Some Thoughts on Canon’s New EOS 7D
On September 1st Canon announced their next crop-sensor SLR the EOS 7D. While we don’t have one in our hands, yet. We’ve taken a look at brief look at the reported specs for the 7D as well as many of the changes Canon has made to the cameras UI, taking it at step ahead of anything they’ve released to day.
Popcorn Poster: Shooting the Image
In this article, I’ll walk though how I took the concept sketch and turned it into a properly lit photography.
Rumors Speak of a Larger Sensor in the EOS 7D. Could it be done?
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 […]
My Lightroom 3 Wishlist
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 […]
Pop Corn Poster: Designing the Image
Designing a movie theater snack bar style popcorn poster. Concept, lighting design and considerations.
On Camera Bounce Flash Tip: Rotate the Flash Head
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.
Night Sky Lightning
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 Extender EF 1.4x II Review
Canon’s second generation of 1.4x teleconverter provides an improvement in image quality and AF performance over it’s predecessor. Increases the focal length of the lens it’s mounted to by 40%, and reduces the aperture by a stop.
Spot-Breasted Oriole Part Two
Photo du Jour: Spot Breasted Oriole in Bougainvillea
Native to Central America the Spot-Breasted Oriole was introduced to southeastern Florida where this one was photographed.