Photography By Kevin

Huntington Library 2009

Jun 18th, 2009 | By dikiem | Category: Feature Article, Lead Article, Photography By Kevin

After spending a few months reading about HDRs and seeing how it was done, I decided to give it  shot. One weekend with the Nikon D200 equip with the 70-200 2.8 VR and 16-85 3.5-5.6 VR lens, I decided to take a trip to Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
HDR is High Density Resolution. It [...]



San Francisco, California

Jan 8th, 2009 | By dikiem | Category: Photography By Kevin

I took a short vacation right between Christmas and New Year. Spent a few days up in San Francisco, California to visit the new Academy of Science building, Palace of Fine Arts, and few other areas. Here are some shot I would like to share. Would love to hear comments and feedback.
The entire gallery is [...]



Disneyland Resort, California

Jul 4th, 2008 | By dikiem | Category: Photography By Kevin

A couple of weekends ago, my wife and I join our friends at Disneyland Resort for a day. I’ve been to Disneyland several times and each time you could never seems to take enough pictures. Each time I come across new angle of things to take pictures of. This time around, since we went with [...]



Nikon Annouced D700?!?! D3 in “mini-me” format!

Jul 3rd, 2008 | By dikiem | Category: Photography By Kevin

Nikon has once again stunt the photography world. Since the D200 release, Nikon was quiet, while Canon and other companies releasing major blow one after another. The highly anticipated D200 replacement, dubbed the D300 was released not too long ago along with it’s bigger brother the D300.
Earlier this month, Nikon annouced the “mini me” of [...]



Nikon Releases Nikon Capture NX 2!

Jun 10th, 2008 | By dikiem | Category: Photography By Kevin

It was press released a few days ago that Nikon will have a new release of their previous popular image editing software Capture NX. Capture NX took image editing to a whole new level with their unique Control Point U-Technology and Non-Destructive RAW format editing.
http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Imaging-Software/25385/Capture-NX-2.html
Key Features include

Capture NX 2 features award-winning U Point® technology for [...]



San Diego Wild Animal Park & SeaWorld & Huntington Library

Feb 3rd, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: Photography By Kevin

Fortunately having relative in town, I’ve taken the opportunity to take them to a few of the places in California. A few shots taken recently from San Diego Wild Animal Park, San Diego SeaWorld, and Huntington Library in Pasadena California. Let me know what you think…
San Diego Wild Animal Park: http://photographybykevin.zenfolio.com/p20529217/
San Diego SeaWorld: http://photographybykevin.zenfolio.com/p111304571/
Huntingon Library: [...]



Nikon New D60!

Jan 29th, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: Photography By Kevin

Nikon recently added another dSLR to their consumer line of currently the D40 series and D80 series.
CLICK HERE
Some enhancement added to this will make it attractive to the average consumers, such as sharing the small, lighweight form factor of the D40 series but boasting on the new 10.2 MP CCD sensor.
The package will be couped [...]



Nikon D60 Annouced!

Jan 29th, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: Photography By Kevin

Nikon recently added another dSLR to their consumer line of currently the D40 series and D80 series.
http://press.nikonusa.com/2008/01/new_nikon_d60_digital_slr_came.php
Some enhancement added to this will make it attractive to the average consumers, such as sharing the small, lighweight form factor of the D40 series but boasting on the new 10.2 MP CCD Sensor.
Can we say byebye D50?
Pictures from [...]



Nikon Annouced D300! The Little Bro Of The D3!

Aug 23rd, 2007 | By smilepak | Category: Photography By Kevin

In the same newspress that shock the photography world today that annouced a full frame camera for Nikon, they also annouced the little brother of it and the successor to the D200. Nikon has done an excellent job on surprising people and keeping them suspended. For months, people been speculating on what is the next [...]



Nikon Annouced D3 – Full Frame CMOS!

Aug 23rd, 2007 | By smilepak | Category: Feature Article, Photography By Kevin

Today is a good day for all Nikonians! After months of speculation, rumors, and worrying about Nikon future, today Nikon has answer with a new powerful Nikon D3 using the popular CMOS sensor.
Pictures from Ken Rockwell site

Several reviews and sneak preview of this could be found at these popular site.

Rob GalBrath (CLICK HERE)
DPReview (CLICK HERE)
Ken [...]