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You can do a lot…
…in spite of conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom has it that the Canon 7D is not the best for high ISO shots. And that you need twice the lens length, so 50mm on a crop camera needs 1/160th...
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New firmware for Canon 7D
There’s new firmware for the 7D, here: http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos7d/firmware.html I’ll update mine this morning. UPDATE: I just updated it. All well, but note, the upgrade reset my...
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Focus where you want.
…where you want, I mean. Not where the camera wants. So as a tip for beginners and reminder for others, a few words about how to focus. When you look through your viewfinder, you see focus areas, also...
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Can you use a Canon 7D at high ISO?
Yes you can. Especially when you use Lightroom 3 noise reduction. I want to show you this picture again – a repeat, but now with full sized crops and re-edited with Lightroom 3′s magic noise...
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Colour has to be real
Right? Um, no, of course not: colour is a tool for you to use in your artistic endeavors. And colour can be anything you like. A few nights ago, I though I would see how long it would take me to...
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Nature close up
Nature can be beautiful, as in the snap I made in downtown Toronto yesterday afternoon: Bird, Fountain and Flowers (Toronto, 29 August) Sometimes, as in this example, nature is best seen close up;...
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My friend and student Ed asked (and this is the abbreviated version, his question was more nuanced): “should I buy a Canon 60D or a 7D to replace my Digital Rebel”? Because this type of question comes...
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Classic Portraits
Here’s one tip for classic portraits: you can use classic backgrounds. In the 17th century, that meant an elegant drape behind the subject, to provide: Nice texture; Elegance; A sign of wealth and...
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“One step at a time” lighting technique
You have heard me say it many times: “bright pixels are sharp pixels”. Let’s say you want a picture of a lady. Just let’s say that. So then you put a lady by the counter. Because there’s a bright...
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A simple lighting setup?
What one person finds complicated, another finds simple. And vice versa. A friend who visited the other night reminded me of this, when I talked about the simple four-flash light setup I was using for...
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6D
My oldest son Jason uses a Canon 6D with 24-104 f/4L lens, and I had the chance this weekend to play with it a little. Here’s a portrait I just made, of Jason, with the 6D and that lens: Here my first...
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Aircraft image
How to shoot an aircraft? If you are a terrorist, use whatever guided weapon you have. If, however (as I assume since you are here) you are a photographer, you want to do something like this: There are...
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Red Green
Here is my Canon 7D with a few of my speedlights (pro speak for “flashes”), pocketwizards, and cables: Sometimes I use them for standard lighting. Sometimes I use effects -more often than not colour....
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Circles
A recent photo featuring… circles. Technical details: Canon 7D, 1/50th second at f/5.6, 400 ISO, with an on-camera 580EX II flash bounced off the ceiling/wall behind me. Using the 16-35 f/2.8L lens.
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Misc
Backgrounds and sharpness and white balance: oh my! I thought I would chat about some of the things that go through my mind when doing a portrait, like this one last night: Questions like: What camera...
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That look over the shoulder
One common sexy model look is the “look over the shoulder”. Like here, in this shot of Nemo, a somewhat Rubenesque but nevertheless pretty model: In an “over the shoulder” pose women can look over...
View ArticleClick. Shhhh!
A few tips for those of you who shoot ceremonies. Ceremonies are important to people. Whether this is a graduation, a wedding, a signing of some sort: there will often be a hushed silence. A silence...
View ArticleCamera Needs?
I shot a school Sunday: “Photo Day” portraits at a music school. My colleague Anita and I used strobes, backdrops, and Canon cameras: 40D, a 7D and a 1D Mark IV. A few interesting observations: The 7D...
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Portrait using two flashes
Here’s an impromptu portrait I took on Tuesday, of a lovely student who kindly volunteered to be the subject, in the Flash for Pros course: And here’s how I did this: Camera: The camera was a Canon 7D...
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7D popup residual glow…
Look at this, from yesterday’s pic: The Canon 7D can direct other flashes with its popup – unique for Canon, and that is what I was doing in this portrait (the main flash is a 430EX with a Honl...
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