May 2009

Unless you're blessed with nearly endless golden light like we have during the summer in Alaska, the relatively short periods of soft light near sunrise and sunset are the bane of wildlife photographers. Especially in the evening when activity often picks up just as the light disappears it can be very frustrating to watch the quality of your images decline as the sun sets.

I'm just back from a really fun pre-safari session with a local family about to head off to Africa for a wildlife and adventure safari. They knew they wanted to make the most of their photo opportunities but weren't sure they had the right equipment and were sure that they could use some help making the most of what they had.Fortunately for them they were smart enough to take the time to do something about it in advance. There is no substitute, as every pro photographer knows, for being prepared.

Picture Code has released a free update to Noise Ninja with a Sidekick feature which allows other applications to send batches of images to it for noise removal. It is free to registered users of Noise Ninja 2.x