Category Archives: Photo Gear

Photography Holiday Wish List

It’s that time of the year when you start your holiday shopping and I thought I would give you some ideas to make your holidays more photographic. So here is some of the thing I would like to add to my gear bag.
Canon’s 17mm and 24mm Tilt-shift lens
I had a chance to play around with...

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Hard Drive Horror

As a photographer one of the things we all fear in this digital world, is the loss of are photographs. We try to do things to make sure we have them backup, don’t format the card until it’s downloaded onto two places. I have a 4-terabit raid hard drive so if one of the drives...

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Florida Professional Photographers Convention

Last week I taught a seminar at the Florida Professional Photographers convention, and it was a great experience for me. I had the chance to learn from some great children, portrait and travel photographers, work I don’t do much of. Kevin Newsome gave a great presentation on children photography and Pepito Valdes talked about the...

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More Fun With My Canon 5D Mark II

I finally had the chance to shoot a few photos with my new Canon 5D Mark II, and I am impressed with what I have seen so far. I wanted to see how far I could push the ISO of the camera and see what noise there was. I found that 1600 ISO there was...

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Canon 5D Mark II

I finally received my 5D Mark II today, and by the time I charged the battery I didn’t any time to go out and test it out. So one of my favorite subjects looked me in the face (Okay, my camera lens.) I shot this image at ISO 1600 and there was not any notable...

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Canon Introduces 5D Mark II

21 megapixel full-frame sensor slr for $2700, do I need to say more? Yes. It had been rumored the Canon’s 5D was going to be an 17 megapixel camera in a small body (I carry around my neck a boat anchor 1Ds Mark II). It supports Live View shooting and Live View HD videos clips at 1920 x 1080...

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