2010 March | The Digital Photo Experience

Un-clutter your Library with Lightroom’s Stacks

March 5, 2010

Using Stacks in Lightroom is a convenient way to group similar photos together in grid view and the filmstrip. This is especially helpful if you regularly end up with multiple images of the same subject. You may have multiple shots of the same pose from a portrait session, a string of images from shooting wildlife, [...]

How far would you go to get “THE SHOT”?

By Juan Pons

March 5, 2010

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Well, if you are South African wildlife photographer Greg du Toit, seems you would go pretty far indeed. In this story, du Toit, talks about being semi-submerged for 270 hours in an African watering hole frequented by big game. In the process he contracted several tropical diseases, parasites, malaria, and a Hook Worm. I myself [...]

Bob From NJ Asks: “How Do I Make A Big Print?”

By Rick Sammon

March 5, 2010

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Bob From NJ Asks: “How Do I Make A Big Print?”

Photographs © Rick Sammon • All rights reserved. Canon 5D Mark II. Canon 24-105mm IS lens. Juan and I receive a ton of questions for our DPE podcast. We try to answer as many of them as possible on the show. Sometimes, we answer them here – like this one from Bob in New Jersey. [...]

Sharp Shot Must-Know Info

By Rick Sammon

March 4, 2010

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Getting sharp images of moving subjects, of course, begins with getting a sharp in-camera shot. To accomplish that goal, we can: • Use good glass; • Set our cameras to the focus-tracking mode; • Shoot at f/8; • Not overexpose the scene (which can blow out highlights); • Shoot RAW files (so, among other things, [...]

Favorite Images from my “Winter in Yellowstone” Instructional Photo Workshop

By Juan Pons

March 4, 2010

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As some of you may know, I just completed my 2010 “Winter in Yellowstone” Instructional Photo Workshop. I have to say that I had an amazing group of workshop participants, everyone was so excited to be in Yellowstone and their enthusiasm was definitely contagious. All had the opportunity to make some amazing and dare I [...]

Seeing Red is a Good Thing

By Rick Sammon

March 4, 2010

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This is a short and sweet post – inspired by a video that was posted on my pal’s Frederick Van Johnson’s site. Compare the above picture with the one below. The top picture is more attention getting (not necessarily better) because the girl is wearing red. In 1978, I read a National Geographic photo tips [...]

Zoom

By Art Howard

March 3, 2010

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If your picture isn’t good enough, you’re not close enough. -Robert Capa No better words have been spoken. For stills or for video. When I started shooting I had not heard those words but my gear forced me to live it. The servo zoom on my old Ikegami ate up so much power my two [...]

Cooperate with Mother Nature

By Randy Jay Braun

March 3, 2010

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The weather has been all screwy this week here on Maui. We have had scorching sunshine, thick volcanic haze (which we call vog), strong trade-winds, and heavy rain all within a few days. I had to shoot two portraits during heavy rain, and both came out really well. Whew! We photographers always keep an eye [...]

3.2.10 Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find: Heath Carney

By Rick Sammon

March 2, 2010

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3.2.10 Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find: Heath Carney

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! Heath Carney (all the way from Australia) is this week’s Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find. Find out more about Heath on his cool web site. [...]

Canon Announces New Firmware for 5D MarkII

By Juan Pons

March 2, 2010

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Canon has just announced a that later this month it will make available for free firmware version 2.0.3 for the Canon EOS 5D MarkII that includes a plethora of often requested new functionality. This includes: 24 frames per second (actual 23.97) in addition to the already included 30 fps Manual audio gain control (64 levels) [...]