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Just saw this announcement this morning. Unveiled: New Tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens | BH inDepth I love my Sigma 150-500mm, but if I was in the market for one today I believe I'd wait and see at what price this comes to market, and how it looks wide open at the top end...

My father and his parents were survivors of the holocaust, as well as the atrocities of Josef Stalin, and they spent 2 years in forced labor at a dynamite factory very near to where the Leica factory was in Wetzlar before being freed by the Allies. For as much as I've learned about this period...

It truly is, Marcel. Just to give you an idea of what kind of "noise" I was dealing with at ISO 6400, here are three copies of a close crop for one of the photos above. Copy 1: Straight out of the camera into Lightroom, no adjustments. Slightly underexposed (on purpose). Copy 2: Same as...

I was fortunate enough to land front row seats to see a couple guitar heroes of mine, Roger McGuinn and Marty Stuart, at the Musikfest Cafe in Bethlehem, PA on Friday night. I was even more fortunate that the venue and artist do not prohibit still photography. So, armed with my D600 and my...

Simple Desaturation... Tweaking the color... One does something for me, one doesn't. ;) FYI, I did zero tweaking in either to brightness or contrast. Top is saturation set to 0, bottom is essentially a layered approach where a color modifying layer is inserted between the original...

I suspect this is something that might be pretty nice to add to your bag of tricks, providing a rather nice and easy 360 pano for your customers. It may also make you lives difficult when the offices you work for decide to invest in them. Bublcam: 360º Camera Technology for Everyone by Bubl...

Been too long locked in the office with the camera sitting on the bench, I just had to shoot something.

I don't shoot portraits, at least not yet, but there's a world of wisdom in this piece, so I've bookmarked it so I can come back to it. There have been several posts about doing senior portraits here of late and I believe there's a lifetime of terrific advice in here. Portrait Photography Tips

Read this on one of the photography blogs I regularly visit. Given that I'm almost in the "50 & over, male" demographic I read it with great interest, if only to see if personal prejudices are blinding me to aspects of photography that I should really be concentrating on. I'll reserve comment...

I guess my friend wasn't just being nice when he told me how much he liked the product shots I did for him, because he emailed me today and asked if I'd be willing to fly to Vegas with him and do shots of business execs against a green screen for him to use in materials for a sales kick-off...

There are definitely WB issues. Colors are unnaturally cold, particularly in shots 1 & 3. Simple neutral grey eye-dropper shows that immediately.

Just noticed that your Picture Control is set to "Neutral". If you're shooting jpeg then this has a huge effect on how your images come out. The Neutral setting has the lowest levels of contrast and saturation. In other words it's meant to be flat and, well, a little washed out. I don't...

I'm trying to play with the beta version of onOne Software's Perfect Photo Suite 8 as much as possible before the trial runs out at the end of the month, so for giggles today I sent an image that had no people in it into Perfect Portrait, which is designed to easily correct certain problem areas...

I'm a little perturbed that the 70-200mm doesn't include the $169 tripod collar Nikon has for it, but at the same time it's light enough that I doubt I would have it on a lot. That said, shooting the eclipse yesterday was one of those times when I wondered if it would have been a little better...

It wasn't a bad view for a cemetery...

At 7:05AM we got one last glimpse of the Sun and what little was left of the Moon.

It was a cloudy, cold morning in NJ, but I gave it a shot anyway. I grabbed a spot at the top of a hill in our local cemetery and was joined by another photographer about 10 minutes later. We weren't too optimistic, but there was a crack in the heavy cloud bank right in line with the...

I'm not a big fan of canned filters, but I've developed patterns in my use of the Nik tools and have started refining some presets I've stored, particularly in Color Efex Pro, as starting points for certain types of shots. Now, with Analog Efex Pro I can see that it is going to be really handy...

For those of us on the East Coast USA, or in large swaths of other parts of the world, there is a solar eclipse occurring on Sunday. For folks on the East Coast we will only get part of it, but it's worth seeing nonetheless. My plan is to try and photograph it provided the weather and the...

My sincere thanks for the fishing line suggestion.