One dramatic difference you’ll while shooting a football game is how the light changes if you’re shooting a game that overlaps the sunset. This first game I shot ran the full gamut from daylight to sunset/shade to stadium lights. Experienced sports shooter should already known to shoot in aperture priority, but for those who are [...]
Use aperture priority. Why? In dynamic lighting situations (which will be anywhere outdoors), your lighting will be all over the place as the sun starts to decline, clouds roll in, and players move in and out of shaded regions (or for stadium lighting, the better-lit sidelines). There is simply no way to manually [...]
Life is full of little small choices, and then there are the big decisions. Namely, 70-200mm f2.8 on a 1.3x crop or 400mm f2.8 on a 1.5x?
I recently had the opportunity to shoot a couple of football games for the paper I work at, The Daily Californian. It was my first time shooting football game, and [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Posted in Insights and Analysis, Skills of the Trade
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Tagged california bears, football, football photography, Football Photography X's and O's, Memorial Stadium, michigan state, michigan state spartans, sports, sports photography, UC Berkeley
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With the recent announcements of the D90 and perhaps more prominently the 5D Mark II (since it actually has the features to make video usable… like AF and external mic jack), photography circles have been alight with excitement (and a fair amount of naysayer criticism) about video on SLRs.
It’s probably no secret where I stand [...]
Today is the day Adobe announces the new Creative Suite 4 (CS4), which comes with a whole slew of new Adobe products for everything from grahic design to layout management to video editing to flash animation. For us photographers, the headline here is going to be new versions of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and an updated [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Posted in Market Analysis, News
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Camera Raw 5, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Bridge, Bridge CS4, content-aware resizing, content-aware scaling, Lightroom, Photomerge, Photoshop, Photoshop CS4, seam-carving, software
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Meaningful content is coming soon, but today’s the start of Photokina, a semi-annual trade show for the photographic and imaging industries where camera makers debut their new products. It’s day 1 and we’ve already got a slew of interesting announcements so far:
Nikon 50mm f/1.4G AF-S lens
Press release
Nikon users (and particularly all those D40/60 owners) have been waiting [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Posted in Market Analysis
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Tagged 4/3, digital cameras, Four Thirds, Leica, Leica DSLR, Leica S1, Leica S2, Micro 4/3, Micro Four Thirds, Micro Four Thirds mockup, nikon, nikon 50mm f/1.4g af-s, Olympus, Panasonic, Panasonic G1, photokina, Photokina 2008, Samsung, Samsung hZ1
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Hi everyone, and welcome to CameraSex/ShutterSounds, a blog on all things photography. This has been a dream pet project of mine for some time, and after several tried and failed attempts using blogger and an old personal xanga, I feel like I’ve finally got the infrastructure set for it to succeed.
So what’s this blog all [...]
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