Archive for June, 2011
10 Tips on Keeping Your Photo Gear Cool During The Summer (From Experience)
Summer is here, and we’re all feeling the heat. Whether you’re a digital or film photographer, your gear is bound to get hot too. If your gear overheats, problems could be abound: so here are some quick tips on how to keep it all nice and cool.
Long Term Review: Canon 50mm F1.8 (Nifty Fifty)
As the favorite lens of many growing, hobbyist and new photographers the Canon 50mm F/1.8 is the best bang for your buck lens out on the market. Capable of delivering super sharp images and small enough to forever stay coupled to your camera, the nifty 50 is a lens that receives rave after rave. This review will chronicle my long term use of the lens followed by why I finally sold mine and why I’m contemplating buying another one.
The Complete ExpoImaging Ray Flash Ring Flash Review (And Comparison)
Ring Flash—it’s a look that everyone loves and there are entire Flickr groups dedicated to showing off one’s work with the special lighting tool. The ExpoImaging Ray Flash has been reviewed here for quite a while now, and from our tests, we highly recommend it. Here’s why we love it and why we’ve chosen this one over the competition.
Field Review: ExpoImaging Ray Flash (Day 3- More Fun Portraits)
By far, I’m going to have to say that the ExpoImaging Ray Flash has my vote as the best Ring Flash attachment to use. The other day, my friend Steph and I got together and had some fun photoshoot time in her room as she helped me finish the testing of the Ray Flash. A while ago, I used it on former Premium Compact Specialist Will Greenwald. Hit the jump to see how this shoot went.
Field Review: Rokinon 85mm F/1.4 (Day 3- Portraits with Flash)
In Day 2 of the field review, I concluded that stopping down a lot would often making focusing with the Rokinon 85mm F/1.4 much simpler. And then the portrait test came. With me often stopping down to F/2.8, F/4 or F/5.6, I’d need to really ensure that my focusing was spot on.
And oh man, was this difficult.
Field Review: Rokinon 85mm F/1.4 (Day 2- Street Photography with the 5D Mk II)
After wrapping my fingers around the Rokinon 85mm F/1.4 and becoming comfortable enough to shoot with it, I ventured out around downtown Manhattan with a co-worker one day after work. Since I’m a visually impaired photographer, I thought that shooting with a manual focus lens would be tougher than normal. With that in mind though I remembered the great Cartier-Bresson’s words, “Sharpness is overrated.”
So I went out and just tried to create great images.
