On March 19th, 2010, Canon released the updated version of their famed workhorse, the EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM lens. I have spent the last three days taking mine through its paces, and today I'm going to share my findings. [smart_track_player...
After a false start with problems in firmware 2.0.3 that caused the camera to fail to record any audio at all, today, Canon followed up with firmware 2.0.4 that adds manual audio controls to the 5D Mark II. Here's my 5D2 with the controls displayed. I still don't see...
This year marked the start of a new event, the Camera and Photo Imaging Show, at the Pacifico Yokohama exhibition hall. I can see from the updated Web site, which is at cpplus.jp, that they had around 41,000 visitors over the four days of the event, which I guess...
This week you're going join me on my Snow Monkey Photography Tour and Workshop, from Jan 28th to Jan 30, 2010, as I discuss the trip along with looking at some of my images. This year was the first time I added the option to join me for a three day tour to photograph...
I've teamed up with professional Australian nature photographer David Burren to host a photography expedition to South Georgia and Antarctica from November 8th to 26th this year. Today it gives me great pleasure to welcome David to the Martin Bailey Photography...
Today we take a look at the results of the January MBP/WebSpy Photography Assignment, on the theme of Square Crop. The Square Crop assignment was much more difficult than I had imagined it would be to come up with something compelling, but many of you rose to the...
A friend recently forwarded me a link to a great post on his blog about balancing multiple passions. As many of you know, I have a busy full time job in Tokyo, outside of photography, and do a pretty good job of balancing the "day-job" with my photography related...
Just back from my Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Photography Tour and Workshops, today I'm going to give you some initial impressions of the new Canon EOS 1D Mark IV camera, which I picked up a few days before leaving for the Snow Monkeys workshop. This isn't going to be a...
Do you listen to the Photocast Network Focus Ring? Here's a recent episode of the Focus Ring that I participated in, just in case you don't. The Photocast Network is a great group of Photography related Podcasts, that can all be found at...
Having just finished the Snow Monkey Workshop and Photography Tour, today I'm releasing a very brief update and a recording of some participant comments from the bus as we arrived back in Tokyo. We set off for Hokkaido tomorrow morning, for the Wildlife and Landscape...
Today I'm going to take you through some of the basic operations of the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport. With the preparation for my Snow Monkeys and Hokkaido Workshops, I really didn't have time to prepare for a Podcast this week, but I had planned on talking about my...
Let's get right into it now though, and take a look at the third place winner's image. In third place is David Peacham, from Perth, Australia, with "Lights Out". As I have back-stories from each artist, I'm going to read the back-story first, and then add my own...