Petter Solberg wins at Lydden Hill Yesterday I took a day out to go and watch the UK round of the World RallycrossRX championship at the Lydden Hill circuit. It has been many years since my last visit to the circuit, but with the ultra competitive world rallycross RX championship I just had to get …
As sure as Summer follows Spring the Canon Summer cashback follows the earlier cashback deals. To qualify for cashback you need to buy one or more of the items on the list below between 20th May 2015 and 19th of August 2015. Only products supplied by Canon UK or Canon European organisations are counted and …
Bounce flash for indoor portraits Last week I ran another Speedlite workshop for a group at EOS Magazine’s training centre in Oxfordshire. As this was an introductory level of flash photography workshop we started off in the practical section just using on camera flash. (Ooops yes I said on-camera flash) Ceiling too high to bounce …
Canon releases EOS 7D Mark II firmware update version 1.0.4 Canon has made firmware version 1.0.4 available to download for the EOS 7D Mark II. According to Canon firmware version 1.0.4 incorporates the following fixes: Fixes a phenomenon in which the camera’s AF function may not operate properly at a focal length of approximately 100mm …
I was asked to photograph an outfit created by designer Sam O’Sullivan and one of the more interesting elements thrown in to the mix was confetti cannons – yes not my usual style of Canon. Of course confetti cannons make a heck of a mess; I’d suggested to the shoot director and producer Oliver Callaghan that …
Canon Nifty Fifty Mark II? The rumour mill has been awash with information and today Canon has shared the latest lens to get the STM treatment. An update to the awesomely cheap and popular Canon nifty fifty prime lens in the shape of the EF 50mm f/1.8 STM. Key advances over the old lens …
Manfrotto has just announced a collection of four fluid damped monopods and a follow focus unit. Furthermore the new fluid base employed on the new video monopods can also be used with several of Manfrotto photo monopods to upgrade them to fluid damped video use. A fluid damped monopod is ideal for video since the …
Silhouettes I’ve got a few photos to share from a shoot just yesterday. The shoot was for a themed look for a fashion designer and for the moment the “proper shots” from the day are under wraps, but these outtakes don’t give the details away and I love the silhouette shapes. I was using my Elinchrom studio …