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I recently had the opportunity to work with a new wireless microphone kit from Sony in order to write a review. I want to thank the awesome people at Henry's for providing the gear.
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I have been a bit lax with the news updates, so this post has many items.
A very good article by a professional photographer Dear Clients: Don’t Ask Photographers for a Reshoot of Good Photos
Composition Leveraging Lines Lines Reveal the Great Compositions in Famous Movies
Pretty cool video on how a shutter works Super Slow Motion Shows How an SLR Camera Shutter Works
Yahoo has been sold. What does this mean for Flickr? Flickr ownership changes hands as Verizon acquires Yahoo
Excellent article for models, and for photographers seeking to hire models Models, Beware the Warning Signs of Creepy ‘Photographers’
Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for selling her public domain images Photographer Suing Getty Images for $1 Billion
Some really great ideas 10 Photography Accessories You Can Buy at the Supermarket
Astropad is updated Astropad 2.0 brings better performance and increased compatibility
If you shoot video as I do, using a pro camera, you already know what a pain it is to find a bag for your rig that doesn't require you to disassemble the entire thing to put it away. My friends at Think Tank have just released a set of bags that may just be perfect for you.
Read MoreIt's safe to say that the best selling camera drones around come from DJI. They are very popular and when they work well are easy to fly and produce excellent footage.
The real challenge is the rest of the time, such as when you have a problem. In fairness, DJI has achieved significant improvements since the first Phantom. That was mostly a flying crash waiting to happen. The current Phantom 4 is a superb flight experience with good control capability and a decent enough telemetry app called DJI GO.
Read MoreIn this article I want to introduce you to a Photoshop topic that has to some extent fallen from favour, primarily due to the superlative work that Adobe has done in Camera RAW and in Lightroom for managing images. In both offerings we find five areas of luminosity control, blacks, shadows, exposure (aka midtones), highlights and whites. For many photographic post processors these solve most issues. However, when you want much more granular control and image specific adjustments, we merely need to hop over to Photoshop to step up to the next level.
Read MoreHere's your photo and video news up date for July 15. 2016
Read MoreIn this video, I show you how to setup and use three core functions within Lightroom Mobile. In only 18 minutes you will learn to sync photos with your smart device, manage and edit images on your smart device, create a free web url to share publicly or privately and use targeted collections to sync photos in real time while tethering.
Read MoreBroncolor is known by professional photographers and demanding enthusiasts the world over. My first experience was a very long time ago with a product called the Broncolor Hazy. If I recall correctly, it was similar to today's Hazylight, basically a flash modifier simliar to a softboxbut rigid. The light as I remember it was beautiful, but for a number of reasons I ceased having the opportunity to work with Bron products for a very long time.
Read MoreI put news items of interest on the Google Plus page for The Photo Video Guy, but have come to the realization that not everyone does Google Plus or may not want to. So I will be doing a blog post every time I do a news update. Hope readers find this useful.
Read MoreToday, at the invitation of Henry's Professional Services, I attended an event allowing professionals to get hands on with pre-release iterations of the Hasselblad X1D coming this August.
Read MoreThis past weekend I taught a hands-on workshop for my local camera club on photo restoration. Restoration is a very deep topic and what one can accomplish in a half day long workshop is limited to core techniques and the delivery of a handbook with a number of technique recipes for people to try as they work through restoration projects.
Read MoreThe good folks at Topaz Labs have just released a new version of their Impression application. Impression applies painterly and artistic looks to images.
Read MoreAdobe just added enhanced perspective controls in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC. In the video you'll see Adobe's Julianne Kost taking you through the new functions.
Read MoreI wanted to thank the folks who have taken the time to write me suggesting that it would be cool if there was a way for readers and podcast listeners to get updated when new content was made available.
So as of right now, I've updated the site in a couple of ways to make that work more efficiently. I've had RSS links in the sidebar, but I didn't know that sometimes they came up like ugly XML files. Now they come up nice and clean using the Feedburner service from Google and this makes them really easy to add to your favourite RSS reader, which can of course be your browser. I'm personally a big fan of Reeder 3 for the Mac, but there are lots of options. What's important is that there are two RSS feeds for The Photo Video Guy. One for the articles / blogs section and one for the podcast, so you can subscribe to either or both if you choose to do so.
RSS isn't the only way to ensure you get new content. At the top of the blog and podcast pages there is now a form where you can sign up to receive an email whenever a new article or podcast goes live. There are two separate lists, so you choose only what you want to receive an email about. Your email address is NEVER shared with anyone, and you can unsubscribe at any time. I am following the requirements for email subscriptions so when you subscribe, you will receive an email requesting confirmation of your request before your email goes into the secure storage area.
I hope that these enhancements will improve your enjoyment of The Photo Video Guy.
In a previous post, I wrote about the importance of display calibration to ensure that what you are editing ends up looking correct when displayed elsewhere or printed. One of the other less simple challenges is finding a superb monitor for editing your work.
Read MoreAt some point or another, most photographers have wanted the look of a long exposure, such as moving clouds, blurred motion, creamy water, but are limited by the reality of exposure. If we take a typical sunny day, we know that our exposure at f/16 and ISO 100 will be about 1/125 of a second. No smooth blur there. The solution is a Neutral Density filter. And, if you want a big drop in light transmission, the go to answer is a Lee Big Stopper.
Read MoreThis is really pretty incredible news. Most digital processing tools use someone else's RAW processor. Most of the time, it's from Adobe because many tools are designed to work as plugins for Photoshop or Lightroom. Announced today April 26 is that this summer, the folks at ON1 will be releasing their own unique offering called ON1 PHOTO RAW.
Read MoreSay 85mm lens to a photographer and depending on that individual person you will get different answers. The reason is that for a long time, the 85mm was the de-facto portrait lens. It's still ideal for portraiture to be sure, but an 85mm can do so much more!
Read MoreWhen it comes to wide angle lenses, the field of view of a 24mm on a full frame sensor is both super popular and easy to shoot. Once you go much wider, one has to pay a lot more attention to angles and perspective exaggerations. On a crop sensor, a 24mm delivers pretty darn close to my opinion of the best "one lens prime" out there, the 35mm. In this review, we'll take a close look at Sigma's ART Series 24mm f/1.4
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