A look at Fujifilm’s innovative EXR sensor, the latest iteration of its flagship Super CCD sensor, along with some analysis of images from production cameras. Admittedly this would have been more interesting as a speculative piece a year ago, but better late than never
tl;dr: Fujifilm’s EXR sensor is extraordinary, mostly for its dynamic range. If [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Also posted in Market Analysis, The Science of It
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Tagged bayer filter, DSLR, EXR, F200EXR, F70EXR, Fuji, Fujifilm, HDR, high dynamic range, high resolution, high sensitivity, highlight, pixel-binning, S200EXR, sensor, Super CCD, SuperCCD, switchable sensor, wide dynamic range
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So over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a little project called Demosaic. It’s a little online demo that interpolates image data from (simulated) raw sensor output, similar to what almost every digital camera used today has to do.
http://www.thedailynathan.com/demosaic/
So the last and final installment here is all about my third and last trip out to cover the election story, which finally resulted in the little image that ended up gracing the cover of the next day’s special Elections issue:
As the clock struck midnight and November 5th dawned, I was just headed out of [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Also posted in Making the Shot
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Tagged Bancroft Way, Barack Obama, Berkeley, celebration, crowd, crowd shots, Daily Cal, Daily Cal election cover, Durant Avenue, election 2008, election night, flags, girl, photography, photojournalism, student, symbolism, Telegraph Ave, The Daily Californian, united states presidential election, woman
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So when I originally planned this article, it was a couple days after the November 4th election and all the craziness that ensued. So I suppose, more than a week after the actual inauguration, this isn’t exactly the most relevant anymore, but I’d like to hope that these photos (and whatever lessons gleamed from them) [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Also posted in Making the Shot
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Tagged Bancroft Way, Barack Obama, Berkeley, celebration, crowd, crowd shots, Daily Cal, election 2008, election night, photography, photojournalism, spray 'n pray, Telegraph Ave, The Daily Californian, ultrawide lens, united states presidential election
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By now many of you have probably seen the Daily Cal photos and slideshows, as well as the election issue front cover. Election night was an all streetlamp-lit night photography affair, which is pretty much the pinnacle of low-light difficulty (unless you were to cover news by moonlight, I suppose). Combined with all of the [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Also posted in Making the Shot
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Tagged Barack Obama, bounce flash, Daily Cal, election 2008, election night, low-light photography, making the shot, obama victory speech, photography, photojournalism, The Daily Californian, united states presidential election
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Last time I left off, I had finished shooting my first football game and was left partially satisfied with most of my setup, yet wanting a bit more, especially on the very long end. For my second game the very next week, I traveled out with the team to Palouse, Washington, for an away [...]
By Nathan Yan
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Also posted in Insights and Analysis
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Tagged california bears, Chantz Staden, Christopher Ivory, football, football equipment, football photography, Football photography X’s and O’s, fumble return, Gary Rogers, Kevin Riley, Martin Stadium, Nate Longshore, Nikon 400mm, Nikon 400mm f/2.8, Nikon 400mm f/2.8 (non-VR), Palouse, sports photography, Syd'Quan Thompson, viewfinder vision, washington state, washington state cougars, Zach Follett
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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 [...]
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