Learning how to truly control and use shutter speed is one of most important lessons we all must master as photographers. The reason? Your camera’s shutter speed function is the most powerful image-making element in your arsenal of aperture, shutter speed and ISO. It’s the one factor that, more than any other, can make or

I was out shopping yesterday and stumbled across a very cool and interesting product while walking the isle's of the local wholesale club. The product is the new Coleman Quad LED Lantern. Based on the description on the box itself it seemed like it would be an ideal and inexpensive portable lighting solution for cinematographers or photographers who wanted an impromptu solution for portrait l...

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...

Most photographers would balk at spending $2K for a fixed-lens digital camera, but Leica has a large following, and the Leica X1 ($1,995 list) will find a happy home with many of the company’s devotees. Like the Leica M8 ($5,995 list), the X1 features an APS-C image sensor—the same size sensor found in much larger

Author: Larry Volk and Danielle Currier Publisher: Focal Press Review by Conrad J. Obregon Visual professionals usually introduce themselves to prospective clients and employers by presenting a portfolio. No Plastic Sleeves: The Complete Portfolio Guide for Photographers and Designers calls itself a complete guide to portfolio preparation. The authors claim it is aimed at both photographers and de...

Review (Summary): "The product is the new Coleman Quad LED Lantern, and just based on the description on the box itself it seemed like it would be an ideal and inexpensive portable lighting solution for cinematographers or photographers who wanted a impromptu solution for portrait lighting - especially for personal interviews or for creative lighting effects.

So here’s the deal -  I’ve got some down time scheduled for about a week, starting March 20.  And, while I have some reviews and other content that I have written in advance scheduled for that week, I thought I would open up Photography Bay to other photographers (amateur or pro) to share their thoughts

Shortly after the Environmental Protection Agency was created, a group of photographers was sent out to take pictures of environmental problems and America's natural (threatened) beauty. The photos are now being posted on Flickr Commons.Read |

I was reminded repeatedly on my recent trip to Yellowstone that metering in snow scares people. Any time we were near other photographers you could hear the timid “now snow is +1, right?” call out to a companion. From reading his latest BT Journal my friend Moose Peterson heard plenty of the same when he was there. But as Moose points out, snow can be your friend…

onOne Software today announced the immediate availability of two fully-functional Photoshop plug-ins: PhotoTools 2.5 Free and the new PhotoFrame 4.5 Free. The free plug-ins for Photoshop are based on the award-winning versions of PhotoTools 2.5 Standard Edition and PhotoFrame 4.5 Standard Edition and are compatible with Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4. These two free plug-ins provide photographers with...