Photo Mish Mash - Food Photography | Big Canon Firmware Updates | Holiday Sales Wish List

This week Tonya and I are joined by awesome food photographer (and mixologist) Nicole Leverett. You can find her work at https://www.instagram.com/staynfocusimages/ and https://www.staynfocus.com/ I look forward to learning about her journey and learning some tips for food and product photography.

We will also chat about big firmware updates coming from Canon for the R5 and R6 and how Canon has flipped the traditional firmware release. And, the Holidays are here, earlier than ever. What gear do we recommend waiting for and what sales are as good as they are going to get?

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Early Holiday Deals - ONE Day B&H Photo Deal

Two pack for fast 64GB cards for just $24! - B&H Photo has the Lexar 64 and 128 2-packs on sale. These cards are fast enough for most of us and support 4k video. Just $24 for two 64GB cards.

Check out the early Holiday Deals on B&H Photo and note that the return period has been extended until Feb 1st! Tamron Lenses on Sale for Sony. I have reviewed all of these lenses and recommend them, with these price drops the value is excellent. And Sigma is offering discounts on many of their popular lenses.

What is on your holiday wishlist? Hit reply and let me know!

I shared this photo on instagram with some thoughts I struggled with when capturing -

Imperfect Sunrise

Our first sunrise on Lake Como in northern Italy was quite the scene - no heavy edit here - the sky and the color reflected in the water was just pink fire! I wanted a shutter speed that would give me some smoothness in the water but in the moment I stressed about the motion in the covered boat- I didn't think I wanted it blurred...I took a series of shots at various shutter speeds and figured I would do some photoshop compositing - using a short shutter speed shot for the boat and a longer shutter speed shot for the water - but today as I worked on these images a bit of blur in the boat felt real and acceptable and so here it is - one shot.

Captured with the Sony a1 in crop mode because I was testing the Tamron 18-300. Shutter speed is 0.8 seconds.