Teft’s Blog

Ok .. this one I’ve been waiting for a while now … I’ve been getting progressively excited about Aperture 2! And now, it’s finally here. The biggest thing that I am looking for is improvement in raw processing and speed. But, to begin with, Aperture 1.5’s raw processing was already excellent to […]

Hey Guys … so I was VERY fortunate to have the amazing experience of having a video shot on the new Red One video camera a couple of months ago … the video is going to be released in a few weeks!
First off …
This camera is nuts (and expensive)!! Imagine, for moment, that you could […]

Today is an exciting day for folks who shoot in the 35mm digital format. Canon announced today the new Mark 3 version of their pro 1Ds series cameras … a 21.1 mega pixel full frame 35mm digital camera!! And it’s retailing for $7,999 (not $22k like the medium format digitals!). Check out […]

I recently took a trip into the Humboldt county redwoods park. Avenue of the Giants! Absolutely incredible visuals. To think, some of these trees were alive while Christ was on earth and while the pyramids were being built. Wow! Naturally, I brought my photo gear for some ancient forest photography.
I […]

Ohhhh baby … this fall is gonna be good, at least I hope it’s gonna be good. If you do a search on “22mp canon”, everybody is rumoring up a storm about the 1Ds MK3 potential release and what could be in store for it’s feature set (1D Mark3’s big brother). First off, […]

I’ve read a lot of magazines talking about lighting up landscapes at night for some dramatic shots. Same goes for macro photography! The key is to take many shots with different lighting angles, because you never know which shot is the winner until you pull it up on the computer screen. A […]

I love the 4th of July. It’s a great holiday. It’s the United States birthday, people light off fireworks, and we have backyard barbecues! When I think of photographing fireworks, I usually think of the big ones. This year we had the small variety (California approved) … the whistler, phantom, tuber, […]

In continuation of my gear sluttiness, I start to foam at the mouth over the new Canon camera bodies (specifically the new Canon EOS 1D Mark III). I just looked at Amazon.com and saw that one of there third party sellers is now selling the new cameras!! Whoo hooo! But ….. I’ve […]

I’ve been slowly adding my Death Valley pictures to Flickr over the week. I had three days in the park (broken up over 5 days) and I was blown away by the beauty! It’s an amazing place, you can see for miles across the valley floor and the mountain ranges are as unique […]

I was “digging” today and found out about this photo editing tool called “Picnik“. It’s completely Flash based (from what I can tell) and allows you to do basic post processing of photos. Control the white balance, saturation, contrast, exposure, sharpness, etc. Pretty cool. To the left is a picture […]