Microsoft has free goodies for photographers. Book mark www.microsoft.com/prophoto/ and check it out on a periodic basis. A variety of helpful articles are posted on a regular basis. Under DOWNLOADS you will find Microsoft’s Raw Image Viewer which has been updated to include the Canon 5D and the Nikon D200.
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Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac. Tucson, Arizona, 1968. Photo © Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Where would I go if I were in the Tucson area and wanted to take pictures? I’ve never been to Tucson, Arizona, but I do know the places that are highly recommended in a lot of photography magazine articles. The top three are the San Xavier del Bac Mission, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Saguaro National Park.
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Receptionist, plastic surgeon’s office. Photo © Jim Doty, Jr.
If the light is right, you can take a portrait almost anywhere. This young woman is the receptionist behind the counter in a doctor’s office. By special request, I had taken an “environmental” portrait to illustrate an article I had written previously for my Reflections blog. Then I moved in closer to get a head and shoulder’s portrait.
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The March 2006 issue of Popular Photography (pages 64-74) has another “Shoot-Outâ€. This one is between the low-priced digital SLRs with 6 to 8 megapixel sensors. “Low priced†is a relative term since digital cameras are more expensive than film cameras. The “street price†for these cameras (body only) ranges from a low of $570 to a high of $790. At least in D-SLR terms, these are the budget models.
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Morning light on Denali (Mt. McKinley), Denali National Park, Alaska.
Photo © Jim Doty, Jr.
Early in the morning of March 3, my primary photo website rolled past one million page visits. That was hard to imagine when I started the site a few years ago. In 2000, the first full year the site was online, there were 4,432 page visits for the whole year. Now the site has around 36,000 page visits per month. My thanks to all of you who visit!
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Upper Tahquamenon Falls, Tahquamenon Gorge, and the ice and snow covered Tahquamenon River. Michigan U.P. Photo copyright © Jim Doty, Jr.
Upper Tahquamenon Falls in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.i) s a great place to take pictures. At 200 feet wide, with a 50 foot drop, and a flow of up to 50,000 gallons of water per second, Upper Tahquamenon Falls is one of the largest falls east of the Mississippi. The falls are west of Paradise, Michigan on M-123 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. More information, along with another photo, is here.
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