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Photography Tips Week #8: Filters

As I mentioned in my last post, my 135mm lens took a tumble this weekend at Andrea and Jason’s engagement shoot.  It was a pretty major tumble–it popped out of my lens bag as I was bending over taking portraits and bounced down a flight of cement steps.  Nothing quite like seeing your favorite lens...

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Photography Tips – Week #6 (lenses, part 3 – my recommendations)

Continuing in our lens extravaganza…today I’ll go over my lens recommendations for different budgets/situations (another post most useful for Canon photographers–sorry)! Recommendation #1: Don’t buy the kit lens by default. The kit lens that Canon bundles with their dSLRs has increased in quality in the last couple of years, but if the lens isn’t a...

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Photography Tip Tuesday: Week #6 – Lenses (part 1)

Hurray! It’s the day to talk about lenses! Last week for Photography Tip Tuesday I covered advice for purchasing a camera. This week we get to talk about my favorite subject: lenses. There is a lot to say, so I’ll be breaking this “lesson” up over the course of the week so that no budding...

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a new treasure for my photography bag

I sold two of our not-so-used lenses last week to purchase a new lens: the 135 f/2.0. It arrived today and it is the perfect lens for me. I am in love. I want to talk about lenses (those I love and those I’ve let go) on one of the photography Tuesdays, so I won’t...

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wanna see what else the man in brown brought?

The UPS man loves me. Along with all the new camera stuff last week he also brought a new laptop. Ahhh–nothing says happy like portable computing solutions. Will seemed very happy to have another box to play with. Although from the looks of things, he also enjoys surfin’ the net…

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