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Featuring Your Best: Travel Photography

Posted by on May 16, 2012 in Gear Talk, Uncategorized

In this week’s “Featuring Your Best” we wanted to feature your best travel photos. From the hundreds of responses on our Facebook, Twitter, and G+ pages, we chose 59 awesome examples of your travel photography. With all of your great photos, it was really easy for us to create an awesome Pinterest board.  Below are 3 great examples of your travel photography. We want to thank you all again for participating and be sure to look for our call for work on Facebook, Twitter, and G+ at the end of each week for a chance to feature your best work.

Photographer: mttaborstudio

Gear Tips
Great lenses for travel photography
Canon 24-105mm f4L

Canon 24-105mm f4L


Nikon 24-120mm f4G

Nikon 24-120mm f4G
View more great gear packages

Photographer: Katherine Gendreau

Photographer: TourTrophy

See all 59 images on our “Featuring Your Best: Travel” board.

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Cool Stuff – Week of May 11, 2012

Posted by on May 12, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Featured Articles

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

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Tip of the Week: In-Camera Panos with Fuji

Posted by on May 10, 2012 in Featured Articles, Tips

B&W Pano, shot with a 45mm TS-E lens

B&W Pano, shot with a 45mm TS-E lens

Making panoramic images is one of my favorite things to do, and I tend to go to some lengths to make them. My tool of choice is usually something along the lines of a Canon 45mm TS-E lens, and I use a technique I described in a previous Tip of the Week piece, “Use a Tilt-Shift Lens for Panoramic Photos.”

That technique takes some time, thought, and setup, and I don’t always have time to do it right. Sometimes, I want to create a panoramic image quickly and easily.

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Featuring Your Best: Landscapes

Posted by on May 9, 2012 in Uncategorized

We received another awesome response from the call for work last week. Over 400 links from our Facebook, Twitter, and G+ pages. Out of the 400, we pinned 39 awesome examples to our Pinterest Board. Here are 3 really great examples of landscape photography. Again, we want to thank you all for participating! If you want your photos featured, look for our call for work on Facebook, Twitter, and G+ at the end of each week.


Photographer: Khayree Butler

Gear Tips
Great gear for great landscape photography
Landscape Essentials Package (No Body) - CanonLandscape Essentials Package
(No Body) – Canon

Landscape Essentials Package (No Body) - Nikon

Landscape Essentials Package
(No Body) – Nikon
View more great gear packages


Photographer: Ed Hoffman


Photographer: Nikhil Shahi

See all 39 images on our “Featuring Your Best Landscapes” board.

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Photo Finds – Week of May 7, 2012

Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Featured Articles, Photographers

Frank Doorhof

Frank Doorhof

Welcome to Photo Finds, a feature where we point you to some of the best photography around the web.

This week’s Photo Finds comes to us from across the pond, and up into the northern stretches of Europe. Amsterdam-born photographer Frank Doorhof has been plying his trade there since the early 2000s, but lately, he’s been making waves on this side of the Atlantic as well.

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Cool Stuff – Week of May 4, 2012

Posted by on May 5, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Featured Articles

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

  • If you don’t know this already, we dig our time-lapses. We also like slo-mo stuff. Filmmaker Russell Houghten combined slo-mo skateboarders rotoscoped into time-lapses. Well, heck…
  • We all know that images in magazines are retouched. One teen is taking a stand against digital manipulation, however. More power to her, we say.
  • Oh. My. God. That was pretty-much the only thing we could think to say when we saw this ad for the Canadian Paralympics committee. No CGI, all one take. Wow. The Making Of video is here.
  • Speaking of video, this one from IQ Interactive tells you why you should be paying attention to video, if you haven’t already been so far…
  • Montreal photographer Von Wong has been putting out some amazing work so far. Here’s one heck of an epic shoot he did recently, complete with how he put it all together and a nice BTS (Behind The Scenes) video he did as well.

     Epic Medieval photoshoot + Horses! (Photo courtesy and © Benjamin Von Wong)

    Epic Medieval photoshoot + Horses! (Photo courtesy and © Benjamin Von Wong)

  • And finally, because we haven’t forgotten our stills shooters, here’s one for you: RAW or JPEG? We say RAW every time, but here’s a good pixel-peeping analysis of what you gain and lose with each method.
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Product Update: D800 and D4 Lock-Up Fix

Posted by on May 4, 2012 in Uncategorized

News has been circulating today about a newly identified bug with the Nikon D4 and D800 that may negatively impact photographers employing certain settings. To give you a deeper insight to the problem, a short term fix and a likely long term solution our resident technical expert and repair manager Michio Fukuda  has the following to report:
 
The Bug
Nikon’s newly released D4′s and D800′s have had an alarming number of complaints regarding an intermittent issue causing the bodies to lock up under normal user conditions. Nikon has officially addressed the issue, in a recent conversation with PDN (Photo District News) on 5.3.2012,  and DPReview has since confirmed this bug.  The problem encountered again and again is that the body will become completely unresponsive until the battery is removed and re-installed, but should return to good working order once this is done.
 
The Fix
Nikon stated that the issue is present for only a small users who have ‘Highlights’ and ‘RGB Histogram’ display options turned on.  They also communicated that they are in the process of developing the permanent fix and have instructed users on a temporary fix for the interim. The temporary “band-aid” fix is to turn off the ‘Highlights’ and ‘RGB Histogram’ display options in the ‘Playback Display Option’s sub-menu of  the ‘Playback’ menu.
 
Here is the step by step process to implement the temporary fix:
 
Step 1 – Press the menu button.
 
Step 2 - Scroll down to “Playback display options” and press the center button on the directional pad to access that menu.
 
Step 3 - Once inside the playback menu, scroll down to “highlights” and “RGB histogram”.
 
Step 4 - Deselect the “highlights” and “RGB histogram” options.
 
Step 5 - Scroll back up to “Done” and confirm the actions by pressing down on the center button of the directional pad.
 

While we all like our settings a certain way, at least they have narrowed down the catalyst to these two specific settings so that we may all go about our shoots without any hiccups. We speculate that the permanent fix will be a firmware update, since the determining factor (specific camera settings) is a software-based function. Like all Nikon D4 and D800 users we’re hoping that the permanent fix will be released in the coming weeks at which time all BorrowLenses.com customers can rest easy knowing we’ll have the needed update in place ASAP.

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Tip Of The Week: Use ND Filters to Blur Motion

Posted by on May 4, 2012 in Featured Articles, Tips

Figure 1. Canon 5D Mark II, 24-105mm f/4 lens, Variable ND filter

Figure 1. Canon 5D Mark II, 24-105mm f/4 lens, Variable ND filter

Every week, we post a photography-related tip on our blog. These tips are typically inspired by questions we get from our customers. Sometimes we might feature a technique tip, and sometimes a gear recommendation. If there’s something specific you’d like to see in this section, let us know. Email us at blog@borrowlenses.com.

Introduction

The use of various filters – physical ones, not the ones in Photoshop – is something that waxes and wanes with time. Back in the film days, filters were an indispensable part of the landscape photographer’s toolkit. With the advent of digital photography and technologies like HDR, the use of filters, especially graduated and colored filters, has fallen off quite a bit.

As is wont to happen, what’s old is slowly becoming new again. Of late, there’s been a resurgence in the use of certain filters, to the point where Schneider, one of the leading companies that makes these filters, is back-ordered on a number of them.

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Featuring Your Best: Portraits

Posted by on May 2, 2012 in Photographers

Last week we asked for your best portraiture work and we were amazed at the response we got from you all. Out of 300+ total entries from our Facebook, Twitter, and G+ pages. We pinned 39 inspiring examples to our Pinterest Board. Below are 3 great examples from that set of 39 images. Thank you all for participating and we hope to see more of your beautiful work in the near future. Have your photos featured, look for our call for work on Facebook at the end of each week.


Photographer: Kristina Kerns

Gear Tips
Great gear for great portrait and wedding work
Wedding Photographer Essentials Package (No Body) - Canon
Wedding Photographer Essentials Package
(No Body) – Canon

Wedding Photographer Essentials Package (No Body) - Nikon

Wedding Photographer Essentials Package
(No Body) – Nikon
View more great gear packages


Photographer: Topher Simon


Photographer: Benjamin Burner

See all 39 images on our Featuring Your Best Portraits board.

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Photo Finds – Week of April 30, 2012

Posted by on Apr 30, 2012 in Company News, Featured Articles, Photographers

Tim Wallace

Tim Wallace

Welcome to Photo Finds, a feature where we point you to some of the best photography around the web.

UK-based photographer Tim Wallace was brought to my attention through Scott Kelby’s awesome KelbyTraining.com. It took little more than a few seconds of browsing Tim’s work to turn me into an instant fan.

I’m not a big car guy. My Saturn is nearly 9 years old, and is rickety to the point where my girlfriend calls it “the Jalopy.” I’ve never been into cars – couldn’t tell you the difference between a carburetor and a cam-shaft. Sure, I admire good-looking cars, but I don’t salivate over them like some folks.

Tim’s photography makes me want to change that. 

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