http://www.adorama.com/alc/taginfo/Jack Howard <p>Now it's your turn to critique shots by Jack, Mason, and the rest of the PhotoZAP team. Don't worry&ndash;we can take all the honest, constructive critiques you can throw our way. All we ask is that you keep in the spirit of ZAP and be honest, informative, and opinionated in your review.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12704 <p>We serve up our first ZAP the ZAPPER with this shot of Novak Djokovic squaring up a shot at Day 3 of the 2010 US Open. Do you love this shot, or is there too much to find at fault?</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12705 <p>Focus your energy on explaining what you think of this shot of a return in mid-flight in this round of ZAP the ZAPPER! Again it's a shot from Jack of Novak Djokovic from Day 3 of the US Open.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12706 <p>Here's the third of the four shots Jack made at the US Open to launch our ZAP the ZAPPERS feature. What do you think of this one?</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12707 <p>How will you ZAP PhotoZAPPER Jack Howard about this mid-serve shot from the US Open? Let us know what you think!</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12708 Whether it's for fifteen members of the local camera club, a webcast to hundreds, or on a trade show floor for thousands, here's some real-world advice from my trials and errors. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12600 As part of the promotional campaign for the 2nd Edition of Practical HDRI, Jack Howard, Director of New and Social Media for Adorama Camera will be giving a free hour-long webinar on High Dynamic Rang http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12573 One of the more interesting blog postings on Content-Aware Fill was posted recently over at Photoshelter. Several guest commentators, weighed in with thoughts on this new tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12555 For the longest time, I'd been meaning to dupe important documents to a small, high capacity external drive to store offsite in my safety deposit box. And I wrote about doing so in January 2nd in a se http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12404 Today’s launch of Photoshop CS5 is great news for photographers of all stripes. HDRI photographers in particular are going to love the upgrades and improvements for HDR photography. That’s right—CS5. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12456 10 years ago this month, I bought my Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L lens. I had to save up for it, and it made things very tight that month, but this lens and the sacrifices it meant to acquire it represente http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12394 This new report produced by our friends at Photoshelter is filled with great advice for photographers to make the most of marketing themselves and their services on popular social sites including Face http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12244 Here's a couple of cool things I've come across recently via John Nack's blog. If you're not subscribed to this blog from the one of the lead developers of Adobe Photoshop, you should. John has a grea http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12196 I've interviewed 32 photographers for the TechTock podcast in 2009, and our guests have ranged from NASA staffers, to baseball pros, automotive editorial shooters, microstock shooters, to military pho http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12154 Poring through spec sheet after spec sheet while preparing my 2009 HDR All-Stars Buying Guide piece left me sort of puzzled as to why so many cameras are hobbled straight out of the box. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12153 The Leica S2 has a large price tag, to be certain, but that large price tag comes with a large sensor, and huge image files. The Learning Center team spends some time with this new ultra-luxe medium f http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12129 This blog posting is in response to the online blog conversation initiated by Andy Adams and Miki Johnson on the future of Photo Books and the question: What Will Photo Books look like in 2019? I don' http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12121 The two newest members of the Lensbaby Optic swap tribe bring new elements to the Lensbaby experience and are a cool way for photographers to experiment with new techniques in a relatively economical http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12110 "Lightwriting" is different than "Lightpainting" because instead of illuminating an object, you use a small flashlight to "write" directly on your camera sensor. And by capturing the whole alphabet, y http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11976 <p>It&rsquo;s true that you can make great High Dynamic Range Images with almost any camera with full manual controls, but a wide and fast bracket sequence makes it so much easier. These cameras are at the top of the heap for serious HDR photographers.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12092 I originally wrote this piece as a guest blogger for our friends over at Techlicious.com, a cool site all about tech gadgets geared towards women. But as holiday gatherings approach, these are great t http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12096 Casio's first foray into the compact weather, shock and waterproof category is a very stylish model, with some seriously hardcore specs and a G-shock legacy to live up to on durability. But we want to http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12062 It's not that there aren't some amazing tools for HDR photographers in Adobe Photoshop CS4, it's just that these tools and tricks aren't all that well-known. In this two-part screencast series, we'll http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12048 When and where the sun and moon rises and sets can make a world of difference for stunning images. And this freeware program helps you figure it all out! http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12020 Along with the store, the TechTock blog and the Adorama Learning Center are taking a break from this afternoon until Monday, October 12. In the meantime, here's some cool links for rainy (and sunny) d http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11927 A few years back I pitched a massive amount of old film that I'd been hauling around for years. Mind you, I've still got heaps of film lying around in various states of indexing and organization schem http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11923 Sometimes a secondary use for a camera gadget is so brilliant, and so obvious that until you see it, you can't believe you've never thought of it. Originally, these hotshoe to quarter-twenty tripod so http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11900 The Pentax K-x, the new entry-level SLR with a 12.4 megapixel sensor-shift APS-C CMOS chip, shares a good bit of digital DNA with the flagship Pentax SLR, the K-7. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11888 I was spellbound watching "Yellowstone: Battle for Life" on Animal Planet recently. It brought back the memories and lessons of my own adventure into this wild place a few winters ago during a blizzar http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11887 The world of photography has been a lot more entertaining since Aaron Johnson's What the Duck comic strip burst onto the scene, pretty much fully hatched, just over three years ago. Yes, yes, it's tru http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11878 Maria Sharapova, Andre Agassi, Michael Landon, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke and the Muppets, among many others, have hawked cameras and photo gear through the years. And not all of these commercials ha http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11868 It never occurred to us how rare it had become to get home from our travels and print out a few 4x6 shots for a photo album. But the more people we talk to, the more amazed everyone is that we have ac http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11796 I just wrapped up judging the April 2009 clip contest for the Illinois Press Photographer's Assocation, and it got me to thinking about my newspaper days, monthly clips contests, and photo contests in http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11787 A conversation yesterday turned to talk of our first "real" cameras and where these are now. As I've mentioned before, for me it was a Ricoh KR-30SP, and I know exactly where it is. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11772 For years, my trusty Epson Stylus 2200 was my only home printer. It always pained me to use my costsly photo and matte black inks for wholly necessary, but totally pedestrian plain-paper printing task http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11764 The original intent of tilt-shift optics was to correct for perspective problems by allowing the lens elements to go off-parallel with the capture plane. New school shooters have taken swinging optics http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11734 A fortune cookie once offered me this sage advice ripped straight from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Don't Panic." For years, that fortune was taped to my laptop computer. I'm pretty sure 42 http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11720 Kodak bids farewell to KODACHROME, pro photographer and travel blogger Steven Frisherling gets an edible Nikomat for his birthday and iGoogle can be skinned with themes from legendary photographer Jim http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11695 After much rumor-mongering, brilliant viral campaigns, the Olympus E-P1 has arrived. Building on the 50 year legacy of the original 35mm half-frame PEN camera, the E-P1 is a bold, yet measured, step f http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11680 There's not a pocket camera in market that comes close to the feature set and image quality of the Sigma DP2 for serious High Dynamic Range Imaging, except for its Sigma sibling the DP1. And if you th http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11676 Mockmoon's timelapse videos, shot with still cameras including the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Nikon D3 are simply spectacular. I could prattle on for a while about harmonious compositions, the yin-y http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11674 TechTock reader Anthony Dayton asked us for tips on overcoming the problem of his DSLR's built-in flash's evaluative pre-flash for triggering studio strobes while staying wireless. We've got some quic http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11657 The narrated slideshow is a great example of the evolution of web-based photojournalism. And there are many interesting examples of this form on the 2009 Soul of Athens website. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11635 It's official. The just-announced Pentax K-7 is the first SLR with true in-camera High Dynamic Range Imaging capabilities. The new flagship of the Pentax line replaces the K20D, and although it has a http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11608 I'll admit it, I've been a fan of the Panasonic's pocketable double-digit zooms since the original Lumix DMC-TZ1 with its big owl eye of a Leica DC lens back a few years ago. And the newest Lumix in t http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11601 For years, I’d been meaning to send a note to a specific photographer whose work has had a profound impact on my career, life, and overall philosophical outlook. And it was one of those things that al http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11592 This 10-minute video showcases great wildlife imagery, with a purpose. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11582 Long before DMCA, IPTC, or C&Ds to bloggers and takedown notices to their ISPs, is one of, if not, the earliest examples of copyright warnings from the 16th Century, reports Quirk Books "Secret Lives http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11568 Sports Illustrated Slide Show: How the Picture Tells Its Story ($29.95 USD), by Steven Hoffman (Intro by Terry McDonnell, Edited by Bill Syken) is a great new highly illustrated coffee table book show http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11556 Trust us, it is ridiculously simple to use Xtranormal to make short animated videos. If you can type, and drag a mouse, you can be a cinematographer. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11549 It was late summer 2005, and the news freelance gigs had begun drying up in New Jersey. I went from shooting about forty to fifty assignments a month for five or six dailies to about eight to twelve a http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11423