Reviews Hardware: Mounts - Tripods, Gimbals, Mounts, Cranes, Jibs etc)
Review: Elgato Key Light
In the science of lighting, the most basic is what is known as 3-point lighting and those three points are called key, fill and back. […]
Tutorials Cameras: (Basics, Technique etc)
Case Studies
Roger Waters. Comfortably Numb 2022. A Very Different Take Using CGI
I am an unashamed Pink Floyd fan, and also love Roger Waters (who left the band bloody yonks ago). I had an article a few weeks back about the Pulse video and especially the track […]
Astrophotography and Videography
Shooting the Total Eclipse: A Video Tutorial
Just after I wrote my piece on shooting tomorrow’s eclipse, the folk at PhotoPills released a step-by-step video on how to shoot it. How to plan a total lunar eclipse. All the equipment you need […]
Astrophotography and Videography
Photographing / Videoing the Total Eclipse Tomorrow. How to get that Killer Shot!
You may have heard that tomorrow night (Tuesday 8th Nov) in Australia we’ll have the pleasure of a total lunar eclipse. This happens when the Earth gets between the Sun and the Moon, thus cutting […]
Case Studies
When was the last time you checked?
We all fastidiously look after our equipment making sure it is kept dry and clean, lenses checked for dust spots, tripod mechanisms kept oiled or greased, drones regularly checked for any fractures or loose props […]
Streaming
Mini Tutorial: Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro -Getting Started
The tutorials for the Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro I have placed on the website over the last 2 years are by far and away the most popular stories of the ones that are there […]
Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques
With its stabilisation can a GoPro benefit from a gimbal? Absolutely. Here’s why.
There was a question in one of the Facebook GoPro forums today. Someone asked which gimbal they should / could get that would suit a GoPro 10. Various options were mentioned (my recommendation having tried […]
Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques
Tutorial: The Camera Does NOT Create the Image. Or Going Beyond “A” for Auto.
If you are new to shooting your new GoPro or DJI drone and want to learn how to get those fantastic shots you see from experienced usres, here is a starting point that is very […]
Astrophotography and Videography
No GoPro? Or DJI Pocket 2? Or Drone? Timelapse Video: Using a Pluto Trigger
I have known a gentleman by the name of Chris Oaten for a very long time. He’s even written stories for me from time-to-time. Chris makes his main living doing timelapse photography, and dare I […]
Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques
Gimbal Modes Explained (updated)
There are 3 axes to a gimbal, and these dictate where the lens is pointing and at what angle. While a student of geometry would call them the x, y and z axes, in gimbal terms they are the tilt, pan and roll axes. […]
Editorial
Hot Tip: Saving GigaMuppets…
Saving GigaMuppets has to be a good thing. It puts it back in YOUR pocket! […]
Today
“I didn’t know it did that”…
Every year or so for the last umpteen years I have written an article that broadly speaking, has had the same substance each time. “Read the manual”. It has never been an intention to chide […]
Features
Tutorial: Creating slow motion (slo-mo)
It would seem obvious then that you could simply slow down the frame rate on playback, yes? If you have footage at 30fps, if you play it back at 15fps it will be ½ the speed seems logical. And so it is.
But.
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Astrophotography and Videography
This could be the most fascinating $200 you’ll ever spend. And the most rewarding. A First Look.
In conjunction with a dSLR camera, what it can do is simply astonishing. And for the price, mind boggling. […]
Features
Building a Camera Rig
A rig is, in our opinion, the best support platform to start out with using, and one you will continue to find use for throughout your production career. […]
Action Cam Tutorials and Techniques
Is the GoPro a ‘Proper’ camera. You bet. And more than you may know! Unlock some secrets here.
I know many people have GoPros of all model numbers and variations, and without to much of an exaggeration, it is safe to say, that just as many users do with “standard” camcorders or cameras, and indeed smartphones, most put it in “A” for “Automatic” and leave it there. Which is a shame as they are then missing out on some gems of capability that would raise the level of their photography and videos and add capability found in more expensive and supposedly “sophisticated” camera and camcorders.. […]
Today
Shooting the Moon
No, not figuratively. With a camera or camcorder. Apparently there is another “supermoon” on the 13th and the folk at PhotoPills have put together a quick tutorial pointing out common errors when filming the moon, […]
Today
Tutorial: Hyperfocal Distance
In other words, it is the point on which you focus that allows the foreground and the background to both be sharp […]
Features
You never stop learning. Including Intervalometers and Mike Oldfield.
As I recall, these shots were all taken on Hasselblad cameras (including that famous one of the very first Earthrise and all the shots of the astronauts kangaroo-ing around on the lunar surface) […]
Features
New Month and new things to snap / video
In March, The Zodiacal Light, the Milky Way and Galactic Centre, Venus at greatest eastern elongation, the Full Moon, the conjunction of Venus and Mars, the March equinox, the conjunction of the Moon and Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, the Messier Marathon, Sunrises, Sunsets, Star Trails and more will be available to shoot. […]
