There is a lot of HDR news coming out about new programs that will be released over the next few months. Adobe started this rush with upgrading their HDR plug-in in CS5 to HDR Pro. They had to upgrade because there old plug-in was just horrible and with HDR Pro they now have a program…
Canada has done it again, using the Canon 5D Mark II the TV series HOUSE has filmed a season finale using only the 5D Mark II and all of Canon’s lenses. I have not seen the whole episode yet, just the first few minutes of the TV show, but you could not tell that it…
Well here I go again. My hard drive, with all my images on it decided not to work. Again! The hard drive did not die, it just got corrupted and could only see half of the 4 TB on the drive. Now this happened to me about eight months ago, with the same drive, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
