White balance is a common problem for the amateur photographer. The modern camera can often focus and even expose photos quite correctly, but white balance i still something you can’t completely trust the camera to do if you want perfect results. So what is white balance? Well to put it simple, it’s the temperature of the photo. The scale goes from blue to red much like your water tap, and the temperature is messured in kelvin. A cold...

Shooting small birds in cold weather is always a challenge. Today was especially hard due to bad light, and lots of disturbance. I live along a rather busy street with lots of people passing quite close to the feeders. My iPhone shut it self of and even the birds seemed a bit frozen, but the 1d Mark III didn’t miss a beat, although the view finder fogged up repeatedly. After 35 minutes I gave up because of the bad light and slow shutter...