Live View versus optical viewfinder on your DSLR, pros and cons?
By Pascal
If you shoot with a DSLR you probably use the same method for taking pictures that most people do, holding the camera up to your eye and looking through the viewfinder before snapping the shutter button.
This tried-and-true method has several benefits, including letting you see precisely what you are going to... more
Canon have announced that they’ve developed a new CMOS sensor with a global shutter and expanded dynamic range. While a wider dynamic range is always good for every camera use, the global shutter is huge for video shooters. Finally, we’ll be able to completely eliminate “jello wobble“, skew and other rolling shutter artifacts in DSLR [...]
The waveform is video’s answer to the histogram. Like a histogram it shows the brightness levels throughout your image. Also like the histogram, it can be confusing to those new to video or colour correction. While the information displayed is essentially the same, how it displays it is very differently. This video from Aputurewalks you [...]
Hasselblad seem to be going insome interesting directions lately. Between the world’s first medium format mirrorless camera, and their venture with DJI, the world was already quite impressed. This latest announcement, though, has me a little curious. Let’s start at the beginning. Motorola recently launchedthe Moto Z Droidphone. This phone allows for what are called [...]
The Eiffel Tower. The Statue of Liberty. Redwood trees.Not all the world fits into our horizontal frame of it. Some of it climbs up and up! For those images you need to learn a new technique; vertical panoramas, or vertoramas as they are known.
What are vertoramas?
A vertorama is simply a panorama, but shot vertically. It is for the tall things of the world, and uses much of the... more
DJI have today announced a new product that doesn’t include a camera of their own; the DJI Osmo Mobile. Like the recently announced Osmo+, it’s a handheld gimbal designed for shooting smooth handheld video. The Osmo Mobile, however, steadies your smartphone. It also has a subject tracking feature which looks absolutely amazing. The Osmo Mobile’s [...]
I recently returned from a seven day wilderness canoe trip to Algonquin Provincial Park with my family. The purpose of the trip was half family vacation and half extended photoshoot for my portfolio at Stocksy United. Backcountry canoeing with an eight and ten year old meant that we had to stick to a relatively moderate [...]
Tamron have today announced theupdated “G2” next generation version ofits popular 150-600mm f/5-6.3 zoom lens. The new lens boasts faster autofocus and enhanced vibration control (VC) offering up to 4.5 stops of steadiness. It also has a fewnew features not found in its predecessor. They say that the new iteration has been developed in response [...]
GoPro has their Karma drone in the works for quite a long time now (and we are still waiting…) Meanwhile, their chief action camera competitor, YITechnology just got ahead ofthem on the curve. Yi will announce the Yi Erida Drone in one week at the InterDrone conference. According to YI, it will be aTri-Copter drone [...]
When you begin doing portrait lighting for the first time, the general advice you get is to put your light at 45 to your subject, and aim it down at 45. It’s a quick way to get something reasonably good, without a lot of understanding. With a little more knowledge, you can make better lighting decisions, and get more dramatic images.
