Should you protect your lens with a filter? UV/Haze and Skylight filters are commonly used to protect lenses, but keeping a filter on your lens all the time can lead to poorer-quality images. It might be best to use these filters only when they are needed and turn to lens hoods for protection that doesn’t affect your pictures.
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Photographing outdoors? Use a polarizing filter. Software filters can simulate some of the effects of a polarizer, but only a polarizer on the end of your lens can cut glare and reflections. The result is more saturated color, better contrast and better pictures.
Ever done something dumb with your camera? So many settings vying for our attention, it’s no wonder we sometimes screw it up. Or is it just me?
As traveling photographers, how do we keep the capture time of our images in sync with changing time zones? Adobe Lightroom 2 makes it easy. Learn how to quickly edit the capture time on multiple images using Adobe Lightroom 2.
Travel planning is a chore and we need all the help we can get. As travel photographers, we need to do a lot of research before, and during, a trip. Here are five websites that I never leave home without. They will help you choose a hotel and an airline seat, check the weather, get directions, and find the best prices for accomodations and flights.
If you’re like me, you collect tons of literature while traveling. And, if you’re flying, it can be expensive to get it all home. That’s where the USPS Flat-Rate box comes in handy. Ship it and avoid excess-baggage charges.
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