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 small hovering drone that follows you around, can be controlled from your phone, shoots 4K video and doesn’t require FAA registration.
Apr 27, 2016
John Aldred
Drones have become ridiculously popular in the last few years, of that there is no doubt, but sometimes you don’t need all the power and load…
How a personal project became an exhibition of the most beautifully photographed and detailed bugs you ever saw
Apr 27, 2016
John Aldred
As a commercial portrait photographer specialising in sports, this project is a little different to the regular subjects that Levon Biss is used to shooting, but…
This photographer turns his imagination into amazing surreal digital manipulations
Apr 26, 2016
John Aldred
The world can be a pretty strange and surreal place as it is, but for those times when it’s not quite weird enough, we can always…
This is how you photograph paint colliding in mid air using the Hasselblad H6D
Apr 26, 2016
John Aldred
When Hasselblad recently announced their new H6D 50MP and 100MP cameras, one of the lucky photographers they had to help them shoot promotional images for…
Nikon kills the SB-910 speedlight and releases a new D7200 Firmware, but is there another new Nikon DSLR announcement on the way?
Apr 26, 2016
John Aldred
Things seem to be happening all at once for Nikon at the moment, with several announcements, and one rumour. First up, for those that have…
These $4,000+ computers go head-to-head in the Mac vs PC Lightroom Showdown
Apr 26, 2016
John Aldred
This is one of those debates that’s been around for as long as I can remember. It’s like Nikon vs. Canon, iPhone vs. Android, Ketchup…
Raspberry Pi upgrades its camera boards with a new 8MP Sony Sensor in regular and infrared flavours
Apr 26, 2016
John Aldred
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have today announced that they are introducing a new 8MP camera board to replace their popular 5MP OmniVision based camera board….
This photographer has ALS and shoots amazing street photography from his wheelchair
Apr 25, 2016
John Aldred
Brought world’s consciousness in a massive way in 2014, thanks to the Ice Bucket Challenge, ALS is not a nice thing to have to live with….
This drone video uses the Hitchcock Zoom technique for beautiful but dizzying results
Apr 25, 2016
John Aldred
The Hitchcock Zoom, also known as the dolly zoom, the Vertigo effect, reverse tracking shot, triple reverse zoom, the trombone effect, as well as countless other…
Watch as this photographer shoots female bodybuilders in the middle of the street
Apr 23, 2016
John Aldred
I’ve been following the work of Texas based portrait photographer Keydrin Franklin for a while now, but a recent Facebook Live stream of this particular…