Photography
The Canon 6D's autofocus is often faster and more accurate than you can achieve with the manual controls. Explore how to use autofocus in this brief tutorial.
This tutorial is a single movie from the Up and Running with the Canon 6D course by lynda.com author Rich Harrington. The complete course is 1 hour and 33 minutes and explores the key features and controls of the Canon 6D digital SLR, from exposure adjustments to shooting video.
Learn about the Panasonic GH4 camera. Robbie Carman and Rich Harrington explore its features and benefits in this tutorial. Watch the follow-up movies within this series at http://www.lynda.com/Video-Shooting-V....
This specific tutorial is from the Video Gear Weekly series presented by lynda.com authors Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman. The complete course is presented as a weekly lynda.com series and offers reviews and tips on the latest video gear, from cameras like the Blackmagic 4K and GoPros to lighting, accessories, and adapters.
Sometimes your camera's sensor softens your digital images, and they need a bit of sharpening. Pixelmator can help. Learn how to sharpen images in Pixelmator in this tutorial.
This tutorial is a single movie from the Up and Running with Pixelmator course by lynda.com author Rich Harrington. The complete course is 3 hours and 33 minutes and shows how to get up and running with Pixelmator, a full-featured image-editing tool for the Mac.
In this tutorial, explore the Flow-Mow, an accessory for the GoPro camera that rotates the camera 360 degrees. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Photography-Came....
This tutorial is a single movie from the Shooting a Time-Lapse Movie with the Camera in Motion course by lynda.com authors Rich Harrington and Keith Kiska. The complete course is 2 hours and 58 minutes and shows how to take your time-lapse projects to the next level by moving the camera as you shoot.
The Stylize options in Pixelmator let you manipulate pixels for impact. You'll find a wide array of options for enhancing and stylizing your photos. Learn how to add effects and stylize objects and images in this tutorial for visual impact.
This tutorial is a single movie from the Up and Running with Pixelmator course by lynda.com author Rich Harrington. The complete course is 3 hours and 33 minutes and shows how to get up and running with Pixelmator, a full-featured image-editing tool for the Mac.
Lomography lenses can provide a unique wide-angle look for your footage. Learn about Lomography lenses in this tutorial. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Video-Shooting-V....
This specific tutorial is from the Video Gear Weekly series presented by lynda.com authors Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman. The complete course is presented as a weekly lynda.com series and offers reviews and tips on the latest video gear, from cameras like the Blackmagic 4K and GoPros to lighting, accessories, and adapters.
Essentially, computers, cameras, and video devices use pixels to express image information. Each pixel is a small square of captured light. The pixel is the smallest portion of an image that a computer is capable of displaying or printing. Too few pixels and an image will appear “blocky” because there is not enough detail to work with. Too many pixels and the computer or output device slows down because it has to process more information.
But where did the term pixel come from? Pixel is an abbreviation for picture element. The word was coined to describe the photographic elements of a television image. In 1969, writers for Variety magazine took pix (a 1932 abbreviation of pictures) and combined it with element to describe how TV signals came together. There are even earlier reports of Fred C. Billingsley coining the word at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1965. Although the exact origins of the word may be disputed, its meaning is not. The word pixel quickly caught on, first in the scientific communities in the 1970s and then in the computer art industry in the mid 1980s.
As I was browsing my Twitter feed… the following infographic popped up. Keeping in mind that infographics are created by marketing people most often, you have to take these facts with a grain of salt…
The ad (I mean infographic) is for a new Windows model of a smartphone. Fortunately, they do provide sources for their claims (see the bottom of this page).
This report released earlier this year points out that there are 5.2 Billion mobile phones on the planet for a population of 4.3 Billion users (yes, some people have multiple phones). 83% of all phones have cameras. The survey cites that 90% of all people who take pictures have only done so on a camera phone.
I find this ludicrous. Maybe 90% of people taking pictures today are using smartphones… although I doubt exclusively. But ever!?!
A little quick research will show that traditional camera sales are plummeting. According to Businessweek last year:
Global camera sales are expected to fall 4.3 percent this year to 115.2 million units, according to market researcher IHS. Industrywide camera shipments fell 25 percent in August from a year earlier, according to the Camera & Imaging Products Association in Tokyo.
Global smartphone camera sales are projected at 1.5 Billion for 2014 — https://www.strategyanalytics.com/default.aspx?mod=reportabstractviewer&a0=8888
So yes, I’d say that smartphones are outselling camera 10 to 1… that doesn’t surprise me. But I don’t believe that 90% of this planet has never touched a traditional camera in their lifetime.
With camera phones outselling cameras 10 to 1, how long before we start seeing camera manufacturers becoming apps? We’ve already seen companies like Tiffen successfully adapt their traditional filters to digital equivalents. Can modern camera makers make the leap?
Your comments below please. Is this the future? Or will craft and quality always exist?
I know what some of you are thinking… what the heck is that!?!
It’s a camera support rail… that I’ve heavily modified for a special reason. I’ve been looking for a way to shoot with multiple cameras on a single tripod. This combination lets me attach up to 5 cameras to a single tripod. This is really useful for video shooting as well as time-lapse (as I can get multiple angles/compositions of coverage at once).
The rail system attaches to my tripod (it matches an Arca-Swiss style plate). On the rail are two small clamps (with room for a third) to hold each camera body. At each end is a GoPro mount. This can hold 4-5 cameras at once. Cameras can be angled in each direction for 360˚ of coverage of an environment.
This is a cleaner shot of it (although it was shot in my hotel room in Tokyo, so no perfect studio lights here).
Here are the pieces I used to build this (and for those of you familiar with Really Right Stuff the quality is high and so are the prices).
TOTAL $613.00
The clamps are a safe way to attach any camera with an Arca-Swiss style plate.
I am quite pleased with how it’s turned out. I was able to easily gather a lot more options when shooting video and time-lapse (safe to say I tripled my output os usable shots).
Geeky… yes. Pricey… uh huh. Virtually indestructible… absolutely.
Here's a series of there videos I produced about an all-raw Timelapse workflow. This was shot partially on location at the Panama Canal.
