Friday, June 20, 2025

Electronic First Curtain Shutter

From all the shutter modes available in the Canon R6 Mark I, the one that I always use is the Electronic First Curtain Shutter or EFCS. In the Canon R7, I was using Electronic Shutter most of the time, but I stopped using it in the R6 because this camera is totally silent in this mode, and I love to have the sound feedback from the shutter. 

Here is a nice video explaining the differences between the Electronic, Mechanical, and EFCS.



Thursday, June 19, 2025

For no reason at all

I can’t stop going back to this news, watching the video and looking at the pictures. It’s heartbreaking—this reporter was shot for no reason at all, just for someone’s cruel idea of entertainment.

I’m absolutely pro-police—I believe in law and order and the vital role officers play in keeping our communities safe. But respect has to go both ways. It’s a two-way street, and trust can only exist when it's mutual.

 


 

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Lightroom Classic June Update

 Adobe has released an update for Lightroom Classic. What is new? Well, Denoise has been updated and now it does not create a copy of the original. Beside that a New option has been added called Remove Distractions. This feature includes two options, remove reflections and remove people, this last one useful to remove people from your landscape photos. You can see these changes here in this video. 


 

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Squirrel posing like a pro

Last weekend, I took three pictures of a squirrel that I absolutely love. To me, the lighting and composition were perfect, and the squirrel was posing like a pro.

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Monday, June 16, 2025

Sunday, June 15, 2025

This weekend

Here are my picks for this weekend.

This red-shouldered hawk made me walk a lot just to get a few pictures. It seems to be a juvenile—very shy and constantly calling for its mother. Or at least, that was my impression.

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I took the opportunity to shot few pictures to create a huge panorama. Here is the result.

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This is a 10271x7009 resolution picture. That's a 72 megapixels picture coming from a 24 megapixel camera!

My special mention for this weekend:

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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Brenizer Method

I’ve mentioned before on this blog that I sometimes create panoramas using my zoom lenses. These aren’t your typical wide landscape panoramas—they can be images of a subject, like a tree, that simply doesn’t fit within the frame provided by the zoom lens. Here’s an example of one of my photos created using this technique.

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The Brenizer Method, also known as a "Bokeh Panorama" or "Bokeh Pano", is a photographic technique that combines panoramic stitching with wide apertures to create portraits with an extremely shallow depth of field. This method, popularized by Ryan Brenizer, allows photographers to achieve a look similar to that of larger format film cameras using digital cameras. 

Here is a video explaining this method very well. 


 

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