• David Cardinal

    I was reminded repeatedly on my recent trip to Yellowstone that metering in snow scares people. Any time we were near other photographers you could hear the timid “now snow is +1, right?” call out to a companion. From reading his latest BT Journal my friend Moose Peterson heard plenty of the same when he was there. But as Moose points out, snow can be your friend…

  • David Cardinal

    The great weather in Death Valley last week brought out lots of tourists and made getting into dinner a tough proposition. So with an hour to spend before we'd be seated there wasn't enough time to go back and look at images, so my daughter Annie and I decided to have some fun with our flashlights and the old Twenty-mule team Borax wagon out in front of the Furnace Creek Ranch. If you've never done it before there is almost no limit to the fun you can have with a flashlight or two (or your flash units) and just about any subject you can light up...

  • David Cardinal

    I’m in no way a graphics designer, but as a photographer and safari leader I spend time and money promoting my work and my trips. From time to time I have an opportunity to feature a large display banner. Next week at the NANPA Summit our partners Journeys Unforgettable will be sharing a booth with B&H and featuring our joint trips. So it was time for a quick banner. Fortunately as a photographer I have one of the world’s most powerful graphic arts tools—Photoshop—at the ready. But building a banner requires using it in some different ways from the way we usually do as photographers. If this is a task you’ve been worried about taking on for yourself, it is easier than you think. Read on to learn how I did it…

  • David Cardinal

    Okay, so you've remembered to plan out your background, the light is right and your hoped for bird has just landed right in front of you. You wait until the right instant as it glanced at you and the light shines into its eye. Click and you're done. Right? Well not quite. There's something not quite right when you look at the image. You forgot the feet. Sure, it's happened to all of us countless times. And sometimes you can't work around it. But we'll share a few tips that will help...

  • David Cardinal

    Sigma continues to impress me with their updated versions of pro and semi-pro lense for D-SLRs. They provide excellent value with pricing below the Nikon and Canon versions while not sacrificing image quality. Their new 24-70mm f/2.8 full frame HSM (same as USM or AF-S) is no exception...

  • David Cardinal

     On every photo safari the second most common question (just after "what ISO are you using?") is "do you think this image is sharp?" To paraphrase an old saw, "If you have to ask, ..." But seriously, evaluating sharpness is a big part of assessing the quality of your images, so we'll take a closer look at it in this post...

  • David Cardinal

    While not part of the famous "big 5" of African mammals, pound for pound African Wild Dogs (also called African Painted Wolves) are some of the most exciting animals you can still see in the wild. Highly social the packs can provide hours of entertainment for those lucky enough to find some of the very endangered animals...

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  • David Cardinal

    As raw files become the common currency of high-end photographry a widening array of tools is arriving to help photographers get the most from them. I've been using SpyderCube from Datacolor/Colorvision for awhile to help set white and black points along with white balance for color critical situations. But recently I've added a new tool to my tweakers arsenal--Colorchecker Passport from X-Rite. Read on to learn about it...