Richard Peters Photography blog
Wildlife photography, shooting tips, videos, equipment reviews, location diaries and more!
This is one of the best bags I’ve ever used! If you travel by air with either a lot of camera gear, or one of the big telephotos such as a 600mm, the Airport International v2.0 is well worth a look. Not only is it designed to fit within all International carry-on sizes, but it [...]
It’s been a long time coming, eight months in fact, but my two week winter wildlife photography trip to Yellowstone national park is here! We fly out on the 27th, where I’ll be doing daily updates via my Twitter/Facebook (internet/phone signal willing), and return on the 10th Feb. So what’s on the agenda and what [...]
The D7000 is the first Nikon DSLR to shoot 1080p, and also has a really nice button layout to access video. But what of the dreaded rolling shutter? Following on from my high ISO samples, here is a quick 1080p video to show the rolling shutter effect at it’s worst on the D7000, as it’s [...]
I hated the idea of video on DSLRs at first. Slowly I got more and more curious and wanted to have a go. Enter my recent upgrade to the D3s, and a couple of hours playing with its video mode, and I’m a huge convert! And I share with you now my first delve in [...]
If you’ve never been to Istanbul and heard the call to prayer that rings throughout the city five times a day, you must! It’s an amazing experience and so far removed from anything I am used to living in London, but something I very quickly grew to appreciate whilst there. So, I decided to take [...]
Time to get wet (or, hopefully not)! If you shoot with a telephoto lens from 300mm upwards, and want to keep it dry in the rain, snow or even protect it from sand, then the Hydrophobia 300-600 from ThinkTank Photo is certainly worth looking at. I turned the hose on mine to give it a [...]
It’s been out a while now but I’ve been asked by a few people on various sites, forums and emails how I find the HD video quality of the Panasonic Lumix TZ7 (ZS3 in the states) as at the time or writing, it’s my only form of video camera. So thought I’d put a rough [...]
It was -5 outside, I’d just updated to the latest D3 firmware (v2.02), had a couple of spare hours to get out in the snow for the first time AND the weather was perfect. Surely I was going to get loads of snowy wildlife shots…surely…? Nope! Just the one shot, but it did make a [...]
