Shooting fireworks
Quick Tips on shooting fireworks has been posted to the Canon website with a contribution from yours truly.
Category: Techniques
Chuck Westfall’s Tech Tips
It’s that time again,
Chuck Westfall’s Tech Tips are available at the Digital Photo Journalist.
Canon Digital Learning Center – EOS 5D Mark II: Full-Resolution Video Clips
Canon has posted three original, full-resolution, uncompressed clips from REVERIE. These clips were taken directly from the original EOS 5D Mark II footage and are available for dowonload. Included in these clips are the recorded should and ambient noise from the in camera.
My first publication
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.
Chuck Westfall’s Tech Tips – August 2008
Each month Chuck Westfall from Canon USA answers questions with insightful answers in The Digital Photo Journalist.This months issue he covers:
How Panning works on the IS lenses
Display problems
Using 8gig SD cards in the 1D Mark II
Removing aspect Ratio in DPP when preset in the Mark III
Handling Tilt and Shift lenses
And don’t forget to read the [...]
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.
Canon Digital Learning Center – Live View: EOS Rebel XSi
Canon has posted an excellent artical about the new XSi Live View Mode on the Digital Learning Center. It explains some excellent examples of how and when to use Live View.
It covers subjects like:
When Live View useful.
How to turn Live View on.
Autofocus with Live View.
Shooting with Live View.
Activating the Grid Lines
Visit: Canon Digital Learning Center [...]
Ansel Adams’s Yosemite
Posted on the New York Times website is an interesting artical on Ansel Adams’s work in Yosemite. Narration is by his former assistant Andrea G. Stillman. Click here to experience this artical.
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 focus. The effect is a soft photo with a sharp core.
Dance Theatrics is a group [...]
Eagle @ 1200mm hand held
2008 Winter Wings Festival in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Tulip Bouquet
HDR with low contrast pictures.
