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  Buying lenses for travel photography

  A student-to-be wrote me question about what to bring to a class later this year. His question was specific to the class I am teaching but also broad enough that I suspect I will be revisiting the same topic in the future. So I figured I would kill two birds with one stone and make a blog entry out of the answer to his wise question.

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  Jul 11
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  Some downsides of digital imaging

  Digital imaging has transformed photography in many ways, mostly for the better, as far as I am concerned. One downside of digital is that photo-educators, like me, are nurturing a generation of photographers who have never used film nor developed photos in a darkroom. The next generation will, by and large, have missed the magical experience of watching an image come up in the developer. That moment was what hooked me (and thousands of other photographers like me) on the magic of photography. I recently came to appreciate other downsides of digital imaging.

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  Mar 10
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  Impact of changing your focal length during long exposures

  This podcast explains how to change the focal length of your lens, to “zoom” during long exposures, in order to get interesting effects.

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  Jul 09