Author: John Aldred

Getty use underwater robots to photograph Olympic swimming events

John Aldred

The technological advancements that can be made in just four short years are amazing. 11 time Olympic photographer Al Bello is taking advantage of that fact this year. He’s covering the swimming events using underwater robot cameras. Robotic underwater cameras at the Olympics aren’t a new idea. Reuters used similar robots during London 2012. But this is […]

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How to shoot amazing night time photography

John Aldred

With the impending Perseid meteor shower peak over the next couple of days, night time photography has suddenly become popular. But when you’re expecting one of the best meteor shower views in years, what else can you expect? In this video from TIME, photographer Stuart Palley shares tips to create beautiful photographs after the sun goes down. […]

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This band made an entire music video using the Prisma app

John Aldred

Video capability just can’t come to Prisma fast enough for some people. For band Drive like Maria, it certainly can’t. For their new video, Deep Blue, every frame was processed using the mobile app. Using a mobile app to process a video is not uncommon. When the app you’re using only works one still shot at a time, […]

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You could probably store your photographic life’s work on Seagate’s new 60TB SSD

John Aldred

When I upgraded from 386 to 486, my hard drive went from a measly 40MB to a whopping 240MB. Totally blown away. Look at all this extra space I have! That was 22 years ago. Since then, memory cards that store a thousand times as much are the size of a fingernail and cost relatively little. 2-4TB hard drives are […]

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FTC to crack down on social media celebrity advertising posts

John Aldred

Bloomberg are reporting that the American Federal Trade Commission are cracking down on social media advertising. Users now must be very clear about paid product endorsements. Users are actually required to do this already, but few do. Many advertisers also request that the social media users not mention it. It’s understandable why advertisers wouldn’t want the public to know. They […]

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Here’s Nikon’s NPS cache at the Rio2016 games

John Aldred

After Getty and Canon, it was only a matter of time before we’d see the inside of Nikon’s NPS facilities at the Rio2016 Olympic Games. As with the others, it’s a pretty immense stockpile of gear. Of course, with the number of competitors, events and photographers there, it’s not really a surprise. Also, with the amount […]

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This amazing San Francisco 4K timelapse took three years to complete

John Aldred

In November 2013, filmmaker Matthew Maniego presented us with a great timelapse of San Francisco called Paradise x SF. Since that time, he’s been working on a sequel. It’s finally here, and some of the scenes are just breathtaking. Paradise x SF 2 has a very different feel to its predecessor. The music is calmer, the […]

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Eye-Fi unbrick their X2 cards to give us what we should have had in the first place

John Aldred

Several weeks ago, you may remember a post about Eye-Fi’s decision to “End of life” a bunch of their products. It’s not uncommon for companies to drop support for their older products, no matter how popular they may be. The problem with their decision, though, was that it would’ve basically bricked all of those products from September […]

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Save yourself $300 and animate photographs in Photoshop with these Plotagraph style actions

John Aldred

I’m sure you’ll have heard the buzz about Plotagraph Pro by now. It’s a new web app in which you animate a photograph. It’s sweeping the photography world. Or, at least, it would be if it didn’t cost $300. And then $350 for each year after the first 12 months. Photographer Diako Mardanbegi thought that there must be […]

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Learn how to read your histogram and nail exposure in just 2 minutes

John Aldred

Histograms are handy things. They either confirm that you’ve nailed your exposure or let you instantly see if you need to adjust. But, they can be difficult for newer photographers to understand. In this Two Minute Tips video, photographer David Bergman shows you everything you need to know about reading your histogram. So what is a histogram? […]

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