Zach Sutton
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Customer Stories – How Shannon Corsi Brings Winter Sports to Life
With the 2022 Winter Olympics having just recently wrapped, people everywhere have a newfound respect for winter sports athletes. However, that respect is nothing new for the person we’re highlighting for our Customer Story today – photographer, producer, and director, Shannon Corsi. I’ve…
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Mirrorless Camera Guide for 2022
We’re already a month into the new year, and if our end-of-the-year data has anything to say, it seems that a lot of photographers and videographers (including myself) moved over to the mirrorless platforms in 2021. With each of the brands bringing their full attention to the mirrorless platform,…
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Customer Story – How Philip Grossman Uncovers the Mysteries of Chernobyl
I’ve always had a fascination with abandoned buildings – and it’s actually how I got my start in photography. Sifting through old and abandoned warehouses and paper mills is a pretty common thing when growing up in the midwest, and always gave me an excuse to have a camera strapped to my neck,…
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The Best Budget Lenses for Mirrorless Cameras for 2022
It’s without question, mirrorless is the future for photography. Canon and Nikon have more or less stopped the production on their DSLR platforms, and Sony and Fujifilm have been focused on the mirrorless market for a few years now. And while the mirrorless platforms have several advantages over…
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How Lens Adapters Work & Why You Should Try Them
With both Nikon and Canon switching out their DSLR markets for mirrorless platforms and offering up new lens mounts as a result, and with Sony and Fuji both developing great lenses for their platforms, a common question we get asked is about lens adapters. And lens adapters are no new thing, dating…
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A Look at the Progression of the Canon Mirrorless Platform
The month of October marks the 3rd anniversary of the Canon EOS R line of cameras and lenses – a product lineup that they’ve poured a significant amount of attention and resources into in these three years. The initial announcement of Canon’s focus on their mirrorless platform was met with a lot of…
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The Insta360 One R is my Favorite Action Camera
Fundamentally, I’ve always sort of hated action cameras. Like so many others, I fell for the marketing push, and years ago, I bought myself a GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition, solely because of the amazing promotional video they put together to push the latest and greatest available in 2012. However,…
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How Josh Hasty has Carved His Corner in the Horror Genre
We rent out a lot of stuff, actively work as an intermediary to your creative projects, and get you the gear to help bring your vision to life. Every now and then, we get wind of the project you’re working on and think it’s worth promoting to our blog readers. We highlight these in a series we call…
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Understanding Light Control – Photographing Black on Black and White on White
If you’ve dabbled in off-camera lighting or even natural lighting at times, you’ll quickly discover how difficult working with white can be. It’s no surprise that many people ask their subjects specifically not to wear white clothes, as it’s easy to blow out the highlights and ruin an otherwise…
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How the Light Placement Alters Your Subjects
When teaching basic lighting principles, I break down how to light a subject into having three basic variables – Intensity of Light, Quality of Light, and Direction of Light. The intensity of light is pretty simple in its execution – how bright or dim your light is. Quality of light refers to…
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Lensrentals.com Reviews the FujiFilm GFX 100S
A month or so back, I wrote a piece a bit different than what you might usually find on this site – I went through and looked at the Canon R5, Sony Alpha 1, and the FujiFilm GFX 100s to determine what the best camera of 2021 was _for me_. As a lifelong Canon DSLR shooter, I knew it was time for me…
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How Your Flashtube Position and Shape Changes Your Light Quality
When I learned that Lensrentals.com would start carrying the Profoto Pro-11 and Profoto Pro Heads, I was really excited. Not necessarily because they’re the workhorse standard for large-scale commercial photography, or that Pro-Heads are commonly what I use in my own work, but because of an added…
