Tech Tips

Sensor cleaning has been a necessary part of shooting digital.  When we are on big assignments we clean sensors every night.  But let’s review a few things before I talk about sensor cleaning.  First, never say this “I don’t want to change lenses because I’m afraid of getting dust on my sensor.”  When you need Read More

A great thing about the new mirrorless Nikon Z cameras is they get regular updates to improve performance.  One aspect many photographers have been interested in seeing with the Z cameras was improved autofocus in low light.  With a recent update Nikon added eye auto focus, which automatically keeps the autofocus point on the human Read More

This topic is coming up a lot on workshops these days, so I thought I would explain some of the choices.  Historically we have had two color spaces to choose from in-camera, Adobe RGB and sRGB.  Adobe RGB has a wider color gamut than sRGB, meaning you can get a wider range of colors when Read More

As megapixel counts have risen in cameras, enlarging files hasn’t been as big a priority for many photographers.  But let’s face it, there are still times you photograph distant wildlife, crop down to the subject, and then want to enlarge the image.  Enlarging RAW files right out of the RAW editor gives fairly decent results. Read More

Focus stacking has been around for awhile, but now it is easier than ever to produce the images for the stack.  Cameras like the D850 have automated the entire capture process; you just have to seam the shots together in the computer. Why focus stack?  For starters, it allows you to maximize your depth of Read More

If you are like me, you probably have a ton of passwords for various websites.  One for your bank, one for your credit card, one for Amazon, one for accounting software…and the list just keeps getting longer and longer.  Yes, I was one of those people that wrote down all my passwords and had a Read More

Many photographers have a subscription to Adobe Lightroom that also includes Photoshop.  You can do a lot in Lightroom in the Develop module, and may never go into Photoshop.  Two reasons I frequently use Photoshop is to work in layers, and to remove objects that Lightroom can’t manage. The good news is Adobe just updated Read More

I did a training video a few years back for KelbyOne on creating time-lapse movies.  Time-lapse sequences can be very simple or much more complicated like day to night sequences.  But technology marches on, and cameras continue to advance with their time-lapse abilities.  Top Nikon bodies have two choices for creating TL, one where the Read More

Photographers spend a lot of time processing their images.  Post processing is a critical step in digital photography, and needs careful thought to take your image to what you envisioned.  But honestly, I would much rather be out walking the streets or hiking trails with my camera in hand rather than sitting behind my computer. Read More

You might know this person on your photo workshop: Mr. Speedy (I’m not making this up; a group once named a workshop participant Mr. Speedy).  Mr. Speedy was that photographer who came to the bar with all the day’s images already downloaded…after only being back in his room for an hour.  How was that possible? Read More