Equipment
Several years ago, it would have been a safe bet to assume that point-and-shoot cameras would be a thing of the past by 2023. And it makes sense, mobile phone cameras have improved significantly over the years, closing the gap between the two platforms, and generally becoming more practical with their ability to share images […]
Equipment
Many sports started as a somewhat primitive idea – most involve a ball of some sort, catching and throwing, and added elements to make the game competitive and unique. However, in the last few decades, technology has made its way into professional sports in a big way. From coaches making plays on tablets instead of […]
Geek Articles
For many years, photographers have had focus-stacking programs like Helicon Focus and Zerene Stacker. You can now get the capability in some general-purpose image editors like Lightroom and Capture One Pro. Focus stacking software takes as input a series of images of the same subject with the focal plane in a different place in each […]
Equipment
As our video services have grown over the last few years, we’ve gotten more and more questions about which of our cameras are “Netflix-approved.” While plenty of companies might have unspoken preferences about the quality and format of media they produce, few have gone as far as Netflix in defining those preferences. For better or […]
Equipment
Recently, my team and I got a proposal to make a music video for an alternative rock band. Their pitch boiled down to essentially “a throwback to 70’s/80’s horror movies, but with modern production values.” We went back and forth on a few ideas regarding aspect ratios, cameras, lenses, camera movement, and lighting. After deliberating, […]
