A Thought A Day (08/08/2017)
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Prep Your Eyes (and Camera!) for the Great American Eclipse!
If you live in the United States, chances are that you’ve already heard about the Great American Eclipse, coming to a sky near you on August 21, 2017. The reason this eclipse has everyone so excited is that this total eclipse of the heart sun will span the U.S. from coast to coast – starting […]
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Pop, Pop, Power To Spare, Anywhere – First Look, Profoto B1X 500 AirTTL Monolight
As destination workshop providers, instructors and guides, we don't get to shoot nearly enough studio images. So when an opportunity comes along to break out the studio strobes and craft some well thought lighting and imagery, we get excited. When Profoto sends us their new flagship portable strobe we get downright ecstatic. As we both love landscape images, what better product to test out, in the great outdoors and put it through its paces.
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Small, Fast & Strong – The Sigma 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 DG HSM | Contemporary Series Lens
Tim Neumann and Lorie McQuirt, known by many for their work at MPEX Learning Studio classes, Soft Lite Studio workshops as well as coordinating Central Ohio Photographic Society (COPS) meetings, took a minute of out their busy schedule to take the new Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG HSM OS Contemporary Lens for a spin for MPEX-Experience! Written By: […]
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Gone Fishing
Written by: Tim Neumann and Lorie McQuirt We have been doing a lot of street photography lately. It’s the in thing to do when the weather starts to get nicer out and the locals come out of their self imposed hibernation and explore the warrens right outside of their Winter dens. If you are like […]
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The Long And Short Of Macro Lenses
Written by: Tim Neumann and Lorie McQuirt You may have noticed, macro lenses come in a variety of focal lengths, a few of the more popular from Nikon and Canon listed below: ~60mm Focal Lengths Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens Nikon AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8G ED Lens ~100mm Focal Lengths Canon EF 100mm […]
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Q&A: When Is Enough, Enough?
Written by: Tim Neumann and Lorie McQuirt Question: One of our followers asks, “When shooting long exposure images of waterfalls, how do I know when the exposure time is just right?” Introduction: This question could be interpreted more than one way. Are we thinking about “exposure time as the right amount of light?”, or are […]
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Squirrel on the Set! You’ll go nuts over this social media gold!
Our friend and photographer behind some social media sensational squirrels, Luna and Neville, Ashly Deskins is back with new furry photos! Ashly and her squirrel friends took over social media this winter with her photographs featuring the adorable furry crew. She captured the squirrels interacting with various human-centric scenes such as watching the Superbowl and voting. Deskins […]
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Panasonic Aims for Top Spot in 4K Video with New Lumix GH5
Introducing the Panasonic GH5… Back in 2009, I learning to shoot video on the now-classic Panasonic HVX200. At that time shooting HD video to memory cards was pretty new in the video world. The HVX was released just a couple of years before the Canon 5d Mark II changed the whole video market. The HVX200 […]
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Bokehlicious – The Sigma 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art Series Lens
Tim Neumann and Lorie McQuirt, known by many for their work at MPEX Learning Studio classes, Soft Lite Studio workshops as well as coordinating Central Ohio Photographic Society (COPS) meetings, took a minute of out their busy schedule to take the new Sigma 135mm f/1.8 Art Series lens for a spin for MPEX-Experience! Written By: Tim Neumann […]
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