British Columbia has incredible options for nature photography and video. Whether you head out on the water for whale watching, go hiking in the Haida Gwaii or drive the Sea and Sky Highway north through the Garibaldi Highlands, there is so much to see and do. Even if your time on the west coast is limited, there are great opportunities in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.
Odds are excellent that you already have a camera that is capable of shooting high quality video. The on-camera LCD screen is small and not particularly bright.
Although a good HDMI field monitor should be flexible for positioning, you want a wide viewing angle to allow more than one person to check shots or playback.
How to make a better video, after you have all of your clips made.
When we are looking to control the amount of light entering the camera and hitting the sensor, there are only so many things that we can do with our exposure controls. Being able to reduce the inbound light can open creative doors for us all. This is where neutral density filters come in.
Ever since manufacturers began building cameras with sensors that have a different size than a 35mm negative, we have had to deal with the impact this has on angle of view and focal length.
Lens compression looks like the distance between near and distant subjects in the frame is reduced. You will read many photographers say they like the “compression” delivered by a telephoto lens for portraits or the lack of “compression” in a wide-angle lens for landscapes. The words make sense because of what we see, but we are not seeing any compression, instead we are seeing perspective exaggeration.
There are many opportunities to photograph aircraft over the course of the summer from big air shows to smaller, local events. Getting good shots at air shows is not hard, but some tips are going to help you out.
We will use different settings for different types of shots, but do work to keep your ISO as low as possible for the best colour and dynamic range.
Maybe you’ve had your camera for some time, but have never gotten around to looking at custom shooting modes. That was me too, and as they can be useful tools, I thought that we should spend some time talking about them.
Ask any professional photographer and he or she will tell you that being able to control the light is incredibly important to a truly successful image. We will think about position of the light, time of day, light colour, quality and direction. When it comes time to supplement or replace the ambient light with flash, how can we achieve this goal?
As a photo and video instructor, I get the opportunity to meet folks who are at different places on their creative journey. At some point, most come to the juncture where they want their finished work to be more than what comes straight out of the camera. In this first of two articles, we will take a look at the rationale and options for still photographers, who are, or are considering moving into making their images better through post-processing functions.