This relatively common garden dwelling spider is a long-jawed orb-weaver Tetragnatha species. Long-jawed orb weavers belong to the family Tetragnathidae. I have used Canon EOS 5DSR with Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM using 36mm Kenko extension tube. This whole setup is illuminated by Canon MT-24EX macro twin light flash. They were first described … Read more
Five days back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe announced the newly revamped, free, Lightroom Mobile application for Android. With version 2.0 they are bringing a bunch of new exciting new features into this Lightroom Mobile. Since I was conducting Workshop on Adobe Lightroom, Sunday March 6th, I decided to do a brief review … Read more
DSLR Controller is a great app which helps to remotely manage your camera using android phone or a tablet. Using the touch screen and the display of your phone you can control almost every function in your Canon camera and much more than what camera has to offer. Here is a brief review of features … Read more
Macro photography is an area where depth of field is an extremely crucial factor. Here the weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) carrying moss in its mouth is captured at f/10. Why so much of this photo is blurred in the photograph above? It’s not due to poor focusing technique. If you look carefully, you’ll see that … Read more
Few days back I purchased a Metabones Canon EF to Sony E-Mount T Smart Adapter Mark IV to test Sony Alfa cameras with Canon EF lenses. This adapter allows you to use your Canon mount lenses on Sony E-Mount camera. I had recently attended Sony workshop and was impressed by their cameras. I wanted to … Read more
In my Earlier blog I had briefly described how to get sharper photos for closeups. Many of you have asked me to give much more detailed tips to produce sharper photos. Here are few tips to get sharper photos. Use the sharpest aperture of your lens – All camera lenses have their sharpest result at … Read more