From start to finish it took about 2 hours to get everything setup, designed, groomed, ready to go and shot. Fortunately, I already had my lighting designed so it was a matter of quickly dialing in the power settings. The real chore was herding popcorn where it needed to be. The setup overview image below, …
A few days ago the specs were leaked for the next Canon small format camera, the EOS 7D. Since then the rumor mills have been running rampant with the news. What raised some concern for me was that the camera would carry an 18 megapixel APS-C sensor. More pixels in a tiny sensor does not …
Today for me has been spent mostly writing code, not my favorite pastime, and tomorrow looks like more of the same. I did, however make it a point to fire up Lightroom to play a bit more with DFine2, a rather nifty looking noise reduction “plug-in” for LR. As clean as my mark 3‘s image …
Designing a movie theater snack bar style popcorn poster. Concept, lighting design and considerations.
For faster working with bounce flash, rotate the flash head so that you only have to bend it though one angle when changing from horizontal to vertical.
Good lightning photography is one of the few areas of photography I really admire. The combination of sheer luck, power of nature and inherent danger of being outside in the path of an approaching thunderstorm certainly doesn’t hurt the aesthetics of a well composed lightning bold either.
Canon offers two teleconverters that are compatible with their EOS series cameras, the Extender EF 1.4x II (discussed here) and the Extender EF 2x II. Here we look at the smaller of the two the Extender EF 1.4x II.
Canon announces the PowerShot G11, a high end point and shoot for the discriminating photographer.
Native to Central America the Spot-Breasted Oriole was introduced to southeastern Florida where this one was photographed.
Last time we looked at focusing using a ground glass and the problems it presents as frame sizes and view finders get smaller. This time we’ll look at how to find the distance to something with out leaving the camera or using a ruler. Finding the Range What’s needed is a way to measure the …
The Digital Picture has finely finished their in-depth review of the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II tilt-shift lens, and the results are impressive to say the least.
Over the past couple of days I’ve been chasing a Spot-breasted Oriole thought he neighborhood in an epic game of telephoto cat and mouse. Mostly with the mouse, er bird, winning. In the mean time I’ve also been working on continuing the two open series, A Brief History of Focusing and Photographing Flowers as well …
I hate reading the rumors and rumor sites, they’re like a train wreck, horrible but so very hard to to look away from. The rumor mill seems pretty consistent on the perspective that the next EOS 1D will be an APS-H camera, and why not Canon’s own Chuck Westfall mentioned that Canon is committed to …
