NextWaveDV Free Tethered Shooting for Canon digital SLR cameras This guide will show you how to set up a way to do fullscreen tethered shooting using readily available software for your Canon digital SLR. What is tethered shooting? Tethered shooting is where your camera is plugged into a computer, either via a wire or a wifi connection. This allows you to save time by transferring images directly from your camera to your computer as you take each shot, thus bypassing the slow process of writing to the memory card and avoiding the risk of running out of storage space at a critical moment. Tethered shooting is great for studio and macro photography, where you can review the fullscreen previews of each photo on a full size monitor or LCD television. Hardware and Software Requirements You can do tethered shooting with any Canon digital SLR and the USB cable that is supplied with the camera. The first step is to install Canon's EOS Utility application, which is supplied on the CD that came with my camera. Setting up tethered shooting Go to , . Further tweaks
Open Air Cinema Foundation DSLR Cinema and Video Journalism Everything You Wanted To Know About Light Painting If you love photography and you love painting, imagine how much you would love light painting. It is called painting with light because this is what you are actually doing while taking the shot – painting with light. Aside from being darn beautiful form of photography, it is also a pretty darn cool to spend an evening or a night. The requirements are very minimal you would need a camera that you can set on long exposure, a tripod and some light, light a flash light, matches or one of the oh-so-cool gadgets I’ll share below. If you want to get the general idea, a great place to do it is here, and if you want the jump start treatment, you can get it here. The last thing you will need is tools, we will cover tool in a little while, but if you want to get a feel for the variety of things you can do check out this post. No Really, What Are You Talking About? But of course I would not have made such a statement without some pictures to prove it. Techniques Give People An Aura Using Light Painting
The Banff Centre - Arts, education, and conferences in Banff, Alberta, Canada Speeding up Compressor Is Compressor taking too long to encode? Here are some tips to speed it up. Don't export directly to Compressor from Final Cut Pro Although sending your timeline directly to Compressor may seem faster because it cuts out the step of exporting as a QuickTime movie, it is much slower overall because Compressor needs to request each frame one-by-one from Final Cut Pro instead of just reading the data out of the movie clip. It gets even slower if you're using Frame Controls or doing multi-pass encoding. Just go to File > Export > QuickTime Movie (not QuickTime Conversion) and make sure Setting is set to Current Settings and Recompress All Frames is switched off. Here's a tip - if most of your timeline is already rendered, deselect Make Movie Self-Contained. Once the file is exported, drag it into Compressor and set up your batch as normal. Only use Frame Controls where necessary Perform heaving-lifting in a separate pass to the encoding But there is an easier way. Here's how to do it:1.
Super Easy DIY Rechargeable Battery Power Pack For Event Photographers A few days ago I met Ron Uriel (hebrew site) at an event he was shooting. Aside from the camera and on camera flash (got forbid) he was also carrying a small impact flash on a light stand, taking it along and using it as on the go bounce flash. The beauty of the thing was that the flash was not attached to any power outlet, but sustained using a DIY battery pack. I asked Ron to share how he made it, and he luckily for DIYP he agreed. When it comes to on-location photography, I tend to KISS (Keep It Simple Sweetheart). My goal was to arrange a portable lighting setup for shooting at events where rapid movement is needed and there is very little control over where the shots are taken. My portable flash configuration is made of two elements: A lightweight flash, preferably not an expensive one – I need to move it around a lot, hence light. Low power flash = an advantage for event photographers Wall outlet operation – OK for the studio, nuisance for event photographers. The Battery The Inverter
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