The Digital Photo Guy

More Canon 7D Features

Lee — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:00:28 +0000

Keeping Up With the Joneses (aka Nikon) I’ve never been one to fret over features in other cameras but there was one Nikon dSLR feature that caused me a ”Jimmy Carter moment” (I’ve looked on other cameras with lust). Commander Mode, available as far down the Nikon product line as the D70, is an integrated wireless flash [...]

The Eyes (Still) Have It

Lee — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:30:04 +0000

Adding Catchlights to Eyes When we left off last week, Tylor’s pupils had been darkened and the iris lightened with color restored. But, as anyone can see (below), there’s still something missing. That “something” is catchlights, those sparkles in the eyes that add life to otherwise dull photos. In this video, we’ll add not [...]

The Eyes Have It

Lee — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:30:23 +0000

The Eyes Are the Windows to the Soul Today, we’ll post Part 1 of 2 posts about retouching eyes to add intensity and “pop” to any portrait including those where the photographer messed up! Here’s a photo of my favorite model, Tylor. I made this photo at the beach on one of those days when everything seemed to go wrong. [...]

And Still More Canon 7D Goodies

Lee — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:00:53 +0000

This is On the Level Most people who do landscape or architectural photography own a spirit level. Also called a bubble level, it’s usually mounted in the camera’s hot shoe and the purpose is to assist in leveling the body side-to-side and front-to-back. The problem with these levels has alwasy been lousy workmanship (too loose, too tight, [...]

More Canon 7D Auto Focus Goodies

Lee — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:37:20 +0000

Spot and Expanded AF Points These two features seem diametrically opposed in terms of usefulness. Spot AF is an extra small AF Point inside a normal AF Point while AF Point Expansion increases the size of the AF Point by selecting points around it. As seen in the above left photo, Spot AF uses a smaller area inside the [...]

Canon 7D Auto Focus Features

Lee — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:11:12 +0000

Getting the Best Out of Your Canon 7D Auto Focus The Canon 7D has turned out to be one of the most capable Canon mid-range dSLRs ever. It’s not just new, it’s revolutionary in mid-range dSLRs. It has so many new capabilities that it’s difficult to pick just one or two as my favorites. One feature I apprecate the [...]

Correcting White Balance in JPEGs

Lee — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:00:50 +0000

Questioning Conventional Wisdom We all know that for maximum post-processing flexibility, we should shoot in RAW. Unfortunately, there are circumstances that force us to shoot in JPEG. For example, a Canon T2i is limited to 6 RAW files in Continuous Mode before the buffer is full and the camera stops to digest the data. At 3.7 fps, that’s [...]

Combining Multiple Photos

Lee — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:01:29 +0000

Compositing Photos As always, whenever I post an article I receive a flurry of e-mails asking, “How’d you do that?” This week, it was about replacing the dull Parisian sky with a bright blue SoCal sky. This is a pretty simple task so I prepared a short 3 minute video. How Your Camera’s AutoFocus Works (and why you [...]

Collecting Cloud Photos

Lee — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:09:58 +0000

Tips About This Website Hover your cursor over the home page slideshow until the cursor turns into a double-headed, slanted arrow and click the mouse to maximize the photo. The image won’t be as sharp because they’re compressed and resized to smaller dimensions. You can also go forward or backward by clicking the cursor near the left or right edges. (Continued at bottom of page…) [...]

Old Videos, New Questions and Cool Deals

Lee — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:13:57 +0000

Topaz Labs introduces DeNoise 5 I hate to sound like a Topaz Labs fanboy but their newest iteration of DeNoise 5 is better than my old standby, Neat Image v6. The difference isn’t huge but TL is somewhat better in the areas of speed, ease of use and detail recovery. NI has a small edge on price. [...]