Winter is often regarded as the doldrums for nature and wildlife photographers here in Michigan. Despite the unusually warm weather this year, opportunities for outdoor photography have been quite limited, often resulting in gloomy two-hour long outings in the wild yielding little more than a few images of withered brown leaves, and maybe a squirrel or two.
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Coffee on the table, down jacket, and hat. In the room where I’ve just opened my computer, it’s barely 38 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius). The fire behind my back started crackling cozily just a few moments ago. Slowly and reluctantly, the spruce logs are beginning to release the solar energy they have been storing for decades through photosynthesis. Outside the windows, the newly born February has realized what January irresponsibly ignored and has begun to shower my cabin with large flakes of snow. The birds outside the windows are taking away, seed by seed, the sunflowers I have scattered for them. And I, at a pace similar to theirs, letter by letter, add to the first Photography News of the month.
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A pen tablet can be an amazing control interface for editing photos, especially with Photoshop. But with the variety of pen tablets available, choosing the right one can feel like a guessing game. Today, I’ll review two options from XPPen’s lineup, both featuring their latest X3 chip for 16K pressure level sensitivity. Is either tablet worth adding to your setup? This review of the Deco Pro and Artist Pro 14 will answer your questions.
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“Urban wildlife.” Put together, those two words sound like a contradiction. Something like a “square circle,” “hot ice,” or “honest politician.” But cities really are full of life, and not the just two-legged kind of hairless primates. There is also a wide variety of animals to photograph. I recently returned from one of the cradles of civilization, Rome, in search of urban wildlife – camera in hand, of course.
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It’s been apparent for a while that Nikon and Canon have all but killed off the DSLR. Recent reports of Nikon shutting down their F-Mount assembly lines may have been greatly exaggerated, but with each passing year, the odds that we see a new Nikon or Canon DSLR (or even a DSLR lens) are dwindling to zero. Apparently Pentax is still hanging around, and good for them, but the Big Two manufacturers of the DSLR already packed up their suitcases years ago.
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