Posts by Author: John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
Cheap $20 GPS jamming devices can make your drone fall out of the sky but solutions are out there
Dec 22, 2020
John Aldred
For years, companies have been working on finding ways to safely (and sometimes not) take out drones doing things they shouldn’t be doing – whether…
Watch: The George Eastman Museum shows us the historic salt process printing technique
Dec 16, 2020
John Aldred
Making prints from our film negatives is often a bit of a pain. You have all kinds of chemicals you need to buy, and the…
Godox’s new TL60 tube light offers full remote smartphone and DMX control
Dec 15, 2020
John Aldred
Godox has launched their new TL60 LED light, and this time it’s not a new strobe style light that takes softboxes, but a tube light….
Just how good are cheap extension tubes and do they really compare to an expensive dedicated macro lens?
Dec 11, 2020
John Aldred
Macro photography is some of the most fun you can have with a camera. But good macro lenses can be very expensive. There are other…
How to create very realistic (but still fake) reflections in Photoshop using 3D
Dec 11, 2020
John Aldred
Creating reflections in Photoshop is one of those things that people have been trying to master ever since those early Photoshop experiments hinted that it…
Aputure releases LS 600D Pro and announces Amaran 100D/X & 200D/X Bowens mount LED lights
Dec 11, 2020
John Aldred
It’s a busy day of announcements for Aputure today. Their new Lightstorm 600D Pro LED light is now available to purchase, and they’ve also announced…
2020 DIYP Holiday Gift Guide – Lighting
Dec 10, 2020
John Aldred
Light is something that plagues us all, whether we’re photographers or filmmakers. There’s either never enough, or it’s coming from the wrong direction, or it’s…
Canon patents a Dual Pixel AF Back-side Illuminated sensor (finally)
Dec 10, 2020
John Aldred
It’s taken a while for Canon to jump on the whole BSI train, although the company appears to have filed a patent in for what…
Check out the high ISO performance of the Canon EOS R5
Dec 9, 2020
John Aldred
With a lot of the overheating controversy from the video crowd (which Canon has been working on), we have to remember that ultimately the Canon…
Syrp’s new Genie Micro is an all-in-one smart remote controller for your camera
Dec 9, 2020
John Aldred
Syrp has announced their new Genie Micro. Unlike other devices that bear the Genie name, this one isn’t a pan head or slider motor. In…