Melissa Mercier: Perfectly Private – 4

I feel lucky to be back in my hometown of Montmagny this year for mother’s day spending time with two wonderful women. My mother and my grand-mother are both very special and important people in my life. I have always considered them best friends as well as family. Montmagny is a very popular hunting town [...]

Stacy Pearsall: Nikkor 24-70mm Lens

  Lens (mm): 70 ISO: 400 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter: 1/1250 Program: Aperture Priority I am a Nikon user and have several lenses in my bag, but my favorite is the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 ED Autofocus Lens. In just about every shooting scenario I face, I can find an application for it. Whether I’m [...]

Melissa Mercier: Perfectly Private – 1

I have always made it a point to protect my private life. Part of my upbringing instilled a strong sense of keeping certain things private and carefully choosing what to make public. This has become an interesting paradox as I’ve grown to become very active online via my facebook, twitter, pinterest and blog. It seems [...]

Manfrotto launch SYMPLA video rigs for HDSLRs and camcorders

  HDSLR cameras and ever-smaller pro camcorders have changed videography dramatically, and along with the obvious advantages and opportunities presented by smaller, lighter cameras come new problems to solve. As ENG camera operators started to use smaller camcorders, and photographers were expected to shoot broadcast-quality video footage on their HDSLRs, both groups found that their [...]

Reflections on Wildlife Photography

Exit Glacier and Black Bear, Kenai Fjords NP, Alaska. Know what you want! Wildlife photography is a wide enough subject to escape the possibility of being covered in one article. Hundreds of books and articles have already been written, and little can be added without running the risk of being just a repetition. One thing, [...]

A new video with Drew Gardner and Lan Bui: which tripod for the Canon C300?

‘Drew Gardner and Lan Bui were lucky enough to borrow a pre production Canon C300 over Christmas and New Year… As luck would have it a friend of theirs Rodney Charters DP of ’24 happened to be in town too. They took the camera to Billingsgate fish market in London, watch out for that video [...]