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Thirty Minutes That Can Save Your Photo Vacation

Posted Wed, 03/17/2010 - 15:26 by David Cardinal

Whether you are going on a casual vacation and want to capture some images of your trip or a full-fledged photo safari where you are hoping to capture the “images of a lifetime” there is hardly anything more distressing than looking at your images and finding them blurry. The camera normally gets the blame, but with a simple exercise before you go you can prevent this disaster… DOF Test SetupDOF Test Setup

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Snow: Your Portable Light Source

Posted Fri, 03/12/2010 - 15:18 by David Cardinal

I was reminded repeatedly on my recent trip to Yellowstone that metering in snow scares people. Any time we were near other photographers you could hear the timid “now snow is +1, right?” call out to a companion. From reading his latest BT Journal my friend Moose Peterson heard plenty of the same when he was there. But as Moose points out, snow can be your friend…

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Fun with Flashlights

Posted Mon, 02/22/2010 - 10:59 by David Cardinal
Twenty mule team Borax Wagon lit by Flashlight

The great weather in Death Valley last week brought out lots of tourists and made getting into dinner a tough proposition. So with an hour to spend before we'd be seated there wasn't enough time to go back and look at images, so my daughter Annie and I decided to have some fun with our flashlights and the old Twenty-mule team Borax wagon out in front of the Furnace Creek Ranch. If you've never done it before there is almost no limit to the fun you can have with a flashlight or two (or your flash units) and just about any subject you can light up... Read more »

Making a Great Promotional Banner – Step by Step

Posted Wed, 02/10/2010 - 14:18 by David Cardinal

I’m in no way a graphics designer, but as a photographer and safari leader I spend time and money promoting my work and my trips. From time to time I have an opportunity to feature a large display banner. Next week at the NANPA Summit our partners Journeys Unforgettable will be sharing a booth with B&H and featuring our joint trips. So it was time for a quick banner. Fortunately as a photographer I have one of the world’s most powerful graphic arts tools—Photoshop—at the ready. But building a banner requires using it in some different ways from the way we usually do as photographers. If this is a task you’ve been worried about taking on for yourself, it is easier than you think. Read on to learn how I did it…

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Photo Tip: An Ode To Feet

Posted Thu, 02/04/2010 - 14:48 by David Cardinal

Okay, so you've remembered to plan out your background, the light is right and your hoped for bird has just landed right in front of you. You wait until the right instant as it glanced at you and the light shines into its eye. Click and you're done. Right? Well not quite. There's something not quite right when you look at the image. You forgot the feet. Sure, it's happened to all of us countless times. And sometimes you can't work around it. But we'll share a few tips that will help... Read more »