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Holiday Gift Guide for Photographers 2011

6. Visible Dust Arctic Butterfly






If your photographer has a camera with interchangeable lenses, chances are she deals with dust on her sensor. Imagine a few specs of dust that are in the same place, magnified several times on prints, on every single picture you take. Cleaning a camera’s sensor is simple and quick with the right tools. We’ve used Visible Dust brushes for years, and swear by them. The Arctic Butterfly does the job simply and quickly and will be useable for many, many years, saving a lot of money and time instead of sending the camera out to have it cleaned.

7. A Good Image Editing Program






Your photographer has to be able to do something with his pictures after he shoots them to keep going with his creative vision. It’s like when we made prints back in the film days, spending days in the darkroom to make the perfect print. Only now it’s done in any room, with a computer, and your significant other won’t smell like glacial acetic acid for days afterward.

Give him a proper image editing program (and bragging rights) with either Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 or pop for the full-featured Adobe Photoshop CS5, the industry standard for the past two decades.

8. A Microfiber Cloth

Yes, this is the least expensive thing on the list, but if she loves her camera and her lenses, she needs the right thing to take care of them. A good microfiber cloth will safely clean lenses and filters without scratching them or just moving dirt around. Works great even on point-and-shoot lenses, takes smudges right off the front of the lens or that nose print or fingerprints she keeps putting on the LCD.

9. A Spare Battery






There’s nothing worse than running out of batteries just when the shooting gets good. Make sure your photographer has a spare battery (most all are camera-specific) to keep the shoot going. They run from $20-120 depending on make and model. Err on the side of the manufacturer’s own batteries, some of the cheap third-party ones don’t last very long and aren’t well made.

10. A Gift Card






If you don’t know nearly as much about cameras and photography as your photographer, don’t worry. If you check out and hear static the second he starts talking about f-stops and specular highlights, a gift card will allow him to get what he’s really been wanting.

Have a very happy holiday and enjoy shopping, you’ll get a happy photographer and photographic memories to last a long time in return.

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