Category Archives: tutorial

Holiday 2013 Camera Recommendations!

Are you looking to purchase a camera this holiday season?  Here are my recommendations! I’m a canon guy so I’m only recommending canon.  But other brands of cameras work well too.  Click here to see Amazon’s top selling cameras.   The canon sx280 is selling for around $200.   It’s 12 megapixels, it’s lens’ wide […]

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3 Steps To Better Inanimate Object Photos

One of our blog readers The Moldy Cannoli asked us how to take beter photos of inanimate objects for blog posts.  If you look on her blog, her photos look good already.  But here are some tips for others that might be useful.   The other day Jess found a snail shell outside, so I’m going to use […]

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Protect Your Camera From DUST

Honolulu Color Run  Saturday Jess ran in the Honolulu Color Run.  I took our Canon S100 point and shoot to document.  I didn’t think it through very well…  8 TONS of color.  That means 8 tons of colored cornstarch filling the air.   The photo above was one of the last photos I took before my camera […]

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Shut the BEEP UP!

Emily from my school of photography.  Want to know a simple way to improve your photography?   Mute the volume on your camera so that when you turn it on, it does not make that annoying start up sound and won’t beep every time your camera focuses.    Silencing the beep will help you get better photos. […]

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The One Photography Accessory You DON’T Need!

Mike Shoemaker | Ellicott City, MD I recently did the tourist thing with our first visitor here in Hawaii.  I saw a lot of cameras during this time. Here is ONE accessory that you don’t need. Can you guess what it is? Your LENS CAP!* But… it protects my lens! Buy a good uv filter and keep that […]

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