Tag: mirrorless camera

Frame Rate and Shutter Speed for Action Photographers

While there is no “must” setting for shutter speed when shooting video, there are practical limits. Action shooters are typically shooting shutter speeds for stills that are too fast for making good video. So with sincere thanks to Coach Crockett for helping us understand that a range of shutter speeds work and provide quality, interesting [...]

A Smart Slide-In Mic for Much Better Audio for Hybrid Shooters

Slide-in external microphones for hybrid photographers looking to shoot talking portraits can make a BIG boost in audio quality. And they can also be difficult to use, expensive, easy to break, and hard to adjust. There is no one perfect solution. We’re testing a bunch and one has popped up on our list as not [...]

Sound Advice: The Secret Ingredient That Can Make or Break Your Hybrid eProduct

Hi Folks!  Scott Giorgini here.  I’m a Hybrid Hero who has decades of experience in radio and television production, and right now I’d like to focus on the Secret Ingredient that cam make or break your Hybrid eProducts. Question:  What is one of the most important, yet most overlooked, components of any Hybrid eProduct? As [...]

Learning to Work With LEDs for Still and Moving Portraits

Working your way into Hybrid Photography with LED lights. LEDs bring many advantages for the photographer. Lighting with Continuous Lights is intuitive with easier, faster set-ups. Catching an expression with continuous lighting instead of the big strobe pop makes a photo session feel much more relaxed for my clients (especially kids). This also ads a [...]

Event Photos: Use LED or Flash?

Us hybrid photographers are all gung ho about LED lights so that we can shoot stills and video at the same time. But what I’ve found is that the LED mounted on the camera doesn’t provide the best experience for the person being photographed. People squint and children run and hide when they see me [...]

Innovation #1 – What the Heck is a C-Loop?

Let me tell you it’s the coolest little gadget for making a camera on a strap behave! I’ve always been uncomfortable with a camera strap around my neck. And when I take it off to shoot (really don’t like it while shooting) the straps were uncomfortable between my hand and the camera and worse yet, [...]

Change the Speed of Your Video Clips

In this vlog post I’m going to demonstrate how when you change the frame rate of your video clips, you can add emotion to your hybrid eProducts. When you change your frame rate or clip speed you can do it in camera or in editing. In this video I changed the frame rate in the [...]

Hybrid Photography Offers More Opportunities for Authenticity

I said in the Sheroe’s  Google Hangout of our favorite tools for video that mine was my brain.  What I meant is I think differently when I add video and audio to my sessions.  My main goal as a photographer has been to show people being real while keeping me in the equation, I am [...]

Ready for the Opportunity of Screens?

In the world of photographer we’ve been hearing talk about death. Death of film, death of print…its just not true. Analog formats will not go away anytime soon. Most likely analog formats will become something of a prized craft like someone who shoots film, processes the negative and makes a beautiful print by hand. For [...]

Making Funky Backgrounds from Mirrorless Camera “Art Filters”

So the busy season is just around the corner and I had an itch for new studio backgrounds, but did not feel like buying any (I’m a little dutch, what can I say.)    Solution:  Make my own backgrounds with my new Lumix GH3 and the onboard creative filters built right into this camera.  These [...]

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