Archive for August, 2009

The Rumored 7D is finally announced! Specs and photos!

August 31, 2009 18 Comments

That’s right – Canon has announced the 7D along with a couple other new lenses.  Amazing specs on it are here Here’s a few shots from the Press Room: Lots of specs, but most impressive to me: Spot AF mode reduces the size of a single AF point to focus on small subjects like an ...

Tags: , Canon, gear, hardware

Contests and Giveaway News

August 31, 2009 3 Comments

Lots to cover today, so rather than banter, let’s get to the news about all the contest stuff going on: The Comment Contest Talk about a huge success – had enough feedback and ideas in this one post to really get some great creative ideas in play for the coming months for the blog – ...

Tags: , , , , , , , Announcements, competition, Contest, Flickr, News

The first ever Comment Contest!

August 28, 2009 17 Comments

After a short (and unexpected) break from blogging yesterday, here’s a Friday Free-For-All for you! Here’s where reader input is going to be what makes or breaks the content – that’s right, I am putting it all on the reading audience.  You can link to your own site in the comments, and the “Comment Luv” ...

Tags: , , , , , Announcements, Assignments, competition, Contest, Friday Follies, web links

Dealing with bad pictures

August 26, 2009 3 Comments

There’s no denying it – we’ve all deleted countless shots both off our camera and off our computers because they were just even to horrible to admit to publicly.  And while filtering out the chaffe from the wheat is a good thing, if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we’ll continue to get chaff and ...

Tags: , , , education, learning

Topaz Laps: Software Suite Review

August 25, 2009 5 Comments

So, as everyone is likely already aware, Topaz Labs approached me recently to sponsor a giveaway and generously donated their entire suite for some lucky listener/reader.  As is always the case, I like to say “thanks” in my own small way by giving the vendor some “air time” on the blog with a personalized review ...

Contest, photography, Photoshop, Product Review, software

Monday Chuckle

August 24, 2009 2 Comments

It’s rare for me to post twice in one day, but saw this from a friend on Twitter (I normally pick up WTD via my feed).  It goes to show how complex (or simple) photography can be:

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