Michael Nielsen on February 13th, 2010

I will now continue my story on my first 10 years, if you have not read the first part you can read it here:
My 10 years with digital photography – Part One
When I got my camera phone
In 2006 I got my first camera phone – And my first thought about camera phones, was that it [...]

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Michael Nielsen on October 28th, 2009

I attended a workshop a week ago, and one of my new photography friends contacted me. She needed to get some details regarding my on-location flash equipment. So I wrote this list with links to where to buy or find it.
Lighting stand
I previously used some Interfit lighting stands (Interfit COR750), but I recently upgraded to [...]

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Michael Nielsen on April 8th, 2009

I’d like to share some sites with you, these sites are a must read for me on a daily basis. I track them on my Google Reader and, if you haven’t acquainted yourself with Google Reader or another RSS reader. You should hold on a week or two, and I’ll show you how it works.
*UPDATE* [...]

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Michael Nielsen on March 13th, 2009

Just read over at Bag Kameraet that Cactus Triggers V4 has just been released, and according to Gadget Infinity these are some of the benefits over the old V2 version:

New antenna design that increases the reliability and effective distance to 30 meters.
New power source for receiver –AAA batteries.
16 selectable channels and advanced anti-interference feature.
Compatible with [...]

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Michael Nielsen on February 6th, 2009

While trying to become a better photographer, one of the skills I need to master is the ability to retouch the pictures afterwards. Inspiration can be found everywhere, on a lot of photographers blogs, and YouTube also has videos describing steps to edit for example the eyes or the skin.
Last week I found a video [...]

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