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Selecting a Camera Step 3 - Build Quality and Ergonomics

8/2/2021

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The Nikon F4s - what I consider one of the most ergonomic, easy to use and rugged cameras ever designed. It was a sheer joy to use and even ended up being my primary body when shooting film, despite owning a Nikon F100 (image from Wikipedia)
Oddly the way a camera feels in the hand is often the last thing that a potential buyer considers when selecting a camera. This is particularly the case now that the internet has become the great big mall in the sky. It's so easy to click on a button and 24 hours later a shiny toy arrives at the gate. Then the buyers remorse sets in as you quickly realize that although said toy looks like the pictures on the websites, it doesn't feel anything like you thought it would.


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Working with the Leofoto Macro Arm

7/6/2020

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Layered Editing 101

4/29/2020

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Editing in layers is a principle concept for being able to work in Photoshop. In this post we'll take a look at very basic masking techniques to start down the road of layered editing in Photoshop, or any other bitmap editor for that matter.

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Creating Actions to Speed Up Workflow

3/20/2020

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When you are in a programme like Lightroom or Capture One, the use of presets becomes a quick and easy - as well as fast - way to make changes to images. Rather than changing every setting individually, a photographer can select a preset that they have created, or even bought, to reset several parameters to one or several images at a time. To say that saves time is an understatement. Taking all the time required to individually adjust images, the use of presets can literally save hours out of a week of editing.


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Nik Efex and the Power of U-point

11/28/2019

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Lupine flowers on the side of the road in Iceland
Nik, as an application, has been around since 2000 when it was was first incorporated into Nikon’s RAW software called Capture NX2. What made the software special was something called U-point technology. In a rather trite naming convention, it is supposed to refer to the fact that '‘you point somewhere, and it works'’. Yet, this is pretty much how U-point does work. Nils Kokemohr (founder and CTO of Nik Software), managed to create an application that looks at luminosity, colour and tone as a way of selecting an area for image editing. To this day, it is one of the most intuitive and effective ways to select localised areas in an image for colour editing. At any rate, Nik’s intellectual property has passed through several hands from Nikon, to their own, to Google and thence to DxO. In a nutshell, the selection tool that was first introduced in 2000 is still going strong, yet there are photographers who still aren’t aware of it’s power and how to use it effectively.


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Suggested Kit List for Landscape Workshops

1/9/2019

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 Before any major workshop we usually send out a suggested equipment list. The emphasis here is on the word ‘suggested’. One can always bring more or less on a workshop. Indeed, there are professional travel photographers who travel only with a Fujifilm X100t, an iPhone and backup hard drive. Being geared more towards landscape photography we tend to pack a little more into our camera bags. The kit below is the equipment that Emil would take with him to Madagascar, Iceland or Namibia for landscape photography (an important addition is a Macro lens which is not pictured here).

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  • Home
  • Photography Courses
    • Mini Courses & Classes
    • Photography Mentoring
  • Photography Tours & Workshops
    • South Africa >
      • 4 day Swartberg Mountain Retreat
      • 5 day The Waves of Luphathana
      • 9 day Wandering the Wild Coast - South Africa
      • Drakensberg >
        • 5 day Hunters of Light Mountain Landscape Photography - Drakensberg Mountains
        • 5 day Mountain Adventure - Drakensberg Mountains
    • Africa Workshops >
      • Uganda Private Wildlife Photography workshop
      • Morocco - Meandering Morocco - 10 Nights
      • Botswana - Photographing Giants - Botswana 5 night astrophotography workshop
      • Lesotho - Expoloring The Mountain Kingdom - 6 night Landscape Workshop
      • Namibia - Namibia's North - 13 Nights
      • Namibia - Composing the Dunes - 14 Days
      • Madagascar - Exploring the Island Continent - 15 Days
    • Europe & the North >
      • 6 day Chasing Reindeer - An Ethnographic Photography Workshop
      • Chasing Auroras - Iceland Late Winter
    • The 'Where To Next' Survey
  • About Us
    • About Nature's Light
    • Photography Instructors
    • The Workshop Experience
    • Photography Tours and Workshops Calendar
    • Contact
    • Payment - Ts & Cs
    • FAQ
  • Gear Sales
    • Leofoto
    • Leofoto Flagship Tripods
    • Leofoto Accessories
    • Leofoto Mini Tripod & Smartphone
    • Leofoto Monopods
    • Leofoto Quick Release Plates
    • Leofoto Ranger Tripods
    • Leofoto Leveling Ranger Tripods
    • Leofoto SOAR/PRS
    • Leofoto Summit Tripods
    • Leofoto Tripod Heads
    • NiSi
    • NiSi JetMag Filter system
    • NiSi 100mm
    • NiSi 150mm
    • NiSi M75
    • NiSi SWIFT Filter system
    • NiSi Circular Filters
    • NiSi Close Up Lens Kit NC 77mm
    • NiSi Drone Filters
    • F-Stop Questionnaire
  • Blog
  • NiSi SWIFT Filters