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Well firstly, I should apologize to the Canon, Pentax and any other non-Nikon users. This tip is described for Nikons (in particular, the D70, since I shoot that), however although I don’t have specific instructions for other brands of cameras, I imagine that the setup would likely be very similar. So give it a shot → Continue reading »

You’re up at 5 am, out the door to get to your predetermined spot, take 20 minutes to setup the tripod and really begin to wake up. The sun begins to rise and you start shooting like crazy before the crucial 15-30 minutes of great light is over. After you’re done you go home, download → Continue reading »

Singh-Ray came out with a great filter called the Vari-ND. This is a variable neutral density filter and works similarly like a circular polarizing filter, you can turn a dial on the filter and it varies the amount of light allowed into your camera. → Continue reading »

If you ask photographers what’s in their bag you would likely hear about lens, bodies, filters etc… What we’re interested in is the non-typical items you carry. For example, I tend to photograph a lot of flowers, so I carry a mist bottle that I can fill and spray down flowers to achieve the effect → Continue reading »

Digital cameras tend to range in ISO between 100 to 1600 (for the Canons, a 1600 push to 3200). A few months ago, I had read an article at KenRockwell.com that tells you how to push a cameras ISO even higher. Although this tip was for Nikon camera, on other digital SLR cameras. Here’s how → Continue reading »

A few cheap items and a little bit of work and you won’t have to worry about post-processing white balance issues. → Continue reading »

Bureaucrats all over the world are the same! Left to themselves, they would tax anything they can lay their hands on. Apparently some bureaucrats in Brussels suddenly woke up to the fact that digital still cameras could also take video clips. Why not tax them as camcorders, they reasoned? What wasn’t immediately apparent was that → Continue reading »