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Today, I present a lesson. I can’t call it a lesson learned, because I’m still learning it. The lesson is: pay attention to your aperture, and choose it wisely. On this particular day, I forgot about that, and I’m still kicking myself over it. I was on a vacation, staying on the coast of Maine….
One day this summer I got up well before dawn, to load gear into the car and drive down to a favorite location in the Killbuck Marsh area, some twenty miles south. I parked the car just off the side of the dirt road, strapped gear onto my back, and headed into a field of…
What are wide angle, prime, telephoto, or zoom lenses? The names can sometimes be confusing to a beginner, because you hear them tossed around a lot in generic ways (sometimes inaccurately), and there’s some overlap in the terms. So here’s a summary. Different types of lenses are defined, in part, by their focal length, which…