Human Interest

Fixing A Once in a Lifetime Sunrise, Using Hand Held HDR

Submitted by David Cardinal on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 04:13

A chance to go hot-air ballooning is rare enough, but the opportunity to do it over the 4,000 temples and pagodas in Bagan, Myanmar (Burma) is difficult to repeat. So when the picture perfect morning had too much contrast for my D700 I quickly shifted to using HDR hand-held from the balloon and the results saved the day. I've posted a step by step of what I did and how the images came out on the B&H Blog site. Enjoy!

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Nikon D7000: “Consumer” Camera Angles for the Pro Market

Submitted by David Cardinal on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 19:25

Nikon D7000 DSLR Camera (Body)

Until this week Nikon had three different lines of D-SLR cameras. The “consumer” level cameras like the Nikon D5000 and Nikon D3100, “prosumer” models like the Nikon D300S and Nikon D700, and full up “pro” models like the Nikon D3S and Nikon D3X. Of course plenty of pros (like me) use prosumer and consumer models when they are the best fit for a project and plenty of “consumers” own a D3 family camera, but at least the three product lines had a fairly obvious set of distinctions. But with the D7000 Nikon has really blurred the line between consumer, prosumer and pro camera at the same time. Should you rush to pre-order one of these unique cameras so you’ll be first on the block to have one when it arrives in November? Read on to find out what makes it unique… Read more »

Grand Canyon: North Rim or South Rim?

Submitted by David Cardinal on Sun, 06/20/2010 - 15:15


Having been to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon before we decided to spend a few days at the North Rim this trip. Especially since we are traveling in June which we knew would be packed full in both places. For those considering a trip there and wondering which to visit if you don’t have time for both here are our thoughts… 

Grand Canyon North Rim looking at Transept CanyonGrand Canyon North Rim looking at Transept Canyon

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A Sad Day for Photography?

Submitted by David Cardinal on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 17:53

Today Nikon gave away $125,000 in prizes to two lucky contest winners. Awesome, right? The grand prize of $100,000 is one of the largest prizes for a single winner I've every heard of. Long live photography. Except that the winning entries weren't photographs...

@Trip Screenshot
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Tack Sharp: A Tale of Three Images

Submitted by David Cardinal on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 20:05

 On every photo safari the second most common question (just after "what ISO are you using?") is "do you think this image is sharp?" To paraphrase an old saw, "If you have to ask, ..." But seriously, evaluating sharpness is a big part of assessing the quality of your images, so we'll take a closer look at it in this post...

s1 -- Lion Cub on Termite Mound -- Sharp
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