Photography News: Leica SL3-S Announced, Nikon January Sale

Posted on January 19, 2025 by ShutterBug

Some old photography “rules” are hard to kill. That was apparent to me yesterday afternoon when I went out cross-country skiing (rather foolishly carrying a full camera backpack, my Z9, and my tripod along). The rule in question? Not shooting into the sun! As I took the photo below, a woman walked up to me and asked what I could possibly be photographing. She wasn’t a photographer, but she certainly knew the age-old rule about never shooting into the sun. But with modern lens coatings, I find that shooting into the sun can lead to lovely silhouettes and moody photos. So to kick off this week’s photography news, I leave you with the photo below.
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Using Off-Camera Flash for Nature Photography

Posted on January 19, 2025 by ShutterBug

Nature, by its very essence, is unpredictable – sometimes I even feel it’s downright mischievous. You’ve surely experienced this yourself: The very essence of photography, the light, is also photography’s greatest challenge. Sometimes too little, sometimes too much, and sometimes simply boring. There may not be a perfect solution to difficult light, but you can often tackle it quite effectively with the use of off-camera flashes.
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Ends Tomorrow – B&H Deal Zone Sales

Posted on January 16, 2025 by ShutterBug

Normally, I inform you about good deals and new sales in my regular Photography News article. This time, however, I am making an exception because last Sunday was too early and next Sunday will be too late! Today I received a message from our affiliates at B&H Photo about a short but major sale. I’ve scanned the items in the Photography section and picked out what I personally found interesting (see below). More discounts await you in the Drones, Computers, and Lighting sections. This sale also includes 1600 items that were previously on B&H’s 24-hour “deal zone” sale, re-published at the sale price. It ends on January 16 at 11:59 PM EDT.
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Maroon Bells in 4K and 8K

Posted on January 14, 2025 by ShutterBug

As I was going through the pains of reducing my photo storage, it was a fun experience to go back to my early work and see if there was anything worth keeping. While deleting a large collection of panoramic images, I found a couple that I ended up saving. Interestingly, I realized that at the time I was taking these photos, Lightroom had no panorama capabilities to create a single DNG image out of RAW shots (I used PTGui and Photoshop at the time). So I selected a few vertical panoramic shots captured at different shutter speeds (obviously, I had no idea how to capture panoramas at the time) and let Lightroom do its magic.
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Dealing with Photo Storage Pains

Posted on January 13, 2025 by ShutterBug

Over the holidays, I finally decided to start a thorough clean-up of my Lightroom catalog and images. Many years of shooting resulted in accumulation of almost 400 thousand images and videos in original formats, and I got tired of trying to keep my data backed up and synced between different storage solutions. I glanced at some of the photos in my Lightroom catalogs and realized that between personal and commercial work I have done over the years, most of the images I have been keeping are likely never going to be touched again. So what is the point of keeping them in the first place? It was time for a massive purge…
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