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.
Signature Edits is a website with free raw files for you to practice your editing skills
Jun 5, 2020
John Aldred
Back in 2017, a website popped up called WeSaturate. Its goal was to become sort of a “Pixabay for raw files” type library where people…
Need sound effects? Rode’s entire Ambisonic Sound Library is now available to download for free
Jun 5, 2020
John Aldred
With the introduction of Rode’s ambisonic microphones like the VideoMic Soundfield and more recently the Rode NT-SF1, recording ambisonic sound has come down in cost…
GoPro’s new GoPro Labs platform lets you test out experimental features
Jun 4, 2020
John Aldred
GoPro has announced a new platform, GoPro Labs, that allows the GoPro community to start testing out experimental features they’ve been working on. GoPro says…
How to shoot great product photos with just one light… and a diaper
Jun 1, 2020
John Aldred
Product photography can be a lot of fun. For many photographers right now, it’s the only type of photography they can really try. They often…
This handy Crop Factor Calculator shows how your lens will look on different size sensors
Jun 1, 2020
John Aldred
Crop factors caused by different sizes of sensors in different cameras still confuses a lot of people. Mostly because there’s so much bad information out…
The Hollyland Mars X HDMI transmitter lets you stream your camera wirelessly to your phone
May 30, 2020
John Aldred
Hollyland has today announced a new addition to their Mars series video transmission systems – the Hollyland Mars X. It’s designed to be a…
YouTube launches “Chapters” to help you easily skim through long videos
May 29, 2020
John Aldred
Recently, YouTube started trialling what it calls Chapters. These are key points within videos that allow you to separate it up into segments. The best…
Chase Jarvis interviews former White House photographer Pete Souza about his career so far
May 27, 2020
John Aldred
If there one photographer’s name who’s popped up a lot over the years, it’s Pete Souza. He was the official White House photographer for both…
Video surfaces of photographer and her equipment pushed into a lake in unprovoked attack
May 27, 2020
John Aldred
As the world starts to come out of strict lockdown, people are out enjoying themselves again. For some people, enjoyment means finally heading back outside…
Heading back outdoors to shoot? Check out this crash course guide to photographing birds in flight
May 27, 2020
John Aldred
With lockdown restrictions starting to be eased in various parts of the world, many will want to get back into shooting photography outside of their…