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LensCoat (leg) Wraps, review

Offering some padding to help protect your shoulder from the weight of you're tripod, plus protection from the cold and heat, the Lens Coat wrap is a handy accessory to have on your tripod.

I had an email from Scott at LensCoat a little while ago asking if I’d like to try out their new tripod Leg Wraps. A quick ‘yes please’ and a few days later there were two sets in my hands, having sped all the way from the other side of the Atlantic. Essentially the LegWraps...

Practical Photography magazine: March issue Showcase

A quick heads up for any readers of Practical Photography magazine in the UK. I’ve got some images in the Showcase section on pages 20 & 21 of the March 2011 issue. So if you’re a regular reader, keep an eye out. They picked out a series of images that work well to illustrate The...

Keep an eye on your camera settings

Almost the perfect Red Fox pounce shot!

It happens to the best of us. When you’re photographing wildlife, you never know what to expect and when. And I had a very good lesson in trying to remember to keep on top of my camera settings and not just shoot away, relying on the camera to do it all for me. Something that...

Live from Yellowstone, winter wildlife trip [video]

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...

Add copyright info to your photos EXIF

Add copyright to your camera exif

A very quick tip for any newer photographers out there (I assume many seasoned photographers will know this already), is to add copyright information in camera. This will then write that information to the photos exif data, alongside camera and lens settings. This means every photo you take comes straight out the camera with a...