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This morning the city of San Diego brought down the South Bay Power plant to make way for a park in the lower bay estuaries. Although the shots of the power plant coming down are okay the thing that I found most fascinating was the power of the explosions. The shock wave coming off these...

See the full article HERE Lens designer Mr. Hiroki Harada (left) shows off the latest 800mm F5.6 super-telephoto prime with Mr. Toshinori Shindo, general manager of Nikon Asia with the 18-35mm F3.5-4.5G wide-angle zoom. (Credit: Shawn Low/CNET Asia)TOKYO, Japan--We attended Nikon's press...

I've spent most of the day playing around with Photomatix and it's forced me to revisit both Photoshop and HDR Efex. So I took a random set of 5 bracketed images and loaded them into each program. I tried to optimize each image as best I could within the corresponding program. Here is my...

I was doing a little reading last night about sharpening/noise reduction and the author pointed out something I hadn't been taking into consideration - When you resize your images, all your sharpening and noise reduction goes out the window. And the more I understand the process of sharpening...

Reading this article HERE it occurs to me that same-sex marriages could be a very lucrative market to specialize in. To begin with, the market is wide open and more and more states in the US are finding same-sex marriages legal, so the demand will only increase with time. And judging from some...

Sweet lens for a "sweet" price! I'm thinking I'll get 2 so I'll have a back up...just in case. :p And before you ask, I'll tell you. E = Electromagnetic Diaphragm Mechanism; FL = Flourite Lens element; SIC = Super Integrated Coating. AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E...

Here's an article with some common sense steps to protecting your images from theft. Nothing earth shattering but nice info to know. Interestingly, the author didn't mention that in the US you automatically own the copyright to your work regardless whether you post it on your image or not...

Nikon Image Space is currently up and running but not yet in English. I'm thinking it's Jan 29th in Japan and will be in English in another 13 hrs PDT. But you can still sign up and upload photos. The nice thing about using Chrome is that you can automatically translate the pages into English...

Just a quick FYI - Starting Jan 31, CostCo is selling the 4TB Seagate "Back-Up Plus" external HD for $159. Although I'm sure the price of storage space will continue to go lower as places like Mega give away larger amounts of cloud space, this is a pretty good price if you need storage now.

Focus stacking is a very easy way to produce an image with the maximum depth of field and doesn't require anything more than a copy of Photoshop. First you need to set your camera up on a tripod and turn off auto-focus (and VR, if you have it). Now using the manual focus, bring the closest...

I've been lusting after a tilt-shift lens for awhile now and at the rate things are moving around here, it's not something that's going to happen any time soon. So I decided I'd finally get around to playing with focus stacking. Frankly, I'm a little embarrassed to say that today was my first...

Real artists can take the most mundane items and turn them into amazing pieces of art. Brock Davis is, IMO, one of the best. Here is a link to his "recent personal projects" and his 2012 work and his daily work. Take a look at how simple yet brilliant his work is.

So my wife is a big fan of "American Idol" which by default means I'm watching American Idol, too. And this year there's a country western singer named Keith Urban on the panel. I don't know much about country western music and I found it interesting that Keith Urban is from Australia and it got...

See HERE Nikon’s first attempt to break into the photo-sharing space had just about fizzled, but it’s taking a second shot with Nikon Image Space. Nikon’s my Picturetown, its existing photo sharing service that was meant to take on Flickr hasn’t quite gained the traction that the...

50 gig of free storage from Kim Dotcom's new Mega Today the new "Mega" site launched, and due to the extreme volume, has been going on and off throughout the day. Mega is offering 50 gig of free cloud space in an effort to compete with (or utterly crush?) sites like Amazon and DropBox. I was...

See the original article HERE, I would also suggest we all take their suggestion and insure none of our photographs appear in their Google Docs library! Getty Signs Deal With Google, Gives Photographers Pittance How much do you think a photographer deserves for having their work plastered...

I've decided to go ahead and sell my D7000. I was going to keep it as a "back up" but it just doesn't get any use and it would do much better with someone willing to use it. The "official" actuation number is 20,486 but that is misleading because the true number of shutter actuations is closer...

See full article HERE Nikon D5200: Same autofocus issues as some D7000 models experienced?Not sharp when using the viewfinder12 January 2013 19:45 GMT / By Mike Lowe 0 inShare 0 Amid the madness of last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Pocket-lint was able to prise away a...

This months photo challenge is one of the hardest we've ever had here on Nikonites. One of the worries I had when preparing the challenge was whether or not people would be turned off due to the heavy use of computer skills as well as photographic skills. So I figured I would present a very easy...

I spent a little time this morning paging thru Flickr and the further I went the more I wondered why. Why are there so many people posting their images that can all be right-clicked saved? I randomly clicked on several of these images and many of them were 3 mb's or larger. Not that it's all...