Focus sessions are free and take place in the Westwood store from 9:30 am – 10 am. All sessions will allow for questions and answers. Please bring your camera and any images along that you have questions about. Feel free to use the comment option to make suggestions for future focus sessions.
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Here’s our upcoming Focus Sessions:
March 1 – Decorating with Photography
March 8 – Flash Photography
March 15 – Time Exposures
March 22 – Critique Your Photos
March 29 – Walk About Westwood
April 5 – Sensor Cleaning
April 12 – Phone Photography / Apps
April 19 – Great Landscape Photographs
April 26 – Flower Photography
These are free events – bring a friend along if you’d like. Share with your friends on Facebook – Click the Like button below. Hope you can join us!
Looking for a lens for your DSLR that will make your life easier. Stop in and check out the Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3. This all in one lens eliminates the need to carry multiple lenses. No need to swap lenses, whether you’re looking to take a photo of your family in your living room or the bird in the tree across the street. This lens now carries a $50 mail in rebate. Looking for a solid dedicated zoom lens? The Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 now features a $100 mail in rebate. This lens is perfect whether you own a full frame or crop sensor camera. Plus as a stabilized zoom lens, you’ll get clearer images with slower shutter speeds then non stabilized lenses. These mail in rebates are valid until March 31st 2014.
A local photographer or panel of photographers will judge the show and select approximately 20 final images to be featured in the show.
All images will be shown on Bergen County Camera’s Facebook page and BergenCountyCamera.com and the top 20 images will be framed and hung in the gallery for the show.
The finalists will need to submit their own 11×14 print. We will mat and frame all finalist images. Finalists will be offered a Free Consultation and a Special Price for images printed through Bergen County Camera.
The opening will be on Thursday, April 10th from 7-9pm in Westwood.
The show will remain on display until April 26th.
At this time there is a possibility of a second showing at an off site location. More details on this show will become available at a later time.
Sale price of images will be determined after finalists have been selected. We will advise customers on sale prices if needed.
Bergen County Camera shall be entitled to a 20% commission for any featured art sold during this show.
We look forward to seeing some fascinating work. Good luck!
Harriman State Park is 46,613 acres of State Park that is located in nearby Rockland County in New York. If you’re a fan of shooting any type of nature photography, Harriman State Park should be one of your favorite locations to visit. With lakes, hiking trails, streams, and all types of nature, there is no limit to photographic subjects.
Photos by Alfred Hess
Stony Brook in Harriman State Park is one of the unique areas that is worth checking out. It’s pretty easy to see how it got it’s name.
Great Places to Photograph are locations compiled by Bergen County Camera customers and employees. These are all fun, entertaining, and relaxing locations that are optimal for shooting. Want more great spots to shoot? Look here for all of our recommendations. Have a great spot of your own that you would like to share? Email it to us or leave a comment!
We’re creating a list of our favorite locations in and around New Jersey for an upcoming series of posts titled, “Great Places to Photograph”. These locations compiled by Bergen County Camera customers and employees are all fun, entertaining, and relaxing locations that are optimal for shooting. Have a great spot of your own that you would like to share? Email it to us or leave a comment!
Harriman State Park – Rockland County, NYTurtle Back Zoo – West Orange, NJThe Palisades Cliffs – Alpine, Tenafly, Englewood CliffsRingwood Manor, Ringwood, NJ
If you’ve been searching for a great zoo for photos, Turtle Back Zoo is you new destination. Located on 20 acres in the beautiful South Mountain Reservation. Featuring species from 5 continents. – 560 Northfield Ave – 973-731-5800.
This beautiful zoo features many exhibits filled with happy and playful animals surrounded by fencing that does not interfere with your photos. The animals seem to put on a show every time you visit.
Photos by Alfred Hess
Great Places to Photograph are locations compiled by Bergen County Camera customers and employees. These are all fun, entertaining, and relaxing locations that are optimal for shooting. Want more great spots to shoot? Look here for all of our recommendations. Have a great spot of your own that you would like to share? Email it to us or leave a comment!
One of my favorite locations to shoot year round is the Palisades Cliffs. The Hiking trails along the top and the boat basins along the bottom are filled with beautiful photo ops. One path that I follow multiple times a year begins at the Woman’s Federation Monument, a small Castle which allows access to its roof, and follows North along the cliffs. There are multiple locations that look absolutely stunning.
You’ll walk over the Palisades Interstate Parkway and down a path. The Woman’s Federation Memorial is a short walk along the path. Left side of the fork. This area can be muddy, so make sure you’re wearing good hiking boots.
Should you prefer to avoid hiking, Henry Hudson Drive provides some beautiful views at their picnic areas and boat basins. The Alpine Boat basin features views of the cliffs and the City and the Englewood Boat Basin features a stunning view of the George Washington Bridge.
Photos by Alfred Hess
Great Places to Photograph are locations compiled by Bergen County Camera customers and employees. These are all fun, entertaining, and relaxing locations that are optimal for shooting. Want more great spots to shoot? Look here for all of our recommendations. Have a great spot of your own that you would like to share? Email it to us or leave a comment!
Focus sessions are free and take place in the Westwood store from 9:30 am – 10 am. All sessions will allow for questions and answers. Please bring your camera and any images along that you have questions about. Feel free to use the comment option to make suggestions for future focus sessions.
Hit the “Like Button” to let your friends know. Have suggestions for future focus sessions? Feel free to leave a comment. (Comments actually work now!)
Here’s our upcoming Focus Sessions:
January 4 – Manual Settings
January 11 – Macro Photography
January 18 – Shooting Indoor Basketball
January 25 – Consumer Electronics Show Roundup
February 1 – Depth of Field
February 8 – Metering / Focus Marks – Which to Use
February 15 – Photoshop vs. Lightroom
February 22 – Mat Your Photos
These are free events – bring a friend along if you’d like. Share with your friends on Facebook – Click the Like button below. Hope you can join us!
Most photo books are only printed in small quantities, often less than 5000 and some as few as 1000 copies. Some individual artist made books are made one at a time. Most well printed photo books accrues additional collectible status when it is a first edition and or signed by the artist. All the major auction houses like Swann, Christies and Sotheby’s run regular auctions dedicated to photo books. Truly affordable works of art when first released, individual books can rise quickly and dramatically in value as the small quantity sell out.
They make the perfect gift for those difficult to buy for. Pick a subject, person, or time in history and chances are we have a beautiful photo book that’s topical and strikes a resplendent chord for an individual. Since we are music fanatics here, you could guess that we represent some of the finest photographers in the world of music. We have a great selection of their books, many of which have been signed.
Photography collecting is widely misunderstood to be very limited to only those whose bank accounts stretch to seven or more figures. Many people that I speak to about fine art photography collecting believe that they must make a bold move like purchasing a museum grade Ansel Adams photograph to enter the field and nothing could be further from the truth. I believe that photography collecting is very democratic and can start with nothing more then a deep love for the medium. It is a very natural extension that’s easily accessible to all who enjoy any aspect of picture making themselves.
The photography field has so many niches that photo books offer an almost universal appeal. Stop in at Bergen County Camera or Gallery 270 to check out our large selection of photo books.
Nikon, Canon, Leica, Fuji, Olympus, Panasonic, or Sony is only part of the question.
The right digital camera is not the same camera for everyone and with so many choices, finding the right camera can become frustrating quickly. We all look for the camera to be just the right size and to take a good looking image. These two categories can be used to break down your choice for the right camera.
The Right Size
Compact Point and Shoot Cameras are the smallest in size. They are designed to fit in your pocket and function as easily as possible. These cameras are small and convenient, but lack image quality compared to larger cameras.
Super Zoom Point and ShootCameras are larger in size, but do not have changeable lenses. These cameras are convenient and provide extremely large ranges of zoom, but lack in image quality and low light performance. Some Super Zoom Point and Shoot cameras have low aperture lenses, which provide better performance in low light situations.
Compact System Cameras are interchangeable lens cameras which are designed to be smaller in size. They feature a range of sensor sizes from slightly larger then point and shoots to the same size as a Professional SLR.
Consumer SLR cameras are designed to provide better image quality, but are larger in size. With changeable lenses, you have the freedom to improve your camera’s image quality and performance in low light. These cameras require camera bags.
Prosumer SLR cameras are larger then consumer SLR cameras. They deliver higher image quality, quicker burst rates, and improved image quality in low light situations.
Professional SLR cameras are the largest digital cameras. They provide the highest image quality, but are also the largest in size.
The Right Quality
All cameras force us to make a decision between quality and convenience. Large cameras excel in image quality, but carrying a camera bag and additional lenses is inconvenient. Compact Point and Shoot Cameras fit in your pocket, but their image quality is blown away by an SLR. Compact System Cameras are often a nice compromise. They require only a small camera bag and have image quality greatly improved over a Compact Point and Shoot. Check out our article on Sensor Sizes to learn more about the debate of convenience vs. quality.
Built in Lens vs. Changing Lenses
Another aspect of convenience is having one lens built into a camera. While it’s certainly nice to be able to have a long zoom range, there are situations where your lens won’t get you what you want. Changing lenses can get you more zoom, a wider angle, improved low light performance, or a slimmer depth of focus.
One of the more intimidating aspects of photography is understanding what each part of a lenses’ name means. Often intimidation is enough to make most people stick with only the lens a camera comes with or even worse, stay away from cameras with changeable lenses. So I’m going to break down what the name of a common kit lens, the “18-55mm f/3.5-5.6” actually is telling you. The first numbers, 18-55mm, are the focal length. The first number, “18”, is telling you how wide the lens gets. The second, “55”, is telling you how much zoom it gives you. So a “10-24mm” lens gives you more wide angle, but less zoom then an “18-55mm”, and a “70-300mm” gives you far less wide angle, but far more zoom.
The second part of the name, “f/3.5-5.6” is telling you the aperture of the lens. Aperture describes the opening that light comes through on the lens. Learn more about Aperture in our previous post. The lower the number, the greater the amount of light coming through the lens. The more light coming through the lens, the smaller the depth of focus and the quicker the shutter speeds will be. This lens is what’s called a “Variable Aperture Lens”. This means that at the lens’ widest setting, “18mm”, your widest aperture is f/3.5 and at the lens’ maximum zoom, “55mm”, the widest aperture is f/5.6.
As most single lens cameras do not have very wide apertures, their performances in low light situations are not very good. When you invest in a camera, be sure it has a good lens or the ability to improve the lens.
What About Brand?
It certainly would be easiest to say that one brand is better then all the rest, but that simply isn’t true. Whittling down just to the type of camera is difficult. Picking which camera is perfect for you requires getting your hands on several of the cameras in your chosen category. Stop in at Bergen County Camera and we’ll help you choose which camera makes the most sense for you. If you can’t make it in, message us on facebook, or give us a call at (201)664-4113.
