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Choosing a new camera should not be difficult. The reality is that whether you buy a current Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, Sony, or Panasonic/Lumix, the camera is going to be capable of delivering excellent images if you do your part. I regularly laugh when I see folks get into brand wars. All the makers produce solid products, the key to a great purchase is aligning the camera to your personal use cases.
Read MoreBird photography is challenging. I don't care what kind of bird you are talking about. A successful photographer has to build a workflow to make great images, and this involves time, practice, perhaps some study of the biology of the creature and proper light.
Read MoreThis is a horror story. Complete with monsters, gremlins and misinformation. Be warned, it's quite scary. Not gross and creepy scary, scary in the amount of crap involved.
Read MoreI want to be crystal clear about something up front. I have assisted for Peter Hurley, once, in Toronto for a workshop put on by Henry's. I have huge respect for the man and think the world of him. With that out of the way, I worked this past weekend with this product and it left me very underwhelmed.
Read MoreApple breaks another good but ignored tool in their rush to pretty, simple and thin
Read MoreHello everyone! This time I want to tackle a subject that regularly comes up in classes and coursework. It’s also a topic on the Internet with a variety of fascinating ideas. We often hear of lens compression and as Lee Morris recently demonstrated on Petapixel. it actually does not exist. I don’t agree with some of his terminology, but the approach is bang on.
Read MoreI meet lots of newer creatives, whether shooting stills or video and they are rarely concerned about the physical focal length of a lens, which is particularly irrelevant as an indicator when crop sensor cameras get involved as they always reference lenses as if they are full frame even when not. What real creatives are concerned about is the image and what goes in it and what does not. This is partially managed by angle of view.
Read MoreIn a press release delivered July 25th, 2018, Nikon has confirmed that the long rumoured Nikon Mirrorless is coming.
Read Morei don't like to harp on a subject, but it's only a week since the announcement of the 2018 MacBook Pro and it's already being regarded as a failure by actual professionals, not the fanboys for whom Apple can do no wrong.
Read MoreApple has just announced updated MacBook Pros. Readers will recall that I called the now previous version anything but Pro. What about the new announcement? Read on….
Read MoreI thought I would put together a short video on how by starting out with a Micro Studio Camera 4K, a Video Assist 4K, a simple micro four thirds lens, some basic LED panels, a microphone and a tripod that anyone could get a good foundation in place for a simple 4K capable studio for either recorded content and if needed web broadcast.
Read MoreHey gang. It's been a couple of years since the boom time of HDR. You remember those days, lots of electric, oversaturated, haloed images that made your teeth hurt and your eyes burn? Yeah I thought so. Fortunately, those days are mostly past, and it might be time to revisit the entire HDR idea, this time with some history under our belts and a better understanding of what we want to achieve.
Read MoreRecently I was able to put hands on a Sony a9 with the 24-240/3.5-6.3 zoom lens for a couple of days for a quick review. Let's face it, there have already been lots of reviews of the a9 so what am I going to add that's going to be different? We know that the tech is good, we know that the sensor is good, so I want to look more at usability, which is going to be constrained to my use cases. Also keep in mind that reviews combine facts "it has two card slots" with opinion "only one of the two card slots supports UHS-II cards and that's stupid."
Read MoreWhat you will get in this tutorial is a simple, repeatable, three light setup that you can use anywhere with only a little set up time once you have your configuration recorded and that will deliver superb and consistent results. If you have a conga line of shots to make, the set up doesn't change, and so you can focus on the human skills necessary to bring out the real person.
Read MoreLooking for fast and easy 4K video that is motion stabilized. The DJI OSMO + might be exactly what you are looking for.
Read MoreIf you shoot video, and you use either a DSLR or Mirrorless camera to do it, you've already figured out that the camera LCD while a nice idea is just too darn small to be practical. You've also figured out that you need an external display.
Read MoreI was recently asked to take a look at the recently released GoPro Fusion. GoPro was the real leader in the action camera space and while other vendors have been playing in the 360 market, the FUSION is the current market entry from the action camera experts at Go Pro. Let's have a look
Read MoreEvery now and again, i hear from someone asking me about the appearance of banding in their images. Most often this appears on a print, but did not appear on the screen image, although when starting with a JPEG original and editing it, banding can appear on the screen as well.
Read MoreLet’s examine some options in external storage for your irreplaceable images and videos
Read MoreHello friends and neighbours. In this article I want to chat briefly about Neutral Density filters, specifically the critter called the Variable Neutral Density filter.
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