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  • A Few Easy Lens Dustings
    I get asked about 15 times a week, “How can I get the dust out of my lens?” The right answer is you don’t. All lenses have dust in them and it doesn’t affect the images at all 99% of the time. Even if you clean it all out, it will be back after you […]
  • How to Ruin Your (or Our) Gear in 5 Minutes (Without Water)
    If there hasn’t been a Color Run 5k or 10k race near you, there probably will be soon. And with all that color, you certainly want to take some pictures, right? Not with your camera you don’t (and not with ours either). I’m never one to worry much about lens dust. I’ve written about why […]
  • First Look: Rokinon 24mm f/3.5 Tilt-Shift – Part 2.
    When we optically tested the RokiBowYang tilt shift, I mentioned that my recommendation was tempered by wanting to see how it was built. Parts and repairs, at least in the U. S., are nonexistent and the price is a bit high for me to consider it a disposable, like the 14mm RokiBowYang. So first thing […]
  • First Look: Rokinon 24mm f/3.5 Tilt-Shift Lens – Part 1
    The release of the Rokinon 24mm f/3.5 Tilt-shift lens (also branded as Samyang or Bower) has created quite a bit of excitement. For Canon and Nikon shooters, it offers a 24mm tilt-shift alternative for around half the price of the brand name lenses. For shooters of other systems, it offers a tilt-shift option they may not […]

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  • Rumors MirrorLess • Panasonic GX2 May 25, 2013
    Salve Signori, noto rumors sempre piu' insistenti con dettagli molto attendibili (FT5) della futura GX:-stabilizzatore su sensore-mirino integrato inclinabile-nuovo sensore 18mp-1/8000s(aggiungo, vista la G6, modalita' panoramica)tutte cose che personalmente mi attizzano tantissimo e per le quali oserai "ADDIRITTURA" sostituire la mia ama […]
  • Rumors MirrorLess • Nuova mirrorless Leica? May 23, 2013
    Leica sta per annunciare una nuova macchina ma non ho capito se sarà una mirrorlessi.http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/leica-t ... n-june-11/Non credo che sarà economica visti i prezzi praticati da Leica.Statistiche: Inviato da al_bo — 23/05/2013, 22:42 — Risposte 2 — Visite 15 […]
  • Rumors MirrorLess • Obiettivi Zeiss FF May 21, 2013
    Zeiss ha annunciato la roadmap per lenti E con copertura FFhttp://www.sonyalpharumors.com/zeiss-fu ... expensive/Viste le previsioni che ci sono sui prezzi sia delle ottiche che della nuova Nex-9 penso che ci rinuncerò a favore della nuova 7 e mi tengo strette tutte le mie lenti vintage.Statistiche: Inviato da al_bo — 21/05/2013, 21:56 — Risposte 5 — Visite […]

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New CMPG Board of Directors

The results of the Board elections are in. Congratulates to the new Officers.

CMPG Officers 2013
Director:  Steve Talabac
Asst Director: Ken Losurdo
Secretary-Treasurer: Dave Humes

Education Coordinator:  Steve Talabac (Acting ) 

Exhibit Coordinator: John Maloney
Events Coordinator: Earl Blake
Publicity: Kirsten Messmer

Members at Large:
Warren Von Uffel
Mark Winter
Norm Ringel
Membership: Louise McLaughlin
Web Services: Doug Miller

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“Parked outside the door” at Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House in Columbia

The Baltimore Sun/Howard County press reports “Petro's photography exhibit is worth the drive”:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/ne…..0983.story

 

My photography exhibit, “Parked Outside the Door” is running from April 18 – June 1 at the Kish Gallery at Slayton House in Wilde Lake, Columbia.

My characterization of the show can be found on my web site blog here:

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CMPG Social Media Links

 

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Here is the link for the Facebook page for CMPG: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_23395515154 Stop by, take a look and “friend” us..   Doesn’t hurt.  And yes, you must be a Facebook member to …

October 1, 2011 | Comments Off | Read More

And now Facebook! Where’s the world going?

As Melissa noted last night, the CMPG Facebook page has been given a new lease on life. In the near future we will be adding some new features to include a link to a purely voluntary gallery on this web site.
Here is the link for the Facebook page for CMPG: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_23395515154 Stop by, take a look and “friend” us..   …

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Image Copy Protection Enabled

“Right-click downloads” of images from the CMPG web site have been disabled, including images displayed “full size” or in slide shows. This should discourage casual copying of member images. Of course, there are still ways to defeat any copy protection scheme, this action should deter most casual image grabbers.

In addition, the ability to copy text from the web site by …

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    Yesterday we published a post from Hailey Bartholomew with Tips for Taking Portraits that Reflect the Character and Spirit of Your Subject that gave me the theme of this weeks challenge. Your challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘Spirit’. Feel free to approach the theme in any way that [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. C […]
  • Home Is Where The Heart Is: How To Take Portraits In It
    by Lynsey Peterson. I hate nature. There. I said it. It’s like glitter—it seems like such a fun idea but no matter how careful you are, it gets all over you and 7 showers later you still find it in your hair. This is further complicated by the fact that I live in what is [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips […]
  • The Sony RX100 at Dublin Zoo [USER REVIEW]
    by Sarah Hipwell It’s been about four years since my last visit to the zoo. Last week my two girls had a break from school so I decided to take them along with my Mum for a day out to visit the animals at Dublin Zoo. I brought my trusty new Sony RX100 and as [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photograp […]
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    A Guest contribution by Hailey Bartholomew from You Can’t Be Serious. 1. Do Something Who are you photographing? If you don’t know them well, find out what they love to do and where they relax the most. Maybe they love to row boats or take picnics at their favourite park every Sunday. Maybe you are [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check o […]

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