Combine multiple camera features to make a slideshow that will wow viewers, not put them to sleep. Most EOS cameras can play a slideshow of images from the memory card. You can also connect your camera to a TV to put those pictures on the large screen to share with family and friends, you just …
Subject detection is a powerful setting when it comes to getting the results you want, with the correct subject in focus. EOS R5/R6 introduced the ability to select a specific type of subject for autofocus to prioritise, with people, animals and none. Later a firmware update added vehicle subjects too. EOS R6 Mark II and …
My Menu simplifies finding all the settings you want without endless scrolling though your camera’s options, so why don’t you use it? It’s free after all 🙂 My Menu is that green section of the camera menu with nothing useful on it If that’s your take on My Menu then you are missing out. The …
In recent years I have had more photographers with trouble firing a flash, either studio lights or a Speedlite. There’s a few settings that will stop the camera from triggering the flash… Flash firing is switched off It’s been over 10 years since Canon added the setting to allow the camera to take a photo …
Photographers are often advised to check your histogram, but what does a histogram show and when might it be less helpful. What does the histogram show? The histogram is a graph that shows the amount of the image that is composed of the tones from dark to light. Histograms show the dark on the left …
Custom modes C1, C2 and C3 are ideal for developing your way of working with a camera and try out new capabilities. Custom modes might be thought of as the “grown up” scene modes, you can configure them as a copy of an existing creative mode but virtually all of the autofocus, exposure and custom …
If you delete images from the card before even transferring them to a computer you might want to try this trick to make it faster to delete an image. There are some photographers who never delete on the camera, this post if not for you. For those that do then this is the way to …
Flash exposure memory is a recently added capability in the Canon flash system that makes it simple to select the right power and achieve consistent results. When I run Speedlite workshops, one of the most common questions from workshop participants is; How much flash power was just used? Now with flash exposure memory I can …