by Rob Knight | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog, Photo Tips
I like to travel light and I don’t carry many specialized tools that only do one job. I recently purchased the B150-B Macro Focusing Rail from Really Right stuff. I mainly bought the macro rail to use with the new Olympus 60mm f/2.8 Lens, but I knew it would also work...
by Rob Knight | Oct 19, 2012 | Blog, Photo Tips
I was hired recently to help a man named Bill Nelson with his digital workflow. Bill has been making pictures since he was fourteen, and that was sixty years ago. He is a professional architectural photographer and he sells fine art prints through a few art dealers....
by Rob Knight | Oct 11, 2012 | Blog, Photo Tips
I am amazed by the image quality that is possible by today’s digital cameras. It wasn’t that long ago that you had to invest thousands of dollars to get a DSLR with decent, much less “pro”, image quality. Now you can get a nice DSLR with a zoom lens for well under a...
by Rob Knight | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog, Flash tips, Photo Tips
I haven’t been keeping up with my blog as much as I would like for the last few months, but I have a good excuse… My son, Deacon, was born just about six months ago. As you can imagine he takes up a lot of my time. My wife wanted to get some shots of him taking...
by Rob Knight | May 29, 2012 | Blog, Photo Tips, Reviews
Included this image in my previous post, but I forgot to mention one of my favorite E-M5 features that I used to make it. LIVE BULB! Bulb mode is the shutter setting after the longest shutter speed available. In bulb mode you use a remote shutter release and the...
by Rob Knight | Nov 9, 2011 | Blog, Photo Tips, Reviews
Sounds simple, right? In this age of higher and higher ISO and cameras that can shoot in the dark I think it’s easy to forget that. My Nikon D3S can shoot in relative darkness with ease and make beautiful files. The Olympus PEN E-P3, not so much. The Oly makes a...