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I was in Charleston last weekend for the Volvo Car Open, a professional women's tennis tournament. John McEnroe and Andy Roddick were also there for an exhibition match, though I only got to see them doing a clinic with some local players. The women players on this opening weekend were not the...

Nikon Rumors « NEW CAMERA Interesting article showing EXIF found online for Nikon D850 and D900. The D850 is apparently using the same sensor as the Sony AR7II. This is the body I'm waiting for, if it's real. The article says EXIF is easy to fake.

Uncropped, shot with Lensbaby Composer. This is about as fancy as I can get with this lens.

Man, everyone has this lens.

Maybe this was obvious to everyone except me, but I've always considered "pano" shots on mobile phones to be those long unwieldy horizon shots. Then I figured out how to use the pano feature to make a "normal" wide-angle photo with the phone. Holding the phone vertically and rotating it only a...

Decided to try some product photography in the basement tonight using an off camera strobe and Phottix flash triggers. I had not touched these flash triggers for a few months. The Phottix transmitter screen was acting wacky and would not connect to the receiver. When I opened the battery...

Yes, do that, plus 6. Use a tripod. Also, the ideas for timing your shots are good ones. If you can get close enough, the 1.8 50mm is a great idea. Let's in lots more light so you can use a lower ISO or a faster shutter speed. This was 2.8 at 1/400th shutter speed, ISO 1600: Good luck!

That idea popped into my head until it happened to the Navy pilot with plenty of small arms training. He brought out his can of lube and treated all the affected pistols, but they still had problems. All of his pistols, however, worked fine, including a .22 with a suppressor. It felt very...

I was camping at a farm with a big group of friends this weekend. My D800 with a Nikon 28-300mm lens was along for the ride. Normally I'm old school, never shooting ISO above 800 and making adjustments to shutter and aperture as I go. This weekend was different, with lots of stuff going on...

Here's the metal print compared to a regular hardback book.

I bought an 11"x14" metal print from Costco for $33. It was an image of my father-in-law I took with my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 while having lunch at a Mexican restaurant. The window light was perfect, and the phone was all I had. Anyway, for $33, the print turned out fantastic. The colors in...

The folks at Perfectly Clear made a great video about how to record an action in Photoshop, and then apply that action to every photo inside a certain folder. I didn't know this was possible. Although the video is about how to batch process with the Perfectly Clear plug-in, you can do this...

Same again with my 105mm 2.8. Same procedures as last time. (It's so much easier to open 13 RAW files from my D800 since I quadrupled the RAM in my PC.) 7 to 11 is the magic zone (though I suspect camera shake at f9).

I watched some great Joel Grimes videos about shooting on location with artificial light, but he also made a big deal about sharpness. He uses a tripod for everything, and he had a good discussion about finding each lens's sweet spot aperture for sharpness. Aberration is a problem at open...

Really quick and dirty, only one duplicate layer with a mask, gradient, and touching up with a brush. I was trying to create more of the "depth" that Backdoor Hippie was talking about, but my gradient was gradual enough....

I got a marketing email from MZED for this 7 part video tutorial from photographer Joel Grimes. It purports to be about how to shoot portraits with strobes on location (instead of in a studio). Here's the link: FULL Portrait Photography on Location 7 - Video Bundle - MZed I spent $189 to...

There have been some used Sony A7ii's floating around my market lately. Very tempting, but I already have full Nikon kit with lenses and speedlights, including old manual-focus lenses. Is there any chance someone (Nikon!) will produce a mirrorless FX body that accepts the current Nikon mount...

In many movies the names on the DSLRs are always blacked out. The other night I watched "Dirty Grandpa" with Robert DeNiro and Zac Efron (VERY RAUNCHY MOVIE) and was surprised to see two different Nikons, including a D800 (name on the strap) in the final scene. The funny thing, however, is...

Your punctuation still throws me off. Anyway, that's why this is such a good optical illusion because everyone will swear that square A and square B are different shades of gray, but in reality they are both the same exact color and shade. You can prove it to yourself easily enough in a photo...

Just to illustrate my point, I tweaked your shot in PS. The rectangular panel on the back door is not edited at all. That's how the white appeared in your photo. In PS, the color of the car registered as gray, RGB values of 199, 212, and 218. Perfect white is 255, 255, 255. The brain plays...