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Chuck Westfall’s Tech Tips – November 2009

Chuck Westfall’s November 2009 tech tips now available. Continue reading

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Kenmore Camera presents Art Wolf – Tickets on Sale

             Art Wolf will be presenting two lectures at the Kenmore Camera Digital Expo on October 17th and 18th.  Saturday, October 17th Art  will be presenting “Discovering and Maximimizing A Subject’s Potential”              Sunday, October 18th he will be presenting “Travel … Continue reading

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Canon Firmware updates

Canon announced a firmware upgrade which supports the AF assist beam feature of the new flash, Speedlite 270 EX, which is scheduled to be released in April 2009. Continue reading

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Chuck Westfall’s Tech Tips – March 2009

Chuck Westfall Chuck Westfall’s tech tips are available at the Digital Photo Journalist   

Wow, that was quick.  But February’s tech tips were late this year.  So here’s the new March edition from Chuck Westfall.

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Cuck Westfalls tech tips

Chuck Westfall’s Tech Tips for December 2008. Continue reading

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Flash Metering: Evaluative vs Average

When working with the Canon flash system, either the pop up or the External flash, you have two options or metering: Evaluative and Average.

Most people never figure out how the two differ, for in fact the look the same in many situations.  Here I show where the differences would most likely be noticed. Continue reading

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Natalie’s Seagal Tryout Photos

Natalie’s photos for her Seagals tryout. Continue reading

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Dance-0117 Orton

Dance-0117 Orton Originally uploaded by occecid I further enhanced the dreamy effect through a technique known as Orton photography. Two of the same photo that are over exposed one full stopped are combined. One is sharp while the other is out of … Continue reading

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