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Urban Portraits

 

I love having a project to aim at and thanks to Strobist and Clay Enos I’ve found one. Urban portraits!

The prospect of taking pictures of complete strangers creates all sorts of…

Carnival Week

DSC_5477Nikon D700, 70-200 f/2.8 VR, 1/320 at f/5.6, ISO 1000

This last week has been Carnival week in Sway. It’s a great community event with everyone joining in lots of events, from treasure hunts and scarecrow making to…

Beating the paparazzi at their own game

PDN Gear Guide featured an article yesterday on a gadget developed to stop pictures being taken of celebs (or Big Brother contestants) without their consent.

Consisting of a sensor attached to a set of LEDs, the device…

Feature film shot entirely with Nikon D90

Despite being a gadget person there are times when I see converging technologies built in together without proper thought. One of these, and a bugbear of mine, is video on a DSLR. Yet today news emerges of a feature film…

Comparing Nikon supertelephoto lens sizes

Check out this great video from LensRentals.com comparing the different sizes of Nikon telephoto lenses. I’m never going to grumble about the size of my 70-200 f/2.8  again!

To think that wildlife shooters use a 600mm…