Photography Blog of Edward Agnew

  Y our DSLR has a very powerful exposure meter on it, but it also has a useful feature to go beyond simple metering. When you review a photo on you screen and you press INFO it should show a histogram similar to the image at the top.  In the case of Canon camera,  the more to the left the darker the image, the more to right the lighter the image.  This eliminates any errors or failure of the rear screen viewer to render the image properly, particularly in difficult to view lighting. To do so, take a test photo of your subject and look at the histogram.  Now if it is too dark, adjust exposure compensation a click or two brighter and take another,  review the histogram.  The intent is to just get the right most area of the graph just at, but not against the right limit.  The example at the right above for Bright Image shows too much bright, that is, information in your photo is be bleached out, and no amount of post-processing can fix it.  On the other hand, the Dark Image sample could

 I purchased a new R7 body a few days ago, it seems Vistek requires you to pay for the produce at the store before you can open the package... Sucks... Side bar note... likely not going back there... Regardless, I paid for it, opened the box, we had 7D with us for comparison, and when the new battery refused to start the new R7, I put the battery from the 7D into the R7 and all was good with the body. When we got home I put the new battery in the new supplied charger and let it sit on charge for half an hour.  Put the battery in the R7 and... NOTHING, same as if I had no battery in. I have seen this issue before.  The Canon LC-E6 chargers require communications to the internal chip in the battery to determine charge level.  But.. the chip require enough battery power to run.  So, too dead of a battery, no way to charge. I used fine volt meter probes to measure the battery and it was way less than 7.2 volts... way below the nominal 8.4 volts.  I attached the battery via. the some fine p

On March 10, 2022 we drove down to Grand Bend to view the Tundra Swans,  and while it is not as great as the view of birds at Boshe del Apache in southern New Mexico.  It still is a great reason to grab the big lens, tripod, binoculars and head off for some bird photography Above is shot looking down the road towards the east.  Birds on both side of the road.  This is on Greenway Road, south of Grand Bend, just east of the Museum.  Looking North into the field  (aka pond) thousands of birds in the area, landing, taking off, flying from one side of the road to the other   On this photo, shots taken at ground level have a lot of heat induced mirage effect from the sun warming the ground. A close up of the shot from down the road, you can see the highlights are ripply looking. Same thing happens to the birds further away in the fields.  So I did not spend a lot of time shooting birds on the ground.   In the air was another story,  I did find that with the partly clouded sky, I needed to t

This is a link to Canon USA for a lesson in   What is Aperture Part of their understanding basics.      Above image is from this lesson.   the link is: https://www.usa.canon.com/learning/training-articles/training-articles-list/what-is-aperture enjoy

  The finalist have submitted their photos and the gallery of those images is now ready to view above is screen capture of the image index. The gallery can be seen at comedywildlifephoto.com   Some of these images are just too funny, enjoy The link will also take to you previous years.

 Saw this on DPReview newsletter of 2021 06 09 Yes... would be nice... a stop faster than my 600mm f4 with 2x converter on it.  And it has a nice carry handle.  Would look great on a tripod.. Perhaps a new tripod to take the weight.  I would have to give up the IS feature.. B&H was selling one back in 2015 for $180,000 USD.  Only a dozen or so were ever made. A mere 36 lbs.. And I would  be the only kid on my block with one...😋 Same news letter, and this little toy I have a Zeiss Planar lens, 100mm for my old Hasselblad 500 series film cameras.  But this... F0.7  Wow.   And it even has a shutter built in.  Just add film.