I received my FREE “Using Meters in the Digital Age with Will Crocket” DVD from Sekonic today and just finished watching it. Although its emphasis is around the top end L-558R, I found it helped reinforce what I learned from online sources. The DVD explores three live photo shoots scenarios starting out with [...]

A friend was debating between the Nikon Coolpix 8800 and Canon Digital Rebel XT 350D and asked for some advice, so I thought it would be appropriate to share some of my thoughts. Based on some past experiences with digital cameras, both SLR and P&S (point and shoot), I have to say they both [...]

Two photos captured during my bike ride on the trails.

It’s quite an open ended question as there are many viable options. However, the two most common ways is to purchase either: 1. Hot-shoe mount with ¼ -20 socket (also sometimes the pc-hotshoe adapter has a reverse side with the ¼ -20 threads) 2. Swivel-Bracket –with Mount for Umbrella, Light and Shoe Flash [...]

By shooting RAW you are making the most of your camera and bring out the best of your photos via PP(post processing). The myth for some novice SLR photographers is that RAW is big (file size wise) and harder / more time consuming to work with. Well, let me bust that myth for you. [...]

Rider: John Hauer, Location: Cupertino, CA One of the things I wated to experiment with this shot is to bring some pop to the rider and isolate it from its rather cluttered background. This is actually one of the few times I have positioned a flash behind the subject to created the effect and something [...]

Stopped by Kamera Korner in San Jose today and was surprised to learn that the Vivitar 285 (HV), 283s are no longer in production and discontinued by Vivitar. Its suprising since Vivitar’s 285 Model has undoubtly lit more picutres in the last 25 years than any other unit. The [...]

Canon 20D / Tamron 28-75mm ISO 200 1/200th f/5.0 44mm Location: Fremont Older, Cupertino