Seems that Drones are getting a lot of news attention these days and all for the bad reasons. People doing stupid things when using their drones to capture video and images, like people flying them when there are bushfires and flying over sports arenas. I also own a drone, DJI Phantom 3 actually and have had it since June 2015. So far to date,...
Although DJI make great products that change the way we capture video and photographs, the one thing I dislike about them is their DJI Go App. It is that its very cluttered and has many items hidden away. And DJI fail to produce in-depth videos on how to do advanced things in the app, they just have very introductory tutorials. Since the version...
Looking up is something we don't do very often in our daily lives, in fact our society has become accustomed to looking down at our smartphones. And when I say up I don't mean looking up in the sky to spot a plane or superman I mean looking vertically above our head 90 degrees. So when photographing its often a perspective you can neglect to...
ND filters (or Neutral Density filters) are used to capture time moving in your image by increasing the exposure time of your shot. This technique is called Long Exposure photography and I did talk about it in an earlier post The Black Glass where I talked about how to use this filter. I guess this is the opposite of that post as we look at what...
Since my move to Fuji X-T1 late November in 2014. I've been using this camera religiously and have only gone back to my Canon 7D twice during this period for some Macro shots. During my 6 month journey I have used my X-T1 for Portraits, Travel, Landscapes, Ultra-Wide Angle and HDR images. In these series of posts I will cover my experience...
In this series of posts where I look back on my 6 month journey with Fujifilm X-T1, let's discuss portraits. My choice of gear for this is the 56mm F1.2 lens. This lens is small and light but the build quality is better than any Canon Red ring or Nikon Gold ring lens. The portraits at wide open F1.2 can be a little hit and a miss depending upon...
Since my move to Fuji X-T1 late November in 2014. I've been using this camera religiously and have only gone back to my Canon 7D twice during this period for some Macro shots. During my 6 month journey I have used my X-T1 for Portraits, Travel, Landscapes, Ultra-Wide Angle and HDR images. The camera has traveled over 50,000 kms with me from...
Frankfurt is often referred to as the Financial Capital of Germany due to such a economic presence in the city. You have the most number of Stock Exchanges in Frankfurt, more than any city in Europe so you could practically call Frankfurt Euro's Capital. Walking downtown, other than branded expensive stores, you constantly hear Ferrari's,...
Last month I had an opportunity to visit Frankfurt. It was after a trip to Barcelona, so its hard to beat. But the city of Frankfurt looks like a financial city. The downtown area although fairly old, has lots of great pubs and restaurants that offer great local food. I had a day to wonder around the Frankfurt Main HBF station and walk around,...
Casa Mila La Pedrera is one of the amazing creations by Antoni Gaudi an architect responsible for many of the amazing creations that have become a legacy for the city of Barcelona. This building he designed for a couple who wanted to live in but they had the vision of renting out rest of the floors to tenants. Even today there are actual...
This is something that can be tricky to understand so I will keep this as simple as possible. You camera whatever that is is programmed from the manufacture to capture certain amount of light in each shot. So when you are shooting something against white or bright light the camera will think there is too much light so it will Under Expose the...
Some time ago I did a post about 3 Steps to Taking Better Photographs of Kids where I talked about getting great and sharp photos of kids. One of these items was to shoot in Burst mode or Continuous mode where your camera will take multiple images as long as shutter remains pressed. I wanted to take this further and share with you my 3 reasons...