Good lightning photography is one of the few areas of photography I really admire. The combination of sheer luck, power of nature and inherent danger of being outside in the path of an approaching thunderstorm certainly doesn’t hurt the aesthetics of a well composed lightning bold either.
Last time we looked at focusing using a ground glass and the problems it presents as frame sizes and view finders get smaller. This time we’ll look at how to find the distance to something with out leaving the camera or using a ruler. Finding the Range What’s needed is a way to measure the …
A look at the early years of focusing cameras, the selective pressures that necessitated focusing aids, and the science behind some of those solutions. This time we cover the most primitive focusing screen, the ground glass.
Canon introduced 2-frame brackets to the EOS 1D Mark 3 and EOS 1Ds Mark 3 but didn’t obviously provide a way to change the bracketed frame from being an under-exposure to an over-exposure. That is until you play with another custom function.
I don’t pretend to be an expert in flower photography but I’ve made a few flower images that I like and I’m going to try and figure out how to make more. This is the first article in a series following my attempt to figure out what does and doesn’t work in flower photography and how I went about making the images. This time we look at a general overview of some conventional wisdom for flower photography as well as some of the basics needed.
This one comes from DTown TV but works equally well on Canon bodes. If you’re ever in a situation where you want to set the white balance in camera but you don’t have an appropriate target, there’s hope. If your camera has Live View it will show you in real time the affect changing the …
Creative uses aside, accurate white balance is critical to insuring the proper reproduction of colors in a photograph. In cases with difficult lighting conditions frequently we create and turn to custom white balances to insure the color in their images is correct. However using the common copy or printer paper, which usually contains optical brighteners-chemicals …
Today concluded round 2 of serious focus testing. What’s different this time from the last? A new target, a new alignment strategy, and some new results. Last time I looked at autofocus, I had enough problems focusing fast lenses that I was growing concerned that there was either a systematic design flaw or similar error …
I just finished up helping a fellow photographer and friend setup and calibrate his new Dell 2407WFP LCD display and yet again I am reminded how much I really hate dealing with color and color profiling. What settings should you use to calibrate your display? In Michael Reichmann’s From Camera to Print, Jeff Schewe comments …
This is the third segment in my series of Photoshop Lightroom keywording tips. Last time I covered how to create keyword files that you could import into Lightroom as an easy way to build large keyword databases. This time we’ll cover the last two ways to add keywords from within Lightroom. The final two methods …
In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom there are many places where you might want to expand or collapse multiple items all at once; the Folders list, Collections list, or keywords list for example. If you hold the alt key (option on mac) and click the triangle next to the entry to expand or collapse it, it will …
It’s that time of year again, the Northern Mockingbirds that nested a month or two ago are now in the “mommy feed me” stage. Unfortunately for me this one has been sitting outside of my window but not somewhere I could be photographed all day, peeping continuously.
Professionals and serious amateur photographers alike know that lens hoods are an important part of the lens. A properly designed lens hood shades the lens’s front element or protective filters, from stray non-image producing light. The stray light can bounce around inside the lens and reduce contrast as well as create flare (if sufficiently close …
There are few seabirds I like better than Terns. They have clean lines, are generally approachable if you do it right, and make for great sport photographing while in flight, especially the smaller ones. In Florida several species of Terns visit us seasonally. In the winter, many of Florida’s west coast beaches, especially the less …
