Green Heron Chicks Timelapse
Was back again yesterday to check on the progress of the 3 Green Heron chicks. They’re now about 10 days old now and already about twice the size they were a week ago. Sibley’s guide to bird life and...
View ArticleCanon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
The EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM is a mid-range general purpose zoom lens designed for Canon’s full frame cameras, but is equally at home on Canon’s crop bodies. The EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM trades...
View ArticlePractically Free DiY Turntable Test Video
A quick test video of my practically free string powered DiY turntable, lit by my equally cheap DiY scrim/softbox—howto’s for which are on the to do list. Not entirely bad for an $8 Ikea lazy Susan and...
View ArticleAdding a Graphic Watermark in Lightroom 4
Lightroom 4 has two kinds of watermarks, graphical and text. While text watermarks can do the job, they are simplistic and lack the polish and control a graphical watermark offers—even if the graphic...
View ArticleA Long Short Guide to Buying a Used Lens
There’s no two ways about it good glass is expensive, and glass is far more important to your image quality than the camera is. However, if you’re on a budget, buying your lenses used is an easy way to...
View ArticleDiY Clap Sticks
To quote Vincent Laforet, “50% of any great film is in the sound design, and the first step to great sound design is capturing great audio while on set.” How you get that audio is the big question....
View ArticleCanon 5D Mark 3 Video; Depth of Field and Diffraction
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that one of the more attractive features that make the full frame VDSLRs attractive is that the large sensor can render shallow depth of field. When compared to a...
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