Chuck Westfall on Choosing the Right Focusing Point

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Chuck Westfall, Technical Advisor with the Professional Products Marketing Division of the Consumer Imaging Group with Canon U.S.A., Inc. joins host Scott Sheppard for a another segment featuring tips and techniques for our Canon Professional Photographers.

This week Chuck and Scott discuss selecting focusing points to get the best composition for your image. Chuck shares some tips on choosing the right focusing point in consideration of the camera setting and your current lens choice helping you get the maximum performance from your camera and lens combination. Focus points are a critical consideration when shooting with a high-performance camera such as the Canon EOS 1DS Mark III and ensures you will get the perfect shot and depth of field for high action photography.

For more information visit Canon’s Digital Learning Center website at: http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/

You can read more about it in a recent technique/tip "Expanding Focus Point Size with Mark III Cameras" and others available on the learning center site.

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Inside Digital Photo Special Report

Part VI - Peter Read Miller, Icon of Imaging

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Sports Photographer, Peter Read Miller joins host Scott Sheppard for his thoughts about this year’s MS Pro Photo Summit and share some tips on how he has been able to capture some of the most outstanding stills seen in sports today. A staff photographer for Sports Illustrated for the past 20 years, Peter has had over 100 SI covers and 31 Super Bowls. He explains how his in-depth knowledge of the games, events, and routines of his subjects has taught him how to predict timing the perfect shot. Peter also talks about his equipment and workflow including using SI’s proprietary image transfer system that allows them to shoot live events in RAW format and almost instantly transmit .jpg versions to the editorial staff. He is looking forward to spending much of next month in Bejing shooting his eight Olympic Games.

Peter is a Microsoft “Icons of Imaging”, one of the original Canon “Explorers of Light,” and has also been selected for the Kingston Memory “Icons of Photography” programs. The Pro Football Hall of Fame has given Peter the Dave Boss Award of Excellence, Photographer of the Year. To see more of his work including videos of him working in studio and on location visit: http://www.peterreadmiller.com

For more information about the summit, visit Microsoft’s Pro Photo Tools website at: http://www.microsoft.com/ProPhoto/

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