Brian Worley

Full-time photo tutor and photographer. I love to share my knowledge and skills to make photos, videos and teach others. I write books and articles for photo magazines and I always have at least one Speedlite flash in my camera bag

Capture LCD screenshot with Media Express

How to capture great looking camera LCD screenshots

5 July, 2014

One of the challenges with explaining about cameras is making it simple for people to understand what the specific camera settings are and how they should be set. A key tool in helping this explanation is clear LCD screenshots of the camera menus. The LCD screenshot machine Over the time I have been running this …

EOS 70D making movies in the secret garden

2 July, 2014

The EOS 70D is a really capable camera for movie making, the Dual Pixel AF is noticeably better at focussing in Live View mode than any other EOS SLR camera. Earlier this week I took a few moments to film a short movie at a local “secret garden” location. Simple movie making with the EOS …

WiFi tethering EOS 70D using EOS Utility 2.14

19 June, 2014

EOS Utility and WiFi tethering EOS 70D EOS Utility is a funny old program, I love it and know it pretty well so when something changes I tend to just work with it and get on. Recently I received a comment from Matt on one of my old blog posts that the process explained to …

EF-M 55-200 zoom lens points to a future for Canon mirror less

17 June, 2014

Canon EF-M 55-200 f/4.5-6.3 IS STM lens Canon is showing further commitment to it’s mirror less camera line with yet another EF-M lens in this case the EF-M 55-200mm. The EF-M 55-200 has a range of 90mm to 320mm in 35mm full-frame terms and also includes an optical Image Stabilizer (IS) and the STepper Motor …

Improvisation and cake

13 June, 2014

Quick post for Friday, the weekend is nearly upon us and the sun is shining 🙂 Earlier this morning I had a request from an important client – my daughter. She knows me so well. So cake and natural sunshine, what a great reason for a break from video editing. Food photographers often uses natural …

Deleting images from camera when dual recording with EOS 5D Mark III

12 June, 2014

I received a great question from a fellow professional photographer about his EOS 5D Mark III. It seemed to be failing to write some of the RAW files when it was set to record RAW to the CF card and JPEG to the SD card. Redundancy and backup while you shoot Like a number of …

Canon commemorates 25 years since launch of flagship-model EOS-1 series SLR cameras

Canon celebrates 25th birthday for flagship Canon EOS-1series

10 June, 2014

Canon Inc in Japan has announced that today is the 25th birthday of the EOS-1 series. For many years before working for Canon I looked longingly at the EOS-1 and EOS-1N models, so on the eve of a PMA fair in Las Vegas it was somewhat special to be amongst the audience as Canon USA’s …

Canon updates EOS-1D C firmware

9 June, 2014

EOS-1D C firmware version 1.3.5 Canon has made a firmware update for the EOS-1D C camera. The firmware has to be installed by a Canon service centre so is not available for download. Firmware update 1.3.5 – line-level audio fix Firmware 1.3.5 for the EOS-1D C fixes a phenomenon in which the line-level audio input …