Heading Out Canon 5D Mark II, 180mm F/3.5 Macro, f/3.5, 1/250, iso 200 This is the second image of my "Weekends with Diane" my little homage to one of my favorite photographers, Diane Varner of "Daily Walks" fame. This shot...

In case you are thinking about purchasing a Canon 5D MkII or 7D Canon has some instant rebates that are effective through April 3, 2010 that you should look at. Here is the link to Canon’s current promotions. It looks like you can save about $250 if you purchase a 5DMkII, 16-35mm wide-angle zoom and a

Yountville Afternoon Canon 5D Mark II, 400mm F/5.6, f/8.0, 1/500, iso 125 Frequent readers of my blog will have picked up that I have a fondness for the images of Diane Varner that she posts on her Daily Walks website....

Image Six Canon 5D Mark II, 180mm Macro F/3.5, f/7.1, 1/30, iso 640 Picking up where we left off yesterday.... today we have the second group of five shots, completing the ten shots required for the project. Yesterday in Image...

Image One Canon 5D Mark II, 180mm Macro F/3.5, f/6.3, 1/10, iso 100 As I alluded to recently, this past weekend I participated in a project with a group of photographers. These are several notable artists from the Sonoma county...

Want to see how pro shooter Matthew Jordan Smith gears up? Then watch this 3-minute video of him opening up his Lowepro Pro Roller x200 at the Sony booth during WPPI 2010. Video by Derrick Story. Recorded with a Canon 5D Mark II and an Audio Technica lav mic....

Stacked Wall Canon 5D Mark II, 135mm f/2.0, f/5.6, 1/160, iso 500 Greetings everyone. First of all, I apologize for the lack of a Topaz Tuesday post. Let me briefly explain. I'm unexpectedly stuck out of town due to a...

As the long-awaited 24p firmware update for the Canon 5D Mark II draws near, I joined Mike Seymour on episode 57 of the Red Centre podcast to talk about the firmware update and how excited I am that it marks the end of painful workarounds for the 5D’s no-man’s-land frame rate of 30.0 frames per second. For as long as I’ve had my 5D Mark II, I’ve avoided using it for any pro...

Canon 5d MKII + 17-40 f4L  , 1/1000 ISO 800 f8.0 This is an unused shot from a commercial shoot for Whistler Blackcomb last spring.  You can view the final ads here in a old blog post.

Canon 5D Mark II, 16-35mm F/2.8, f/6.3, 1/100, iso 100 In an online forum this week a poster was asking about the Oregon coast. So I provided what I know, and decided I would look back through some of my...