I was running a lighting workshop for the local camera club earlier this week. I tried a lighting setup with just a single light and two huge 6×4 foot Lastolite Panelites. One was a the diffuser and one is a solid with sun fire and white sides. I placed the two backgrounds in a V-shape …
Off-camera flash workshop in Oxford I’m just back from a great day with awesome folks on my first workshop of 2014. With two groups it was pretty full on for the whole day. It was made all the more fun by each participant having a totally different combination of cameras, flashes, Nikon, Canon cameras and …
WiFi tethered shooting to Lightroom I’ve been getting a lot of feedback and some questions about shooting tethered in to Lightroom 5.3 with the EOS 6D. What’s more my post from the beginning of 2013 about tethered shooting with the EOS 6D to Lightroom was the most read post here in the last twelve months. …
Kuuvik Capture tethered shooting application Some time ago I received a message from Hungarian software company Kuuvik Digital to introduce me to their Kuuvik Capture application for advanced tethering of Canon EOS cameras to Apple Mac computers. So why might you want to buy Kuuvik Capture, when EOS Utility is included with each and every …
Firmware update for EOS-1D X now available EOS-1D X has a new firmware update available, taking the camera from version 1.2.4 and earlier to 2.0.3. Canon says that firmware version 2.0.3 incorporates the following functional improvements and fixes:- Full details on the Canon website… Download EOS-1D X latest firmware update
PowerShot N100 – two cameras in one PowerShot N100 takes last years PowerShot N camera and adds a rear facing camera – yes can can take a photo of the photographer at the same time as taking the main picture. Just for those photographers who like to hide behind the camera of course. So it’s …
Just before the holidays I photographed Oxfordshire based Hannah. She was keen to gain some more pictures for her portfolio and to widen her modelling experience. It was cold and gloomy but she was a star, braving the elements.
Happy New Year to everyone 2013 has passed, that dreaded 13 turned out to be fortuitous for some and not others, but this year it’s 13 +1 so that is time to make it even better. As the excess of the festive season passes quickly in to the distance – just like the mince pies above …