http://www.mophojo.com Don't just stand there. Shoot. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:54:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past month, I've been bouncing around the islands of Galapagos helping teach University of North Carolina students during their multimedia documentary class. Last year's class produced a beautiful website, www.andamanrising.org, and this year's students will undoubtedly have created an even more impressive site: www.livinggalapagos.org. (Note: the livinggalapagos.org site ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/07/back-from-the-galapagos/ So are you dreaming of shooting sports at 30 frames per second at 1/4000th shutter speeds? Well now you can with the Canon 5D Mark II and the updated firmware 1.1.0 which allows for manual exposure control in video mode. The tough part will be finding the balance between using ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/06/using-the-5d-mark-ii-at-high-shutter-speeds/ It was, officially speaking, a bad-ass week. I just got home from six days of the 2009 Multimedia Immersion and NPPA Convergence held in Las Vegas. It was exhausting, exhilarating, inspirational and humbling. We coached 45 students from around the country on how to produce multimedia storytelling. We used gear from our ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/06/immersion-wrap-up/ I prepared this document ahead of the 2009 NPPA Multimedia Immersion program held in Las Vegas in June. In it you will find tips and do's and don'ts based on my experience with the Canon 5D Mark II. It is current with the most recent firmware upgrade, 1.1.0. [caption id="attachment_550" align="alignleft" width="223" ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/06/canon-5d-mark-ii-tip-sheet/ I gave a presentation on photo blogging at the NPPA Convergence 09 in Las Vegas in June. I am posting a pdf of that keynote here, along with a list of links and resources that I mentioned in the talk. An outline of the presentation includes: A discussion of what a photo ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/06/photo-blogging-101/ Canon released a major firmware update 1.1.0 for the 5D Mark II on June 1, 2009, which will finally allow users to have manual exposure control while recording video. I tested out the new controls and have found them to be easy to use and very functional. One interesting surprise is ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/06/testing-the-manual-exposure-controls-for-canon-5d-mark-ii/ Canon has now released their firmware update which will finally allow users of their 5D Mark II camera to have manual exposure control when recording video. Includes a function to enable the manual exposure setting when shooting movies. *When shooting movies in manual (M) mode, the shutter speed *1, the lens aperture ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/06/canon-releases-firmware-update-for-5d-mark-ii-allowing-manual-exposure-in-video-recording/ I received an email from our Canon rep, Mary Mannix, delivering the much-needed good news that the Canon 5D Mark II will finally be given manual exposure controls for it's video mode via a firmware upgrade coming in "early June". With the popular request for manual exposure control within video for ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/05/firmware-upgrade-will-add-manual-exposure-to-5d-mark-ii-video/ I recently had a few questions about the Canon 5D Mark II from Ethan Magoc, who plans to upgrade his camera body this summer. "I'm going to be photo editor at a small college newspaper in the fall and would like to develop a better multimedia presence on the Web. I'm ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/05/q-a-the-canon-5d-mark-ii/ The General from David Stephenson on Vimeo. The day after it was officially announced that I would be "voluntarily laid off" at the Lexington Herald-Leader, I received an email from Craig Duff, a multimedia director at Time.com. The timing seemed more than coincidental. My primary profession post-Herald-Leader would be that of ... http://www.mophojo.com/2009/04/the-general/