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10 Tips on Using a Wide Angle Lens
Guest Blog article by Justin Miller. Ultra-wide angle lenses, referred to as UWA, can offer a unique, sometimes challenging, often rewarding view of the world for photographers. Many of us have faced that limitation where we can’t quite fit a … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged 10, florida, guest blog, justin miller, orlando, rectilinear, tips, tokina, ultra wide angle, uwa, walt disney world
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Assignment 6: Your Hometown
The very first assignment I posted last year was for everyone to do a Collective Shoot. Ready to do another one? This time the subject is Your Hometown. This is different than landmarks as I am looking for one, two … Continue reading
Posted in Assignments
Tagged 11-16mm, baldwinsville, bridge, challenge, f/2.8, fun, lights, long exposure, new york, night, nikon D70, Photography, tail lights, tokina, trails, wide angle
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Winter’s Back is Broken
I first encountered the phrase, “Winter’s back is broken”, while reading Jean Auel’s The Mammoth Hunters, the third book in her Earth’s Children series (excellent books, by the way). I had never heard it but Google shows me others are … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged 11-16mm, crouse college, f/2.8, new york, night photography, nikon D70, snow, stairs, syracuse, syracuse university, tokina, wide angle, winter
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Yeti Shrine
The Yeti Shrine to the mythical creature with Expedition EVEREST mountain in the background at Disney’s Animal Kingdom themepark. I used off-camera flash via Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) with light, a Nikon SB-600 Speedlight, held at camera left set … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged 11-16mm, disney's animal kingdom, everest, flash, florida, long exposure, mountain, night, orlando, Photography, ride, roller coaster, sb-600, tokina, tripod, walt disney world, wide angle
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View 99: November Pumpkins
Not all pumpkins end up as Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns. Some are left in the fields to rot and be plowed under like the ones pictured above and below. I didn’t expect to show you these on such a clear and sunny … Continue reading
Posted in Assignments, Weekly View
Tagged 11-16, baldwinsville, blue, decay, filter, gradient, lens, neutral density, new york, november, orange, Photography, pumpkins, rot, sky, tiffen, tokina, wide angle
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