MPEX Experience, Tips and Tricks

Fall Food Photography for Beginners

My dad went to the apple orchard last week and went a little crazy, bringing home a fridge-full worth of apples that no one wanted to eat.  I decided it’d be a good idea to make an apple pie, because who the heck was going to eat all those apples? I love fall as much as […]

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MPEX Experience, The Learning Studio!

8 Questions for Westcott Top Pro Jen Rozenbaum

Midwest photo is super excited to be hosting the 8 Points of Posing for Boudoir and Beyond workshop by Jen Rozenbaum, on September 10th, 2015. This workshop is all about posing techniques and workflow tricks to make boudoir photography profitable and inspiring. Jen will show us her techniques for posing and how the order of poses helps streamline the workflow […]

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MPEX Experience, MPEX Photo Contests

Winning Photos for the Reach for Nature Contest Sponsored by Sigma

Reach for Nature Photo Contest Sponsored by  & This summer, we wanted you to get out there and show us your best nature photos with our “Reach for Nature” contest sponsored by Sigma!  The amazing entries showed us the talent of local and national photographers. Our Second Prize was provided by Ilford and The Learning […]

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Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience

Capturing Beauty with the 5DS

Lately, I haven’t been really motivated to shoot or do anything specific with my photography work.  With the rainy and extremely hot summer, there’s not much I’ve been compelled to shoot outdoors.  I wanted to do something special for the new Canon 5DS.  This camera was released with the 5DS R and they both have […]

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MPEX Experience, MPEX Photo Contests

Reach for Nature Contest Sponsored by Sigma!

Sigma’s 150-600mm f/5-6.3 lens lets you get up close and personal with things out in nature that would normally be out of reach. Now through August 21, 2015, you can enter our “Reach for Nature” photography contest. We ask that you submit one of your best nature photographs to our website here and show us how you […]

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MPEX Experience, The Learning Studio!

Lumix Luminary Rick Gerrity

This week we’re featuring some of Rick Gerrity’s work with Lumix before he comes and teaches this Saturday.  Rick is a Luminary with Lumix and will be talking about various topics on Saturday including review of camera features and composition.  You can find the original blog post here: “How I Used 4K Photo Mode to […]

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Gear Review, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience

The Autofocus We’ve Been Waiting For From Fuji

Many people know that Columbus is home to one of the best zoos, so we decided to take a group out for a Field Study class this past weekend!  Being the first sunny day in what seemed like weeks, I was stoked. In honor of this rare rainless shoot, I brought along the handy-dandy Fuji X-T1 […]

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Hometown Heroes, MPEX Experience

Maria Levitov

Here at Midwest, we’re always looking to highlight the great photographers in the area and what sets them apart! I had the honor of doing an interview with Maria Levitov, local photographer who shoots everything from wedding photography to portraiture and is always ready for a new challenge.  One of her projects, the Stranger Project, […]

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MPEX Experience, Tips and Tricks

Why Card Readers are Actually Important

I’ve always been one to try to get away with buying inexpensive accessories for my camera to save a few bucks. A few months ago, I wanted to grab a card reader so that I could upload my CF card to my computer and picked the least expensive option. It should theoretically do the same […]

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MPEX Experience, The Learning Studio!

Have you heard? We’re having a macro workshop, yo.

On June 5, Midwest is having David Guy Maynard give a lecture on macro photography in our learning studio and we don’t want you to miss it! So who is David Guy Maynard?  I recently got the chance to interview him, and wanted to show our customers, and you bloggers out there his macro photography […]

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