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.
How to light two interview subjects with only three lights using cross key lighting
Sep 27, 2018
John Aldred
Interviews can be a fun lighting challenge, especially when you need to go back and forth between two subjects; The interviewer and the interviewee. There…
Massive haul of Leica cameras and lenses stolen from Ffordes’ Scotland camera store
Sep 27, 2018
John Aldred
In the early hours of yesterday morning, thieves broke into the Ffordes Photographic Ltd camera shop in Inverness, Scotland. They took a huge amount of…
Facebook & RED’s new Manifold 360 camera contains 16 8K Helium sensors
Sep 27, 2018
John Aldred
You know we’re at peak levels of crazy when somebody shoves 16 8K RED Helium sensors into a single camera. But that’s exactly what Facebook…
Godox is releasing a round head speedlight to compete with the Profoto A1
Sep 26, 2018
John Aldred
This is interesting and pretty cool. It looks like Godox is taking the AD200 round flash head and putting it into a new speedlight. Rob…
Sony wants to help you get better cat photos with new Animal Eye Autofocus
Sep 26, 2018
John Aldred
If you were hoping for an A7SIII or A7000 announcement, then you’re out of luck. There were no new gear announcements from Sony during their…
Phase One breaks with tradition and opens up Capture One to Fuji medium format cameras
Sep 26, 2018
John Aldred
Well, this is a pleasant surprise that’s going to make a lot of Fuji shooters very happy. Particularly those with the GFX 50S. Phase One…
Leica’s new S3 medium format camera comes with a 64 megapixel upgrade
Sep 26, 2018
John Aldred
The Panasonic/Sigma/Leica alliance wasn’t the only thing that Leica spoke about yesterday during the Photokina press event. They’ve also officially announced the new Leica S3…
Sigma announces five new Global Vision lenses
Sep 25, 2018
John Aldred
Sorry, completely skipped this one in the last Sigma press event post. I was distracted by full frame freaking Foveon! But that’s not all they’ve mentioned…
Sigma announces full frame Foveon camera with L Mount on the way – Canon EF to L adapter coming
Sep 25, 2018
John Aldred
Well, holy cow! This is what I was hoping Sigma might say, but I never expected it to happen. Sigma has just announced that they’re…
ProGrade Digital targets drones and 360 cameras with new super fast UHS-II microSD cards
Sep 25, 2018
John Aldred
ProGrade Digital certainly seems to have settled into the swing of things nicely since their launch earlier in the year. Initially starting up with a…