A Cool Flash Trigger!

Take a look at this Cool trigger!

Canon Super Telephoto 1200mm f/5.6L

Take a look at this lens!

New Rebel

Here you are! the Canon Rebel XSi

All you people that have the first Rebel or the Rebel XT should be happy about this coming out! Now the price on the Rebel XTI should be going down!


The new things on the XSi are: 14 bit RAW, 3" LCD, 12.2MP

Basic Portraiture Posing

Here's a video I came across and thought was kinda cool.

Light Painting

Light Painting

I had my camera on the tripod, ISO 100 Shutter speed of 30 seconds f/3.5 could have us more like f/11 but.......

There are two ways of Light Painting.
1. Shining the flashlight into the lens. (Like I did above. At about 60ft from the camera)
2. Shining the light on things you want to show up in the picture.
(Do this without shining light directly into the lens)

Getting pole lights to "sparkle"

To get lights to "sparkle" like stars use a smaller aperture.

(larger F/ number, like F/22)


And heres what you get.....

...and a larger aperture (smaller F/ number, like F/3.5)

Variable Aperture

Most of you probably know this but......

Some lenses have a variable aperture. Like between f/3.5 and f/5.6.
When a lens has 2 numbers for f-stops it means it varies as you zoom.
So if you have a 17-50mm F/3.5-5.6 at 17mm it can be at F/3.5 but at 50mm it will be at F/5.6

I have a Canon 28-135 F/3.5-5.6 IS
The IS (image stabilizer) helps a lot with making up for the variable aperture and more.