A Great Birding Lens
By Vicki Uthe I recently purchased a new lens for my Lumix GX-8 micro 4/3 camera body. It’s an Olympus 100-400 mm zoom which translates to a 200-800 mm given the crop sensor on my camera. It. Is. Am...
Droplet Photography
By David Goodell During these Covid times it is helpful to find ways to expand our photographic skills. I found one. I purchased the Pluto Trigger, Pluto Valve, and Magic Arm. The Pluto Trigger has lo...
Quantum Dots — The Future of Image Sensors
By Sara Goodnick A Sensitivity Revolution Is Coming Our Way Recently my husband handed me a copy of the magazine, “Spectrum”, a magazine published by IEEE for Electrical Engineering and Computer S...
Catching an Arizona Sunset – Best of the West, Day 1
By Susan Snyder This is day one of a series of six blogs about the AHPS workshop, “Best of the West”. Watch for day two on October 29th. When you only have a week to photograph some of the...
GPS Tracking Your Images
By David Halgrimson Ever wanted to keep track of where you took your images? If your camera does not have GPS tracking built in, all is not lost. There is an app for that. There are many ways to add G...
Backyard Macro: Focus Stacking
By Jon Vemo If you are like me, you are probably going crazy with ‘self-quarantine’ that most of us are following. I haven’t really been out other than groceries and an occasional trip out t...
JPG vs. RAW: The Debate Continues
By Carol Crane The debate continues whether to shoot in RAW or JPG format. I choose to shoot both. Once finished with a shoot, I like to quickly review the shots taken in JPG to decide which ones migh...
The Best Macro Diffuser Ever
By Bruce D Taubert About 15 years ago, when I began to get serious about macro photography, I found the learning curve to be a bit steeper than I had thought it was going to be. The equipment needs ...
Photographing the Night Sky
By Vern and Barbara West On a recent nighttime shoot of the Comet C2020 F3 / Neowise, we had a crash course on remembering all the ins and outs of photographing the night sky. One of the first steps w...
Photoshop Quick Trick – How to Add Light to Specific Areas of Your Image
By Rick Jacobi I have tried to put a light on a light bulb, lantern or a lamp. It does not work very well trying to paint it on with a brush in ACR or Lightroom by increasing the Exposure, Highlights ...