Blog
This is the blog for More Than A Snapshot's Online Photography Classes. In these blog posts I will give photography tips, tutorials, and show images.
Filtering by Category: Product Reviews
Review of the Fotopro XPOD Table Tripod Power Bank
Gary Detonnancourt
Customizing the Buttons the Canon 5D Mark IV
Gary Detonnancourt
Announcements from Photokina 2016
Gary Detonnancourt
The Olympus OMD EM-1 Mark II seems like the most impressive camera I've seen in awhile. Check out the video below.
Canon 5D Mark IV Video Quality
Gary Detonnancourt
This is a look at the video quality produced by the Canon 5D Mark IV. This vieo was shot at 4k and 30 FPS. The overlay video of me talking was shot at 720p.
Featured
Canon 5D Mark IV Unboxing
Gary Detonnancourt
Vlog About some Gadgets
Gary Detonnancourt
I went on Facebook Live last night to talk about some new gadgets I've been playing with, here is a clip.
I photographed this heron while bass fishing last week. Luckily this bird keeps going to the bank with great light just before sunset.
Canon 5D Mark IV Official Release
Gary Detonnancourt
In this live stream I discuss my opinions on the cameras new features.
Canon 5D Mark IV First Impressions www.morethanasnapshot.com
Subscribe to my Youtube channel and see my videos even faster.
First Impressions of the Rokinon 24 mm F/1.4
Gary Detonnancourt
I bought the Rokinon 24 mm F/1.4 specifically for night photography. The fast F/1.4 lens allows you to shoot astrophotography at lower ISO's and to get less noise in your images. This lens is known for its sharpness and it doesn't have much coma. Coma is the distortion of the stars at the edges of images. The other option I was considering was the Sigma 20 mm F/1.4 but that lens in known for having issues with coma and the Rokinon is much cheaper.
I haven't had time to take it out for any night photography yet, however, I did some landscape images at sunrise. In this case, all of the images were shot at f/22 and this is a manual focus lens.
I had to return the first lens for problems with the focus ring. It was frozen when I first opened the box and then it was very sloppy. The second copy seems to be very good. I've had friends that have had to return the lens many times till they received a good copy so don't give up on the lens if you don't get a good one right away.
I'm pleased with the results. The lens was easy to focus and the images are sharp. The color and contrast are nice and Lightroom even has the lens corrections for the Rokinon Lenses. I can't wait to go out and try it on some stars.