by Reed Hoffmann | Nov 18, 2012 | Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate
As digital photographers, computers are an important part of our lives. That means keeping track of software and system updates as well as hardware compatibility. And, at some point, replacing the computer itself. That’s one of the things I’ve been working on the last...
by Reed Hoffmann | Nov 9, 2012 | Action, Advanced, Camera Gear, Composition, Intermediate
In 1996 I started shooting digital for my newspaper with the latest, greatest digital camera, a Kodak (Nikon) NC2000e. It cost $15,000 and gave me 1.3 megapixel images. The quality wasn’t very good, but it was state of the art at the time. A couple of years later I...
by Reed Hoffmann | Oct 17, 2012 | Advanced, Beginner, History, Intermediate, Travel, Workshops
I assume you’ve heard the saying, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Last weekend I taught a workshop where a big part of what we were going to shoot involved hot air balloons. So what happens when the weather turns bad and the balloons are canceled? You...
by Reed Hoffmann | Oct 8, 2012 | Advanced, Archiving, Intermediate
I received an email recently from a friend who went to China with me in May. He was shooting with the new Nikon D800, and had a question: “How do you cope with the mass storage requirements of the D800? With the volume of photography you’ve done lately I...
by Reed Hoffmann | Sep 12, 2012 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Education, Filters, Intermediate, Lenses, Travel, Video
Last weekend I was in Lake Tahoe to teach another Popular Photography Mentor Series workshop. This one had a bit of a twist to it – we were going to teach video too. The Nikon D90 was the first DSLR to offer video, and now it’s a given that any new DSLR will have that...
by Reed Hoffmann | Jul 20, 2012 | Advanced, Editing, History, Intermediate
Copying my old family pictures reminded me of a photo restoration I did for a friend. They can be surprisingly easy to do with the right tools, and many old photos need this sort of help. Especially if you’d like to make a nice print from one. In this case it was a...
