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B&H has the Bower 24mm f/1.4 lens for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Olympus mounts for $499 (reg. $699) through May 31. Check it out here at B&H Photo. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay and is protected by copyright laws. It is unlawful to (a) edit, modify, alter, or create derivative works of the text, content or links supplied by Photography Bay, (b) use any robot, spider, scraper, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Photography Bay RSS feed, (c) sell, retransmit or commercially exploit the Photography Bay RSS feed, headlines or content in any manner except as expressly permitted in writing by authorized representatives of Photography Bay, (d) incorporate advertising into or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the Photography Bay RSS feed or (e) use the Photography Bay RSS feed for any unlawful purpose or in violation of the rights of others. RSSID#794326 Related posts: Bower 24mm f/1.4 Lens for $499 – Deal Alert Bower 14mm f/2.8 Lens for $329 – Deal Alert Bower 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye Lens for $239 – Deal Alert

It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group. Check out the rest of the photos below. You can mouse over any photo for title and photographer names. Additionally, clicking on the photos will take you to its Flickr page where you can read more about the shot, leave a compliment or connect with the photographer. As always, thanks for being a part of Photography Bay and sharing your work with the rest of us. If you missed out on this round of reader photos, feel free to join in on the fun and add your photos to the Photography Bay Flickr Group and maybe we’ll get you next time. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay and is protected by copyright laws. It is unlawful to (a) edit, modify, alter, or create derivative works of the text, content or links supplied by Photography Bay, (b) use any robot, spider, scraper, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Photography Bay RSS feed, (c) sell, retransmit or commercially exploit the Photography Bay RSS feed, headlines or content in any manner except as expressly permitted in writing by authorized representatives of Photography Bay, (d) incorporate advertising into or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the Photography Bay RSS feed or (e) use the Photography Bay RSS feed for any unlawful purpose or in violation of the rights of others. RSSID#794326 Related posts: Reader Photos Roundup: April 21, 2013 Reader Photos Roundup: January 6, 2013 Reader Photos Roundup: April 7, 2013

Last Updated (03 April’13): - Review & Sample Photos @ TechRadar Sony Alpha NEX-7 is a 24.3 MP Compact Interchangeable Lens Camera that produces images with superb detail and amazing enlargements. It comes with variety of interesting features such as up to 10 fps shooting, AVCHD 1080/60p/60i/24p HD movies, APS-C size HD image sensor, Sweep [...]

Last Updated (19 May’13): - Review & Sample Photos @ Photographyblog Olympus OM-D E-M5 is a 16 MP Live MOS Interchangeable Lens Camera with 3.0-Inch Tilting OLED Touchscreen and 12-50mm Lens. It features 9 FPS High-Speed Sequential Shooting, 5-Axis Image Stabilization, LCD electronic viewfinder, Latest TruePic VI image processor, Improved C-AF autofocus with 3D tracking, [...]

Last Updated (19 May’13): - Review & Sample Photos @ Ephotozine Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G5 is a new 16.05 MP Live MOS Sensor Digital Camera. It features Redesigned Venus Engine Image Processor, Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Camera, Full HD 1080 60p Video recording, Contrast AF, Touch AF and Light Speed AF, Live View Finder with Eye [...]

Last Updated (19 May’13): - Review & Sample Photos @ TechRadar Canon EOS M is a 18.0 MP CMOS (APS-C) Sensor Mirrorless Digital Camera with DIGIC 5 Image Processor. It features Full HD Movie recording with Focus Tracking, Touch AF and Multi-touch Operation, Hybrid CMOS Auto-focus for Photo & Video, ISO 100-12800, Expandable to 25600 [...]

Last Updated (19 May’13): - Review by PCMag Panasonic Lumix LX5 is the successor of the highly-rated LX-3 features 10.1 Megapixels, 3.8x optical zoom (35mm equivalent: 24-90mm) f/2.0 Leica DC Lens, Full manual control for both photos and movies, Venus Engine FHD, HD Movie recording, ISO 80-12,800, and 3.0″ TFT Screen LCD Display. The camera [...]

Last Updated (19 May’13): - Review & Sample Photos @ Photographyblog Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 is a 16.0-megapixel Live MOS Sensor Compact System Camera with Advanced Noise Reduction System. It also comes with variety of interesting features like Built-in Flash, Hotshoe, and Traditional Mode Dial including Lumix LightSpeed Focusing system and PinPoint Focusing Control. Besides it, [...]

B&H has the Panasonic Lumix GX1 body for only $249. It retailed for $699 when it was new and is a great Micro Four Thirds camera. See my Panasonic Lumix GX1 review. Check out the GX1 deal here at B&H Photo. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay and is protected by copyright laws. It is unlawful to (a) edit, modify, alter, or create derivative works of the text, content or links supplied by Photography Bay, (b) use any robot, spider, scraper, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Photography Bay RSS feed, (c) sell, retransmit or commercially exploit the Photography Bay RSS feed, headlines or content in any manner except as expressly permitted in writing by authorized representatives of Photography Bay, (d) incorporate advertising into or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the Photography Bay RSS feed or (e) use the Photography Bay RSS feed for any unlawful purpose or in violation of the rights of others. RSSID#794326 Related posts: Panasonic Lumix LX7 for $299 – Black Friday Deal Alert Panasonic Lumix G5 Kit w/ 2 Lenses for $567 – Deal Alert Panasonic Lumix GX1 for $319 – Deal Alert

Lately I’ve been looking for ways to photograph people besides just my friends and family. I was super inspired after reading photographer Peter Waterman’s account of photographing 80 people in 1 day. I’m a hobbyist just looking to improve my skills and have fun. I like to get the best bang for the buck with my equipment purchases and keep my gear budget contained. I checked my town’s local event website and noticed there was a 10K run scheduled for the upcoming weekend. I had never shot a sporting event before; I usually just shoot portraits and travel. The race map showed the course went right by my house so I had a perfect opportunity to take some pictures. I wanted to experiment and practice with lighting so I made a list of different strategies I could use. I thought about using umbrellas to soften the light, a boom stand to get the light right over the runners heads and using multiple flash locations. When race day arrived it was raining on and off so I changed my strategy. I used a single light stand with a 3 flash bracket. I used 2 YN560II and 1 YN560III flashes on the single bracket. I shot them all in manual, zoomed all the way out (24mm) and ½ power each. Shooting on half power kept my recycle times quick, and extended the number of flashes the batteries could handle. I decided to use no lighting modifiers due to the weather. Going bare flash helped keep the light intensity up since I did not lose any light through the umbrella. I did place a clear plastic sandwich bag over each flash to protect them from the rain. That worked great. I used my trusty YN-603N remote trigger on a Nikon D5100. I got to the race about 10 minutes before it started, so I didn’t have much time to experiment with different lenses. I set up my lights and got in a few test shots. I used manual exposure, ISO 100, 1/200th, varying the aperture from f4 – f5 to control lights. At first I had my 50mm 1.8 mounted which was not wide enough for the position I was shooting from. I quickly switched to a 35mm 1.8 just before the first runners arrived. It turns out I was lucky it was overcast and rainy for most of the race. This allowed me to use the little speedlights to add enough light to be visible in the photo. The sun came out for a few minutes near the end of the race and overpowered my little flashes at the max sync speed of 1/200th of a second. I used continuous focus, which I don’t have much experience with. Usually I use single servo – single focus point, and half press until I’m happy with the focus. In this situation I had to try to keep the focus point over my subject while they ran by. This was harder than I expected. Reviewing later on the computer, I noticed that about 60-70% of the shots were in focus with this method. The hardest part was choosing a subject when there were large groups of runners. There are so many competing interests I found it tough to make the split second decision about who to focus on. Lessons Learned Weather preparation paid off. I was wearing a rain jacket, and had my gear in plastic bags. No issues there. When the rain stopped mid-way through that was just a bonus. I wish I had brought my travel stool. I have a folding camping stool that would have been perfect, but I decided not to bring it. My legs are pretty sore from squatting and kneeling for most shots. I was very surprised the batteries lasted on the flashes the whole time. I took about 400 pictures. The only shots I missed due to slow recycle time was when I used the continuous shooting mode. I quickly switched to single picture mode early on. Since I was shooting at ½ power I could get shots off in pretty quick succession. I had no issues with the flashes overheating or being otherwise damaged. Using the prime lens I found myself having to be patient and waiting for the runners to fill the frame. Since I was using a prime lens, I could not zoom to compose. Many of the runners would see me and make funny expressions waiting f