A New Year. A New Photo Blog.

January 5, 2010 by Mike Wong • 6 Comments

With the New Year comes new resolutions. Like many people, I've got the perennial favorites on my list like exercising more, eating better, blah blah blah. But one that I'm adding has come at the suggestion of a good friend of mine Rick LePage. Rick runs Photo One Media (the publishers of Photoshop Elements Techniques magazine and website and a sister company of onOne Software) and we've been friends for many, many years.

Early in December, Rick suggested we start a photo blog in 2010 with the idea of each of us posting a photo every other day. Rick has the even days. I have the odd days. For me, it's going to force me to get creative every day - or at least every other day - and shoot. Which will be great because I love shooting but don't always make the time to do it. I've already warned my family that I'll be asking them to sit for a bunch of portraits.

So on January 1, we officially started our blog. The blog theme is still in progress, but we wanted to get going with posting photos. We have a few things planned to improve upon on the viewing experience but that will come later (hopefully sooner).

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Canon 5D Mark II Firmware Update Coming

May 26, 2009 by Mike Wong • 5 Comments

Canon announced today an upcoming firmware update to the EOS 5D Mark II that will enable manual exposure controls within the video shooting mode. This is great because now you'll have full access to ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture while shooting full 1920 x 1080p video.

Canon says the free downloadable firmware update will be available in early June 2009.

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My first Canon 5D Mark II video

March 4, 2009 by Mike Wong • 3 Comments

A good friend of mine loaned me his brand new Canon 5D Mark II for a few days as I'm thinking of upgrading. We had a nice break of weather today so I went out and shot in front of our office. I'm no Vincent Laforet, not by a really, really, really long shot, but here's my first take at a video (all 30 seconds of it) shot with the EOS 5D Mark II, complete with a simple 2 track soundtrack created in Apple's Garage Band.

For best viewing results, click the full screen icon which is just to the left of the Vimeo logo when you hover your mouse over the video.


Geese at the park from Mike Wong on Vimeo.