Top 5 Christmas Gifts for a Nikon Photographer

AWWA    Gadgets and Stuff, Photography     Christmas, gift, list, nikon, photographer, wish

1. For the proud Nikon shooter. Nikonians T-Shirt $14.95

2. Get your color spot on with shooting RAW.
A digital grey card for White Balance -WhitBal G6 Studio White Balance Gray Card $37.00
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Crack the Cover

Dale Hogan    Photography     Manual, Photography, tips

A little reading time can go a long way to making you a much more effective photographer.  It’s amazing to me how quickly we will part with all kinds of cash for the latest gear but refuse to even crack the cover of the manual that comes with it.  OK, go get your camera manual & camera right now.  Find a nice comfortable spot to sit and start reading.  Take your time and try the different setting adjustments mentioned (that’s why I said get your camera too).  When you’re done, that means you’ve read the entire manual cover to cover, put it in your camera bag.  There are a number of settings and features that you just won’t use every time you have your camera out, so having the manual with you in your camera bag can really save the day.  Why are you still reading this?  Stop reading right now!  Go get your manual and camera.  I said, DO NOT READ THIS ANY FURTHER!
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Looking at the Camera More Engaging to Stock Buyers?

David Gilder    Design and Development, Photography     Advertising, Copy, design, Microstock, Models, Photography, Sales Trends, Stock Photography, Text

Rahul Pathak over at LookStat (a multi-stock agency statistical analysis webtool) has put together some information about whether or not it is more engaging to have the models looking at the camera, or looking away. He looked at sales trends between images of senior citizens, comparing images where the models were looking at the camera to those where the models were looking at each other or off into the distance. His results were very surprising.
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Free Photo Masterclasses

AWWA    Cool Links, Photography     classes, free, learning, Photography, training, tutorials, wildlife

Advice from the experts online. These lessons are geared towards wildlife and outdoor shooting. Here’s the link to the classes that are free. The classes are in pdf form and grouped by topic. Photo Masterclasses

Reverse Image Search with Tineye.com

DavidM    Cool Links, Gadgets and Stuff, Photography     image, Photography, reverse, search, tineye

Tineye.com is a reverse image look up tool that allows you to find other occurrences of an image on the web. Visit the site and you can upload an image or link to a URL to search but the easiest way is to install the Firefox or Chrome plugin and just right click over any image online to select “Search Image on Tineye”. What is really impressive is it’s ability to find variations of the same image.

I often use this to find some of my more popular stock images or locate larger versions of product shots.

Market Pricing for Nikon Compatible Lenses

AWWA    Cool Links, Photography     Amazon, current, lenses, nikon, Photography, prices

This is current pricing for Nikon compatible lenses (includes Nikkors and 3rd-party). It runs off an Amazon widget so should be current.

Camera Metering

AWWA    Cool Links, Photography     incident light, light, metering, Photography, reflected light, understanding

Understanding camera metering. Incident and reflected light explained.

Nikon Lenses Link Collection

AWWA    Cool Links, Photography     3rd party lenses, lenses, links, nikon, Photography, ratings, resources, reviews

Nikon reviews, ratings, 3rd-party lenses. This is a large collection of links.

Nikon Lens Compatibility

AWWA    Cool Links, Photography     chart, compatibility, lens, lenses, meanings, nikon, nomenclature, Photography

Here’s a chart to show how Nikkor lenses match up to their bodies for functionality. Check out the nomenclature designations, e.g.,  AF, AF-D, G, and what they mean.

Understanding Lenses

AWWA    Cool Links, Photography     lens, lenses, Photography, primer, training, understanding

A very short primer to understand the basics of lenses.