A Black-and-white Warbler taken at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida.

 March, 2010 Black-and-white Warbler

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, [...]

 March, 2010 Speedlights: Flash Extenders

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.

 March, 2010 Hacking Canon’s Wireless Flash System

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.

 March, 2010 Purple Gallinule Foraging

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.

 March, 2010 Lightroom 3 Beta 2, Preview Reviewed

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.

 March, 2010 An Atta-boy to Canon USA’s Service Center

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.

 March, 2010 Fixed, My Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

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 [...]

 March, 2010 Noktor u4/3rds 50mm f/0.95 – Previews Hitting the Net