Light Stalking

I am reading” Speedliter’s Handbook: Learning to Craft Light with Canon Speedlites” by Syl Arena and re-reading “The Confused Photographer’s Guide to Photographic Exposure and the Simplified Zone System” by Bahman Farzad

I too enjoy the dark of the night, wandering about with camera while most people are safely planted at home or in the pubs. Nice and quiet this solitude and a chance to capture some brilliant images. Typically, we focus on city lights at night. But you have provided the inspiration to capture natural or [...]

I also have been thinking about this for some time and have yet to make the purchase. I have used my friends Alien Bees strobes with softbox and they work well. The weak link is the remote trigger system. Pocket Wizards are much too pricey.

It depends, on the last use. But usually it is my Tamron 28-75mm f2.8

I do not have a smart phone; I have a dumb phone. I can make and receive phone calls, text and check email, twitter and facebook. (strange, facebook is now both a noun and a verb) Surfing the web is all but impossible without the data plan that my phone does not have that capability. [...]

Are you looking for a lens with a wider reach or a macro lens? To have both in one lens could work, but you may be disappointed with the results. I have a zoom macro lens and well, the results disappoint me. As stevedias and tomdinning pointed out, those are good macro options. The 24-135 [...]

mmm, dumplings!

I must agree with thepaparazzo to a degree. Sometimes after we learn this craft we come to realize the camera we have can not achieve the specific task we desire. Photography is like fishing, or golf. We purchase all kinds of gear because we can and it is fun. Lord knows I have enough fishing [...]

In my opinion, I would purchase PS Lightroom 3 as your primary RAW file editor and catalog software. Export the file in tiff format and open in Photoshop for further editing if necessary. I do 80% of my editing using Lightroom and the rest in PS Elements using layers to enhance lighting and mainly for [...]

Awesome! Nothing like the aroma of freshly baked breads.

What Mopho said! Seasonal lack of light is a real phenomenon. I find myself moping about, needing more sleep than a teenager and eating ravenously. Vitamin Dand maybe bright UV lights may do the trick. A new toy is always fun as lisahill pointed out. Good luck!

I love a good mystery! What is inside the suitcase and was it the barefooted person’s luggage?

I hate the old argument that photoshop has killed photography. A photo manipulated in photoshop is not a photograph. Yet they site Ansel Adams as the benchmark in pure photography. Little did they research that he manipulated his images in the original photoshop…the darkroom.