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Archive for July 2018

How to Charge Digital Cameras in the Field

Posted on July 22, 2018, 12:35 am, by QT Luong, under Gear.
Modern digital cameras can go through batteries quickly. One can just carry enough camera batteries to last for an entire short trip – I own more than a dozen. If you stay under a roof at least every other night, plugging into AC power to recharge your batteries is easy. Otherwise, another way to charge […]
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Photographing Cataloochee, the quieter side of the Great Smoky Mountains

Posted on July 15, 2018, 5:59 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
With more than 10 million visitors per year, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited of the national parks, and its most popular area is Cades Cove which receives over 2 million visits per year, more than many large entire parks. Cades Cove is so popular because it has a bit of everything […]
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Firefly Variations

Posted on July 8, 2018, 3:15 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
In this post, I revisit a firefly photograph in some detail, first comparing it to a similar image made with a different technique, then showing its components images to highlight firefly specifies within. Single exposure v. Digital composite I mentioned previously that there are two approaches to photograph fireflies together with the forest, a carefully […]
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Synchronous Fireflies Beyond the Smokies

Posted on July 2, 2018, 8:19 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park was once thought to be the only place in North America where the synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) can be seen. Fittingly for the most visited national park in America, the event has become very popular, as described in the previous article. During my East Coast trip this spring, I observed […]
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