2010 February | The Digital Photo Experience

Looking at a Pro’s Pictures is a Good Way to Get Inspired

February 14, 2010

The February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine just arrived. Great photography, as usual. Steve McCurry, with whom I have given seminars, has yet another great portfolio of him images in the article entitled, Lost Nomads. Steve is one of the photographers who inspired me to become a travel photographer. I love his people pictures. [...]

Rick’s Quick Tip From A Road Trip #2: Honesty is the Best Policy

By Rick Sammon

February 12, 2010

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Rick’s Quick Tip From A Road Trip #2: Honesty is the Best Policy

Hey Gang, I have a fun feature here on DPE: Rick’s Quick Tip From A Road Trip. Basically, I’ll share a quick tip while I am on the road – in this case, traveling back from my ill-fated attempt (thanks to a blizzard in Dallas) to get to the Winter Wings festival. Today’s tip: Honesty [...]

Recording audio with your video DSLR, Part I

By Juan Pons

February 12, 2010

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I hope you got a chance to read Ricks excellent article on how important sound is when shooting video. Well in the short time I have been shooting video seriously I have very quickly learned that sound is often more important than the video itself. To that end, I have talked to many folks about [...]

How are we doing?

By Juan Pons

February 12, 2010

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I’m sure that by now you all know that DPE is all about YOU! Nothing is more important to the mission of DPE than to share with YOU our knowledge, enthusiasm and love of photography. So we want to hear from YOU what YOU think about DPE. As you may have noticed, we post 2 [...]

Back to the zoo

By Alan Hess

February 11, 2010

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Last time I talked about shooting at your local zoo and I want to just address something that came up in the comments and in some emails sent to me. You need to check the rules at your local zoo about what can and can’t be done with the photos. I just want to make [...]

Rick’s Quick Tip From A Road Trip #1

By Rick Sammon

February 11, 2010

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Hey Gang, I am starting a new feature here on DEP: Rick’s Quick Tip From A Road Trip. Basically, I’ll share a quick tip while I am on the road – at LGA Airport in this case. Today’s tip: Use the Light Table feature in Keynote to help you arrange your slides, rather than the [...]

Tips on Using a Monopod

By Juan Pons

February 10, 2010

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You may have heard me say that I shoot with a tripod 95% of the time. More accurately what I mean to say is that I shoot with some sort of support for my camera 95% of time. This can be a tripod, a bean bag, or even a monopod. A monopod can be a [...]

Notice the Habits and Tendencies

By Randy Jay Braun

February 10, 2010

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Whether you are photographing a person, an animal, or any living creature, you should make yourself aware of any behavioral patterns or physical tendencies that your subject exhibits. This week I was out in my kayak capturing some new images of Humpback Whales in the shallow waters off of Maui. This is something I am [...]

2.9.10 Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find

By Rick Sammon

February 9, 2010

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Hey Gang, We have a cool weekly feature here on DPE: Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find. Each Tuesday I choose a photographer who I find on Twitter who is . . . well, talented! I find ‘em by reading an interesting tweet and then by clicking on their web site. This week’s Talented Twitter Find is: [...]

Be Ready For The Second Shot

By Chris Klapheke

February 9, 2010

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Last summer I was fortunate to have some unusual visitors to my back yard. We had a cicada invasion, and the insects were crawling up out of the ground and making their usual racket. Siting in my office, I thought I saw a dog run across the clearing. On further inspection, it was a Great [...]