Tip of the Week: In-Camera Panos with Fuji

Posted by Sohail Mamdani on May 10, 2012 in Featured Articles, Tips

B&W Pano, shot with a 45mm TS-E lens

Making panoramic images is one of my favorite things to do, and I tend to go to some lengths to make them. My tool of choice is usually something along the lines of a Canon 45mm TS-E lens, and I use a technique I described in a previous Tip of the Week piece, “Use a Tilt-Shift Lens for Panoramic Photos.”

That technique takes some time, thought, and setup, and I don’t always have time to do it right. Sometimes, I want to create a panoramic image quickly and easily.

Featuring Your Best: Landscapes

Posted by Matt Maniego on May 9, 2012 in Uncategorized

We received another awesome response from the call for work last week. Over 400 links from our Facebook, Twitter, and G+ pages. Out of the 400, we pinned 39 awesome examples to our Pinterest Board. Here are 3 really great examples of landscape photography. Again, we want to thank you all for participating! If you want your photos featured, look for our call for work on Facebook, Twitter, and G+ at the end of each week.

Photographer: Khayree Butler

Gear Tips Great gear for great landscape photography
Landscape Essentials Package (No Body) – Canon	Landscape Essentials Package (No Body) – Nikon
View more great gear packages

Photographer: Ed Hoffman

Photographer: Nikhil Shahi

See all 39 images on our “Featuring Your Best Landscapes” board.

Photo Finds – Week of May 7, 2012

Posted by Sohail Mamdani on May 7, 2012 in Featured Articles, Photographers

Frank Doorhof

Welcome to Photo Finds, a feature where we point you to some of the best photography around the web.

This week’s Photo Finds comes to us from across the pond, and up into the northern stretches of Europe. Amsterdam-born photographer Frank Doorhof has been plying his trade there since the early 2000s, but lately, he’s been making waves on this side of the Atlantic as well.

Cool Stuff – Week of May 4, 2012

Posted by Sohail Mamdani on May 5, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Featured Articles

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

• If you don’t know this already, we dig our time-lapses. We also like slo-mo stuff. Filmmaker Russell Houghten combined slo-mo skateboarders rotoscoped into time-lapses. Well, heck…
  
• We all know that images in magazines are retouched. One teen is taking a stand against digital manipulation, however. More power to her, we say.
• Oh. My. God. That was pretty-much the only thing we could think to say when we saw this ad for the Canadian Paralympics committee. No CGI, all one take. Wow. The Making Of video is here.
  
• Speaking of video, this one from IQ Interactive tells you why you should be paying attention to video, if you haven’t already been so far…
• Montreal photographer Von Wong has been putting out some amazing work so far. Here’s one heck of an epic shoot he did recently, complete with how he put it all together and a nice BTS (Behind The Scenes) video he did as well.
  

  Epic Medieval photoshoot + Horses! (Photo courtesy and © Benjamin Von Wong)

• And finally, because we haven’t forgotten our stills shooters, here’s one for you: RAW or JPEG? We say RAW every time, but here’s a good pixel-peeping analysis of what you gain and lose with each method.

Product Update: D800 and D4 Lock-Up Fix

Posted by Jim Goldstein on May 4, 2012 in Uncategorized

While we all like our settings a certain way, at least they have narrowed down the catalyst to these two specific settings so that we may all go about our shoots without any hiccups. We speculate that the permanent fix will be a firmware update, since the determining factor (specific camera settings) is a software-based function. Like all Nikon D4 and D800 users we’re hoping that the permanent fix will be released in the coming weeks at which time all BorrowLenses.com customers can rest easy knowing we’ll have the needed update in place ASAP.

Tip Of The Week: Use ND Filters to Blur Motion

Posted by Sohail Mamdani on May 4, 2012 in Featured Articles, Tips

Figure 1. Canon 5D Mark II, 24-105mm f/4 lens, Variable ND filter

Every week, we post a photography-related tip on our blog. These tips are typically inspired by questions we get from our customers. Sometimes we might feature a technique tip, and sometimes a gear recommendation. If there’s something specific you’d like to see in this section, let us know. Email us at blog@borrowlenses.com.

Introduction

The use of various filters – physical ones, not the ones in Photoshop – is something that waxes and wanes with time. Back in the film days, filters were an indispensable part of the landscape photographer’s toolkit. With the advent of digital photography and technologies like HDR, the use of filters, especially graduated and colored filters, has fallen off quite a bit.

As is wont to happen, what’s old is slowly becoming new again. Of late, there’s been a resurgence in the use of certain filters, to the point where Schneider, one of the leading companies that makes these filters, is back-ordered on a number of them.

Featuring Your Best: Portraits

Posted by Matt Maniego on May 2, 2012 in Photographers

Last week we asked for your best portraiture work and we were amazed at the response we got from you all. Out of 300+ total entries from our Facebook, Twitter, and G+ pages. We pinned 39 inspiring examples to our Pinterest Board. Below are 3 great examples from that set of 39 images. Thank you all for participating and we hope to see more of your beautiful work in the near future. Have your photos featured, look for our call for work on Facebook at the end of each week.

Photographer: Kristina Kerns

Gear Tips Great gear for great portrait and wedding work
Wedding Photographer Essentials Package (No Body) – Canon	Wedding Photographer Essentials Package (No Body) – Nikon
View more great gear packages

Photographer: Topher Simon

Photographer: Benjamin Burner

See all 39 images on our Featuring Your Best Portraits board.

Photo Finds – Week of April 30, 2012

Posted by Sohail Mamdani on Apr 30, 2012 in Company News, Featured Articles, Photographers

Tim Wallace

Welcome to Photo Finds, a feature where we point you to some of the best photography around the web.

UK-based photographer Tim Wallace was brought to my attention through Scott Kelby’s awesome KelbyTraining.com. It took little more than a few seconds of browsing Tim’s work to turn me into an instant fan.

I’m not a big car guy. My Saturn is nearly 9 years old, and is rickety to the point where my girlfriend calls it “the Jalopy.” I’ve never been into cars – couldn’t tell you the difference between a carburetor and a cam-shaft. Sure, I admire good-looking cars, but I don’t salivate over them like some folks.

Tim’s photography makes me want to change that.