The Secret To Shooting Like A Pro – Ebook

VR is Nikon lingo. On some Canon lenses, there’s a switch that’s called “Image Stabilization” and we abbreviate it as IS. There’s a chance your 18-55 has it. There’ll be a second switch right next to the auto/manual focus switch right on the side of the lens. (not all lenses have this though so if you don’t have it don’t sweat…Read more

I recently upgraded to a full-frame setup after shooting for over 10 years (so stoked!).

This means I am selling one of my all-time favorite lenses: the 17-55 2.8.

This lens is quite sharp and quite fast, with a lovely fixed f/2.8 aperture for good low-light performance or dreamy bokeh. It has image stabilization too—something that t…Read more

A huge part of getting good portraits is good lighting. If you’re doing this outdoors, you’ve got two options: shoot within an hour of sunset or sunrise (golden hour!) or shoot whenever you’d like when it is overcast. If you’re going…Read more

Of the four that you put here, I really the wide angles a lot more than the ones that were more close up. They’re sharper, they’ve got more stars, and they really elicit that feeling of awe that you get when looking at the night sky, and the random meteors add a little bit of interest…Read more

The Marketing Media or Cinema and Digital Arts degrees would be the closest to what you’re looking for as far as degrees are…Read more

I’ve tried a couple of different ways of shooting star trails. There really are only two ways of doing it: either you leave the shutter open for a long time, or you set up your camera with an intervalometer and take a bunch of shorter exposures (about 30 seconds apiece) back to back to back and stitch them using…Read more

You’ve probably already had this looked at on the webinar (which I was sorry to miss as a long-time Lenspiration member), so I’ll keep this super brief!

Things I like:
–that sky. those clouds are super super cool looking and you certainly picked a good time to shoot.
–lead in lines!…Read more

I think you (@abigail16) and @nateb might be referring to two different phenomena here. Abby, in your photos, you’ve narrowed your aperture and partially occluded the sun in order to get the “sun-star” effect (which is…Read more

Like @lenspirationlydia, I didn’t look at James’s image before starting. I’m using…Read more

I was in a similar boat earlier… my beloved 17-55mm was in Virginia getting serviced (again) but I was still itching…Read more

Start with one of ON1’s presets (the 1200px JPG to Desktop one will work well). I’ll walk you through how each of these work, though your problems are likely in File type, Resize, and Sharpening.

Naming
By default, ON1 has it set to keep the file name. If you…Read more

I am having a repeated issue with my beloved Canon 17-55 2.8. When I zoom in with it, shooting at any aperture other than 2.8 triggers a “error 1”. I’ve tried cleaning the contacts and putting it on a different camera body to no avail, and I’m about 99% sure it’s an internal problem with the lens.

What is especially frustrating…Read more

If I were in your shoes, and had nothing in my telephoto slot… (I have an 18-200 kit lens sitting there right now)… I think I would go for the telephoto. My reasoning is that for anything that involves people at all (events, video, portraits) you’ll be reaching for that telephoto far, far more than you will an…Read more

I have the EXACT bundle you are looking at (the 10-18 and the 50mm). I bought it to supplement my kit 18-200 lens about five years ago.

After 5 years and having expanded my collection by a couple more lenses, the 50mm 1.8 is one of my favorite lenses ever. In my opinion, you can’t get a better lens for the money. It’s super sha…Read more

I use On1 Photo RAW for my editing program. It’s very similar to Lightroom and has a lot of similar features (just better 🙂 to take my shameless stab at Adobe). No subscription required, but they re-release the software every year with new features. It appears the earliest OS the…Read more

Wow let me tell you that it has been the one of the best photography investments I have ever made. It has a fixed 2.8 aperture all the way through… and it is AWESOME. I find it…Read more

@dfrazer, I’ve seen you on these forums! Any tips?

Thanks so much,
@loganlamar

I’m looking for an excellent external monitor to use for photography and videography… what do you guys all use/recommend?

Thanks so much!

@loganlamar

Biggest pros for the bridge camera:
—Cost
My L830 was roughly $300.

—Versatility
34x zoom. This meant I could zoom in and read billboards that were rou…Read more

You’re going to want two programs for your photography:

1. A photo sorter/developer
2. A photo editor

These are not the same thing, but there is a bit of overlap. I use my photo developer for doing a lot of global adjustments across the whole image (cropping, colors,…Read more

Appreciate any help I can get!

I don’t really know where or even if your…Read more

Is this technique often used when subjects and scenes (i.e. landscapes) do not have much colour?

I’d answer that with “sometimes”!

I used to shoot products for a guitar case manufacturer. I shot a lot of black guitar cases :). If the guitar case was solely black and white then, and any color introduced by the camera (chromatic…Read more

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thanks!

If I am shooting for a newspaper or an event, I really don’t want to be doing a lot of Photoshop work at all.
For instance, I don’t know how many of you have been watching the news lately, but let’s say I visited the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest…Read more

I’ll sell them for $40 (shipping included as long as you’re…Read more

Maybe I’d like to see a lit…

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@ernestf-lloyd has the idea there. What she wants to photograph will make a HUGE influence on what she’ll be wanting to purchase.

If it’s her paintings, I know my mom uses her smartphone instead of my (technically her?) Canon 60D, which used to be about a $1000 DSLR. So she…Read more