digital photography

Skill & Luck: A Good Photo Strategy does not equal Photo Success

Submitted by David Cardinal on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 10:15

When a pro photographer is paid to shoot a product or model in a studio they are judged by their results—which makes perfect sense because they have control of nearly all the variables involved. Barring a natural disaster or a series of unforseeable equipment failures they should be able to deliver the goods. But applying the same expectations to wildlife and even other kinds of action photography is a recipe for disappointment…

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Go High-Speed on Your SD Cards Without Breaking the Bank

Submitted by David Cardinal on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 08:30

When SD cards were the exclusive province of point and shoot cameras their speed didn’t matter much. But now that they are used in many D-SLRs for main slots, overflow slots, and HD video capture speed has become just as important as with CompactFlash cards. Unfortunately the big price advantage of SD cards has traditionally gone away when you shop for higher speeds. But no more…

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GearGuide: Camera Lenses for Bird Photography

Even more important to excellent bird photography than having the right camera is having the right lens. There is no point in purchasing that dream camera body and crippling yourself with a cheap lens. In the 8 years I've been leading digital photo safaris I've had the chance to use or at least see used just about every likely lens made for Nikon and Canon camera bodies and have plenty of hopefully useful thoughts to share with you:

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What will kill the Consumer D-SLR?

Submitted by David Cardinal on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 15:14

Ben Gottesman wrote a fascinating post on The Death of the D-SLR this month on Gearlog. Since it has been 7 years since I wrote my "Beyond Point and Shoot" article for Ben when he was the editor of PC Magazine I thought it was timely to reflect on how far we've come and provide my perspective on Ben's thoughts about the future of the consumer D-SLR.... Read more »

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