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.

This is everything you could ever want to know about Frequency Separation

Jun 21, 2018 John Aldred

I’m a huge fan of very long and in-depth educational videos on YouTube. People keep going on about how “5-7 minutes is the ideal length!”….

Adobe’s Project Rush lets you seamlessly move and edit between multiple devices

Jun 21, 2018 John Aldred

One of the biggest challenges for people regularly posting to social media is editing videos. Either you shoot while you’re out and then edit when…

Yongnuo’s new 50mm f/1.4 lens keeps up with Canon at less than 2/3rds the price

Jun 21, 2018 John Aldred

Yongnuo has been coming pretty thick and fast with lenses over the last couple of years. Sure, they’re generally copies of somebody else’s lens, but…

It took 4 years to create these shots of two vortex rings colliding

Jun 20, 2018 John Aldred

Sometimes, you see something or get an idea and you just don’t rest until you get it. That’s what happened to Destin Sandlin at Smarter Every…

The new Loupedeck+ offers console control for Aurora HDR, Capture One and Lightroom

Jun 20, 2018 John Aldred

Non-Lightroom users have been a little jealous since the Loupedeck hit the scene. They want consoles for their respective applications, too! And the folks at…

This 2-light LED video lighting kit costs less than $100

Jun 20, 2018 John Aldred

I remember when LED lights first started to become a real thing for video a little over a decade ago. They weren’t even close to…

Skylum’s Aurora HDR 2018 now comes with Loupedeck support

Jun 20, 2018 John Aldred

Skylum has today announced a major performance update to its Aurora HDR 2018 software. As well as adding in some new tools and improving performance…

The bezel-free Oppo Find X smartphone has weird popup cameras

Jun 19, 2018 John Aldred

It kinda looks like a phone from a decade ago, except it runs a modern Android operating system with a bezel-less design. And that design does…

MUWI is a super compact motorised dolly for cameras and smartphones

Jun 19, 2018 John Aldred

Finding that perfect slider or dolly is a challenge. I’ve got a few of them now, and they all annoy me in slightly different ways,…