Following on from a post last week, here’s a full length (10 minute) video where I go through ‘hands’ on use of the NEW Sony A1 and how I lit and photographed a recent surfer portrait on the beach at Saunton Sands at around 12pm on a VERY bright, sunny day…
Sony A1
Sony 85mm f/1.4 G Master
Westcott FJ400 (LINK)
f/1.4 , ISO 50, 1/8000sec in High Speed Sync
Love this Behind the Scenes Capture Mark Baber from Sony grabbed of me yesterday when I was filming Jack (Surfer) running on Saunton Sands beach for part of yesterday’s content with the Sony A7SIII.
The Behind the Scenes looks like something from a Benny Hill comedy sketch but OH MY GOD am I happy with the result!
First time getting some proper use out of my DJI Ronin RS2 Gimbal and I’m blown away with how it smooths out the movement.
Happy Days!
Slow down. Immerse. Repeat. Those three words make up what I call my photography success formula. In this video I explain how approaching landscape photography the same way I approach my portrait photography is getting me way better results, and how it's helped me adapt to the restrictions that were in place at the time. It's a way of working I've carried over from one genre to the other, and it's made a real difference to the pictures I'm coming home with.
Since we all started living with restrictions due to the current Covid-19 Pandemic, I’ve been enjoying getting out and experimenting with other genres of photography as I’m unable to take portraits.
Before this time I guess you could say I was a strict portrait photographer in that, if I wasn’t taking a portrait, then my camera remained in my camera bag. I never felt the urge to try anything else.
Landscapes, Seascapes and Woodland is not only proving to be a heck of a lot of fun and a great way to keep the tools in my hand and keep…
It might sound odd to say this, but I honestly believe the Covid-19 restrictions placed on our daily lives have made me a better photographer. Before then, the only time I'd have a camera in my hands was to take a portrait; as a portrait photographer, I just wasn't interested in other genres. The restrictions forced me to try other types of photography, and that has 100% made me a better photographer. Here I explain how that all changed and why I believe it so strongly.
Following on from my previous post, here’s a portrait taken of a male surfer on the beach at Saunton Sands in Devon using the new Sony A1 and the Westcott FJ400…
If you ever share video content on social media, then check this short video out to see how you can use Premiere Pro CC and the Auto Reframe function to make sure it looks its very best…
I got my hands on the Sony A1 for a very quick photo shoot of a surfer on the beach at Saunton Sands in Devon, on a very bright day. I had just five minutes with the camera, and in that short time it won me over. This video shows that five-minute test on the beach and why I came away completely sold on it.
Here's a short video showing a quick, simple technique in Photoshop for colour correcting your images and removing colour casts. It's super fast; blink and you'll miss it. Better still, the same technique could also be recorded as an Action, which means you could fix thousands of images with a single click rather than working through them one at a time.
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