Nikon 80-400mm AF-S VR lens – great for wildlife
Mar 07
Nikon has announced a new AF-S 80-400mm VR F4.5-5.6 lens. This is a full-frame lens and will work equally well on a Nikon D7100 or a Nikon D800. When I started dabbling in wildlife photography, I started off using my 18-135mm lens, and quickly switched to a 18-200mm VR lens. After getting a few decent bird shots in Costa Rica, I decided to splurge and spend about $1,000 on a 80-400mm VR lens....
Canon 100mm Macro Focal Distance
Mar 06
Text and images by Brent Duran Canon DSLR shooters have two main options when it comes to macro lenses – a 60mm and 100mm. As a full frame shooter I use the 100mm f/2.8L macro lens. This lens has three focal distance settings that should always be set depending on what you expect to shoot. .3 – .5m: This is the shortest focal distance, starting at 1ft (.3m) and will give you a...
Shooting with a Remote Macro Snoot
Mar 01
Text and images by Michael Zeigler Always one to try something new, I decided to try my hand at using a remote macro snoot. With my home-made snoot from the plumbing aisle of Home Depot, I headed out to Diver’s Cove in Laguna Beach in search for all-things tiny. As luck would have it, I found a onespot fringehead within five minutes of dropping down. This was the first of this species I had...
Todd Winner’s Wednesday Photo – Reef Squid and Salt Pier
Feb 20
Text and image by Todd Winner. This has been one of my favorite images for a long time. In fact, it was taken nearly nine years ago. It demonstrates a style (foreground – background) that I constantly use in many of my wide angle images today. Often it’s not enough just to have a pretty image of a fish, we need a secondary subject to keep the viewers attention and add some depth to the...
Sigma 15mm Tokina 10-17mm comparison for full-frame
Feb 13
Which fisheye lens is best on a full-frame camera? Sigma 15mm or Tokina 10-17mm fisheye? – by Scott Gietler Most people think the Tokina 10-17mm fisheye won’t work on a full-frame camera. Not true! At15mm, the Tokina 10-17mm fisheye will produce exactly the same image as the Sigma 15mm fisheye on a full-frame camera. 180 degree angle of view! No need to go into “DX” mode...
Mini-review of the Sony NEX-5R and NEX-6
Feb 13
Mini-review of the NEX-5R and NEX-6 I’m a big fan of the Sony NEX series – my main underwater setup is a Sony NEX-5N in a Nauticam housing. So of course I was excited when the NEX-5R and NEX-6 came out. I’ve been able to spend some time shooting the NEX-5N, the NEX-5R, and the Sony NEX-6 recently. I’ll be doing a full review soon including high ISO performance, focus...
Photo Contest Winners – “Seeing Stars” Dec/Jan
Feb 08
Our December / January contest was great with a ton of sea star pictures from all over the place. To everyone who participated, thanks so much! Here are our winners, make sure to enter this month’s contest, the February theme is “Couples” because of that gooey romantic holiday that falls in the middle of the month. December / January Winners: First Place: Ellen, with...
Ikelite Wide Angle Port Grants Access to Wet Lenses for the Canon G-15
Feb 07
Looking to use a WET wide angle lens with your G-series Canon camera? In all housings, the port is too long to make effective use of wet wide angle lenses. If you’re using the Ikelite housing, however, you now have access to wet lenses via their wide angle port. By swapping the existing flat port with the shorter, flat, wide-angle port you gain access to a number of wet wide angle lenses,...
Todd Winner’s Wednesday Photo – Skeleton Shrimp
Feb 06
Image and text by: Todd Winner One of the things I love about macro and supper macro is being able to show a subject in a way you never could with the naked eye. In fact, many of our super macro subjects can hardly be seen without magnification. We often catch some of these subjects in our normal macro shots only to discover them when viewing the image on a large screen. (Photography bycatch.) It...
Fast 1/320th sync speed with Nikon D7000 & Nikon D300
Jan 16
Many people don’t realize that you can get a 1/320th sync speed when shooting with the Nikon D300, D300s, and the D7000. By default, the sync speed is 1/250th. However, if you go into the flash / bracketing menu, setting E1 will you to set your max sync speed to 1/320th. Read more about sync speed and shutter speed. This is useful when shooting into the sun. By setting your camera to ISO...
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