Imagine that you’re on a beautiful beach and you see an unusual bird fly towards you. The sun is low in the sky and golden light washes over delicately patterned wings. You raise your camera, unsure of what settings to use. When you get back home, you realize the shots are blurry and overexposed – and worse, the pictures have just enough detail to identify the bird as a Far Eastern Curlew, a species you’ve been trying to photograph for years. How can you avoid this disaster?
Photography Life
Today Nikon officially unveiled its first super telephoto prime for the Z mount system, the Nikon Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S. Although we’ve known about this lens through a development announcement back in October of 2021, there was no detailed information provided, including its specifications and price. Now that the beast is out, many of our suspicious have been confirmed – this is the best super telephoto prime we have seen for any mirrorless system.
Photography Life
“Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.” This line from an old nursery rhyme has popped into my head many times over the years growing up in the soggy Pacific Northwest. It came to mind again when I arrived at North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway to photograph autumn and was greeted by dreary clouds dropping lots of moisture. I prefer the comfort of warm and dry weather and at first was bummed about the drizzle, but my fall photography shoot worked out better than I hoped – not just in spite of the rain but actually because of it.
Photography Life
One of our favorite and longest running traditions in Click Community is our forum photo contest! In last month’s contest our community shared images that embodied the theme “in the city” and we can’t wait for you to see this collection of our favorites.
Congratulations to Zephyre Hood for her winning image (above)! Zephyre won a self paced course of her choice from Click Photo School!
You can win, too! Enter this month’s forum photo contest with your take on the theme “DAY IN THE LIFE” for a chance to be featured here on the Click Community Blog and win a self paced course of your choice!
But first, please enjoy this collection of some of our very favorite and inspiring images from this past month:
Do you want a chance for your work to be featured on the Click Community blog and to be eligible to win a seat in a Click Photo School self guided course?
And if you’re not yet a member of Click Community, we’d LOVE to have you come join us! As a member, you get access to photography tutorials, video demos, Q&A threads, image critiques, photo challenges and contests like this one, and so much more! Become a member today!
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Can’t wait for the spring for many reasons, like better weather and better news on the travel front, but mostly because of a new workshop in beautiful California Wine Country with Liza Politi and Ari Espay.
First week is sold out, so May 1 – May 7 dates were added by request for a second week.
So happy about this workshop! I’ve kidded with our participants over email that we can sit on a beautiful veranda overlooking a luscious landscape, cameras on tripods, an auto-bracket programmed, radio remote in one hand, glass of wine in the other!
Kidding. We will work hard as we always do. We’ll be out in the field early and late, embracing the best light the day has to offer, and then in class, editing, critiquing, and evaluating. These workshops are all involving, and the aim is to collectively push the photo needle out of established comfort zones into new ways of shooting and seeing. There will be landscape shooting aplenty, mixed with portraiture, detail work, flash work, street shooting (when we meet in San Francisco), editing skills, and class discussions.
And…..book discussions! My new book, The Real Deal, will be well out by then, and my editor at Rocky Nook, Ted Waitt, has promised to come by for at least one of the weeks to sit with the class and discuss the process of making and publishing a photo book.
We’ll do all that in a phenomenally beautiful area of the world. After gathering for a brief stint in San Fran, we head north over the Golden Gate into the miracle of wine country.
Workshop Registration here. A few slots left in the second week. Making pictures in a wonderful place, and reviving that wonderful spirit of being together as a group and pursuing what we love to do. The relaxed nature of where we will be lends itself to beautiful light, pictures of the land and of people, and the sharing aspects of workshops. Great way to start Spring ’22!
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