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Six Tips to Make your Holiday Pictures Sing

December 10, 2015 By David Newton

6 Tips to Make Your Holiday Pictures Sing

As the well-known advertising jingle says, the holidays are coming. A time when families get together, eat, drink, be merry and generally have a whale of a time. So there’s no better time to whip out the phone and start capturing images of the frivolity.

If you want to get great pictures though, there are a couple of things you should think about first – just because your camera is a phone, doesn’t mean it can’t capture great images – far from it, you just need to start treating it like a camera. So here are six tips to take your phone pictures from bluegh to wow! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: christmas, depth of field, flash, focus, holidays, how to, Learn, Mobile, perspective, rule of thirds, tips, tutorial

 

Nikon D4 Firmware Update A 1.03 and B 1.02

November 28, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Nikon D4

Nikon has issued a firmware update for the Nikon D4 that increases “focus accuracy when a lens and teleconverter with a combined maximum aperture of f/8 is used.”

You can download the update here on Nikon’s website.

Filed Under: Nikon Tagged With: af, autofocus, d4, dslr, firmware, focus, Nikon

Lensbaby Composer Pro Launched

April 4, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Lensbaby let the wraps off a new lens today – the Composer Pro.

The Lensbaby Composer Pro steps up its game with upgrades to the swivel ball and focus mechanism to make it (you guessed it) more “pro” oriented.  The new focus ring is a dampened fluid ring, which (according to Lensbaby) is more akin to pro-caliber lenses from conventional lens makers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Lenses Tagged With: Composer Pro, dslr, focus, lens, lensbaby, Lenses, optic swap, photography

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