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Announcing Photography Adventures with Kent Weakley

Announcing Photography Adventures with Kent Weakley  Announcing Photography Adventures with Kent Weakley Well it is now official. I’m taking my photography education on the road and you’re invited. Travel and photography are as much a part of me as air and water. For the first time, I’m opening up this part of me to you....

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Wow! I would LOVE to do this! My husband and I spent the past few years living in Vermont (at a ski area), but as we are avid divers, we tended to get out of the state in the summer and fall to dive in Maine. Just as I got my 7D last summer, Irene hit and pretty much wiped out our foliage season, so I haven’t had a chance to shoot in the fall yet!

Join us, it will be memorable, to say the least :)

Sherri Eisenhuth

I’m IN! I don’t want to wish the year away, but I can’t wait!!! :)

Ola I’m from Brazil. Working as a nurse and have photography as a hobby. My focus is plane spotting and I have a blog with some pictures and videos (http://poaspotter.blogspot.com/). I visited your blog and found it amazing. I took the liberty of putting a link on my blog indicating your blog. Thank you for your attention and congratulations for your incredible photos.

How to Attach Your Camera Strap

How to Attach Your Camera Strap  How to Attach Your Camera Strap Did you recently get a new camera? Wondering about how to best attach the camera strap? Well here you go, just for you. If you recall, I did a video on this some time ago. Since then I’ve learned a new technique that is...

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Great video! I needed this on Christmas while trying to help my daughter with her new camera!

Great idea! Off to switch my camera strap!!

great tip! seems so obvious, why didn’t I think of that? ; )

Hello Mr Weakley,

Very clean strap position. Sony original strap is very stiff and hard to bend. It worked great on my Fujifilm 3800!

Jack

Video Photo Tip ~ No Fog Camera Lens

Video Photo Tip ~ No Fog Camera Lens  Photo Tip Friday ~ No Fog Camera Lens A nice quenching glass of ice tea on a hot day looks great with random beads of condensation refracting light and glistening in the sun. This same moisture phenomenon, however on our camera gear is not at all refreshing...

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Andrzej Roszkowski

another way to avoid condensing of moisture on cold lenses is to put them into plastic bag and tightly tie it before entering warm room

it works for both – camera and lenses

Kathleen Price

I had this happen just this summer. However an added problem was the humidity in the air. There was a light fog every morning, everything seemed kind of misty. I guess maybe there’s nothing that can be done with that???

BIGGGGG hair dryer!!! :) Just kidding. Fog in the air (not on the camera) can be good. If you’re looking for big landscape scenes it might be a problem. Change your game plan and look for small macros and edges where light and fog are mixing. Pastures and flowers usually look great in fog, especially if you can see the fog fading in with the depth of field behind your subject.

Chanpheng

I’ve had this happen quite a few times – however, that’s when I get creative and incorporate the lens fog into my images – nothing like fog on a sunny day.

Kathleen Price

My main goal was to capture the sunrise. It did look pretty in the fog, because the light rays were very evident, I just had to keep wiping the front of the lens filter to clear it away. We were at the Gulf of Mexico and it was so humid every morning…as my mom says, “Air you can wear”. :) I’ll have to look for opportunities to use to fog to my advantage.

Kathleen Price

AND thank you for your reply and advice!!! I sooo enjoy all of your tips!

Andrzej, wouldn’t you have the same problem once you got the equipment out of the bag though? Maybe I’m not quite understanding your suggestion.

I think so. Once the camera is exposed to humid air, if it’s still cold it will attract the moist to it. The camera really needs to be warm, or at least the same temperature as the surrounding outside air. Now, if you’re using the bag to keep the moisture off the camera while you leave it outside and let the equipment’s temperature match the air, then that would keep it dry until it was ready to be taken out and used.

It’s a problem the other way around: I was out making a timelapse video in a field during and after sunset with the camera very low (a tripod’s centre-column above the ground). As the temperature fell, dew formed and mist completely clouded the lens surface.

I’m keeping it in the timelapse because the way it builds up still looks artistic, but there comes a point where it’s just going to have to fade out (to black or white, as yet undecided).

Great idea! I’m also in Florida, and had something similar happen to me with a beach photo session. My camera bag was in the front seat of my car, and I had the air conditioning BLASTING. Very foggy images. So now, I put the camera bag in the trunk of my car so it gets to be the same temperature as the environment. Works well depending on how long I have to drive!

5 Photo Composition Tips Via Italy

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5 Photo Composition Tips Via Italy  5 Photo Composition Tips Via Italy Photographing in Italy was an amazing blessing in the form of an award from Fuji Film for winning their international photo competition. I will never forget the day my cell phone rang and Dave from Fuji started asking me questions about my submitted...

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Sono tutte bellisime – le foto!

Ponte Vecchio at L’arno a Firenze, Siena, Lucca? or San Gimignano?

What an awesome, awesome trip. What I wouldn’t do for a chance to reshoot Italy. What an honor!

*le sigh*

Until that day – these are like soul candy.

Grazie per le gentili parole. Sono sicuro che tornerà in Italia un giorno.

Thanks Darcy!! ;)

Alma

Oh such beautiful pictures! I’ve always been drawn to color and bold contrast – that door picture is the BEST! All of them! Such beauty and inspiration found all around, but you’re certainly making wish I was in Italy too. :)

really beautiful photography from Italy, a country that I have still not visited, but it is definitely at the top of my list for new places to go!

If I knew as to make a good photo, I would do it constantly.

You two…

Amazing, amazing, amazing. I want to be like you when I grow up.

Richard Weaver

Kent, Loved the video & especially the bloopers! Glad you didn’t get hurt by the saw. You present a great point about “making” pictures and obviously have spectacular photos to back-up your skill and the process of making great photos. I’m sure your students will get a lot out of your classes and the free content on your blog. Take care, Rick (from Seoul, South Korea)

Hey Rick, Great to hear from you. Thanks for the kind words. We have a big group of people in the Photo Composition eClass right now and it’s a blast. Having fun helping people improve their photography skills is very rewarding! :) Hope all is well and tell everyone in Free Korea “Hello”! Take care! :)

Debbie

Congrats on winning the trip to Italy! I’ll be headed for the first time to the Tuscany area in late August & can’t wait to see all the beauty. We will be staying at a villa in the Arezzo area but will have time to explore the area some. Would love to hear about the time you spent in Siena because we will possibly make a day trip there. Also, I just signed up for your Night Photography 1 class & look forward to learning something new!

Debbie,
Welcome. I think you’re going to enjoy the Night Photo eClass. Can’t wait to see your images.

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