The last little while I’ve been playing around with taking portraits using flashes and soft boxes (I don’t own studio lights). So, the other day I decided to setup my soft box in front of the curtains that cover my sliding door for the back deck; they’ve got some nice texture and make for an interesting background, so I thought …
A Few Moments With A Caterpillar
A video clip of a caterpillar using a macro lens on my T1i.
Playing with a Blue-Screen
In the last year or so I’ve found it would be useful to have a quick setup for doing a blue screen. A lot of my website clients have a need to record some video to be overlayed on top of pictures or video, so I decided to try several different lighting techniques to get the best results when trying …
Weekend Goals
I have decided that I will try and take photos or shoot video every weekend for posting on this blog. During the week it seems as though I have moments of inspiration where I come up with a cool idea, but then each day is so busy that I never get a chance to implement it. So, I’ll be writing …
Testing Remote App
The folks at onOne Software designed an app for the iPhone and iPod touch that can control your tethered Canon or Nikon DSLR remotely. I decided to install the Lite version of the program and give it a quick try. Only a slight delay from when I hit “fire” on the app to when the camera actually fires (the time …