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Subscribe to Email Updates Ooooooh Scary My Grand Daughter designed while I carved this Ghastly pumpkin and then asked if I would "Please GrandPa, put this on your blog". How can you resist a Grand Daughter? So here you go. These are the ones she chose. They are in order of her choice and they are sized as she chose them to be.   When I asked her how she wanted her pumpkin carved she said, "I want it scary GrandPa". Ok sweetheart here's my scary carving. Tonight she and her parents are hunting sweets while GrandPa is home waiting for the spoils of victory. Good luck Sweetheart. Subscribe to Email Updates

  Subscribe to ShootingOutside by Email Free Photo Questions Answered Today If you have a photography question, you can ask me here in the Comments Section below. I'll do my best at answering them  within a day, but I will limit the time this is available, and there may be times when I'll send you to a link where I've located your answer if I am really busy. And don't fear asking tough questions. The basis for most tough photography techniques is grounded in simple science, even if the image comes out looking artsy. So fire away on subjects ranging from Photoshop, shooting mechanics, lens and camera use and settings, white balance, portrait, macro, memory card, hard disc drives, computer set up for photography use, RAID storage and backup etc. But be quick as time runs out at midnight, tonight. Subscribe to ShootingOutside by Email

   Google+ this Post    Fall a Good Time to Backup and Cleanup Drives Subscribe to Email Updates For whatever reason I started a long time ago, going through a full scale backup and cleanup of all of my image files. Its a good time of year for me as the lack of warm weather allows for some indoors file management. Perhaps you too can begin this habit.   Accidents Do Happen We don't want an accidental loss. once a hard drive dies, it does so in a complete and total way, in some cases. If the loss occurs because of platter or drive head damage, temperature limits, or any other type of internal failure, and you haven't taken the time to back up your data, in this case photography, you'll find yourself wishing you had kept a regular backup procedure in the works all year long. All of your data will be forever lost. I have a habit of doing a synchronous backup, that is files which are new or have had any changes made by a photo editor such as Photoshop or Li

  Google + this Post Subscribe to Shooting Outside by Email     Something Altogether New Believe it or not I've haven't used Lightroom and don't see why I should. But perhaps you have or want to . This write up is a beginners course, if you will and I'll be learning as well as we go along. Before we get started, you should know that Matt Kloskowski is offering a free look at Lightroom this week FREE for registered members . Better hurry, only today and tomorrow left. Lightroom is Designed For? When looking at what the top feature us of Lightroom is, some will say it is the RAW management capabilities, others might tell you it is it's minimalistic features which speed up the editing process vs Photoshop, while others may mention the simple file management. Cnet did a review (Lori Grunin) on 06/09/2013 giving it 4 out of 5 stars. Within the normal Good, Bad and bottom Line descriptions she includes,  The good: Adobe's latest version of

Google+ this Post   Subscribe to Email Updates A Bit Controversial, but "That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It". Who took the first lightfast photograph? Well as far as I'm concerned it was Henry Fox Talbot. He achieved the first lightfast photo. Lightfast is the ability of any photograph, in this case, to be able to hold the image, be it black and white or color, in the presence of light. All attempts before Mssr Talbot failed to be lightfast. In other words, they faded away. Henry's lasted.  Here is his 1835 positive of     Latticed window at lacock abbey Rough Crude and Full of Noise   Obviously this was not in focus. His whole purpose was to develop the technology titled Calotype, or Talbotype, which ending outflanking the technology known as Daguerreotype in that era in causing prints to last. This is really where hanging prints on a wall or placing them in frames all started.  He used silver iodide, instead of silver chlori

Google + this Post Subscribe to Email Updates Otterbox Has Done it This Time From what Otterboxclaims you can now have a a completely sealed iPhone case. To me that means if I'm swimming I can now create underwater stills and movies. That is gonna sell a lot of Otterbox cases. Here is their official line. Actually it's good down to 6.6' of water depth so maybe no diving. Two-piece case with snap assembly for easy installation Internal foam cushions device and holds it in place inside the case Includes an adjustable lanyard for convenient carrying and tethering Waterproof: fully submergible up to 6.6 ft. (2 m) for 30 minutes (IP-X8) Drop proof: protects device from drops up to 6.6 ft. (2 m) Dust proof: blocks entry of dust and debris particles (IP-6X) The other feature is there is as you can see above, a layer of internal foam for drop protection, as is the case with many of the Otterbox cases. There simply is no other way to go. I'll admit, I do

 Google + this Post Subscribe to Email Updates There are 5 key settings which can make you a Much Better Photographer        Why Are You Still Shooting in Auto Mode? _______________Go Manual Mode If you're one of those, and admit it if you are, who just want to get the shot and share it, fine. Just keep using that auto mode and sharing to your heart's delight. It's fast and a lot of fun to toss those cute shots up on all the most popular social sites we all know so well. Everybody does it. And there is nothing wrong with it and no reason to stop. Or is there? If there's nagging little niggle in the back of your head that keeps tugging at a desire to get on track to better shots, remember the five adjustments you need to become familiar with. And we begin this discussion with your camera in the Manual Mode. As we go through these know that when adjusting one of these, Exposure, Aperture and Shutter Speed it automatically adjusts another.   W

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Heard of whil? Maybe it's Time Subscribe to Email Updates     Preface to say this has nothing at all do with photography and yet everything to do with photography. How? You'll see. What on earth is whil anyway? Well it may be something or it may be nothing at all. That's up to you. Ever feel like for all the time you spend online socializing, uploading photos, commenting, blogging, tagging, reading, comparing, G+'ing, Liking, Twitting, Meetupping, FBing, and whatever else you are doing, is taking a toll on you? Add that to your daily schedule, whether it's school or work, traffic or life's rough moments, it all adds up to whole lot of pressure and STRESS.  I just found this whil from a story I was reading this morning and there is no denying it. whil, either is now, or will become necessary and beneficial soon to all of us who spend time online. And if you haven't heard of whil, you soon will. And here's why. The founders of  lululemon at

Subscribe by Email  Product Advisory on Charger and battery Pack  Have you had this happen? You plug in your charger, insert the battery pack and you see orange light flashing rapidly? The charger needs to be reset or your battery pack, specifically the LP_E6 won't accept a charge. If after following the instructions below, contact Support Center, below, and they'll send you a shipping label, test it, and if it fails replace it at no charge, that is if it fails for them. If it does not fail, you may incur a charge, so go through the motions before sending. Affected Product Canon LP-E6 Battery Pack when used with the Canon LC-E6 Charger (Compatible with Canon EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 6D, EOS 7D, EOS 70D, EOS 60D, EOS 60Da) Symptom In rare cases, the orange lamp on the Canon Battery Charger LC-E6 will blink rapidly at regular intervals when the Canon Battery Pack LP-E6 is inserted. In such cases, charging the Canon Battery Pack LP-E6 in the Canon

Your Choices are Limited You have decided you need a new memory card. Perhaps you feel you need an extra card or more, to take with you on a shoot. Or maybe you want a larger card so you don't have to change them out as often. Or you have always wanted to get a faster card. No matter the need, it is time to select one and wow is it confusing when you do a search. But before we delve into that how do you know which card to purchase? Whether you have a new camera or last years model, or a 10 year old DSLR, you need to know which flash memory cards your camera body is compatible with. A recent conversation I had with a Lexar chat agent helped my decision, (well sort of) on buying a super fast card. I asked if their fast cards would work on my camera, a Canon 5D MarkII. The card I was inquiring about was their 800x Professional Compact Flash card. Why would one have to ask about this card? Well it seems a lot of us make an assumption that simply because we have a new or fairly n