A Black-and-white Warbler taken at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida.
Speedlights: Flash Extenders
Flash extenders are useful tools when you need to increase your flash’s reach, such as in wildlife or bird photography when using a super telephoto lens. However, they can be used in many other situations to limit and direct light from a flash. Flash extenders are normally used when the subject is at long distances, …
Hacking Canon’s Wireless Flash System
This is a technique to use multiple Canon E-TTL wireless flashes off camera with out having a master on camera using either a sync cord or a pair of cheap RF triggers.
Purple Gallinule Foraging
After missing most of the best part of the birding season, I’m racing to catch up. Mid-day isn’t exactly the best time for photography, but sometimes the conditions cooperate and you can make some decent images. In this case, it was a Purple Gallinule foraging in Spatterdock.
Lightroom 3 Beta 2, Preview
Last October Adobe released the first public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 3. At that time the beta was very rough around the edges, rough enough that I wouldn’t even use it. Adobe has since released a new beta, find out what’s changed and more inside.
An Atta-boy to Canon USA’s Service Center
2010 started out bad for me and camera gear. A broken 100-400 and a bad 24-70 made for an ominous sign. However, when my 1D started showing auto focus problems, I was pleasantly surprised by the speed at which Canon USA got it fixed and returned to me.
Fixed, My Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
A free weeks back, I commented that my Canon 100-400 lens broke and that I had sent it out for repair. It’s back, it’s fixed, and this is it’s story.
Noktor u4/3rds 50mm f/0.95 – Previews Hitting the Net
I’ve been watching the progress of this with some interest since I first saw it announced on DP review. US based Noktor, an new player in the lens market, is releasing their first product a 50mm f/0.95 manual-focus manual-aperature lens in micro 4/3rds mount. With an effective focal length of 100mm on u4/3rds the lens …