Editing Photos

Here's a short video showing how I edit some of my photos in Adobe Photoshop. I've been using Adobe Lightroom a lot more of late because I can sort and batch edit in lightroom. If you shoot a lot of pictures Lightroom is like THE program to get. It has cut my editing time in half, if not more.







This is the first time I've made a tutorial video, but its Way faster then typing all the info out so maybe I'll do more.

New TTL Radio Flash Trigger!

PocketWizard just came out with a TTL RADIO trigger! The MiniTT1 and the FlexTT5

Radio Popper has some but they are a little on the big side. (or what I like) With the PocketWizards you can have the trigger on the hotshoe AND have a on camera flash on top of the trigger. Everything is hotshoe mount making it clean looking and fast. I think these are very nice!

Waterproof Digital Camera

Canon just released a Waterproof Point and shoot
PowerShot D10
This thing could be kinda cool. I would buy one of these and mount it to my snowboard, bike or something fun like that.

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.

Tips, Reviews, and Questions

This blog is for posting photography tips and reviews that I find.
Also you can ask your photography or image editing questions here.
Im not a Pro. So if you see something here thats not right let me know!
Just letting others see a few tips I come across.





Here's a test I did last night with 2 of my lenses.
Canon 70-200L 2.8 and Canon 28-135 3.5-5.6 IS


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