Photo Geek

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

Rick Sammon on people Photography.  View his YouTube video.

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.

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 [...]

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.

Getting proper exposure is always a balance and trade off. Each element can be used to increase or decrease the amount of light striking the sensor. When such adjustments are made, a counter adjustmentElement moreLight LessLight EffectSpeed SlowSpeed FastSpeed SlowApertured needs to be made to one or both of the other elements in order to [...]

 I recently ran across a great Canon Japan webiste on basic DSLR instructions. 

Visit the website at: http://web.canon.jp/imaging/enjoydslr/part1/1B.html