Create your own flash based portfolio website

I have recently revamped my own photography website using a great free website builder called Wix. It allows you to build flash based website using simple templates and drag and drop components, resulting in a very professional slick looking site and no knowledge of difficult techie code needed. Import photos direct from your Flickr account or PC with ease and host the finished website on wix or on your own hosting website. Very simple to use and I have to say, with only a few hours spent setting the templates up, I got a very professional looking portfolio to showcase my photography! Take a look!

Two Factors for Perfect Focus...

Informative article from Digital Photography School on how to achieve picture-perfect focus.

Lens Repair Data 3.0 from Lens Rentals

It has become our practice to publish our lens repair data every 6 months.

We started it at the request of some customers who felt the large number of lenses we deal with and the harsh conditions they are subjected to provided an opportunity to get some factual data about which lenses hold up the best and which are more fragile.

...Check out Here

Tip of the Iceberg by thom

Think camera bodies are expensive? Think again.

Why we've reached the end of the camera megapixel race

Olympus Imaging's Akira Watanabe says 12 megapixels is enough for most users. Ars thinks he's on to something...Read Article Here

Shutter speed chart

Quick and Dirty Chart Here

Giz Explains: Why More Megapixels Isn't Always More Better

And when it comes to print quality—that old argument for extra megapixels—for most of the shooting the average person does, 6 megapixels is just fine.

Read Article Here

Diagonal Method in photography

The Rule of Thirds and the Diagonal Method in photography Here

Nikkor MF Zoom lenses - 80-200mm f/4.0

Picked one up for $105 to hold me for a bit till I can save up for the Nikon 80-200 f2.8

I find it has great sharpness and nice Bokeh.


Read about at mir.com

And am quite happy with this classic lens on the cheap.



My Test shots

Depth of Field Calculator

From DOFMaster

The Photographic Eye from B&H

How Our Eyes See vs. How Our Cameras See

By Allan Weitz

The human eye, with support from the brain (the fastest CPU on the planet), visually reconstructs our surroundings in real-time as we go about our days and nights.

Describing the human eye and how it interprets the world around us in terms of camera optics is a tricky process to explain, and that's before we even get to the 'how does it compare to my camera' part of the story.... Full Article Here

Nikon SB800 & SB600 AF-TTL Speedlight

The Manual redux on big Web pages much more readable and can be printed out like I done.

Be sure to check print preview before printing as the last couple of pages do not need to be printed for each section. I ended up with 35 pages total for all sections.....See it Here

Manual on Nikon SB600 AF-TTL Speedlight...Here

Need a Zoom Lens..?

MF Nikkor Super telephoto Zoom lense 1200-1700mm f/5.6~8.0s P ED IF

Birdies!...Beware!

You know you want it.. Read about here.


Comments:

bazzen said...

Wow, looks like a cannon to me. With weight of 16kg, need a lot of muscle to mingle and move it around.

May 5, 2008 5:51 PM

9 Creatively Camera-Free Photographers [30 Photos]

Written by Delana on November 6th, 2008

Looking at some of the most impressive contemporary photography, it’s easy to believe that sophisticated equipment is necessary. Thoughts of prohibitively expensive cameras and all of the other trappings of professional photography have dissuaded plenty of would-be photographers over the years. But amazing images have been made for centuries without any help from cameras using creatively strange pinhole and photogram photography techniques....Check it out Here

Pixel Fixer - Software for Raw images.

Remove hot pixels from raw files

Hot pixels (sometimes called stuck pixels) appear as brightly coloured spots in your images. They are often more noticeable with slow shutter speeds or high ISO settings.

Given the location of these hot pixels, Pixel Fixer can automatically remove them from the raw data in one or more raw files. Dead pixels (pixels that always appear black) can also be removed by Pixel Fixer.

Check it out Here

Nikon SLR Camera - Lens Compatability

From the Nikonians..Here

Strobist

Become a Master Flasher!
Great site for learning Lighting and how to Flash Here

D40/x/D60 Club Wiki

Welcome to the wiki for the Flickr Nikon D40/D40X and D60 User Club. Here you'll hopefully find information that'll help you get started with you new camera, or learn more about its advanced features...

Check it out Here

Welcome to dxomark.com (beta)

DxO Labs created dxomark.com for members of the digital photographic community who are passionate about image quality – professional photographers, advanced amateurs, photography reviewers and imaging media journalists.

While other websites publish information about JPEG image quality, only DxO Labs provides the first publicly-accessible database of objective and in-depth RAW sensor image quality measurements.
Read more

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Geavity - Create Gear list

What is Geavity? Why does the world need Geavity?

Geavity is the first social site focused on photography gears. Using Geavity, you can create gear profile, see what your friends are using, get and give recommendations for what to use and buy and even share your opinion on a gear with friends and the Geavity community.

Also they have a create widget to use in your Flickr profile or Blog.

Check them out Here