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The Rhino Motion Kit Is Not Cheap But It S One Heck Of A Motorized Slider

Having an automated motorized slider is a powerful tool to have in your box. It allows the same camera moves that your typical slider will allow. But it also adds an array of abilities to the team that a normal slider does not: You can run in unattended mode, freeing a camera person from manning a cameraYou can run time lapsesYou gain 100% repeatability for complex shotsand you gotta say, it looks darn cool....

The Zhiyun Smooth Q2 And Crane M2 Are Small But Mighty Little Gimbals

Zhiyun has given us no shortage of new gimbal releases over the last year or so. The Crane 3 LAB and Weebill lab have both been big hits. But now Zhiyun is focusing on the smaller things in life with the new Crane M2 and Smooth Q2 gimbals for small compact cameras and smartphones. We had the opportunity to chat with Zhiyun at IBC 2019 and find out more about them....

This Beginners Guide Gives You 20 Tips For Getting Started In Capture One 20

As photographers start to explore alternatives to Adobe’s suite of applications, Capture One is a piece of software that’s often recommended as an alternative to Lightroom. While it may be arguably superior in certain aspects, and very similar in others, the workflow is a little different to Lightroom. So, it can take a while for new users to get used to it. In this video, Michael Comeau at On Portraits walks us through his 20 top tips for beginners to Capture One to help newcomers get to grips with the software quickly and speed up their overall workflow....

This Eerie Short Film Was Lit By A 1 600W Led Drone Light

Drones give us a different perspective for shooting photos and video. But, they are also useful for adding light from totally new angles and for lighting inaccessible areas. In his latest short film The Place Where, filmmaker Tim Sessler mounted a 1,600W LED light onto a drone and created a moody masterpiece. Tim writes that he discovered an amazing, eerie mine with water and beautiful reflections. He took some photos there, but it was so dark that he had to shoot at 1-2 second exposures....

This Free Lightroom Plugin Uses Ai To Automatically Add Keywords To Your Photos

Adding keywords to photos manually is a time-consuming process. And if you ask me, it’s very boring, too. But Imagga’s Wordroom could help you to significantly speed things up. It’s an Adobe Lightroom plugin that uses AI to “see” your photos. It scans them and automatically suggests up to 30 keywords, and it’s completely free to download and use. Wordroom relies on an algorithm that analyzes your photos and gives you relevant keywords....