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Costa Rica, 2008 |
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Cory Photography with Tom and Pat Cory |
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Newsletter, December, 2010 |
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Cory Photography Newsletter 42 Dec 14, 2010
In this edition you will find:
Sigma f2.8 120-300mm Lens Review A Fun Winter Project Several Interesting and Useful Products and Websites Finally--More of our Images on Picasa Web Upcoming Events 2011 Workshop Schedule including Date Change for San Diego
Hello!
As I write this we have snow and it’s cold. I should be out photographing—maybe I’ll do that when I finish this—if it warms up some… Actually, I need to stop finding excuses and get out there—it’s a shame to miss the beauty of winter just because it might be a little cold outside. But there’s no getting around the fact that I’m looking forward to Costa Rica in February. By the way, that photo tour is filling but still has a few places left if you’d like to join us.
Morocco was very interesting. We covered a lot of territory and came away with a much better feel for the country and its people, and about 3000 images each. As our terrific guide told us, it is the land of a thousand contrasts and I think he’s right.
We recently returned from our scouting trip to San Diego. That’s another very rich photographic area with a fantastic climate. We decided to slide our photo tour from June to October to get us out of the tourist season and away from the potential ‘June gloom’. We have added an album with a few of our images from our scouting trip onto Picasa web.
We wish you all the joys of this holiday season and a new year filled with many photographic adventures.
Tom and Pat
PS Yes, I did go out to photograph. Not the world’s greatest images but I’m glad I didn’t wimp out.
Sigma f2.8 120-300mm Lens Review We have been photographing more sports and wildlife and wishing we had a faster lens so we made the plunge and bought the Sigma f2.8 120-300mm lens. It is not inexpensive but it costs less than many alternatives. We are quite pleased with the lens. It is optically very good and it works quite well with a 1.4 tele-converter giving us an f4 at more than 600mm. It is a very heavy lens and does not have vibration reduction but all in all we are quite pleased with it.
A Fun Winter Project Practical Photography, a British magazine, recently had an article about a fun way of creating some abstract close-up images. It’s sort of like the bubble box that we discussed quite a while ago but doesn’t require any construction. You simply take a clear glass baking dish and support it to a height of about 12-18 inches (we are using scrap wood or cardboard boxes). Fill the dish with water and then pour a little cooking oil on top of the water and swirl it around a bit. You can then place some colorful paper below and you have instant color for your abstract patterns. |
