book, she's written a guide to New York which is approachable and fun. She gives helpful information about finding streets and does it with her inimitable drawing style. She also wrote Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a book about her experiences with her aging parents. I read it after dad was already in assisted living, and it made me realize that what we went through with dad was very common. 

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace

The essays in this book are well-written, and he has some pretty interesting essays about tennis, but the best by far is the one about his experience on a cruise ship (which was supposedly fun).

Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking
Annie Atkins

This is a fun book about the props you see in movies, but often don't really see. Stacks of papers on a desk, or a letter, or money, or tickets. The author explains how they're made, and how they take their job very seriously. 

Photoshop Restoration & Retouching
Katrin Eismann

Not a book you'd probably take to the beach, but a wonderful step-by-step description of using Photoshop to repair and restore digital images of your old photos. Most of the techniques I used to restore dad's military pictures I learned from this book.  

Goliath
Tom Gauld

I mentioned this book on my blog a long time ago, but it's worth mentioning again. My advice is to find all the Tom Gauld books at your library or bookstore, and take them home. His cartoons about books are the best. 

Sleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel

A science fiction novel about a very unusual weapon. It's a bit gory in places, but if this weapon was actually found, the story would probably play out in the way the book outlines.