You have a great camera, great lens, sharp sensor and a tiny LCD.  Even if you have a large LCD on the back of your camera, it’s not as big as your computer screen.  So should you run back and forth dumping your photos after each image is made just to see if everything is [...]

There are so many movies that show high-tech video and photography capabilities.  You see an image taken from a low resolution black and while ATM video camera.  They will take that image and not only “enhance” it to be able to read the license place that only took up 4 pixels on the screen but [...]

If you shoot RAW and take a sequence of images to be stitched into a panorama, you should do all of your color balancing and tweaking before you perform the stitch.  Once you perform the stitch, you can do some of the color balancing, but you lose the flexibility you have with the RAW format. [...]

As a photographer, at some point you need to take a picture of yourself.  If for no other reason you don’t have anyone else willing to be pictured.  But what do you do to make your pictures different?  Obviously you put something in the frame that you wouldn’t dare to put in anyone else’s pictures.  [...]

Photography as a hobby is one pretty expensive hobby.  As a business it’s a pretty expensive business if you really need some of the specialty gear.  I love the fancy new gear, but when it gets right down to it, how much of it do I really NEED.  So when I look a purchasing some [...]