Simple Photography Equipment

You know that all professional photographers have some simple gadgets whish helps them. Many of these little things you can make yourself.

One of them is bouncer card, which you can use on your speedlight. It is simply made of cardboard, white paper, glue and elastic. To make it, you must glue paper and cardboard together and put it on your strobe and fast it with the elastic.

The second great thing is used to make the light from your strobe more ambient. It is small diffuser. The materials you need are translucent fabric, and sticky tape. Made a cubic shape using your fabric or other material, than strengthen it with the sticy tape.

These stuff you can do at home and this costs more cheaper than the analogues, which you can buy at the photography shop.

Nikon Releases D3X

Nikon has just released a new great camera - Nikon D3x.

Some new features:

• 24.5 megapixels CMOS image sensor
• 5 fps shooting
• 51-point autofocus system
• 3-inch LCD monitor
• and many new great features...

P.S. I'm sorry for writing a "news only" posts for a few days. I'm too much busy these days :-)

Travel Photography Stuff

Hello everyone! You maybe like take photos in your trips. I think they are not bad, but…

I think you can improve your photographs yourself! A few alterations can improve your photographs at all.

First of all, you must have a tripod. Now, you exactly think: “Why the previous sentence contains must? Because you can shoot without tripod (or monopod in some situations), but you don’t have ideal sharp. In situations, when you can’t use a tripod (especially in some historical or religious buildings), try to use this tip. And, don't  forget about good head for your tripod. As for me I prefer ball head, because of it's flexibility in use.

So, you take sharp. “What about composition?” – you may ask. But here is next tip: composition is your personal conception. You can combine your picture as you want yourself. It’s your private opinion about this world. Thus, you can “say” it!

Secondly, you must find the place, which you would like to be in the photograph. I think that there are many pictures, which was taken in all good tourist places. And some of them are really good. What to do after all good pictures was already taken? Find a new place where you can set your tripod and make very cool photos with fantastic composition!

In such a way, you have a very pleasurable day and took lots of photos. So, your memory card is full now. To continue shooting you can buy more cards or simply use such device as Epson P-6000. It has a huge 80GB hard drive and 4 inch display. I’m not an Epson promoter, I told about Epson product because of it quality (I simply like it :-) ).

To be continued...

Small Image Stabilizer

First of all, all professional photographers always use tripods. Therefore, their images looks very good.

But, there are some situations, when you can't use a tripod or monopod. So, you can use this cheap and small image stabilizer, which can make it yourself at home. It is made of a rope, bolt(it must be the same size, that socket in the bottom of your camera) and big washer.

Combine it like on an image at the top of this text, and you can use it just after that!
But remember, that good tripod is mush better.