As I’ve related in another article, for much of the year I now carry a Nikon Z50 camera on my dog walks, with the 50-250 kit lens. It’s a very light camera, with enough telephoto power to keep me happy most of the time. A few days ago, I saw a heron by the far […]
On a fine Fall day last October, I was out taking photographs and enjoying the sunshine when a gentleman who was obviously leading a class from the local school approached me and asked if I would say a few words to his art class which was out taking photographs. He had noticed my camera and […]
I had begun to resent the weight of my Nikon DSLRs, and even with a walkaround 18-250 lens, it just seemed too heavy to take on my daily dog walk “just in case” anything was worth a photograph. I began looking at the small mirrorless cameras. Alternatives to a Z50 At my local store, each […]
What looked like it was going to be a tiny amount of snow followed by rain which would wash it away, turned out to be a day of mixed precipitation with maybe two inches accumulating in places. Most significant though, was this mixture’s ability to stick to tree boughs and twigs. So the next morning, […]
I used to be very disappointed with my Fall photos not being as vivid as the colours I remembered. Over the years, cameras have got better at choosing a good exposure, and editors have added more tools for extracting a “look” from RAW images. Now I worry about having my photos look more real than […]
A good ACDsee photo studio workflow eases the pain of cutting dozens, if not hundreds, of insect or wildlife photographs down to a few “keepers”. Here’s how I use it. Because a live subject is constantly moving, one tends to take too many similar shots, “just in case”. There just isn’t time to examine each […]
