Understanding Mirror Lock-Up Techniques for Reducing Vibration The greatest enemy of image sharpness is vibration. One of the best ways of beating vibration is through the use of mirror lock-up (MLU). But, there is a range of tools and techniques involved in achieving the sharpest possible images, and we'll look at each of them in detail. The Weakest Link Let's look at the … [Read more...]
The Most Important Strategies For Building Your Future-Proofed Portfolio
Landscape Photography: The most important strategies for building your future-proofed portfolio To quickly build a portfolio of landscape images that you are happy with and which has longevity, depends much less on having the latest and greatest camera than it does on hard work and understanding the best strategies. Photographers spend countless hours learning the craft of … [Read more...]
Red River Paper -Palo Duro Smooth Rag 310
Palo Duro Smooth Rag 310 Red River Paper (RRP) recently introduced their Palo Duro Smooth Rag 310 paper, 18 mil thickness, 100% cotton rag substrate, smooth matte surface and no OBAs. Their recommended Media Type for Epson printers is Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper (USFAP) and for Canon Pro models, Heavyweight Fine Art paper. RRP provides printer profiles for this paper on … [Read more...]
Zero to Hero: Knowledge Saved The Day
Knowledge Saved The Day Knowledge weighs nothing, travels everywhere and is your camera bags number one asset. A holiday in Paris - then I saw Les Invalides. Oh wow! Beautiful light, beautiful building - but only a Nikon D800E and Sigma 50mm ART lens. Knowledge saved a great opportunity. One camera, one lens, one beautiful photograph; a simple “How I made this image” story. … [Read more...]
Silo City Revisited
Michael Reichmann and Kevin Raber have both visited "Silo City" of course (Silo City comfort zone, Challenging yourself to see different) and in fact, my 1st trip was after seeing some of Kevin's photos of the steam pumps in the Buffalo water pumping station taken during one of Mark Maio's workshops. Mark started taking photos there in 2012 having been documenting the grain … [Read more...]
