Image stabilisation cannot stop a moving subject giving a blurred result if you choose a shutter speed that is too slow. This post has been prompted by a number of photographers who told me they were waiting for a new stabilised lens or camera to enable them to get sharper shots in low light. The …
E-TTL balance changes how your camera adjusts the balance of Speedlite and ambient light. You need to be using a automatic exposure mode on the camera and E-TTL on the Speedlite. When you take photos that combine flash and available light, there’s always a ratio between the flash and the ambient light. The E-TTL balance …
Face + tracking AF method is the one I use the most for my photos, and it finds a subject remarkably well, but you can also choose more specifically where to look for the subject. The key to gaining control over subject identification is the setting of initial servo AF point for face + tracking …
Last weekend saw the start of The Photography Show in Birmingham, UK. I was there delivering talks on the Canon Bitesize stage each day. On the Sunday I recorded my EOS R5/R6 AF setup talk so if you couldn’t get there, you can now watch the presentation. The video is a capture of the slides I …
EOS R6 and EOS R5 have amazing autofocus capability and I wanted to configure my EOS R6 autofocus controls to provide me with direct access. Here’s my custom buttons for EOS R6 / R5 AF. When the cameras first came out I thought that I’d simply move my extensive custom settings from the EOS R over …
When EOS cameras started to be equipped with many AF points, Canon made it possible to group several AF points together in an AF area or AF method. I think this is one of the most misunderstood choices for autofocus settings. AF area / AF method EOS cameras with groups of AF points used the …
Not trying to be controversial, but using higher iso improves your photos. Specifically photographers are relying on stabilisation to ensure sharp shots, when actually they should use shutter speed. How many times have you looked at your photos and wished they could be a bit sharper? If so then you need to look a little …
Discover how I use EOS R custom controls to make every single remaining button do something useful for my kind of photography. This is the third and final step that details how my EOS R camera has had it’s operation refined to suit the photos I make. I’ve grouped all these miscellaneous button functions together, …