Category: Photography
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Minolta 80-200 HS APO F/2.8
First impression There is little doubt on the quality when one handles this lens; it has a superb feel to it. The sturdiness tell you that the built quality is for a lens made to last. If the feel to it was impressive, then the image quality was stunning. The images pops out, with…
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Blur or no Blur
Depth of field (“DOF”) Depth of field refers to the range of distance that appears acceptably sharp in a photography. For me it is not only one of the strongest effects to my photos, but also the most difficult effect to master. The reason for this is that it varies depending on camera type, aperture…
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Image Stabilization, but only when it is needed!
The general rule of thumb for capturing sharp, handheld imagery is that you should not handhold a camera at shutter speeds slower than a shutter speed equivalent to the focal length of the lens. This means a 200mm lens shouldn’t be handheld at speeds slower than 1/200-second, a 150mm lens slower than 1/150-second, a 50mm…
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Life is better somewhere in the mid-range apertures of f/8 to f/11
All a lens’ has a ‘sweet spot’, which is the setting where the aperture setting at which it is the sharpest). Keep in mind that a lens does not retain the same level of sharpness throughout its aperture range, and by finding your lens’ sweet spot; you will put yourself in a better position for…
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Star Trail Removal in Adobe Photoshop
This is I came across some nice information to clean up and enhance Stellar photos. Easy Approach: In Photoshop, make a copy of your main layer. Call it, say, “Darken”. (Optional) Use a layer mask for the copied layer to mask out the main object, like a galaxy or nebula. This will leave just the…
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Catch light
A Catch light is a white spot in a person’s eyes and is key to make the person look alive. Without it, your subject’s eyes can end up looking a little lifeless and flat. To my opinion, faking it successfully is nearly impossible, and therefor to be applied when taking the photo. The type of…
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Shooting the stars
The basics Lately we have been taking photos at night homing in on stunning night sky shots of meteors, the Milky Way and star trails. Setting the camera to manual control, a fast wide lens, RAW capabilities and a big sensor makes all the difference. It is not easy to shoot stars and you need…
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Pike Place Market – Seattle
The public market is a year-round farmers market selling all sorts of vegetable, seafood, cheese and flower stalls along with handicrafts. One of the major attractions is “the flying fish” where Vendors at Pike Place Fish Market cheerfully toss salmon to each other and crack jokes, always drawing a crowd at the fish stall by…