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photowalk

Spider Holster review and how to use it with the Really Right Stuff system

November 25, 2009

The Spider Holster is an amazing product. Photographer Shai Eynav’s beautiful design turned into something powerful. The Spider Holster is a heavy duty metal clip that can be attached to the Spider Belt or threaded onto your existing belt. The Spider Plate has multiple pin locations which [...]

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HDR – High School

November 16, 2009

This HDR was taken during the Springfield, NJ Photowalk. It consists of 9 photos merged into an HDR in Photomatix. This is also the High School I went to.

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Help your shoulders when carrying a tripod for under $3

October 26, 2009

Many photographers keep their cameras on a tripod while walking around looking for great subjects to capture. I do it too and my shoulders are often in a lot of pain afterwards. There is a simple solution that Op/tech designed called Op/tech 1.25″ Tripod Leg Wraps. These are [...]

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The Cannonball House Flag

October 16, 2009

During the Springfield Photowalk I was challenging myself to only photograph specific subjects. I didn’t want to just keep snapping away. I took my time and really thought about what I wanted from the photowalk. At the Cannonball House I saw this flag on the side of the building. I [...]

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RSS Feed problems and other updates

August 5, 2009

After updating my Wordpress blog to the newest version 2.8.3 I noticed that my RSS feed was not working. This affects streaming new articles to Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and more.
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://scottwyden.com/feed/
Line Number 2, Column 1:
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While trying to find the [...]

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Photowalk with me in Springfield, NJ

August 3, 2009

I’ve been planning a Photowalk in Springfield, NJ for a while now. Here are the details
September 26, 2009 10am – Noon
The Photowalk will start outside Mack Camera. We will walk up Mountain Avenue to Shunpike Road towards the YMCA to head back to Mack Camera via South Springfield Avenue. [...]

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Promaster Digital HGX UV Filter Review

June 18, 2009

You know how sometimes when you grab your camera a finger touches the filter. It takes a lot of cleaning fluid to get rid of a greasy fingerprint. Or when you leave a rarely used lens in its case for a while dust accumulates on the filter. [...]

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Center City Photowalk – Philadelphia, PA

May 19, 2009

Melissa, Andrew, Courtney and I signed up for Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk for July 18th, 2009. Last year we walked in Baltimore, but this year we decided to walk in Philly so our friend Danyo can join us as he is trying to get more into photography.
For those who would [...]

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Inside My Photowalk Camera Bag

April 3, 2009

This is what I typically carry on a photowalk

Nikon D700 w/ grip
Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8
Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8
sometimes 70-200mm f/2.8
sometimes Nikon 105mm Micro f/2.8
sometimes Nikon SU-800 & SB900
4x Lexar 8GB UDMA Card
Enough extra batteries for the length of the photowalk
Think Tank Photo Streetwalker HardDrive
Business Cards
Cleaning Cloth
Lens Pen
iPod
shooting gloves just in case it [...]

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Shooting with the opposite eye

February 24, 2009

Saturday night while Photowalking Washtington Street in Hoboken I was thinking about how most photographers, maybe even all photographers get so comfortable with the shooting style that they never switch it up. For example, I am a lefty who had to learn to shoot as a righty since all cameras [...]

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Photowalk to downtown Woodbridge, NJ

February 15, 2009

Melissa and I decided to walk to get a late lunch in downtown Woodbridge today. I brought the Nikon D90 so I can play around with the movie mode. I uploaded all of the photos I shot including 1 movie to flickr. Below are my two favorite which I uploaded [...]

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