Tag Archives: Canon

Super Moon Over Manly

Jonathan | March 19, 2011 - 8:53 pm
Super Moon Over Manly

Super Moon Over Manly

Nearly for­got about this; so fired up the trusty Canon 7D @ ISO160 F11 with my 70-300mm IS onboard. It was pretty cloudy, but man­aged to grab a cou­ple of shots.

 

The Clouds Begin To Roll In...

The Clouds Begin To Roll In…

 

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Cunard Royal Rendezvous — What Worked, What Didn’t?

Jonathan | March 2, 2011 - 3:20 pm
Sydney Skyline From North Head

Syd­ney Sky­line From North Head

As I men­tioned I might, last Tues­day morn­ing, with my tri­pod strapped to my bike, and my cam­era, lenses, and Mac­Book Air stuffed into a back­pack, I headed up to North Head, Manly to shoot the pass­ing of Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and Queen Eliz­a­beth as the passed into Syd­ney Har­bour. Some things worked well, but I must admit that over­all I came away dis­ap­pointed with the fruits of my labours.

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Cunard Royal Rendezvous

Jonathan | February 21, 2011 - 5:36 pm
Graphic of the Cunard ships Queen Mary 2 & Queen Elizabeth

Cunard Royal Rendezvous

Cunard Royal Rendezvous

I haven’t been up early for a dawn photo shoot in a while, but I am going to give it a go tomor­row morning.

Occa­sion?

How about two mas­sive cruise ships, the Queen Eliz­a­beth and Queen Mary 2, meet­ing off Syd­ney Har­bour Heads and cruis­ing in tan­dem into port? I will take a shot of that! […]

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Recommended

Jonathan | November 30, 2010 - 4:22 pm

Rec­om­mended.

I get asked for prod­uct rec­om­men­da­tions fre­quently. And my rec­om­men­da­tions are ignored fre­quently :-) .

Oh well.

I am a bit of a “gear head”, and love research­ing new cam­era gear. If only I had some way to pay for this obsession?

What about an Ama­zon Store you say? A good idea indeed. Behold my new Rec­om­mended Page!

In the spirit of full dis­clo­sure, as a signed up Ama­zon Asso­ciate, I get a tiny per­cent­age of any prod­ucts bought through the links in this Ama­zon store. I won’t be buy­ing a pri­vate jet any­time soon, but it should help towards the cost of run­ning this site. And just in time for a Christ­mas bailout!

Each of the hand-picked items listed I have either owned in the past, own cur­rently, or would love to own in the future. There is no filler here, it’s all good stuff, and I would hap­pily rec­om­mend to my fam­ily or friends.

Enjoy.

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Looking The Wrong Way?

Jonathan | November 30, 2010 - 8:40 am
As the sun peeps over the horizon in outback Australia, the morning sky explodes in colours.

Look­ing the wrong way? I don’t think so…

Some­times nowa­days we can get too caught up in the details, the minu­tiae of con­trols and set­tings. Did we set ISO cor­rectly? What about white bal­ance? Am I in the right posi­tion? What about over there? Is the fore­ground clut­tered? Rule of Thirds?

Some­times our favorite images are cap­tured, not through tech­ni­cal excel­lence and pre­cise adjust­ments of the cam­era con­trols, but by stand­ing back and look­ing around.

Some­times our best images are cap­tured, not by focus­ing on what every­one else is look­ing at, but by look­ing the wrong way…

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Before & After — Moody Adam

Jonathan | September 15, 2010 - 5:50 pm

Moody Adam Three
I recently sub­scribed to an excel­lent blog enti­tled “Seri­ous Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phy” by Jeff Lynch. In par­tic­u­lar I liked his how-to posts, i.e. how to achieve a cer­tain pho­to­graphic result. So in that spirit, I want to share how I cre­ated the image above…

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Editing Canon EOS 7D Video with Premiere Pro

Jonathan | May 21, 2010 - 10:58 am

The emer­gence of Canon DSLR video has been a tri­umph and a strug­gle for wannabe Steven Spielberg’s, me included. The tri­umph is the undoubted qual­ity of the image, and the cre­ative avenues opened up by the wide vari­ety of lenses available.

The strug­gle includes the intro­duc­tion of so much new ter­mi­nol­ogy, so many new ways to be cre­ative and to fail mis­er­ably, and the inevitable havoc caused to well estab­lished work­flows with the intro­duc­tion of video. This post out­lines my efforts to arrive at some­thing resem­bling a usable work­flow for video, using  MPEG Stream­clip, Adobe Pre­miere Pro, and YouTube.

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End Of An Era — Selling My 20D

Jonathan | May 4, 2010 - 11:03 pm
We Had Some Great Adventures!

We Had Some Great Adventures!

Ah, my first DSLR, a Canon 20D, it is time to part com­pany. I will miss it, but the truth is I have not used it since I got my 7D. So it is up on eBay now, to be recy­cled into some­thing new and shiny! Check it out here.

UPDATE: Sold and dispatched.

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My Top Three Adobe Creative Suite 5 Features

Jonathan | April 12, 2010 - 11:45 pm

What’s In The Box?

So Adobe has announced Cre­ative Suite 5. There have already been some amaz­ing pre­view video’s, but, as always with Adobe prod­ucts, there will be the debate whether to upgrade or not. I am lucky enough to have Adobe Mas­ter Col­lec­tion CS4, but here are the top three fea­tures which will prob­a­bly push me down the upgrade path…

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DSLR Video — Welcome to the Future

Jonathan | April 12, 2010 - 11:53 am

“The Last 3 Min­utes” From Shane Hurl­but, ASC from Shane Hurl­but, ASC on Vimeo.

After watch­ing this video, all I can say is:

Wow!

My Canon 7D can also shoot High Def­i­n­i­tion 24P video, though com­ing from a pho­tog­ra­phy back­ground, I am strug­gling to catch up. New for­mats, new tools, new chal­lenges (i.e. have you tried to edit Canon 7D footage in Pre­miere Pro? That is a major chal­lenge for another post…) and new cre­ative decisions.

Then you see a video like this, and real­ize that even with all the right tools, you still have a moun­tain to climb ;-) The video capa­bil­i­ties on the cur­rent Canon 5D MkII and 7D are so strong that even the sea­son finale of House MD was filmed com­pletely on one.

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