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I have to admit, this lens has got my attention, It appears to have corrected the flaws of the ealier ED version, and provides a really nice value/dollar and meets my criteria of not too large for a walkaround. I have been debating the 14-24, 16-35, 17-35, and this now 18x35,, and I am leaning...

Using Primes more is often as simple of leaving a prime on the Camera when not using, then when you pick it up,, and think about the next photo shot, more likely to add 1 or 2 additional primes, and maybe one zoom. And then of course, zoom with the feet, why,, mostly that the primes still and...

Weekend flew by, did manage to squeeze off some shots last night, Thought this was a cute couple with the glow of an old inn, on a quiet spring morning. course, some people are just made for a camera.

Sun came out,, finnally, but still cold,, and North Wind,, so,, went to a ski area,, might as well,, Pond skimming season,, so,, figured it was at least a photo op, the light was brutal, but fun to watch a bit. and here is Gorrilas in the Mist,,, Northern Style saw a few 70-210 2.8...

I wish it would make up its mind, cold today, and cloudy,, blah! I tell you, after spending 10 days out in Utah area with the beautiful Sun, and such, I can understand why people get depressed back East. Way too many cloudy days. I did get a quick sunrise picture yesterday. Nothing...

So So close now,, to spring,, but still days/weeks away,,, you know what I mean, that shift from brown to geen, and the buds opening,, It really is a short window of time, when you have the trees frosted with green buds, and the green is that lime color, bursting with life,, early...

Interesting to compare a color vs BW treatment of a photo. can make a photo seem like a whole different era. for example,, was working on this shot today. and the color one I am leaning toward the BW one, for me it the tatoo added to the message of Quiet Strength.

When I first got my first home printer, the novelty was such, that I went thru boxes and boxes of paper, I do prefer looking at a printed photot than the electronic screen. Of course, the bigger the better, so I consumed ink like a sailor on shore leave, but eventually I learned to become a...

I do have to remember to back up my pictures more often, then it won't be so tedious. Double backup copy onto hard drives, one can never be too careful, last year, I had one of my primary hard drive failures, an thank goodness for the backup. I am still surprise when I hear of...

Ah, so the latest camera analyzes the frame, drawing thirds,, has arrows of how to improve your composition, HDR the Raws, creates perfect images, saves the data for easy edits, oh,wait,, darn,, April fools thread... actually, sometimes I do wonder if the phones are getting so good that...

While a simple object, it is a rapidly fading part of the New England Landscape, as like all phases of farming, the process is being modernized to tubing and vacuum lines, for extraction, but somehow, the plastic lines running thru the woods have almost no charm, actually do not have ANY charm...

ah,, finnally a Spring day,, which I got to spend outdoors, all day.. I was mobile, so,, I just carried three primes, one on the camera, and on in each pocket, the 20mm 3.5 old manual, a 28 mm autofocus, and a 85 mm AF, perfect, easy to switch out, and lighten the load. As a bonus, each...

Laughs,, I have found a useful purpose for my photographs,,, as a relaxing means of falling to sleep.. Sure, Sure, these are my folders of keepers, but ,, I find if I put the pictures in slide show mode, and just let it go,,, well,, after just a while,,, my mind will go blank,, which is the...

When you create photographs, most often the What of the subject is the first objective, what exactly are you photographing, The more subtle is the why, why exactly are you framing the shot, and what is the message or story if any you want to convey. I confess that most of my shots fall in the...

I know people are excited about the niew 80-400 nikkor, but frankly, I am impresssed with the older one. I lost one out in Vegas, but.... housekeeping was honest, turns out, it was left in my room! Meantime, I am off to another trip in a couple weeks that demands a long tele (think topical...

A week over, and I am about 1/2 thru the edits, so, still about a 1:1 hours or more in editing versus taking photos. and that that does not include when you start layering in effects, I like to start with the low lying fruit, and then next some photo merges, followed by HDR shots, and then...

On this trip, I worked on inclusion of people if they were either the story, or part of the scene, where historically, I would patiently wait, and wait, this time, I would not exclude if the person/people added to the story. Of course, I still waitied until empty, or later cloned out people on...

sometimes you wonder with all the progress of the cameras why skys are still sometimes with fringing, and even yuck, perhaps its an artifact of the lens, but in some light conditions, it still seems like sky can be hard to get right, especially around the boundary of the primary subject, and...

In my desire to reduce the number of laptops, I loaded my work Laptop with ViewNx, but,, it must have been an earlier version. I tested it of course,, and it downloaded my D800 onto,, so,, seemed to be ok,, even looking at properties.. So,, came back and tried to open the raw on my other...

While Adobe CS has replaced my PTGUI work flow for photo panos,, but not for HDR flow. I compared the results between CS HDR and Photomatrix,, and no comparison in my view, way better control and results. I have just started some of my HDR shots, and now regret I did not do more bracketed...