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Going gulf-stream fishing all day Saturday with 5 guys on a 32 foot open-console fishing boat. Even though my waterproof Nikon AW-120 gets good shots, I want big RAW files to work with later. I have a waterproof "pickle bag" and will take my cheaper D600 body (FX) and only one lens. That's...

Céline's New Spring Ads Are Every Fashion Girl's Dream | WhoWhatWear My wife's copy of Bazaar showed up today. The front ads for Celine demonstrate deliberately horrible Photoshop technique in separating the model from the background.

Submarine. Next up - E

Here's a shot I made with the same lens on a D600 from the top of a lighthouse. And the outside view from the top of the same lighthouse: Either the lens distorted the horizon or the lens is so wide that it shows the curvature of the Earth!

This is my favorite because the knife (a Chris Reeve "Green Beret", aka the Yarborough for real troops) was a total surprise of a gift.

If trying to calibrate my gear wasn't hard enough already, I discovered last night that, in certain situations, my left eye and right eye see different color temperatures. We were sitting on the deck, and I was looking at our white vertical rails. The background was black. When I crossed my...

Okay, had to delete the first effort after realizing I posted a shot of the wrong lens: Here is the 105mm f2.5 I have. It works on my D600 and D800, and has not damaged the camera.

Here's a pic I shot with the same lens. You can see the depth of field is very shallow and I just barely missed his eyes, but the hair on this head is sharp in one area:

From a PPA Off Camera Flash class in Raleigh last weekend...

After shooting more than 1,000 pics in RAW on a D800 last week, I realized I needed better storage and backup. I bought an 8 Terrabyte Western Digital "DuoBook" external hard drive set for $350 on Amazon. It has two 4 TB hard drives built in. It seems to work great. First I configured it to...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/41728000@N08/albums/72157656690431014 I took another class this week for a new ballet, "Symphonie Fantastique: Un Bal." On the night of that dress rehearsal, I shot well over 1,000 pictures with both the D800 and D600. I can understand why pro photographers are...

Really impressed with the camera on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5:

Yes, the pic was with the Stoffen. Here are some test pics I did the night before the party with my very patient wife. Remember, the whole problem here was there was no ceiling or wall to use to bounce the flash. All metering was TTL and I didn't adjust the levels in post. For some...

You're right, there are many pictures like this one, where the primary dancers look good, but the other dancers just make the photograph look cluttered. Actually, that just gave me the idea to cut out, blur, and/or darken the other dancers. Here's another take on that same shot.

Yesterday was the Carolina Ballet's dress rehearsal for their new show based on Gustav Holst's "The Planets." Turns out there was a photography class through perconline.org where students could shoot the ballet during the dress rehearsal, even with noisy SLRs. (No flash allowed at all... had...

Thanks for all the help. I did play around with the Rogue Flashbender, but did not want to carry that around. In the end, with no ceiling or walls to bounce the flash from, I just fell back on the good old Stoffen (Sto-Fen?) plastic cap diffuser for the speedlight, angling it at 45 degrees to...