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Quick Tips on shooting fireworks has been posted to the Canon website with a contribution from yours truly.

My first impressions of the Canon Rebel T1i.  Sample pictures included.

Canon announce today a fix where “in rare instances, lines may appear in images captured by some units of the PowerShot G10 digital camera.”

2009 Winter Wings Festival in Klamath Falls Oregon.

On my September 2008 trip to Montana my schedule left me with some time to visit Glacier National Park.  Below are some of the images I captured.

I had a delightful visit to the Wildlife Safari on September 5th and 6th. A drive through on Friday with my 1D Mark III I took some shots for a class I was teaching the following morning. We had a great presentation and the group was a lot of fun. This was one of my first trainings with a mixed group of camera owners. We had Canon, Nikon and Pentax owners as well as a lot of people using point and shoots.

My first published article in the Canon Connection.  Issue 4, third quarter of 2008.

This article covers using Canon RAW and DPP to prep for doing an Orton style photograph in Photoshop.

Photo shoot with Freda Adaja. 

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.

Fireworks taking at Lake Union, Seattle Washington on July 4th 2008 from Gasworks Park.

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This was my first venture in many years to Gasworks Park on the 4th of July.  Jockeying for a good position to shoot the fireworks wan not easy, but well worth the effort.  Next time I will check carefully for the location of [...]

Wednesday morning started early as I prepared to present the Canon three hour EOS Discovery Day for Pro Photo Supply in Portland.  The class had approximately 50 people.  You couldn’t ask for a better place to do a presentation.  The gardens are always beautiful. 
In the eventing Canon Explorer of Light David Stoecklein spoke and presented [...]

I spent some time in Ashland Oregon prior to driving up to Portland.  I went in and visited Lithia Park and found it full of outstanding photo opportunities.  My interest in this particualr park was a discussion with the owner of Bach’s Camera in Medford Oregon about a digital safari to the park in the near [...]

Natalie’s photos for her Seagals tryout.

Pro Photo Macro Photography class at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn Oregon.

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 focus. The effect is a soft photo with a sharp core.
Dance Theatrics is a group [...]

2008 Winter Wings Festival in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

HDR with low contrast pictures.