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Performance Photography Pt. II

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Mar 3, 2012 in Quick Focus | 2 comments

This second part of the Mission Impossible: Performance Photography article will deal with the challenges we face and how to best use our equipment to conquer them. Equipment What’s are the three most important pieces of equipment for available light, performance photography? Fast glass. Fast glass....

Hot Topics: Work in Progress

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Jun 10, 2010 in Quick Focus | 0 comments

Usually, I research and write several posts at a time — and then publish them when I think they are “ripe”. However, some times I hit set backs — things that make an article tough to complete. Here are some of the things I’m working on — complete with some...

Cool Tools: Sofortbild Tethering Software

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Dec 16, 2009 in Quick Focus | 1 comment

I know. Yet another article about tethering? Yes. But, this one will be short. I’ve already written extensively about the topic both in a newsletter article and in a review of onOne Software’s DSLR Remote Pro. In the onOne review I wrote: The upside of shooting tethered is: (1) the ability to...

Camera Profiles and the ColorChecker Passport — The What, Why and How

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Nov 27, 2009 in Featured Articles | 6 comments

For a while it was a mystery. I just didn’t get it. No matter how I set the white balance in my Nikon cameras — be it preset or custom — when I opened my images in either Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) or Lightroom (which are, in essence, the same thing) the White Balance number would be way off....

Cool Tools: onOne’s DSLR Remote Pro

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Sep 6, 2009 in Quick Focus | 2 comments

A “marriage made in heaven”? Absolutely? Brangelina? No, I can’t get into that stuff. To me, the new SuperCouple of the Day was formed when my iPhone 3GS bonded with my Nikon D3. Two of my favorite tools joined in the pursuit of happiness and perfection. The matchmaker? onOne...