I guess I need to brag from time to time, and I was very excited to receive an email from Amazon this morning featuring books about Stock Photography available on their site with my own book taking the prime position in the advert! Thanks to all my readers for the glowing reviews on Amazon – [...]
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It isn’t very often that I do a bit of “advertizing”, but one key thing that persuades a new reader to purchase my eBook and get started on the road to Stock Photography are the reviews posted by other readers. If you have bought the book from Amazon or the Apple store, please help me [...] I’m occasionally asked what equipment I use for stock photography, so here is a summary of what I have, what I use, and why. My main camera is the Canon 5D Mk ii – the full frame 21M DSLR. Why? Because I like the low noise from the large sensor, I can crop well into [...] I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I had bought the RayFlash ring adapter for my Canon 580 EX, to help with getting uniform shadowless lighting in some of my macro shots – although it is also good for certain types of portrait as well. It isn’t cheap (at $199), but is it worth [...] Back in April, I mentioned the 123di Digital Photography Course, and gave an overview, gleaned from their web site, of the course contents. It appeared to be a pretty comprehensive computer based training course, but I didn’t have the time, at that stage, to properly review the details. I’ve now spent many hours going through [...] As a previous post explained, I’ve recently bought the Canon 100mm f2.8L macro lens using my earnings from a great July! I happened to buy it used from a seller on Amazon – I had been following sales on eBay, but then I saw a seller on Amazon offering the lens with an included Canon [...] I recently bought a new macro lens (paid for with an excellent month of sales in July!), and my research identified the real need for a macro focusing rail if I was going to do this properly. The Velbon Super Mag slider was the result. I bought the Canon 100mm f2.8 for two reasons – [...] I have been searching for some time for an easy to use flash diffusion system. I use a white umbrella when I am taking a head and shoulders shot, but for quick use in the studio (ok table top..), the umbrella is a bit big and gets in the way. I’ve been working a lot [...] I spent Saturday at the Maryland Barn Storming event near Frederick where you get to visit eight historic barns in the area, including a fantastic home created out of an old barn. This event happens every year, and is well worth supporting if you are in the area. For me, this was also a great [...] I’m keen on realistic HDR images, and one of the restrictions in Canon firmware (at least in the 5D Mark 2) is that you can only take three exposures automatically, which normally means that I take one normal one, one at -2 stops and one at +2 stops. While this captures most of the information, [...] |
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