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Photojojo iPhone Telephoto Lens review — AudioCast

    Click on the link below to hear our 3-minute AudioCast review of this unusual lens: sheba_photojojo_tele_lens.mp3   Photojojo's web site is here for additional information. * * * * * * * * Additional Nemo interviews, contests. audiocast [...]

Cool NEX Lens from Tamron

Straight from Tamron TAMRON Announces the 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III VC (Model B011), Tamron’s first high-power zoom for Sony’s NEX-series mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras. Innovative lens is lightweight, compact, and features a [...]

Visual Art & Digital Photography, Part 5: Flexible Perspectives

30 shot HDR

  On my way home from a meeting in Syracuse, New York last week, I drove past a beautiful red barn that caught my eye. I immediately turned around and drove back to have a look. I parked the car across the highway and got out to shoot. The only [...]

Basic Bokeh: there is more to it than a mere word

What on earth is ‘Bokeh’ ? Putting the word Bokeh into Google will generate “about 7,490,000 results (0.05sec) or at least it did at 10.22am GMT this morning as I wrote this introduction.  ‘Bokeh’ is essentially a Japanese [...]

Fine-tune the Composition

It is a natural instinct to take something as you first see it; indeed, this is essential for capturing fleeting action. If I have the luxury of time, I like to work the composition because I invariably find ways to improve upon it.   Here is an example I [...]

How to Eliminate a Fence

I have photographed meerkats in zoos, but I had never seen one in the wild until last month in Namibia.  This particular situation was unique.  I was shooting through a chain link fence, but I was in the enclosure (with some animals) and the meerkat [...]