Dptips :. Digital Photography Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

I forgot to mention… Since it is supposed to be about photography, I have to disclose that the picture was shot digitally with Contax 645AF and Kodak DCS ProBack 645c.
This little puppy Kodak DCS ProBack 645 deserves its own blog or even a dedicated website with a guest book for dedicated fans.

Many news events have preset positions from which photographers are expected to take their photographs. These can be advantageous in circumstances when shooting the subject may otherwise be very difficult. But they can also result in 100 photographers taking thousands of images of the same subject from the same angle - limited creative opportunity and not particularly satisfying…

If life was perfect, I would be able to take all my compactflash cards to my office and download them using my Dual G5 PowerMac. That would be fantastic.

More and more people are upgrading from digital point and shoot cameras to the now more affordable digital SLR cameras.

Professional Capacity Chart for memory cards.

I have word that Lexar will be shipping their new Firewire Pro Compact Flash Readers very very soon.

A great example of my daily lighting setup was used this past Sunday on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coast. This young Turkish girl, dressed in traditional nomad clothing (typical of what her great-grandmother would have worn as a young girl) provided a colorful series of shots for my tourism archive and took just a few seconds to set up. Shot in a lemon orchard just a short walk from the sea, my everyday lighting setup utilized a lemon tree for a lightstand and Canon’s wireless ETTL strobe system.

When you employ the understated Power of KISS (Keep it simple, shutterbug): many great photographs have a commonality in their simplicity and directness.

The trustee gear bag has gone through many iterations of design, each trying to make it easier for a photographer to carry more gear with less pain…

To help consumers make the most of those images, Nick Kelsh, a Lexar Elite Photographer, is offering tips to help amateur digital photographers take superior pictures.

We pony up the inside details of this popular workhorse

Steve Stevens shot to fame in the early eighties as the lightning-bright guitarist for Billy Idol. Co-writing hits like Idol’s “Rebel Yell”, collaborating with Michael Jackson on “Dirty Diana”, and racking up a Grammy for his epic, sweeping “Top Gun Anthem” for the Top Gun soundtrack assured him of Guitar God status.