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I've never been someone who considered Macro photography as something I really wanted to get into - and I probably still don't. That said, this month's flower assignment has me assessing some of the shortcomings of my prime lenses and I'm wondering whether I'd be better off having something in...

I know a lot of folks here like to play with long exposures of varying types. Here's a nice little blog post about them that might help with ideas and lead you down paths you might not have explored. Long Exposure Photography Ideas | Alex Wise Photography

Tim Grey's daily email reminded me that I wanted to take a look at Student/Teacher Pricing for the CS6 line to see if I want to invest in a perpetual license for any current products. Funny thing is, most are no longer available. Adobe took over academic verification from a 3rd party vendor at...

Seems to be just that - dust. Here's a before and after with just the Rocket Blower, something I haven't used in about 2 weeks since the lens hasn't been removed from the camera. A couple persistent bits, but the good news is that there's absolutely no sign of oil or dust. Dust reference...

Yeah, I meant to include the photo, but for some reason my Macbook makes me shut down my browser and restart it before it recognizes files created "Today" when the browser was originally opened "Yesterday". PITA. FYI, this is just raw as it came out of HDR Efex Pro 2 when I saw it. No "real"...

I hadn't noticed any specific dust on the sensor, or even wanted to look given that I'm resigned to just dealing with whatever the D600 feeds me on this 3rd shutter. The camera is too darn good to complain about sensor cleaning. That said, I haven't shot HDR's much in a months, so I took an...

Saw this today. Got confused as to whether or not I was a "perpetual license holder". Thanks Adobe for one more term I didn't really need to think about. Photoshop CS6 (13.0.5/Mac 13.0.1.2/Win) Perpetual License Updates Now Available | PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG

Sorry for spacing on the game. Too much life. Shouldn't be too difficult ... I don't think. If you've been there.

Cool in-flight capture, but it's probably one of those times when there's just too much air around the subject. How much have you cropped already? I'm thinking a little more bee and a little less space could be better. After that maybe lighten up the bee a bit and play with the white balance...

I normally don't check the blog side of the house more than once a week, if that - not sure why, but I figure I can't be the only one. Anyway, I learned a cool way of adding vignettes to photos that I shared over there, so for people like me who never check I thought I'd add a pointer to it...

In the interest of full disclosure, I learned this method reading an issue of Photoshop User magazine in an article about doing better landscapes. It's extremely simple, and while I am using Photoshop to demonstrate this the technique is applicable to Elements as well, though with some...

For those chomping at the bit, it seems that the D400 might just be something we see this year. Or next... Nikon D400 is Definitely Coming

BTW, if you're wondering how the D600 does with high ISO, the first two photos are ISO 2500, the third is ISO 3200, and the last two are at ISO 1600. I used Nik's Dfine noise reduction tool and then added sharpening, but to be honest, it wasn't bad at all. Here is the preprocessed ISO 3200...

About 8AM yesterday my wife alerted me to a visitor at the backdoor. Around the corner of the house, next to the edge of our deck is a Bluebird house. The couple laid 5 eggs in there back in late April, and we've been tracking the babies' progress, so we knew it was close to fledging time...

As with the D800, here you have the D600 measurements. DxOMark - The best lenses for your Nikon D600 They even included 50mm lenses this time!!

Sure, there's a sensor size difference, but think of it this way - the sensor is mounted to a circuit board that sits behind a lens mount that is the same size as that of the DX camera. Sure, the mirror/shutter assembly is also smaller, but outside of the sensor and shutter assembly itself...

After posting about this in another thread I realized I hadn't mentioned an acquisition I made a couple months ago - a MeFOTO Road Trip travel tripod. I was looking for something small and lightweight to take out on a (since cancelled) trip to California that would easily strap to my bag or go...

As I've mentioned, my brother is a photographer for the Star Ledger newspaper here in NJ. Ever since Sandy pounded the state last September he's been shooting at the shore at least once a week. Not knowing that the famous coaster was scheduled for demolition today he decided to camp out Sunday...

Thoughtful criticism of Adobe's decision. Adobe Creative Cloud Fail

Given the hubbub about copyright information and "Orphan Images", is there anyway this site can stop stripping the EXIF data on attachments? I only link to original images, so I'm OK. But I swear we used to be able to see the EXIF data on others' photos and now I'm not seeing it on any...