After 3 months using the Xencelabs Pen Tablet ... is it still any good?
Is it still the BETTER option compared to Wacom?
In this video I give my honest feedback, point out customisation options and answer questions from the first video … even the mean ones 😃
This Mobile Phone Photography is addicitve!
A couple of weeks back I headed over to West Bay, Dorset to meet up with my friend Steve Healy and to catch the sunrise.
Taking only my new iPhone 14 Pro Max and SmallRig Univeral Holder, whilst Steve shot away with his Fuji XT-5, I shot using the Lightroom Mobile App and experimented with the long exposure settings.
This is my favourite from our time there before the rain came down and stopped play; still … we were recommended a great café the round corner so alls well that ends well 😃
West Bay, Dorset
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Lightroom Mobile App Camera (Long Exposure)
Edited in Lightroom Mobile on iPhone and iPad
The folks at Westcott where I get all my lighting and backgrounds currently have their BIGGEST EVER Cyber Sale running across LOADS of their MOST POPULAR range…
I’ve bagged myself a new FJ200 Flash as well as 2 x Quick Mount S-Brackets which are going to make it so much easier using my Speedlites and Flashes with the Rapid Box Switch Softboxes…
The BIG thing I’m going to be pusghing myself with more and more this coming year is portability; how mobile and portable can I make my kit and set up with the portraits and content I’m planning on creating.
I’ve certainly found over the past 12 months that the more portable, compact and convenient I make my kit, the more I produce, and it’s using some of this new kit that really excites me about the possibilities ahead.
Looking forward to sharing some results and behind the scenes from some of the shoots I have coming up 😃
I’ve been shooting with Sony kit for a few years now, but recently Canon sent me some kit including the Canon R5 and bunch of RF lenses to have a play with to see what I thought, and well...
Damn! I’m absolutely loving taking photographs and video with my new iPhone 14 Pro Max. The quality jump from my iPhone 11 Pro Max to this latest model is like a night and day difference.
Last week I popped over to Cardiff to catch up with my friendAnthony Crothers and ended up walking around Cardiff Bay.
Such a great place with a great atmosphere and so many cool places to eat and drink.
Inbetween the rain showers I managewd to grab a few photographs with my new iPhone 14 Pro Max along with the SmallRig Universal for Mobile Phones and my new Benro Tripod … my old Manfrotto had become unuseable from Sea Water damage PLUS it was quite heavy.
You can see the kit I mention over on my GEAR PAGE ( LINK )
Anyway, using the Lightroom Mobile App and the Long Exposure function set to 5 seconds, here’s one of my favourites from time there …
I edited this on my iPhone 14 Pro Max in the Lightroom Mobile App whilst waiting for Anthony to pop back, and have created a Preset from this that I’ll be sending out to members of my email group.
Perfect, Accurate Colour is vitally important in both Photography and Video.
In this short video I show how to use the Calibrite ColorChecker Passport Duo to achieve exactly this; a simple process that involves 1 extra photograph and just a few clicks in Lightroom …
How did I not know about this?
A setting in Lightroom Mobile that when turned on makes it possible for fantastic Long Exposure Photography ... handheld or on a Tripod by taking multiple photographs VERY quickly and blending them together!
A couple of weeks back I was in Oxford at PhotoHubs on behalf of the Guild of Photographers who asked if I would do a workshop for some of their members.
I've not done 'in person' workshops for a few years now but this was so much fun with such a great group of folks.
I went through how I take portraits in the style of my veterans project but also other equally simple set ups that can create some great results. It was so good to see everyone active , chatting and enjoying the time we spent together. THE most important part of the time together though was showing how important 'talking / conversation' is in making your subject more comfortable and relaxed in front of the camera.
At the end I couldn't resist grabbing a quick portrait myself using just one light and one reflector ... I mean when one of the attendees has such a great look, how could I not??? 😃
Thanks so much to everyone who came along and especially the folks at The Guild for inviting me in and for looking after me so incredibly well ❤️
KIT / SETTINGS:
Sony A7RIV (1/250 , ISO 100 , f/8.0)
Sony 85mm GM
Westcott FJ400 Strobe
Westcott Rapid Box Switch Beauty Dish
Westcott Silver Reflector
Westcott X-Drop Pro with my new material Glyn Dewis Vintage Grey Background
You can see all of this kit over on my GEAR page ( LINK )
Cheers
Glyn
With all the recent BIG updates I'm now able to do a lot more of the SAME things in Lightroom that only used to be possible in Photoshop BUT Quicker and Easier ! In this video I show 3 examples ... working on skin , changing color and creating new backgrounds and lighting effects…
Love Movies? Love Lightroom? Here's how you can QUICKLY and EASILY take the colour from a movie and add it to your own pictures using the Color Grading Panel …
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