Nature Photography Tips

Somewhere between the grand vista and panorama on the one hand, and the realm of macro and close-up imagery on the other, lies the intimate landscape….

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Last week I wrote about tripod bags and have since been asked about camera bags. This is a subject I haven’t written much about before, but let’s take it head on this week….

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Owning a good quality tripod doesn’t come cheap. But if you want to get the best images you can, it’s pretty much a given that you need one. So the question I want to explore today is, what about protecting that investment?….

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There once was a time that, if a camera or flash used batteries at all, it was powered by one or more trusty 1.5 volt AA (LR6 in some parts of the world) cells. More and more though, equipment manufacturers seem to be converting to either proprietary, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries or else the new fangled CR123A cell. But while AA batteries were cheap and readily available, it’s a bit harder to find good deals on quality CR123A batteries….

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These days, almost all applications include some form of support for basic Undo and Redo operations. Some provide more than others, but it’s almost expected to have at least something. With its History Panel, Adobe Photoshop excels at Undo / Redo but very few of us take full advantage of its capabilities….

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Wacom recently released their new line of Intuos4 graphics tablets. After getting one to try out, I must say, I like it. A lot….

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If you had dust spots, one of the first things you used to have to do is use the Spot Healing brush to get rid of them. But if you haven’t tried it yet, getting rid of dust spots on an image has gotten a bit easier as of the release of Adobe Camera Raw 5.2. You can now clean things up as part of the raw conversion process….

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Windows comes as both a traditional 32-bit application and a 64-bit version for systems with the processor and operating system to run 64-bits. I recently upgraded to a Quad core 3.0 GHz Q9650 system with 8 GB RAM running 64-bit Windows Vista. If you’re curious what I think of 64-bit Photoshop, read on….

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Not everything plays nice with Microsoft Vista, especially the 64-bit version. That much is a given. But sometimes clever people come up with ways to get things to work anyway. That’s what this week’s PhotoTips article is about. Specifically, I’d like to pass on how some Google searching helped me get my Nikon Super CoolScan LS-4000 ED scanner to work on 64-bit Vista….

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There are lots of keyboard shortcuts built into Adobe Photoshop and there’s no way I could list them all here, even if I wanted to. I don’t even use most of them, but there are some I couldn’t live without. Here’s a brief rundown of some of my favorites….

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