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Web gem for Wednesday – go buy some baggies!

January 2, 2008 No Comments

Starting the new year off with a bang, the Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the Transportation Safety Administration has implemented new policies regarding what battery types can be brought on airplanes. The new rule speaks to the Lithium batteries we’ve all come to know and love that charges everything from our cell phones ...

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Software updates for Canon 40D vis a vis Adobe

September 14, 2007 No Comments

Adobe has released raw converter updates for both Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom to incorporate more bodies and their algorithms, the 40D being one of the most noticeable (for me) among them.  For anyone using these software programs, the downloads are available at the Adobe website: Photoshop: Windows Download Mac Download Lightroom: Windows Download Mac Download  ...

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New video tutorial is available!

September 12, 2007 No Comments

What with all the work I’ve been putting in to my new dedicated photography site, and keeping up with web activities, I’ve not had a chance to look into the issue of embedding flash in the blog yet, so links to the videos will have to suffice for the time being. As I get more ...

Tags: , Announcements, News, photography gear, podcast, Poll, Video

Top Five Reasons I am getting the Canon 40D

August 28, 2007 No Comments

It wouldn’t be a year in photography without at least one of the Big Boys of photography world (those boys being Canon, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax) announcing some new piece of equipment that sets everyone off, racing to give their money away so they can have the “latest and greatest” that money can buy. As ...

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Size doesn’t always matter…

August 25, 2007 No Comments

As I bide my time for the Canon EOS 40D to come to a B&H store near me (online), I have been slowly find flaws with my current body – the Canon EOS 350D (a.k.a. the XT).  When invited to a high school football game last night, one of my Canon camera buddies lent me ...

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First Looks…that’s plural!

There’s been a lot of screaming press lately in the camera industry, and in typical fashion I am a...

Sunrise, sunset…Getting the Shot

Nothing says sunset like a photograph of the “sun setting slowing in the West” and this image of the...

Taking Better Portraits

I've done a number of tutorials here on the website, and portraiture has been touched on from time to...

Presentation is Key…

How many times have you had a great photo that you wanted to print, frame, and hang, or export,...

New Cameras: Canon vs Nikon Showdown!

It's finally here - a showdown between Canon and Nikon, right here! I've said in the past that...