90 — Tilt shift lenses for landscape photography — Interview w/ Darwin Wiggett

November 24, 2010 By 16 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #90 fea­tures an inter­view with Cana­dian land­scape pho­tog­ra­pher Dar­win Wiggett. It was recorded on a photo tour in the Alberta Rock­ies led by Dar­win. In the inter­view Dar­win dis­cusses why he often uses a tilt shift lens in land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy. For those that have never heard of a tilt shift lens, it’s a lens that has the abil­ity to tilt and/or shift while attached to your cam­era. The tilt­ing aspect of the lens allows you to get amaz­ing depth of field (REGARDLESS‚ of aper­ture) because the lens can tilt in the same direc­tion as the plane of focus. The shift aspect of the lens allows you to cor­rect non par­al­lel lines in cam­era when pho­tograph­ing a build­ing for exam­ple. It also allows for easy panora­mas. Dar­win is a fab­u­lous teacher so take a lis­ten and it will all make even more sense. We also talk a bit about test­ing your lenses, res­o­lu­tion, aper­ture, depth of field and image circles.

An exam­ple of a tilt shift lens

Note how the image on the right has SUPERB depth of field because the tilt shift lens was TILTED into the plane of focus. Image at left uses a regular wide angle lens.

Note how the image on the right has SUPERB depth of field because the tilt shift lens was TILTED into the plane of focus. Image at left uses a reg­u­lar wide angle lens. ‚©D. Wiggett

Note how the lighthouse is straight in the shot at right due to the shift correction on a tilt shift lens

Note how the light­house is straight in the shot at right due to the SHIFT cor­rec­tion on a tilt shift lens. Image at left uses a reg­u­lar wide angle lens. ‚© D. Wiggett

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
Work­shops and photo tours with Dar­win Wiggett
Jay Maisel Doc­u­men­tary for inspi­ra­tion
Show us where you live is the reg­u­lar assign­ment this month on our pho­tog­ra­phy forum
Time (No clocks) is the level 2 assign­ment this month on our pho­tog­ra­phy forum
Nikon’s 24mm tilt shift lens at B&H
Canon’s 24mm tilt shift lens at B&H

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89 — Interview with Joyce Tenneson — Michael Grecco — Notes from Jay Maisel

November 5, 2010 By 5 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #89 fea­tures 2 inter­views that were recorded at the PDN Pho­to­plus Con­fer­ence and Expo in New York last week­end.‚ This con­fer­ence and show hap­pens yearly and is one of the largest photo shows in North Amer­ica. It’s an AWESOME show/conference with all the lat­est prod­ucts and fab­u­lous sem­i­nars from some of the best pho­tog­ra­phers in North Amer­ica. This post/podcast will cover some of the sem­i­nars and other posts will cover some of the products.

Inter­view 1 is with fine art pho­tog­ra­pher Joyce Ten­neson. I’ve been fol­low­ing her work for close to 20 years so it was a real treat to inter­view her. In this inter­view we talk about find­ing a per­sonal style.

Inter­view 2 is with well know por­traitist and celebrity pho­tog­ra­pher Michael Grecco. In this inter­view Michael shares some of his light­ing secrets to achieve a dra­matic portrait.

Finally I share some of the notes that I took in a sem­i­nar led by mas­ter pho­tog­ra­pher Jay Maisel.

Thanks again to Joyce Ten­neson, Michael Grecco and Jay Maisel for allow­ing us to fea­ture their work and for their won­der­ful seminars.

Ingerborg Ten Haeff - From Wise Women ‚© Joyce Tenneson

Inger­borg Ten Haeff — From Wise Women ‚© Joyce Tenneson

Stevie Wonder ‚© Michael Grecco

Ste­vie Won­der ‚© Michael Grecco

A Jay Maisel image exemplifying 'gesture' ‚©Jay Maisel

A Jay Maisel image exem­pli­fy­ing ‘ges­ture’ ‚© Jay Maisel

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
Joyce Ten­neson — fea­ture on Photography.ca
Michael Grecco — fea­ture on Photography.ca
Jay Maisel — fea­ture on Photography.ca
Jay Maisel Doc­u­men­tary
Light tools — for mod­i­fy­ing light
Dynalite kit at B&H
Show us where you live is the reg­u­lar assign­ment this month on our pho­tog­ra­phy forum
Time (No clocks) is the level 2 assign­ment this month on our pho­tog­ra­phy forum

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Thanks to Sean G, Robertv, Shant M, Michael Van der Tol, Ice­Cream­Man and Glenn Euloth who posted a blog com­ment about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board. Most of the links to actual the prod­ucts are affil­i­ate links that help sup­port this site. Thanks in advance if you pur­chase through those links. In the inter­est of full dis­clo­sure, I did not actu­ally pay to go see the sem­i­nars, I had a press pass. That said, if I did not think the sem­i­nars were great, I sim­ply would not have writ­ten about them.

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88 — Rain photography

October 26, 2010 By 9 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #88 talks about rain pho­tog­ra­phy and is based on a sug­ges­tion by Mad Aussie, Thanks MA. ‚ In the pod­cast we talk about how to go about‚ pro­tect­ing your­self and your cam­era so that you can enjoy rain pho­tog­ra­phy. We also talk about sub­ject mat­ter, tech­nique, after the rain cam­era care and we touch on light­ing as well.

Puddle and Reflection by Marko Kulik

Puddle-drop and Reflec­tion by Marko Kulik

Rainsleeve and Flash rainsleeve

Rainsleeve and Flash rainsleeve

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Rainsleeve for your DSLR and flash (at B&H)
Rainsleeve for your DSLR (at B&H)

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87 — Rear curtain sync — front curtain sync in flash photography

September 21, 2010 By 7 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #87‚ talks about the dif­fer­ence between rear cur­tain sync and front cur­tain sync when using flash with your cam­era. Basi­cally when using rear cur­tain sync, the flash fires toward the end of the expo­sure instead of toward the begin­ning of the expo­sure as it nor­mally does. This allows the blur that results from using slow shut­ter speeds to trail behind the sub­ject where it looks nat­ural. When using slow shut­ter speeds, you’ll gen­er­ally need to use a tri­pod. We also go over some basics on com­bin­ing flash with ambi­ent light.

Front curtain sync

Front cur­tain sync — Notice the move­ment trail in front of my hand, it looks unnatural

Rear curtain sync

Rear cur­tain sync — Notice the move­ment trail behind my hand, it looks more natural

Photography mixing flash and ambient light

Wed­ding cen­ter­piece by Dominic Fuiz­zotto — Dominic skill­fully bounces flash to add detail to the flow­ers in this lovely bright image

Links /resources men­tioned in this pod­cast:
Dominic Fuiz­zotto pho­tog­ra­phy — Wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy in Mon­treal
Publicphotography.org — Flickr group — Publicphotography.org — Face­book group

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86 — Inkjet paper review 2 – Museo Silver rag, Portfolio rag – Moab entrada bright

August 27, 2010 By 2 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #86 is the sec­ond? pod­cast devoted to high end inkjet papers and it reviews and dis­cusses 3 of them. I LOVE photo papers (tra­di­tional and dig­i­tal) and I just bought a new Epson 3880 inkjet to test inkjet papers with?.and of course make larger prints.?There?s LOADS of cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ties when you try new inkjet papers so I hope the review of these 3 papers?is use­ful to many listeners/readers.

All 3 of these papers are highly rec­om­mended. Museo Sil­ver rag is a thick (300 GSM) light cream coloured paper with a medium gloss fin­ish and a slight tex­ture. Museo Port­fo­lio rag is a thick (300GSM) matte paper with a cream colour and very slight tex­ture. Moab Entrada 300 bright is a thick (300GSM) dou­ble sided matte paper with a white colour and slight tex­ture. Just as an FYI, if i say a paper has a cream colour, oth­ers may say on first glance, no it’s white. How­ever, take that paper and put it beside some­thing like reg­u­lar plain white laser paper and the creamy base tone is more apparent.

Note as well that the 2 matte papers have opti­cal bright­en­ers in them. I also talk about ICC pro­files again. Here is where they go on your com­puter after you down­load them. MAC= MAC HD > Library > Col­or­Sync > Pro­files
Win­dows PC= C: > Win­dows > Sys­tem 32 > Spool > Dri­vers > Color

Detail from Parisian self por­trait on Museo sil­ver rag — ?Marko Kulik

Parisian self por­trait on Museo sil­ver rag — ?Marko Kulik

Detail from Reflec­tion at Dor­win — 2009 on Museo port­fo­lio rag — ?Marko Kulik

Reflec­tion at Dor­win — 2009 on Museo port­fo­lio rag — ?Marko Kulik

Detail from Parisian self por­trait on Museo port­fo­lio rag — ?Marko Kulik

Parisian self por­trait on Museo port­fo­lio rag — ?Marko Kulik

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Epson 3880 at B&H
Pod­cast 62 — Monitor/printer cal­i­bra­tion
Pod­cast 63 — I1 Extreme and Colour­Munki review & printer dia­logue boxes when print­ing.
Museo Sil­ver rag — Buy Museo sil­ver rag at B&H
Museo Port­fo­lio rag — Buy Museo port­fo­lio rag at B&H
Moab Entrada 300 bright- Buy Moab entrada bright 300 at B&H
Main assign­ment on our pho­tog­ra­phy forum — Min­i­mal­ism
Level 2 assign­ment on our? pho­tog­ra­phy forum — Side­light to cre­ate tex­ture in B/W

Publicphotograpgy.org — Cel­e­brat­ing the rights of pho­tog­ra­phers -?Publicphotography.org — Flickr group — Publicphotography.org — Face­book group

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85 — Inkjet paper review 1 — German etching — Fine art Baryta by Hahnemuhle

July 22, 2010 By 2 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #85 is the first of sev­eral pod­casts that will review and dis­cuss inkjet papers. Let me say it right now, I LOVE photo papers (tra­di­tional and dig­i­tal) and I just bought a new Epson 3880 inkjet to test inkjet papers with.…and of course make larger prints. There’s LOADS of cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ties when you try new inkjet papers so I hope the review of these 2 papers (Ger­man Etch­ing and Fin­eart Baryta by Hah­ne­muhle) is use­ful to many listeners/readers. Both papers are Highly rec­om­mended. Ger­man Etch­ing (310GSM) is a tex­tured matte creamy white paper. Fin­eart Baryta (325 GSM) is a glossy white paper with an ever so slight tex­ture. Ansel Adams called the print ‘the per­for­mance’ and these days there’s tons of paper choices to get your prints to sing.

Detail German Etching

Detail from The Wan­derer II on Ger­man Etch­ing paper by Hah­ne­muhle — ©Marko Kulik

Detail from Steam Vents at VNP

Detail from Steam Vents at VNP — Ger­man Etch­ing paper by Hah­ne­muhle — ©Marko Kulik

Steam Vents at VNP

Steam Vents at VNP — Ger­man Etch­ing Marko Kulik

The Wanderer I

The Wan­derer II — Ger­man Etch­ing — © Marko Kulik

Detail from Snow Pods on Fineart Baryta from Hahnemuhle © Marko Kulik

Detail from Snow Pod on Fin­eart Baryta from Hah­ne­muhle © Marko Kulik

Snow Pods on Fineart Baryta from Hahnemuhle © Marko Kulik

Snow Pod on Fin­eart Baryta from Hah­ne­muhle © Marko Kulik

The wanderer Ion Fineart Baryta from Hahnemuhle

The Wan­derer I — Fin­eart Baryta Hah­ne­muhle © Marko Kulik

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Epson 3880 at B&H
Pod­cast 62 — Monitor/printer cal­i­bra­tion
Pod­cast 63 — I1 Extreme and Colour­Munki review & printer dia­logue boxes when print­ing.
Hah­ne­muhle papers — Hah­ne­muhle ICC pro­files
Hah­ne­muhle Ger­man Etch­ing Paper at B&H
Hah­ne­muhle Fine art Baryta Paper at B&H
Com­ment about back but­ton aut­o­fo­cus on Niko­ni­ans — Thx F8&Bthere!
Tes­ti­mo­ni­als link if you’re feel­ing wordy :)

Publicphotograpgy.org — Cel­e­brat­ing the rights of pho­tog­ra­phers -Publicphotography.org — Flickr group — Publicphotography.org — Face­book group

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Sunset — sunrise — blue hour — golden hour table/calculator

July 6, 2010 By 1 Comment


Use this tool by JekoPhoto to cal­cu­late sun­rise, sun­set, golden hour and blue hour any­where in the world.

Hat tip to moin­moin from our photo forum for this excel­lent find.

Def­i­n­i­tions below taken from http://jekophoto.eu/tools/

“The “Blue Hour” is a mostly short period of time direct before sun­rise and after sun­set. The dura­tion of this out­stand­ing mood of light varies. In the mid­dle euro­pean area the Blue Hour typ­i­cally per­sists between 30 and 50 min­utes. In e.g. more north­ern loca­tions — as Fair­banks (Alaska) or Saint Peters­burg (Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion) it lasts up to 5 or 6 hours. If you are closer to the equa­to­r­ial area the period of time is much less. The name “Blue Hour” comes from the blue col­ored sky. This char­ac­ter­is­tic blue is based on the fact that there is nei­ther full day­light nor com­plete dark­ness as the sun is below the hori­zon. Another impres­sion is the mix­ture of the blue nat­ural and the warm artif­i­cally lights.

The “Golden Hour”, some­times called “Magic Hour” is a time frame shortly after sun­rise and before sun­set. The sun is near the hori­zon and the light, with it’s golden color, is very warm. These facts gives pho­tos more struc­ture and an out­stand­ing mood of light. As the “Blue Hour” the dura­tion of the “Golden Hour” with its spe­cial charme depends on the geo­graphic location. ”

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84 — Back (rear) button autofocusing

July 2, 2010 By 5 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #84 is based on a sin­gle com­ment by Richard from our forum where he men­tions rear-button aut­o­fo­cus to aid in sharp­ness. This tech­nique was devel­oped by Canon about 20 years ago but I first heard of this tech­nique on the MPB pod­cast (link in shownotes — thx for find­ing it for me Mar­tin!) about two and a half years ago. Basi­cally this tech­nique REMOVES aut­o­fo­cus­ing from the shut­ter release but­ton and assigns it to a but­ton on the back of the cam­era. Espe­cially when track­ing a mov­ing sub­ject, this is a great tech­nique and will likely get you more keep­ers. It will also STOP your aut­o­fo­cus from track­ing things that you don’t want it to.

Finger positions for rear button autofocus

Fin­ger posi­tions for rear but­ton autofocus

Ducks

Ducks — Even though ducks are entering/exiting the scene, aut­o­fo­cus is not lost on the cen­tral duck which I was track­ing. The aut­o­fo­cus­ing can­not ‘hunt’ for any other duck because I am track­ing and lock­ing focus on only 1 duck.

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Excel­lent Rear but­ton aut­o­fo­cus arti­cle by Canon
Rear but­ton aut­o­fo­cus dis­cussed on the Mar­tin Bai­ley Pod­cast
July 2010’s — Per­spec­tive and/or Lead­ing lines assign­ment
Publicphotograpgy.org — Cel­e­brat­ing the rights of pho­tog­ra­phers -Publicphotography.org — Flickr group — Publicphotography.org — Face­book group

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Thanks to Jackie Sheen, Jason and Glenn Euloth who posted a blog com­ment about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board.

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83 — Photography 20 steps from your door

June 11, 2010 By 7 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #83 is based on a sug­ges­tion by Casil403 (Thanks Casil!) from our forum. This pod­cast describes the exer­cise of pho­tograph­ing what­ever you want with the restric­tion that it must be 20 steps from your door. This restric­tion forces you to “see”¯¿½ what you are oth­er­wise too busy to see. It’s an excel­lent exer­cise that really gets you to zero in on your sense of sight. Feel free to try this exer­cise for your­self and post the image some­where and link to it in the com­ments for all to see. The pho­tos below are images taken within 20 steps of my own door.

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik

20 steps from my door by Marko Kulik


Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Rain cover for your DSLR and flash (at B&H)
Rain cover for your DSLR (at B&H)
June 2010’s — Motion assign­ment on the Photography.ca forum

Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook

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My Face­book pro­file — Feel free to “friend” me — please just men­tion Photography.ca
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If you are still lurk­ing on our forum,
feel free to join our friendly :) ¯¿½Pho­tog­ra­phy forum

Thanks to Bill Sorensen, Benny, Michael Van der Tol and Kat­rina Chick­loski who posted a blog com­ment about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board.

If you are look­ing at this mate­r­ial on any other site except Photography.ca — Please hop on over to the¯¿½Photography.ca blog and pod­cast and get this and other pho­tog­ra­phy info directly from the source. I¯¿½Sub­scribe with iTunes I¯¿½Sub­scribe via RSS feed I¯¿½Sub­scribe with Google Reader ISub­scribe for free to the Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast — Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email
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82 — Light-painting portraits — Interview with Patrick Rochon

May 20, 2010 By 5 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #82 dis­cusses paint­ing with light AKA light paint­ing with mas­ter light painterPatrick Rochon. In a nut­shell, light paint­ing is (usu­ally) the art of using portable lights like flash­lights to ‘paint’ a sub­ject in a dark envi­ron­ment while the shut­ter stays open on a tri­pod dur­ing a long expo­sure. In this pod­cast Patrick describes and shares some of the tips and tricks he uses to cre­ate his amaz­ing light painted por­traits. The major­ity of Patrick’s body of work, like the image below is non-digital, was shot on film, and has not been Photoshopped.

Patrick Rochon - From the Butoh Dancers Series
Patrick Rochon — From the Butoh Dancers Series

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Pod­cast #8 — Anotherpod­cast on light paint­ing
Patrick Rochon on Photography.ca
Patrick Rochon’s web­site
10 Amaz­ing Light Graf­fiti Artists and Pho­tog­ra­phers
Light paint­ing group on Flickr
May 2010’s — Vin­tage assign­ment on the Photography.ca forum

Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook

If you liked this pod­cast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page

My Face­book pro­file — Feel free to “friend” me — please just men­tion Photography.ca
My Twit­ter page — I will fol­low you if you fol­low me — Let’s con­nect — PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don’t rec­i­p­ro­cate because I think you are a spammer.

If you are still lurk­ing on our forum,
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Thanks toJack Label who posted a blog com­ment about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board.

If you are look­ing at this mate­r­ial on any other site except Photography.ca — Please hop on over to thePhotography.ca blog and pod­cast and get this and other pho­tog­ra­phy info directly from the source. ISub­scribe with iTunes ISub­scribe via RSS feed ISub­scribe with Google Reader ISub­scribe for free to the Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast — Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email
You can down­load this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast directly by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player below.

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80 — Clean your camera’s sensor — cleaning camera lenses

March 30, 2010 By 8 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #80 talks about how to clean your DSLR camera’s sen­sor. It describes the wet tech­nique and the dry tech­nique and it’s not as scary as it seems. We also talk about how to clean your camera’s mir­ror as well as clean­ing cam­era lenses and gen­eral cam­era care.

Cleaning cameras lenses and camera sensors

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Orig­i­nal sug­ges­tion thread for this pod­cast from our pho­tog­ra­phy forum
The vis­i­ble dust web­site — Cam­era and cam­era sen­sor clean­ing prod­ucts
The Cop­per­hill Method of sen­sor clean­ing — They sell clean­ing kits and prod­ucts as well
Sen­sorKlear by Lenspen demo on Youtube
Cam­era and cam­era sen­sor clean­ing sup­plies at B&H
Lenspen Sen­sorKlear to clean cam­era sen­sors at B&H
Air blower at B&H
March 2010’s Light and Shadow assign­ment on the Photography.ca forum
Hat tip to pho­tog­ra­pher Dominic Fuiz­zotto for his insight on sen­sor cleaning.

Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook

If you liked this pod­cast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page

My Face­book pro­file — Feel free to “friend” me — please just men­tion Photography.ca
My Twit­ter page — I will fol­low you if you fol­low me — Let’s con­nect — PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don’t rec­i­p­ro­cate because I think you are a spammer.

If you are still lurk­ing on our forum,
feel free to join our friendly :) Pho­tog­ra­phy forum

Thanks to Jimmy Brown,  Wicked­dark, jack label, Fortytwo and Zenon5940 who posted a blog com­ment about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board.

If you are look­ing at this mate­r­ial on any other site except Photography.ca — Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and pod­cast and get this and other pho­tog­ra­phy info directly from the source. I Sub­scribe with iTunes I Sub­scribe via RSS feed I Sub­scribe with Google Reader I Sub­scribe for free to the Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast — Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email
You can down­load this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast directly by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player below.

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80 — Clean your camera’s sensor — cleaning camera lenses

March 30, 2010 By 8 Comments

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #80 talks about how to clean your DSLR camera’s sen­sor. It describes the wet tech­nique and the dry tech­nique and it’s not as scary as it seems. We also talk about how to clean your camera’s mir­ror as well as clean­ing cam­era lenses and gen­eral cam­era care.

Cleaning cameras lenses and camera sensors

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Orig­i­nal sug­ges­tion thread for this pod­cast from our pho­tog­ra­phy forum
The vis­i­ble dust web­site — Cam­era and cam­era sen­sor clean­ing prod­ucts
The Cop­per­hill Method of sen­sor clean­ing — They sell clean­ing kits and prod­ucts as well
Sen­sorKlear by Lenspen demo on Youtube
Cam­era and cam­era sen­sor clean­ing sup­plies at B&H
Lenspen Sen­sorKlear to clean cam­era sen­sors at B&H
Air blower at B&H
March 2010’s Light and Shadow assign­ment on the Photography.ca forum
Hat tip to pho­tog­ra­pher Dominic Fuiz­zotto for his insight on sen­sor cleaning.

Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook

If you liked this pod­cast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page

My Face­book pro­file — Feel free to “friend” me — please just men­tion Photography.ca
My Twit­ter page — I will fol­low you if you fol­low me — Let’s con­nect — PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don’t rec­i­p­ro­cate because I think you are a spammer.

If you are still lurk­ing on our forum,
feel free to join our friendly :) Pho­tog­ra­phy forum

Thanks to Jimmy Brown,‚ Wicked­dark, jack label, Fortytwo and Zenon5940 who posted a blog com­ment about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board.

If you are look­ing at this mate­r­ial on any other site except Photography.ca — Please hop on over to the Photography.ca blog and pod­cast and get this and other pho­tog­ra­phy info directly from the source. I Sub­scribe with iTunes I Sub­scribe via RSS feed I Sub­scribe with Google Reader I Sub­scribe for free to the Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast — Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email
You can down­load this pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast directly by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player below.

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