Twelve tips for Christmas – Day 1
On the first day of Christmas… My true love reminded me that if I don’t actually keep the pictures I take I won’t make it to another Christmas… Congratulations if you’ve opened up the wrapping on a new...
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On the second day of Christmas… Traditionally boxing day was the day for lying on the sofa recovering from the excess of Christmas day, so often things were looked at from a strange view some...
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On the third day of Christmas… I needed to update my camera for the new lens I got for Christmas… if you were fortunate enough to get a new lens for your EOS camera for Christmas then you might want to...
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On the fourth day of Christmas… I needed to get back on the straight and level path… Since the original EOS 7D from 2009 many EOS cameras include an electronic level that will help you get your horizon...
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On the fifth day of Christmas… I’m switching five gold rings for four intersecting lines that help me to monitor my composition. The rule of thirds is a common approach to composing pictures and having...
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On the sixth day of Christmas… This is not time for geese, especially six of them… today is time to use flash to balance with the available light on location. Aperture priority – no flash Without...
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On the seventh day of Christmas… Seven swans a swimming… that swimming feeling you get when you know there’s feature of your camera but you can’t remember where in the menu you last saw it. Today i’m...
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On the eighth day of Christmas… Eight maids a milking… and we all need our milk to go in our tea and coffee, let alone on the breakfast cereal. Milk is a great additive to lots of things and one of the...
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On the ninth day of Christmas… Nine Ladies Dancing… I have found that after some model shoots I need to clean my lenses as much as after a trip to Finland for the rally. Today I’m sharing my tip for a...
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On the tenth day of Christmas… Ten Lords a Leaping – well they certainly are if they get their flash exposure compensation in a mess. So today i’m peering in to the world of Canon flash exposure...
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On the eleventh day of Christmas… Eleven Pipers Piping… so today it’s all about getting your pictures from your camera to you computer screen when you shoot tethered. High-speed tethered shooting...
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On the twelfth day of Christmas… 12 Drummers Drumming – that would be like the alarm clock on this first day back to a regular work pattern. So today’s tip is all about breaking the pattern; an...
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