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Recovering “Erased” Photos
Hopefully, you are all well-organized and have never gotten confused about which images on your memory card have been saved to your computer and which haven’t. In my case, I recently had a brain...
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DSLRs: Photographing Fireworks
It’s that time of year again here in the US. The 4th of July promises 2-3 days of fireworks displays in many areas. For photographers, that means lots of opportunities to get shots of fireworks. Having...
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Disappearing Act and Long Exposures
A while back, I posted a couple of long exposures on Facebook (see the post here) and asked if people could tell which one had been exposed for 1/30 of a second vs 29 seconds. It was a little confusing...
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Long Exposures: Part V
I’ve done many posts on things you can do with long exposures (see Disappearing Act and Long Exposures, DSLRs: Photographing Fireworks, Lightening and Long Exposure, and Long Exposures), but here in...
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Christmas Time
A few tips for the best Christmas photos ever: Don’t try too hard to get great photos during intimate family gift exchanges. Seriously. There are times when being in the moment not as the observer...
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Weird Colors and White Balance
During a workshop this past weekend, several folks commented about having trouble with their images looking yellow or having other weird color casts. This is generally solved by changing your White...
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Why does a 22.3 MP camera produce a 7 MB file size?
First, let’s understand that megapixels refers to how many photo sites are in your camera sensor recording data to create an image. The number of photo sites equals the number of pixels (“dots”) in...
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Just When You Think You Understand Depth of Field
Depth of Field is one of those concepts that most budding photographers come at in a series of stages. First, there’s just getting your head around what Depth of Field means. To keep it simple, if you...
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Will Back-Button Focusing Make Me a Better Photographer?
All right, DSLR owners. I’ve had so many people ask me this summer about back-button focus and how and why to use it that I thought it would make a good post. Since this is (as usual) a long post, let...
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Out of the Dark
Number one question from beginning photographers who just shot an outdoor event on a bright sunny day on an automatic setting: why are my photos so dark? Having just shot a big paddle boarding event...
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