Last time I talked about what makes good keywords and started talking about how to get keywords into your library software. This time we’re going to cover how to create a keyword import file to get many keywords into Lightroom quickly. Importing a keyword file saves a significant amount of time and allows for almost …
If there’s one thing I’ve learned today, it’s that auto focus alignment tests are not for the faint of heart. Better yet, as I’m slowly becoming convinced, anyone. I certainly wouldn’t recommend even bothering unless you are almost certain that your lens is consistently misfocusing with significant repeatability. I spent the better part of today …
At some point, most photographers, even the most casual ones, will have to deal with indexing and locating specific images from the many they’ve taken over the years. Simply sorting them into folders by date or location can quickly become problematic especially when you have 10,000 images, let alone 10s of thousands. What do you …
Summer, for many photographers it’s a welcome relief from oppressive cold and snow and a chance to get outside and start shooting again. For me, it’s the beginning of months of oppressive heat, humidity and bugs. That is, it’s time to start looking for ways to stay cool. One solution that still lets me go …
A quick test of the practical implications of diffraction, at 1:1 and web resolutions.
Continuous release mode is often thought only to be useful when shooting dynamic subjects that are in motion. The burst of frames in rapid succession gives the photographer a better opportunity to catch the exact moment they are trying for. But there is another, often forgotten or maybe unthought-of, use. Often the sharpest images, in …
Something other than another news post about some lens or camera that’s way out of any reasonable budget for a change. Since writing my original Camera user settings post, I’ve discovered I omitted an SLR as wells as many point and shoots that were capable of using camera user modes. The SLR is the venerable …
If you’re looking at the Canon manufacturer lens pages, trying to decide on a lens, you may have noticed that at the bottom of the Overview tab for every lens are several icons that provide some information about the lens’s construction or feature set. I have yet to find a comprehensive guide anywhere on the …
This week in Cool Camera Tricks, I want to talk about a novel trick for managing auto-focus (A/F) in situations where the environment demands both tracking and static auto-focus, nearly interchangeably and quickly. For lack of a better word, I’m calling this 2-button focusing.
This week in cool camera tricks, I’d like to talk about one function I’m starting to really appreciate on the Canon EOS 40D. It’s also available on the Powershot S5IS as well as several other Canon cameras (though I wont be discussing how to setup and use on anything other than the EOS 40D). That …
The key to facilitating success is the three P’s of p-p-photography; preparation, patience and perseverance. Actually, that’s not quite true, it’s more like perpetration, perpetration, perpetration and luck. Keep in mind, shooting fireworks is about as close to shooting on an assignment for a newspaper, wire service or client as you can get without actually …
That’s right folks today is Independence day, at least in the USA, and to celebrate there’s nothing we like more than shooting off big things that explode! That’s right it’s fireworks time. So it’s time once again to get out our cameras and point them skyward and hopefully catch the fun as the heavens are …
