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Spring Training 2023: Get Ready to Photograph Minor League Baseball
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 17, 2023

Minor League Baseball trumps the Big Leagues. Tickets are significantly cheaper, atmosphere is casual and parking is way easier. Plus the players are playing for heart, not purse. Although ballplayers on the farm teams may not have the talent or skills of the guys in The Show, the action—and therefore your chance for a great shot—is equal.

Here’s your guide to finding the teams near you, preparing for the event, and coming back with the most rewarding photos.

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ChatGPT Offers the 10 Best Tips for Photographers & Reviews Altman Camera
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 10, 2023

By now you’ve read about ChatGPT’s powerful AI engine and probably have already formulated some tentative opinions about it. Whether you’re pro or con, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other chatbots like it are here to stay, so the best strategy, perhaps, is to understand it—and learn how to use it for good instead of evil. Most important is for all of us to monitor it and see where it may lead.

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JOBY PodZilla Tripod Kit Is Ideal for Smartphones & Video Content Creators
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Feb 03, 2023

There’s a new tabletop tripod in the JOBY stable, the slim, sleek PodZilla. Perfect for cell phone photography, it includes a cleverly designed rotating smartphone grip. Here we compare it a longtime favorite, the JOBY GorillaPod 3K Kit.

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How To Use Your Own Images Instead of Presets With PS Neural Filters Style Transfer & Color Transfer
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 27, 2023

Exert your full creative powers when applying these two popular Photoshop Neural Filters. Try it once and you’ll never use the Presets again.

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This May Be The Best Smartphone Accessory Kit Ever
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 20, 2023

The SnapGrip Creator Kit from ShiftCam lets you hold your smartphone like a camera, charges the battery, lights up the scene and provides a stable tabletop support. It’s very well made and practically attaches itself.

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Start Shooting 35mm Film - Here’s a Complete Guide
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 13, 2023

It’s easier to get started in film photography than you may think, and you’re sure to enjoy the ride. If you’re even vaguely thinking about shooting some film, read this story. It’s a compendium of everything you need and where to get it. 

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Annoyed by Your iPhone’s Default Photo Settings? So are we.
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Jan 06, 2023

If you have a recent iPhone it probably defaults to Live Photo and stores images as files that have an HEIC file name extension. Here’s how to change the default to shoot regular still images and save them as the JPEGs you’re accustomed to. But HEIC (High Efficiency Image File format), better known as HEIF, is better than JPEG in many ways, and after learning a bit about it you may not want to revert back to your old, comfortable JPEG files.

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FUJIFILM X-T5 Or X-H2? Which Is For You?
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 30, 2022

The specifications of the Fujifilm X-T5 are extraordinarily similar to those of their X-H2. Pretending the price is the same (it isn’t) and you could have one or the other—but only one—which do you choose?

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10 Point Review of Radiant Photo AI-Powered Image Enhancing Software
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 23, 2022

Radiant Photo, version 1.1.0.243. Review.

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The Night Before Christmas (with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Dec 18, 2022

‘Twas the night before Christmas
And I was delirious:
I could not find the battery
for my Fujifilm mirrorless.

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