The Burning House Project
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- Category: Challenges
- Published Saturday, November 10 2012 2:00pm
- Written by Abel Longoria
I wandered into a very quirky storefront in Galveston Texas and came across a book that caught my attention. I picked it up, thumbed through a few pages and was hooked. I bought it. The book is named The Burning House: What Would You Take? by Foster Huntington and the basic concept is so intriguing I knew I had to bring it home. The concept is basic. Your house is on fire, what would you grab on your way out the door? This simple question really makes you stop, think and realize what is truly meaningful to you.
Once I flipped through every single page of this book I just knew that I wanted to participate and see what the members of our community would come up. I first began to walk around my own house and think what I myself
Shooting With A Tripod
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- Category: Basics
- Published Tuesday, October 16 2012 8:41am
- Written by Abel Longoria
Tripods are a great tool when shooting photographs at night of cityscapes and low light landscapes. Typically when you want a very deep depth of field and or light trails of passing cars you need to shoot using the smallest aperture possible. When using those small apertures means you'll then yield a very slow shutter speed in order to compensate and this is where tripods come in!
There are many levels of tripods from the $20 special to the $1,000 monster. I've owned tripods from every level and I must say that the worst thing than having even a cheapy inexpensive tripod is
Proper Shooting Posture
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- Category: Basics
- Published Sunday, August 26 2012 10:00pm
- Written by Abel Longoria
Every time I'm out in the field shooting I always come across DSLR photographers shooting in a awkward "fingers above the lens" method which tends to drive me crazy. Having seen it so many times led me to get this video created to teach those photographers that may have just gotten their first DSLR how best to hold their camera for shooting.
I once had a friend that was shooting a family event come over to me and ask why he was getting these weird dark lines in his photos and across his subject's bodies. He was just shooting with the onboard flash and I knew exactly what was causing this weird dark shadow of his. He originally thought his new DSLR was defective but upon viewing a couple of the sample photos on the LCD I asked him to show me exactly how he normally shoots a photo and when he did he placed his loose/free fingers ABOVE the lens. I told him to stop right there, move his face away from viewfinder and look what was sitting right in FRONT of his onboard flash. Yup! those pesky 3 loose/free fingers. Problem Solved.
Canon EOS-M Mirrorless Camera System
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- Category: Canon
- Published Monday, July 23 2012 8:33pm
- Written by Abel Longoria
The new Canon EOS-M Mirrorless Camera System is one of the most anticipated announcements to date as it is a completely new compact camera system from one of the big players. Everyone in the photography community knew it was only a matter of time after Fuji released a small compact point & shoot camera boasting a large APS-C sized sensor that the other main manufacturers would have to bounce back with their own. Here's is Canon's entry into the large sensor compact camera game.
My first inclination was to find out the specs on the sensor and I am pleased to see that the Canon EOS-M does house an APS-C sensor much like the Fuji X100 and Fuji X-Pro 1 bodies. This larger 18.0 Megapixel APS-C sized sensor couple with a nice small package will definitely appeal to many seasoned photographers looking for a lighter weight everyday camera. I know for myself, I love being
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