Understanding Local length, Lens categories, Crop factor, How to Blur background, How to take Portraits and More!..

Friends,

I have found a very nice video tutorial and finally understood some new concepts I did not get before. Specially that what a 'full frame' sensor is and that a 1.6 sensor (crop depends on the sensor's size) is like the Canon 7D's. So, the crop factor on a full frame sensor (like the Canon 5D Mark II for example) equals to 1 and 1.6 for the 7D.

Check it out, it is called:

Lenses (focal length, crop factor, macro lenses)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-s31II-OU

Also check out:

Composition - Photography with Imre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDbQLL_BcR4

Here's his channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/binarygraphite

Another two from the same guy that are worth checking out are:

DSLR Tips: How to blur backgrounds on portraits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAxJRF73vwc

DSLR Tips: Using polarizing filters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vvz_d6APXk

Here is his channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/cameralabs

And... last but not least, two more tutorials on how to that properly Portraits:

How to Take Great Portrait Photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyxQKNpk58U

The Portrait Photography Masterclass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkwH8NQLdv4

You guys have a wonderful weekend!!

Kind Regards ^_^

Shot gun mics and more...

Friends,

Here we have two links. One is a very popular review from Dan Brockett about an Overview of Popular Short Shotgun, Supercardioid, Hypercardiod and Cardioid Microphones. Very informative and highly recommended:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/right_mic_brockett.html

This other over is Guy Cochran's Vimeo channel. Also with great tests on all sort of mics and audio equipment:

http://vimeo.com/dvgeartalk

My favorite one is:

http://vimeo.com/11451198

That is it for now guys... write you soon ;)