On the second day of Christmas… Traditionally boxing day was the day for lying on the sofa recovering from the excess of Christmas day, so often things were looked at from a strange view some 90-degrees off the normal. Today’s tip is about the auto rotation setting. EOS cameras have long had the ability to work …
On the first day of Christmas… My true love reminded me that if I don’t actually keep the pictures I take I won’t make it to another Christmas… 🙂 Congratulations if you’ve opened up the wrapping on a new EOS camera today. I really recommend that you put the battery in it and make one …
It’s looking a lot like Christmas, but as I was preparing for a couple of quiet days I noticed that a week or so back there was a firmware update for the EOS 6D. EOS 6D Firmware 1.1.6 Firmware Version 1.1.6 incorporates the following fixes: Firmware Version 1.1.6 is for cameras with firmware up to …
Back in the warmer summer days I shot a short video with my mate “Aussie” Allan. He’d really been bitten by the macro photography bug, but was struggling to get the lighting he wanted on his small subjects. Over a few days we talked about the idea of using the Orbis ring flash adapter on his …
EOS cameras number files sequentially from 1 to 9999. Some photographers use the file number as a record of how many shutter operations they have made, other more prolific ones need to take care of the number every week! With the advent of high capacity storage cards it is possible for a camera to store …
Once again I am posting about a subject that concerns myself and many small businesses across the EU that sell or plan to sell their e-books and tutorial videos from their website. As a business owner you will need to do something as these rules come in to force in less than three weeks time …
The Speedlite 600EX-RT indicates that the flash head is bounced up, tilted down or the wide panel is deployed. Do you recognise the icons? 1. Flash head bounced up With the flash head bounced upwards there is a small up arrow just below the E in ETTL on the LCD display. If this little arrow …
I recently got a chance to shoot in Oxford with a new male model Indroneel Chatterjee. It was a somewhat chilly evening in November and with the shoot starting closer to 5pm it was also dark. Indroneel is a truly generous and characterful model and as a consultant in consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing he’s always …