Scratched Lens, It's Ruined...Or Is It?
February 18, 2010
Scratches/Dust on a Lens
Scratched Lens, It's Ruined...Or Is It?
Have you ever worried about getting a scratch on your lens? I have, especially after I bought our first professional grade lens, a Canon 70-200mm. After paying about $1,600 for this complex piece of glass, I wanted to make sure I protected it as best I could, so I wanted to get...
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Photographing Friends
February 09, 2010
Say Cheese!
Photographing friends is one of the joys of photography...at least to me. For one thing, you know your friends...and a good photographer should always know their subject. You know their moods, you know their mannerisms, you know when they are about to do something in time to actually take the picture at the right time!
Another thi...
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Birds in Flight
January 25, 2010
Fly Away
Birds in Flight
Photographing a moving object is difficult especially if it is trying to get away from you! I know how difficult this is on two levels: Photography and hunting!
Interesting enough the skills are pretty much the same for both. Although, one is definitely less destructive then the other!
Here are some tips that mi...
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Sensor Size
January 23, 2010
Size Does Matter
Sensor Size
Modern DSLR--Digital Single Lens Reflex--cameras use an integrated chip sensor, Charged Coupled Device--CCD or Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor--CMOS instead of film. Let's look at the physical size of CCD or CMOS sensor used to capture your images. Although there are slight variations, virtually all DSLR s...
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Adobe Lightroom
January 21, 2010
Lightroom 2.6
Adobe Lightroom
I have ben working with a program from Adobe called Lightroom, specifically version 2.6, and I am falling in love with it.
What is Lightroom? According to Wikipedia: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is designed to assist professional photographers in managing thousands of digital images and doing post production wo...
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What Camera Should I Purchase?
October 12, 2009
What Camera Should I Purchase?
Every now and again I am asked for my opinion on what camera to buy. My normal response is to ask what their budget is and what they intend to do with the camera.
The answers very if their budget is low and they just want to take general shots. However, the answer is different if their answer is that they want a...
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Finished Moving
September 30, 2009
Now to the unpacking!
Sorry about not posting for a while, we have been busy moving our house. Now that we are out of the old house we still have to unpack in the new one.
Wish us luck!
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We Will Remember
September 10, 2009
Never Forget 9-11-2001
We can never forget them: those that died and those that murdered. The list can be seen at: 911 Memorial And Museum.
It happened at the World Trade Center in New York city and at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA, and Flight 93 above Shanksville, Pa.
Man’s inhumanity to man.
I won’t forget you and i won’t forget what...
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Using the Histogram
September 06, 2009
Using the On Screen Histogram to Understand Exposure
Most higher-end digital cameras support a histogram feature that can be displayed before or after you take a photo. Though it looks like a complex chart, a histogram is merely a representation of an image's brightness, and whether or not it has rich shadow and highlight areas. Without going in...
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This picture is squirrelly!
September 05, 2009
Squirrelizer
There is a picture going around in the news lately that has a cute couple trying to take a picture of themselves with a scenic mountain lake behind them, when a little squirrel jumped into the picture and the camera focused on him instead of them. It made national news and spread across the internet like wildfire.
Well, we found...
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Prep Day
September 03, 2009
Getting Ready for the Wedding Shoot
Well, it is the morning before the big day. No, not Notre Dame’s first home football game against Nevada, but the Noffsinger-Gill wedding!
Dawn & I are busily getting things together and making sure everything works and that we have everything for the wedding tomorrow.
We have a checklist of things that...
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Today's The Day
September 03, 2009
Hello Photography World Here We Are
Today is a going to be a great day, because everyday is a great day to take pictures! Well, that is our motto, one of them anyway.
This is the first of what will be many blog posts that we will be making. They will undoubtedly be on various subjects from shoots that we are/were on to photo tips to “behind the s...
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