This Olympus OM kit review article summarizes our experiences shooting with this M4/3 gear over the past 5 years. As has been stated numerous times on this website, the choice of camera equipment is intensely personal. What works well for one photographer, may not be the best choice for another.
This article is not intended to encourage any readers to buy the gear that we have purchased. It is simply to provide some hands-on feedback on the equipment that we own and regularly use.
This article features some monarchs in flight test images captured handheld with the M.Zuiko 150-600 mm f/5-6.3 IS zoom. All of the photographs were captured in my backyard at distances that varied from 3.7 to 8.4 metres (~12.1 to 27.6 feet).
For some of us the reality of our own, inescapable mortality doesn’t strike home until we look in the mirror and really examine our reflection. It was a bit of a revelation for me when I happened to look in the mirror this summer after cataract surgery had been completed on both of my eyes.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to photograph some horse jumping at a local event in the Hamilton area. This was my first experience with this type of subject matter so some intensive, on-site planning was required.
This article shares a selection of new images captured using handheld in-camera focus stacking HHFS at the RBG (Royal Botanical Gardens) in Burlington Ontario.
Whenever we go out with our cameras to photograph nature there is a risk that our planned subject matter may not appear. Or, that our anticipated shooting conditions may change. So, some flexibility can come in handy.
This article shares a selection of photographs of small critters that were captured handheld with the M.Zuiko 150-600 mm f/5-6.3 IS zoom lens. This lens is not one that many folks would immediately think of using to photograph bees, wasps and other small critters… but it can be an effective choice.
All of the images featured in this article were captured during a short 1.5 hour visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington Ontario.
There are occasions when bird photographers can face an obstructed opportunity when the sightline to a potential subject bird is partially blocked. Depending on the camera gear used, and its resident technology, an obstructed opportunity can still yield some decent photographs.
This short article features some sample HHFS (handheld focus stacked) images using the M.Zuiko 12-100 f/4 PRO IS zoom lens… captured at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory. These photographs demonstrate the old adage that the ‘best camera’ is the one that you have with you.
The opportunity for ongoing personal experimentation is one of the things that I’ve come to love about digital photography. I did a quick scan through some YouTube video titles after doing a search for ‘photography techniques’. I was not surprised to find numerous videos trying to disseminate ‘must do’ advice.
When I dug a little deeper by searching ‘macro photography techniques’… the videos seemed to become even more dogmatic about following specific techniques at the exclusion of all others.
This article discusses adding a fourth dimension to create an exposure triangle pyramid to help us maximize our camera settings, and related photographic performance.
As photographers we commonly consider three ‘exposure triangle’ factors (aperture, shutter speed, ISO) when deciding on camera settings. There is a fourth factor that is sometimes overlooked which can also impact exposure… lens focal length.
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