Hope For Those With Poor Vision

"Those with poor vision" in the title refers to the optically challenged who negotiate their view of the world through not only a viewfinder, but visual aids. There is room in photography for those of all perspectives and skills. Perhaps not enough to sustain everybody financially but that is another story. Adam Williams posted a link today to a great article which claims that razor sharp clarity and technical proficiency are not always enough to create a magnificent image. Written by David duChemin, a world & humanitarian assignment photographer it promotes what the sensible have always known and the pixel peepers should learn.

https://davidduchemin.com/

           

Is Facebook 2 Faced ?

 

Read some great Fstoppers advice from Dani Diamond for critically evaluating the credibility of Groups on FB and some helpful guidelines.  Because groups are comprised of humans one must expect some nefarious behaviour to creep into the occasional interactions. Most people will have an agenda of sorts, a motivation for joining the group. I am thrilled to have discovered the Focus - Australian Seascape And Landscape Photography group on both FB and Flickr. Although the group's original focus was primarily seascapes the interests and skills of the members are widespread. There appear to be no cliques, and to date I've seen no evidence of nitpicking or inappropriate comments. Although there is some occasional evidence of blatant self promotion. I believe this is unfortunately considered to be a necessity in this social media powered world in which we live. 

The group is dynamic and a large proportion of the members are very active. Above all else, it is an educational group where people are happy to share their skills, advice and recommendations. I've made some great friends and you're always assured of a shooting buddy.

Back Button Autofocus

Have heard about this before but didnt take the time to try and understand it. Decided to research it a tad before experimenting and perhaps losing a decent shot :-(

The advantages of using this function.

Back-button AF is engaged by setting the appropriate Custom Function in your EOS camera.  Custom Functions are totally locked-out if you’re in the full-auto or a picture-icon setting.

The particular Custom Function number varies, depending on the EOS model in question.

EOS Rebel T3: C.Fn 7 (option 1 or 3)

EOS Rebel T3i: C.Fn 9 (option 1 or 3)

EOS Rebel T4i: C.Fn 6 (option 1 or 3)

EOS 60D: C.Fn IV-1 (option 1, 2, 3, or 4)

EOS 7D: C.Fn IV-1 (Custom Controls — Shutter, AF-ON, AEL buttons)

EOS 6D: C.Fn III-5 (Custom Controls -- Shutter, AF-ON, AEL buttons)

EOS 5D Mark II: C.Fn IV-1 (option 2 or 3)

EOS 5D Mark III: C.Fn menu screen 2 (Custom Controls -- Shutter,

Flipped Out

One of my photog friends has been experimenting with Flipagram, an app which merges still images and adds a soundtrack to create a video like clip. I thought I'd give it a test run and was reasonably happy with the possibilities. It has some great music tracks for free with a 30 second limit which is ample. It would be a great way to record some memories of locations and could be immediately uploaded.

My first effort was a few pretty lacklustre shots of the waves at Yena 

Had great fun creating one of the boys changing a tyre down on the Bombo photoshoot.

Unfortunately the image quality degrades a bit but its still a memory of the event

Photography For Complete Dummies

Advances in technology may make it possible for everyone to have perfectly focused shots ALL the time. Based on “light field” technology explored in research by Lytro CEO Ren Ng from Stanford University, the camera captures all of the light rays streaming into a camera from a scene–from every visible point in the foreground to every point in the background.

Therefore, after loading the photo onto a computer, it can be focused to any point in the picture.See it in action at lytro