Khumbu Xtrahand Vest – Video Review
Posted on 12. May, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
I’ve had a Khumbu photography vest from the Vested Interest folks for about 4 years now. They have different vests for different types of photographer. The models include the Still, Magnum, Pro Video and the one I use, the Khumbu. For the wildlife photographer the Khumbu vest is a very useful accessory for trecking gear around. Every once in a while I see folks in the various Internet photography forums enquiring about them and thought it would be a useful…
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Top Ten Wildlife Photography Tips
Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
Creating a tremendous wildlife photograph is an extremely rewarding pursuit. However, developing the skills and techniques necessary to create captivating wildlife images is more difficult than it might appear on the surface. Composition, lighting, equipment, natural history, and patience are just some of the areas…
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Some of my favourite digital photography software tools
Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
Digital photographers generally use a program for image management, a program to process the images and photo editing software to touch-up and print their images. I thought it would useful to let you know about some of the extra tools I use to help optimize my workflow and enhance some of my images. All of the tools I’ll discuss…
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Slideshows that don’t suck
Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
Although I fondly remember watching my dad’s dusty slides as a kid, I’ve never enjoyed watching slideshows of digital images on the computer. Why? Because they generally suck and bore me to tears. In fact, I had a selection of URL’s saved just so that I could lull myself to sleep if I couldn’t sleep. So, when I heard about a service called Animoto that promises to…
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5 misconceptions about professional freelance photography
Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
Some of the comments generated by my post on the Top Ten Mistakes that aspriring professional freelance photographer make got me to thinking that some people seem to have a few misconceptions about what being a professional photographer…
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Top ten mistakes that aspiring professional freelance photographers make
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
I run into a lot of people, either physically or virtually who have aspirations of turning their hobby photography into a freelance career. I thought I’d put together a list, derived from my and other’s experience, to help…
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Learning wildlife photography – The power of simplicity
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
I’m extremely fortunate in that my passion for wildlife and photography has evolved into my full-time occupation. As part of my work, I get to review and critique quite a number of wildlife photographs. When I think back over the images that stand out from the others I am reminded of…
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Guest blogger on the Telegraph
Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
I’ve been a little under the weather the last while and haven’t been blogging as regular as I should. But, if you get a chance, check out my guest article on Kate Day’s blog on the UK’s Telegraph. I discuss what it takes to get prepared…
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Top Ten Annoying Things That Photographers Say to Each Other
Posted on 13. Mar, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
Last week’s list of Top Ten Annoying Things to Say to a Wildlife Photographer was quite popular and it generated a lot of great comments. That’s inspired me to produce another Top Ten list for this week. Today’s list compiles the top ten things that other photographers have said to me that I’ve found to be annoying. And, the more often I’ve heard something the more annoying it tends to be. That’s just the way I am.
If you’re a photographer who is easily offended or you can’t take a little bit of sarcasm, please don’t read any further. I don’t want to…
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Learning wildlife photography – When to use manual focus
Posted on 11. Mar, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
If you’re a regular reader of my blog you know that I’m a big advocate of using your camera’s autofocus system whenever possible. While there are better and worse autofocus systems and the debate as to whether Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus/Pentax have the best autofocus performance will go on forever, in reality they all have very useful autofocus systems that will usually achieve very acceptable results. There are however, a few circustances where trying to use autofocus will cause more problems then it solves. Read on to learn how to solve this issue…
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