Spring was showing so I was wondering around the yard taking pictures of flowers, but they were mostly in the shade, so I tried adding my own light with wonderful, natural results! I used my Panasonic GX8 camera with a Canon 550EX flash on manual with a Yongnuo flash trigger to get it off the […]
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Having trouble finding the Panasonic GX-8 User Manual PDF to download? Well HERE it is! Download it and learn all about your new camera. It’s a shame they didn’t include a full printed manual with the camera. 🙁
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Here are some good resources on wolves I have found. livingwithwolves.org — the site about Jim and Jamie Dutcher, who are in the video below and lived with the Sawtooth wolf pack for 6 years. The video documentary “Living with Wolves” (YouTube removed it, but you can buy the DVD on Amazon! National Geographic’s “Gray Wolf Family
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Here’s a good, pretty simple video on how to use that crazy histogram on your camera or in your photo editing program. Many people say to “shoot to the right” which means lean towards a lighter exposure, which would have that hump nearer the right side. (this applies to RAW files that you will post
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This is a great post on keeping the best image quality during your post processing of images! It shows how to reduce banding or fix banding if you already have it. Why to edit with smart layers and in 16 bit vs. 8 bit in Photoshop and some noise reduction. Good stuff! Read More
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Depending on your zoo/nature preserve, you’ll be shooting through the fence, bars, or a window of some sort. (probably thick plexiglass type stuff) If you are lucky you will have a clear shot over whatever is keeping the animal contained and can ignore most of this, but that probably won’t be the case most of
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