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Having so recently practiced slow shutter shooting, I just couldn't resist when the carnival came to town. No, I did NOT run away with the carnival. Instead, I spent an interesting hour hanging around after dark taking pictures. The first was taken at f/14 with a shutter speed of 30 seconds and sensitivity...
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Just following up on my last post, where I tried and failed to show a particular slow shutter technique . I got much closer with this later shot. I think I'm getting there.
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I've already looked at using slow shutter in the dark , and slow shutter to capture crowd motion . Last night, I took a stab at using bright light for effect. The plan was to use a flame to create a glowing image, while the subject remained still. I had seen photos like this, where people used lighters...
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In my never-ending (although frequently on hold) quest to be a better, more knowledgeable photographer, I decided to take a look at what could be done with slow shutter speeds. Technically, I was aware that by slowing your shutter speed waaaaaay down and opening the aperture waaaaay up you could take...
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My guilty confession: I haven't posted a new entry in some time, mainly because I've been too busy using the Nikon D700 SLR . I've been planning to review it, but it's been hard to put down the camera and pick up the virtual pen. There are a lot of people out there writing excellent and detailed reviews...
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Travis wrote a great post recently about shooting holiday lights with just your camera in hand — truth be told, it's how I'd prefer to do it, since I'm a lazy man and like to travel light. But I got a new lens recently, and I wanted to see how it performed under a variety of circumstances. I headed to...
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I promised myself when I started this blog that it would not become a blog about pets.* I'm not saying anything against such blogs. But there are more than enough of them out there, and I have nothing to add to the genre. However, there are moments when the sight of one of my pets makes me scramble for...
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Every year, I try to take really great group shots of my family — and for many years, most of the pictures I took weren't ones I wanted to hang onto for posterity. Fortunately, I've finally figured out some tricks for making the yearly family portrait work. So in this blog post, I'm going to share my...
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Your new digital camera probably has you taking more pictures than ever before. The instant results are great — but the pictures pile up quickly, clogging your hard drive. And it's not easy to find that great picture you took last month at the family reunion. Since digital photography is supposed to...
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You'll hear a lot about depth of field when you read about photography — in a nutshell, it refers to what's in focus from near to far. If your depth of field is "deep," or "greater," then more of the objects in the frame are in focus. A "shallow" depth of field means one thing is in focus while the rest...
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This was supposed to be a post from another colleague. She was going to talk about her experiences with a new camera and show off some of the photos she took on vacation. Unfortunately, her computer's hard drive failed. The pictures were lost and, well, she'd just rather not talk about the trip anymore...
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Every year, my family snaps pictures of each other sitting around the tree on Christmas morning. Yet it's amazingly rare for one of us to look at those photos later and think, "Wow, great shot. That one really qualifies for printing and framing." They're just not great pictures, a lot of the time. I...
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I have a Nikon digital SLR, and I use it a lot. But I'm not that experienced at what I still think of as "real" photography -- in fact, my current digital SLR was my first experience with manual exposure and focus and so on. And I still shoot on automatic a lot of the time. Yet people have started asking...
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Digital photography is fun and liberating. No wait to get your film developed, and if you have a decent printer you can print out lots of photos at a pretty reasonable price. But once I got a digital camera, I ended up with LOTS of digital photos — crammed onto my hard drive, on CDs, sitting on memory...