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Tightening the hotshoe on the Canon 1D series camera

June 3, 2007 Neil vN 17 Comments

Tightening the hotshoe on the Canon 1D series camera

If your hotshoe on your Canon 1D series camera has become loose, it is an easy fix! Somehow the 4 little screws that hold the hot shoe to the camera body can wriggle loose over time, causing the flashgun to wobble. This can even lead to poor contact between the flashgun and the camera. Fortunately, to fix this, all you need is a set of jeweler's screwdrivers.  Read more inside...

Repairing the Canon 580EX hotshoe foot

May 31, 2007 Neil vN 96 Comments

Repairing the Canon 580EX hotshoe foot

Since the 580EX has a plastic foot, it is very easy to snap it off in the camera's hotshoe. The photo above shows the typical damage sustained. The repair is simple, and the cost of the part from Canon's Service Center. The part nr is: CY2-1227-000 Replacing the broken foot is relatively easy:  Read more inside...

Using filters to protect your lenses

May 31, 2007 Neil vN 9 Comments

Using filters to protect your lenses

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why using a UV filter on your lens is a good idea. Usually. Some times. The strange thing is, I have NO idea when this happened during a shoot at a reception venue where I was doing room shots and detail shots. Most of the times I was using two cameras, with the other one slung over my shoulder. At some point I lifted the camera to my eye and noticed rainbow colored diffraction patterns across the image. My immediate reaction was .. huh? My lens is THAT dirty? And then I checked and saw the actual  Read more inside...

Photographic composition – Tilted compositions / Dutch angle

May 31, 2007 Neil vN 7 Comments

Tilted compositions / Dutch angle

I am not a huge fan of tilted images, and I see it as an unfortunate visual 'tic' when I notice entire wedding galleries by other photographers where pretty much all the images are tilted at a very specific angle. That just means that little thought went into composition, and that composition and holding the camera has become a reflex action .. which just happens to include a 30' tilt to the camera. There is a rationale though behind tilted compositions / the Dutch angle - the balance of the photo. I tend to keep horizontal and vertical lines  Read more inside...

Photographic composition – Rules & guidelines

May 31, 2007 Neil vN 5 Comments

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." - Ansel Adams  

Guidelines to great composition in photography

Most or all beginners tend to 'shoot' pictures - the camera is aimed at the subject and then the shutter is fired. The result is one of most common errors in photographic composition - the feet of the person being photographed are cut off and lots of empty sky or dead branches or irrelevant whatever in the top half of the picture. Also, the placement of focusing sensors in the camera tend to be clustered around the center. Especially  Read more inside...

Nikon D80 custom settings

January 23, 2007 Neil vN 23 Comments

Nikon D80 custom settings

The D80 has 32 custom settings which allows this little camera to be set to your own preferences and needs - and this makes it a very flexible little beast. This page details my preferences .. and why.  Read more inside...

Nikon D70 custom settings

December 23, 2006 Neil vN 23 Comments

Nikon D70 custom settings

The 25 custom settings on the Nikon D70 enable this great little camera to be adapted to the photographer's specific needs - which may change from situation to situation. This page details my preferences .. and why.  Read more inside...

Photography basics you need to know

October 5, 2006 Neil vN 2 Comments

Photography basics you need to know

I would say that 90% of emails that I get where people are unhappy with their cameras, have to do with not understanding the basics of exposure metering. This also means they don't quite understand how shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings inter-relate.   "What general words of advice do you have for new photographers ?" The first steps in getting to understand photography would be: Know how to use your camera's light-meter more effectively. Your camera's meter is accurate, but do need to be interpreted some times. Get  Read more inside...

Bounce flash photography: Problem-solving by improvising

June 25, 2006 Neil vN 2 Comments

Bounce flash photography: Problem solving with improvised lighting

I received an email from Dr. Joel Studin in April '06, where he asked for help in setting up photographic lighting in his examination room at his offices. Dr. Studin is a renowned cosmetic surgeon based in Long Island, NY and he needs to do specific 'before' and 'after' photographs of his patients for his records. But there was a problem - despite guidelines from the plastic surgery society on standardizing photography, the results weren't consistent, and just didn't look good. Fortunately, I was able to help  Read more inside...

Nikon D2x custom settings

June 23, 2006 Neil vN 26 Comments

Nikon D2x custom settings

If the Nikon D2H was an awesome camera, then the bigger brother, the Nikon D2x is simply stunning, offering amazing picture quality. The controls and functions between the two cameras are virtually the same, and the D2x offers the same myriad of options that the photographer can set according to their own style and needs. Here are my preferences for the D2x Custom Settings .. and why.  Read more inside...

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