Well, as previously reported at Slightly Out of Focus, Nikon did finally release the new, smaller SB-400 Speedlight.

Seems lightboxes are all the rage lately. I posted about it a while back. Here’s another version of it from DSLRblog.

I’ve been looking for some more “art” based photography magazines.  I certainly enjoy the gear-focused mags, but sometimes I just like to look at pretty pictures.  Seems CameraArts fits the bill and is running a special ($15) on the subscription right now.  The Online Photographer recommends CameraArts and that’s good enough for me.

Have you gotten at all into the Flickr Mapping rage? If Flickr wasn’t already great for exploring photos by tag, photographer, time or group, for the past few months you’ve been able to explore photos by the actual place they were taken. It’s a cool concept and one that, I have to admit, I’ve only [...]

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Memory Card Backup on the Cheap – DSLRblog has a great post about a way to get a memory card backup/storage device for about $20 (provided you have spare hard [...]

Today’s inspiration comes courtesy of astrocruzan.  While he has plenty of great shots, I’m particularly inspired by his “rides” set. Living in southern California, I see plenty of nice cars.  I’ve always been fond of cars, so I’m not sure why I haven’t taken the time to photograph them more (outside of the Peterson’s [...]

Arguably, the most useful and inexpensive movie-making tool is the Clothes Pin. Called in the biz a “C47″ or a “Bullet,” these can be used to attach gels to lights, remove scrims from lights without burning your fingers, and all sorts of other great applications. I sometimes used them to tie my [...]

Amy’s talked about touching up the backgrounds of photos to remove visual clutter, usually using the clone tool to copy “clean” sections of the original image into the “cluttered” areas. This is a great technique and one that almost every photo can use, whether you’re removing lens dust or the kid making goofy faces [...]