G Dan Mitchell Photography

From time to time blog readers email me questions about photography subjects. When possible I like to answer them here so that I can share the answer with others who might be interested. Here is a recent question: “If you were going on a hike to capture landscape and wildflowers, and you could only take [...]

(In another forum someone asked a question – actually, more like posed a challenge – related to how much usable detail and quality could be extracted from a raw file that contained areas of very low luminosity, as could happen with a badly underexposed image or with an image of a scene with a very [...]

(This post is slightly adapted from something I recently posted in a photography forum in which hyperfocal distance, “DOF calculation” software, and related issues were under discussion.) Shooting as a way to learn to understand how things like depth of field or “hyperfocal distance” work is a great idea – it is perhaps the best way to [...]

(This is another post based on something I wrote elsewhere as a response to a question about this lens – I’m re-sharing it here with minor editing.) I’ve used the Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS lens for  a lot – for things as varied as handheld shooting of bicycle races and tripod-based shooting of landscapes. Over time I’ve [...]