Photographing birds in the wild can be fun but is also challenging. Let’s talk about gear and some tips to help you make more powerful birding shots.
Now's a good time to revisit the Exposure Triangle as the season has changed into Autumnal equinox, which also means a change in outdoor lighting and sceneries that will entice a l... Read More...
In Setting Up Your First Photo Studio: Part 1, we looked at the ... Read More...
Originally tripods came with a single head. They usually had two arms, one for panning movements, and one for tilt movements, and the mounting plate would also flip to vertical. We... Read More...
BY Ross Chevalier May 22, 2018 Bird Photography, Wildlife
Photographing birds in the wild can be fun but is also challenging. Let’s talk about gear and some tips to help you make more powerful birding shots.
BY Ross Chevalier May 18, 2018 Gear, New Gear, Video
Video is hot, hot, hot. Carrying around a tripod is often not. Most viral videos are shot live, hand-held and in real time, but because most of it is shot on smart devices, the results are often shaky.
BY Ross Chevalier April 20, 2018 Articles, Gear, New Gear
In recent years, we have seen more and more cameras coming with dual memory card slots. Some even have two identical slots to make life easy.
If you are shooting irreplaceable images, such as at a wedding, on a trip, or at other one-time events, having a second copy of your photos gives peace of mind to those concerned about memory card loss, theft, or a card going bad.
See the full article for tips on how you can back up and edit your images using GNARBOX, without having to lug around a laptop or depend solely on memory cards.
BY Ross Chevalier April 13, 2018 Gear, New Gear
GoPro is a leader in the action camera space. While other vendors have been playing in the 360 market, the recently-released Fusion is the newest market entry from the action camera experts at GoPro. Let’s have a look.
BY Ross Chevalier April 6, 2018 Articles, Gear, New Gear
A strobe is a very powerful flash that does not mount to the camera hot shoe. Traditionally we connected it via a sync cable to our camera, but today we often use a radio controller that sits in the camera’s hot shoe and that talks to the strobe(s) directly.
BY Ross Chevalier March 23, 2018 Tripods
Good video needs a good video head. A proper video head is fluid damped to smooth out the movement of the head. The reason that we want smoothness is that we might want to include a pan or a tilt in our shot.
BY Ross Chevalier March 16, 2018 Podcasts
A podcast is a very effective method to get your message across and it can be on any topic. Many podcasts already exist, but the better ones will always stand out, and different listeners are looking for different things.
BY Ross Chevalier March 10, 2018 Product Photography
Product photography concepts are consistent regardless of the product, so what you learn here can be applied to any item.
In Part 1 of this tutorial, we left off with the shoot workflow and a promise to dig further into the gear used to make product photography work for you.
BY Ross Chevalier February 24, 2018 Product Photography
Product photography concepts are consistent, regardless of the product. In product photography, lighting is everything. The light defines the image.
Control your light by defining it yourself. You want shadows and textures and direction to create dimensionality.
BY Ross Chevalier February 9, 2018 Articles, Gear, New Gear
In this article, we are going to look at a key light shaper for anyone shooting portraits; the beauty dish.
The beauty dish takes the strengths of both hard light shapers and soft light shapers and brings them together in what is going to be a very unique look.