March 2010

Go High-Speed on Your SD Cards Without Breaking the Bank

Submitted by cardinal on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:58

Go High-Speed on Your SD Cards Without Breaking the Bank: http://ping.fm/cSHhS When SD cards were the exclusive province of point and shoot cameras their speed didn’t matter much. But now that they are used in many D-SLRs for main slots, overflow slots, and HD video capture speed has become just as important as with CompactFlash cards. Unfortunately the big price advantage of SD cards has traditionally gone away when you shop for higher speeds. But no more…

Go High-Speed on Your SD Cards Without Breaking the Bank

Submitted by David Cardinal on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:30

When SD cards were the exclusive province of point and shoot cameras their speed didn’t matter much. But now that they are used in many D-SLRs for main slots, overflow slots, and HD video capture speed has become just as important as with CompactFlash cards. Unfortunately the big price advantage of SD cards has traditionally gone away when you shop for higher speeds. But no more…

Thirty Minutes That Can Save Your Photo Vacation

Submitted by cardinal on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:26

Thirty Minutes That Can Save Your Photo Vacation: http://ping.fm/bE0rz Whether you are going on a casual vacation and want to capture some images of your trip or a full-fledged photo safari where you are hoping to capture the “images of a lifetime” there is hardly anything more distressing than looking at your images and finding them blurry. The camera normally gets the blame, but with a simple exercise before you go you can prevent this disaster… [img_assist|nid=527|title=DOF Test Setup|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=200|height=133]

Thirty Minutes That Can Save Your Photo Vacation

Submitted by David Cardinal on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:26

Whether you are going on a casual vacation and want to capture some images of your trip or a full-fledged photo safari where you are hoping to capture the “images of a lifetime” there is hardly anything more distressing than looking at your images and finding them blurry. The camera normally gets the blame, but with a simple exercise before you go you can prevent this disaster… [img_assist|nid=527|title=DOF Test Setup|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=200|height=133]

Stopped-down we get much more Depth of Focus

Submitted by David Cardinal on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:23

Stopped-down we get much more Depth of Focus

Submitted by David Cardinal on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:23

Wide open only the bowl we focused on is in focus

Submitted by David Cardinal on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:21

Object of Focus Should be Tack Sharp

Submitted by David Cardinal on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:19

DOF Test Setup

Submitted by David Cardinal on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:17

Snow: Your Portable Light Source

Submitted by David Cardinal on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 14:18

I was reminded repeatedly on my recent trip to Yellowstone that metering in snow scares people. Any time we were near other photographers you could hear the timid “now snow is +1, right?” call out to a companion. From reading his latest BT Journal my friend Moose Peterson heard plenty of the same when he was there. But as Moose points out, snow can be your friend… For mammal photography in particular far from making metering more difficult snow can not only make metering easier it provides a giant “soft box” of light under your subject.

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