Saturday 30 April 2016
LEE Releases Simple Exposure Guide App to Use with Their ND Filters
This is useful. The folks over at LEE filters just released a handy little exposure guide app that will help you calculate the right shutter speed when you’re using their Little Stopper, Big Stopper, or Supper Stopper ND filters.
The app is extremely easy to use: you simply pick which of LEE’s ND filters you’re using and scroll the wheel on the left until it matches your camera’s metered shutter exposure without the filter. As you do that, the wheel on the right will automatically change to match the “correct” exposure with the filter attached.
The app even has a countdown timer and alarm for exposures over 30 seconds so you can see how long you have left before the shot is over.
LEE released a short video to show you how it works:
We put “correct” in quotes above because, as we all know, there’s no such thing as a “correct” exposure. The exposure you’re going for depends entirely on the effect you’re going for. Still, this will come in very handy for those of you who don’t enjoy doing math while you shoot, or trying remember how many stops of light that Big Stopper is taking away from your exposure.
The LEE Filters Stopper Exposure Guide app is free, and it’s already available for download on the iTunes App Store. Android version “coming soon.”
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Drone Fishing: Guys Use Drone to Capture Tuna from Above… Literally
Drone Fishing. It’s exactly as ridiculous-but-kind-of-fascinating-but-really!? as it sounds. Jaiden Maclean and his friends at Sea Ulcer Aerial Media went fishing for longtail tuna with a Phantom Drone, and captured the entire battle on camera.
What starts off as a standard “beautiful views from above” style video quickly turns into a fight for survival for one fish once it takes the drone-delivered bait. From that point on, it looks like the line attached to the Phantom disconnects so (spoiler alert) the tuna doesn’t pull the drone into the sea.
Once the fish is hooked, the drone simply captures the struggle of man vs nature from above. Check out the video for yourself below:
Personally, some may be turned off by watching an animal struggle to survive. But the perspective of the video is at least novel if not entirely unique.
So if you’re tired of the same old aerial shots by the same old drones of the same old subjects with the same old slow, swelling inspirational music playing in the background, this video might just scratch an itch. But if watching a longtail tuna fight for its life makes you queasy, you should probably just skip this one.
(via Fstoppers)
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Friday 29 April 2016
The Striking and Surreal Photoshop Creations of Vincent Bourilhon
At just 23 years old, Paris-based photographer and Photoshop artist Vincent Bourilhon is already showing more creative chops than some artists two and three times his age. His striking, surreal Photoshop creations explore the meaning and function of everyday objects in strange new ways.
A lightbulb, a book, a hair drier, a matchstick, or even the moon, it’s objects like these that Burilhon turns his creative lens upon. “I am very inspired by the object, its physical form and its meaning,” he tells Mashable. “In each of my photographs, the object becomes an important issue.”
The moon isn’t just the moon. Once Burilhon gets his hands on it, it’s suddenly in need of repair. Light bulbs, though his Photoshop lens, are now created like bubbles… or eaten like ice cream. Thanks to Photoshop, Burilhon can turn his wildest, most whimsical ideas into photographic reality.
To see more of Burilhon’s work or follow along as he creates more strange imagery—he hopes to expand far beyond Paris in the near future—head over to his website or give him a follow on Facebook.
(via Mashable)
Image credits: Images by Vincent Bourilhon and used with permission.
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Quick Tip: How to Turn a Dreary Grey Sky Blue On-Location
The weather doesn’t always cooperate when you’re shooting on-location. So what do you if you’re faced with a dreary grey sky and waiting for clearer weather isn’t an option? This quick tip by photographer David Bergman might help.
David shared the tip on Adorama TV‘s “Two Minute Tips” series, and it’s a simple way to turn a dreary background blue. All you need is an understanding of white balance and some warm gels.
See how Bergman does it in the video below:
Obviously this is a band-aid fix, but even if it’s not ideal, it’s still a neat little trick to keep up your sleeve for the next time the weather decides to be a party pooper.
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