This week is Sacramento Beer Week!! Last week my friends at New Glory Brewery provided me with a sample of their Lemon Meringue Pie Specialty Ale before it was going to be released for Sac Beer Week. When I got... Continue Reading →
Lights, lights and more lights. As a full time wedding and portrait photographer I have a vast array of lights; 8 or 10 speed lights, 5 or 6 high powered strobes, half a dozen LED panels, 3 or 4 florescent... Continue Reading →
The first of FujiFilm's new f/2.0 weather resistant prime lenses, the XF 35mm f/2.0 offers an equivalent focal length of 53mm in a compact, well built package including a fully marked aperture ring and stepping motor for fast autofocus. Being the... Continue Reading →
If you shoot one of the Sony full frame mirrorless cameras, then adding one of these two lenses can give you the ultimate portrait shooting machine. Which one is for you? If you've asked yourself that very question and still... Continue Reading →
Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO They work together to create an exposure and affect your image in different ways. If you missed the individual articles you can find them here: Aperture - Shutter Speed - ISO You can change the... Continue Reading →
A lot of wedding shooters come to Action Camera to get their gear so I though I'd put together a little discussion about some of the things I think wedding shooters should consider. Depending on your level of experience, what... Continue Reading →
On a recent day trip to the Yosemite Valley, I had the opportunity to shoot my new Fuji X-T2. There was a wide variety of lighting conditions that day and with the heavy snow fall, just getting there was an... Continue Reading →
I recently used a setup in the Action Camera studio with the Glide Gear Teleprompter and our brand new Smith-Victor 19" ring light. It is a simple setup that works quite well. The teleprompter sells for $199.95 and the... Continue Reading →
What is ISO? It is the number that describes how much the processor amplifies the light collected by the sensor. A higher number means the processor works harder to produce a correctly exposed image. Each step on the ISO scale... Continue Reading →