Q&A: Fast Primes vs. Zooms

(This post is from an email conversation with two friends. I thought the content might be useful for others.) Q:  [Friend 1] and I have talked in the past about brighter lenses. And at the time, he and […]

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Q&A: Fast Primes vs. Flash

(This post is from an email conversation with two friends. I thought the content might be useful for others.) Q:  How can I cause flash pictures to not look so much like they were taken with […]

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Q&A: When Black Isn’t Black

(This post is from an email conversation with two friends. I thought the content might be useful for others.) Q:  Anybody know what’s causing the black outfits to show their true colors?  To the eye, of […]

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Goodbye, Darkroom. R.I.P.

All my life I’ve wanted to have my own darkroom, designed and equipped the way I wanted. And finally I had it. High-end gear, every tool, all the gadgets. (Thanks, Walt!) Full range of Nikkor […]

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The Down Side of Using a Car as a Blind

I’ve read a number of authors suggest the idea of using your automobile as a simple and effective blind for wildlife photography and I’ve gotten some shots I would have otherwise missed by doing it. […]

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Using a Polarizer to Increase Color Saturation

Typically most discussions surrounding the use of polarizing filters center on how they are used to eliminate reflections.  Another less often mentioned benefit (actually just an implication of removing the reflections) is increased color saturation. […]

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Infrared Photography with a DSLR

Plate 1 One of the neat features of the Nikon D70 is that it is probably one of the last DSLRs that can be feasibly used for infrared photography. Digital sensors are very sensitive to IR, […]

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