Author: John Aldred

Wesaturate offers free raw files to practise your photo editing

John Aldred

Not everybody who uses Photoshop is a photographer. Some are retouchers, others simply want to learn. Even for those who are photographers, it’s not always possible to go and shoot the kinds of images you need to test out certain techniques. Especially if you’re just starting out with photography. This was the challenge faced by […]

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Photographer created a desert in his studio to photograph the the Audi Q2

John Aldred

The imagination and skill of photographer Felix Hernandez never ceases to amaze me. When it comes to car photography, he certainly thinks way outside of the box to get the shot. Regularly producing images with miniatures that most people would assume were full size vehicles if they weren’t told otherwise. In collaboration with Audi Magazine, […]

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Nail your focus every single time with this DIY lens calibration solution

John Aldred

Whenever I buy a new lens, I have to calibrate it and AF fine tune five different DSLRs. Two are my primary stills shooters, and three are for video. But if I only have the video DSLRs out with me, and want to grab a few quick behind the scenes shots, I need to know […]

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Shoot great casual portraits and headshots with just one light and one modifier

John Aldred

Long before I decided to start shooting portraits, I was asked to photography people. Friends, family, their friends, and their friends. At the time, I wasn’t interested in photographing people, and didn’t really have much idea how to go about getting great photos of people. I usually declined and deferred to people who knew what […]

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Sync and embed timecode into GoPro footage for cleaner multicam and 360° footage

John Aldred

  In video and film production, timecode is the glue that binds all your footage and audio together. It means that in multicam shoots all cameras are shoot the same moment in time for each frame. It also means that audio syncs perfectly with every camera. And it makes editing a whole lot easier, too. With […]

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Sync and embed timecode into GoPro footage for cleaner multicam and 360° footage

John Aldred

  In video and film production, timecode is the glue that binds all your footage and audio together. It means that in multicam shoots all cameras are shoot the same moment in time for each frame. It also means that audio syncs perfectly with every camera. And it makes editing a whole lot easier, too. With […]

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Target’s new swimsuit ad campaign goes “Photoshop-free” (or at least, liquify-free)

John Aldred

Photoshop has received a bit of a backlash over the last few years about its use in advertising.But, it’s not really Adobe’s fault. Photoshop is just a tool. It’s like blaming Ford because you took a wrong turn down a one way street. But, the criticism has made a lot of companies sit up and […]

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New free Cactus firmware update lets you get TTL and HSS with almost every camera and flash brand

John Aldred

This is something that I know my Pentax, Sigma and Panasonic shooting friends will be pleased with. Nine months after releasing the Cactus V6 II and Cactus V6 IIs, there’s new brand-specific firmware updates coming. These let you get HSS and TTL across different brands of camera and flash. Yes, that’s right, you’ll soon be able […]

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