Cooper Ricketts

Shooting for Fun.

A couple of weekends ago I took some pictures of my sister since she is home for the summer. It was fun to be able to just shoot for fun. I want to do more shooting like this in the future.

Rebel T2i/550D Jackie Chan Edition!

Canon China introduces the EOS 550D Jackie Chan Eye of Dragon special edition. The camera body comes with gold Dragon logo of Jackie Chan, who is Canon’s spokesperson in China. The Jackie Chan kit includes a Canon EF-S 180145MM lens, a camera case, a strap and an album book, all with Jackie’s logo (except theContinue reading “Rebel T2i/550D Jackie Chan Edition!”

Storm Trooper Composite.

I was going through some old pics today and came across one of a couple of storm troopers,and I thought it would be fun to make a composite of them so I did. If you would like to know how to do a composite in Photo Shop click here.

Motorcycle Photography.

This past weekend I had the opportunity to go and shoot with a fellow photographer Brett May. We shoot a couple of bikes and a 4×4 at Freedom Power Sports , it was a lot of fun and a great day for shooting.

Shooting For Fun.

I think it is important to keep your skills sharp and every now and then shoot for yourself. Thats what I did this past week when I shot pictures of Brittany Roy

Canon 70-200 Is II

Picking up this lens, you know that it is a professional lens. The construction is solid, with all of the rings tight and rotating smoothly and predictably. Important for outdoor photographers is that this lens is fully weather sealed (when used with a 1D camera body). The lens is based around a metal lens barrel and allContinue reading “Canon 70-200 Is II”

Bruce Davidson Featured In Time Magazine.

Time magazine featured legendary photographer Bruce Davidson work. Davidson was drafted into the US Army, where he served in the Signal Corps at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, attached to the post’s photo pool. Initially, he was given routine photo assignments. Undaunted, Davidson created out of seemingly mundane material unique photo studies. An editor of the post’s newspaper, recognizingContinue reading “Bruce Davidson Featured In Time Magazine.”

Quantum Film Threatens to Replace CMOS Sensors.

Just as photographic film was mostly replaced by silicon image chips, now quantum film threats to replace the conventional CMOS image sensors in digital cameras. Made from materials similar to conventional film—a polymer with embedded particles—instead of silver grains like photographic film the embedded particles are quantum dots. Quantum films can image scenes withContinue reading “Quantum Film Threatens to Replace CMOS Sensors.”

Hipstamatic.

Anyone who owns a Iphone or an Ipod touch knows that there are several of photography apps out there however not all of them are that good . Hipstamatic is an app that is worth checking out. If you like the vintage look of a Holga camera you’ll love this.

5D Mark II Users.

In the Version 2.0.4 firmware, the following phenomena that occurred with the Version 2.0.3 firmware (which was to enhance the movie functions) have been corrected.There was a phenomenon in which the manual recording settings made in C1/C2/C3 were changed and sound could not be recorded if manual sound recording was used in the C1/C2/C3 settingsContinue reading “5D Mark II Users.”