Limited Time Deal: Get All Three of My eBooks for $17

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dan Bailey

A few months ago, Photowhoa.com bundled all three of my eBooks together and offered the entire collection for only $17. That’s 48% off of the regular price.

I’d like to thank those readers who took advantage of that awesome deal and picked up the bundle.

For those who didn’t, you have another chance to grab all three of my photography eBooks for a very special price. For a limited time, Photowhoa is running this deal again.

And even if you did pickup this bundle, make sure you bookmark Photowhoa for other great deals. This week they’re offering all 40 of the Craft and Vision titles for almost 50% off, and they usually have some free offers going as well.

How to Become a Pro Photographer

You want to take the next step from amateur to pro, but you have no idea how you can start earning a living from photography. This e-book answers many of your questions about the industry and the business-side of photography.

With this e-book, you will learn the ins and outs of the photography business. This book isn’t about how to take better photos, it’s about taking your hobby into a full-time career. This is the book to read if you need to know about the business and logistics side of a photography career.

Making the Image

Making the Image is a conceptual guide to have you thinking outside of the box so you can start creating beautiful images. With this guide, you’ll be able to learn how you can take beautiful photos in order to create true emotional impact with your audience.

Bailey utilizes beautiful imagery from his own portfolio so you can easily grasp the concepts that he’s teaching. For your convenience, the book is horizontally formatted, making it easily readable on computers and iPads.

Going Fast with Light

Going Fast with Light teaches you the nitty-gritty technical details so you can properly use your tools to take better photos. Specifically, you’ll learn about using off-camera flash in outdoor settings, where even the best photographers have trouble against the elements of nature.

With the techniques used by Dan Bailey, you’ll be able to efficiently take control of lighting situations even when you face great challenges such as the sun, and you’ll be able to do it without having to lug cumbersome, heavy lighting equipment.

Click Here to Get All 3 of These eBooks for Just $17

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The Lowepro Flipside Sport AW Adventure Camera Pack

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Dan Bailey

Lowepro Flipside Sport AW Adventure Camera Pack

 

Adventure and outdoor photographers take note, there’s a new pack on the block: the Lowepro Flipside Sport AW. Built especially for highly active shooters, this streamlined and technical daypack lets you hit the trail running with your gear. Literally.

Designed with a breathable, fully adjustable suspension system and front panel flap access, the Flipside Sport AW holds your gear securely on your back while you’re on the go, and gives you quick access when you’re ready to shoot. To get your camera, you simply undo your shoulders straps, swing the pack around to the front and unzip the panel. There’s your gear. All of it. Right there, easy to see, just like the view in that picture above. No taking the pack off, no digging around. Fast and simple.

Done shooting? Ready to go? Zip it closed, swing it back around and stick your arms through the shoulder straps again. A few seconds later, you’re off and running.

It’s obvious that Lowepro is really taking note of the thing that we adventure and mountain photographers want most in a pack, which is quick access and the ability to move quickly through varying terrain without the thing bouncing all around on our backs. If you’ve ever run with your camera gear, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. Whether you’re photographing sports like running, skiing or mountain biking, chasing kayakers down the river or simply hurrying up the trail to catch last light, you want a pack that will hold your gear securely and that lets you get in and out with little hassle.

The Flipside Sport AW is designed to do both, and although I haven’t gotten my hands on this pack yet, from what I’ve seen, it appears to do both really well. when I do, I’ll of course, write up a full review.

The pack comes in two sizes, the Flipside Sport 15L and the Flipside Sport 10L. The pack shown above is the 15L model and you can see how much gear it holds. That’s in addition to the hydration ready pocket and whatever other small amount of clothing and personal gear that stash in there. The advantage of the 15L size is that it will hold a pro sized DSLR with attached battery grip, which is something that the Photo Sport 200 won’t do.

 

Lowepro Flipside Sport 10L AW

The Flipside Sport 10L version is a little smaller, although it will still fit a DSLR body with attached lens (up to 70-200mm f/2.8), a couple of extra lenses or flashes, personal gear and hydration bladder.

Both versions also have a unique tripod stash pocket on the side of the pack and a removable camera compartment, which allows you to use the Flipside Sport AW as a regular daypack when you’re done shooting.

Check out the video below of the Flipside Sport AW in action with pro photographer Trevor Clark. Pretty much tells the whole story.

Think this pack is for you? As a professional Lowepro user, I’m able to offer my readers special discounts on Lowepro gear. Click here to order either the Flipside Sport 15L AW or the Flipside Sport 10L AW pack and use code LP20 in your shopping cart to get 20% off.

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New eBook: “Natural Light,” by Mitchell Kanashkevich

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Dan Bailey

Digital Photography School has just released a brand new eBook called Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s most powerful tool, by pro travel photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich.

This one looks promising for a couple of reasons. First of all, Mitchell is a top notch photographer. (He’s the author of the Rabari eBook that I reviewed here a few months ago), and I think that he shoots very compelling work.

More importantly, we often hear that photography is all about the light, but we don’t always learn how to effectively use it in our photography.

In this 96-page eBook, Mitchell details not just how to use magic hour light- (that’s the easy one), he explains how to understand and use all different types of light in order to communicate and evoke the mood and emotion that you’re trying to bring forth in your imagery.

Photographers often get told to put their cameras away at midday, but the truth is that if you’re only shooting pictures at sunrise and sunset, you’re missing an entire day’s worth of great photo opportunities. Some subject matter can actually benefit from different types of light, whether it’s harsh, cool, soft, diffused or foggy. Understanding and gaining mastery of how to use these different types of light will indeed make you a better photographer.

In Natural Light, Mitchell covers the role and power of light in photography, how to deal with the technical aspects of shooting in different types of light, how to use quality, direction, diffusion, and reflection to your advantage when composing subject matter and how to control the light without having to resort to using lots gear.

That’s the kicker. Without extra gear. The light is already there, and it doesn’t necessarily take lots of flashes and modifiers to create compelling imagery if you know what you’re doing, it just takes understanding and practice. Natural light is simple. It’s unencumbering. It’s free. It’s real. Natural light is how we cut our teeth as photographers and it’s what we always come back to when we want to slip through the world with only our cameras, our eyes and our minds.

Equipment is cool, but being a master of light is even cooler.

Check out Mitchell’s book, Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s most powerful tool. Right now, it’s 25% off.

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All 40 Craft And Vision Photography eBooks for 40% Off

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Dan Bailey

Get All 40 Craft and Vision eBooks for 40% Off.

I’m a huge fan of the Craft and Vision eBooks. David duChemin and his crew have done an amazing job putting together a library of informative and inspiring titles that provide a world of technical instruction and creative insight.

Written by a collection of leading pros, each title covers a specific area of photography, such as unlocking and expanding creativity, technical lighting, understanding light, discovering and fine tuning your personal vision, processing & printing fine art and more.

Each title is filled with years of experience, stunning imagery and thorough writing that describes, educations, inspires in such as way that after reading one, you can’t wait to pick up your camera again and rush outside.

About half the books are written by modern visionary genius David duChemin. If you aren’t familiar with his work or his writing style, I put him in the same category of imagery and photographic mentorship as the late Galen Rowell. David is an incredibly talented and hard working humanitarian and travel photographer who writes with such passion for the creative craft of imagining, seeking out and producing compelling photographs that match your own excitement about the subject.

I’ve read almost all of the C&V titles and have reviewed a number of them here on my blog, and I think that every single one of them is well worth reading. For the awesome content and colossal amount of inspiration that each one contains, I honestly think that they’re worth more than only five bucks, but that’s not my call.

At that price, you simply can’t go wrong, except that this week only, you can get the entire Craft and Vision photography eBook collection for 40% off.

If you’re new to the C&V books, then this is a great introduction. I promise, you won’t be disappointed. And even if you’ve already picked up a few C&V titles, this limited time deal allows you pick up the rest of the collection and you’ll still save money.

This is a limited time deal, and it expires at the end of this week. You can check out all of the titles here.

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3 Simple Tips for Photographing Action

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Dan Bailey

Kayaking Tunnel Falls, Gore Canyon, Colorado River

Kayaking Tunnel Falls, Gore Canyon, Colorado River

You show up at the river in your twenty year old (Choose one: Toyota or Subaru) with a pack full of camera gear, a case of blank memory cards and enough energy and excitement to power a small city. Your adrenaline rises as you scramble down the rocky trail in your Tevas with the faded nylon straps, grasping at small bushes and branches as if they might help steady your footing as you skid over loose dirt and pebbles on your way down to the bank.

The roar of the class V rapid grows in your ears and blocks out nearly every other sound as you get closer. You can almost smell the frothy mountain water, the same water that you were skiing on sixty miles up canyon just a few weeks ago. Every couple of minutes, a few stray drops cut loose from the river and land on your bare arms that are ripped from carrying heavy camera gear and adventuring in the outdoors.

A hundred yards upstream, a group of kayakers are just putting in to run the rapid. You quickly drop your pack and pull out your camera, slap on your big lens and make a few test shots until you’re confident about your exposure, making sure that you’re shutter speed is high enough to freeze the action.

So how do you ensure that you get the shot? Better hurry with your analysis of the scene because here they come!! Don’t worry, I’ve done this before- I’ll give you some quick pointers. Here are three simple tips for photographing action. Yes, you can apply these techniques to other sports besides kayaking. Now good luck and have fun!

1. Get Closer

Don’t be afraid to zoom that big lens all the way in, that’s what they’re made for! Use it like you mean it. Bring that action right up close!! Let your viewers feel like they can almost smell and drink that water! Get them right into the middle of the whole mess and show them the tight details. Let them think that they’re about to trip over your subject! I guarantee, it will take their breath away.

Kayaking Upper Narrows, Cache la Poudre River, Colorado

2. Zoom Out

Ok, enough of the close stuff, now zoom out and give us the whole scene. Let us see your subject in context of their entire environment. Adventure sports are as much, if not more, about the adventure, than the sport itself, so let us get a feel for the dramatic expanse of the natural world where these people are enjoying their time in the outdoors. After all, you love it here just as much; show us what’s so great about this place or this activity.

Whitewater kayaking, Cache La Poudre River, near Fort Collins, Colorado

Whitewater kayaking, Cache La Poudre River, near Fort Collins, Colorado

 

3. Keep Shooting

Feeling good? Think you’ve got some awesome shots so far? You’re doing great, but don’t stop yet, keep that motor drive working. Keep burning frames until either your subject is gone or the light is gone, or both. Chances are good that as good as the stuff you’ve already shot might be, there’s a totally killer image just waiting for you to grab, only you won’t know when it’s going to appear until it jumps right in front of your eyes.

It will probably take you buy surprise, so you’ll have to keep your eye trained on the subject and your finger at the ready, because it will only happen once. You won’t actually know when (or if) it will even happen until it’s staring you right in the face for a mere spit second. It’s that moment that separates the big boy and big girl photographers from the amateurs. You either get he shot or you don’t

Dave Zinn kayaking Poudre Falls, Cache la Poudre River, Colorado

Dave Zinn kayaking Poudre Falls, Cache la Poudre River, Colorado

 

Did you get it? Awesome!! Great job! Feels good doesn’t it? Now pack up, head on down the canyon and meet me at the (insert favorite watering hole.) The first pitcher is on me!

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