From August 2003 to August 2005 Canon Professional Services published
many articles ranging from Educational to Technical. We have been asked
many times if we can publish this archive, so here it is.
Please be aware that the information retained in these articles is dated
and does not necessarily relate to the technology of today.
Balazs Gardi. Talking Shop.
Hungarian photographer Balazs Gardi talks about his life, his country and his art.
Close up on Nature.
József Szentpéteri takes us back to his homeland to shoot a unique event. Mayflies a three hour lifetime.
Doug Perrine.
Doug Perrine is the current Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2004 with his photograph of Bronze whalers charging a baitball.
Extreme Speed: The Road to Fokstugu.
What happens when you strap an EOS D60 to the bonnet of a car and drive from Rome to Oslo.
From the wilds of Dorset to the tranquillity of Havana.
Nick Wilcox Brown takes the EOS-1DS Mark II on a long road test.
Getting The Shot. Take 2.
From Simon Bruty, Jim Nachtwey, Julian Germain, Michael Kleikamp and Michael Kooren.
High Climber.
Mountaineer & ecologist Catherine Cunningham scales new heights as a wilderness photographer.
It's why you do it, not how.
Marco Borggreve describes his passion and special relationship with classical music.
Quicker than Liquor.
Faith in Chaos.
A Photo essay in Sierra Leone by Pep Bonet. Sound and Vision by Sergi Augusti.
The power of the image.
Shahidul Alam – one of Bangladesh’s most famous photographers – wields his camera to effect social change.
The stories left behind
The 17th Visa Pour L'Image festival features a retrospective of Heidi Bradner's work in Chechnya
The Political Picture.
South African Gideon Mendel is using his camera to reverse the fortunes of the 30 million infected individuals residing in Africa.
Top Gun shoots with Canon.
Belgian Antoine Roels hates heights but has become one of the world’s leading aircraft photographers.
Vision, passion and Bruce Springsteen.
Jonathan Klein CEO of Getty Images talks to us about his passion for the image business.
A long day’s journey.
Phil Inglis has been shooting professional golf for some twenty years now and still enjoys getting on the course at 6am.
Back to Life.
Sergi Augusti shoots a short documentary about Médecins Sans Frontiéres' AIDs work in Ethiopia and RD Congo.
Balancing quality with speed.
Steven Tee stops long enough for us to talk to him about shooting Formula 1.
Big Cat Diary Cheetah.
Jonathan and Angela Scott photographing cheetahs in Africa for their new book to accompany the BBC TV series.
Collective behaviour.
Manuel Presti seeing the image that was always there, but which nobody ever saw: the extraordinary in the innocuous.
Eternal winter.
Snowboarding photographer Richard Walch watching the whole snow-loaded side of the mountain.
From Privacy to Performance.
For the first time a woman has won the Grand Prix 2003 Swiss Press Photo Competition. Her name is Siggi Bucher.
Getting The Shot.
TV producer Mac Mackenzie talks about creating 'The Shot'; a series of mini-documentaries screening for Canon across Europe.
Highest Elevation Tour.
Chasing low pressure systems across the world's mountain ranges with an EOS-1D and an XL1.
It's only Rock 'n Roll.
A snapshot interview with Paul Bergen and his portfolio of some very familiar faces of Rock and Pop music.
No mountains in Holland.
No mountains in Holland. Bernard van Dierendonck is our qualified guide to what it takes to go shooting in the mountains.
Painting Photography.
Yves Ullens de Schooten paints with light using the camera like a brush. The inspirations, the why and the how of his unique images.
Stills come to life.
Two Swedish filmmakers use five thousand digital stills to create a new concept music video.
TAO.
Task - one photographer, an EOS-1Ds and document the whole of Denmark in 365 days. By Tao Lytzen.
The language of the image.
Pâl Hermansen, nature photographer, takes us to the extreme North and the deep South in search of the image.
The smallest thing.
Greg Basco switched to digital as his photography gained impetus with commissions from National Geographic and Lonely Planet.
World Press Photo Winner.
Arko Datta – winner of this year’s World Press Photo Contest – talks about capturing his winning shot, his career and staying rational.
Canon's EOS-1D Mark II. 69 Megapixels per second.
Setting new standards in professional photography.
EOS-1Ds Mark II.
The EOS-1Ds Mark II’s 16.7 Megapixel full frame CMOS sensor produces files which sets the international standard.
Playing with light.
EF70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens represents a remarkable achievement in the history of camera lens development.
The XEED SX50.
An award-winning LCOS projector creating a breakthrough in resolution, brightness, contrast and size.
EOS-1D Mark II N
The 8.2 MP EOS-1D Mark II N is the essential tool of sports and reportage photographers.
EOS 5D
The Canon EOS 5D. Discreet enough to avoid attention, with resolution enough to keep the toughest picture editors happy.
Astrophotography with EOS Digital.
Photograph the stars. A guide to Astrophotography using digital EOS SLRs.
Digital Black & White.
Keith Cooper converts raw files to colour and then black and white. A ‘how to’ step by step.
Digital negatives.
C1 software from Phase One changed digital workflow for the better. N.W.B. tells all.
DPP and C1: More choice for RAW
Good software is the key to quality from a digital camera says Nick Wilcox-Brown.
Papers for printers.
High quality ink jet printing depends on the paper used. Nick Wilcox-Brown explains and explores some options.
Safety in numbers – part 1.
Our two-part series on agencies and other options will help you find the right path from freelancer to team player.
Tilt and Shift.
Tilt and Shift lenses illustrated with the work of Architect Christian Kapl. Get out your notebooks.
The joy of travelling.
It's a fact of life that for the busy professional part of the job is invariably travelling. Deep joy!
Digital Media.
Electronic ‘film’ for digital cameras. Types of card, how they work and which to choose.
DPP and C1: More choice for RAW
Canon’s latest technology, E-TTL II – a highly intelligent system that delivers everytime.
Picture Perfect Colour Seminars in Europe.
Are you tired of digital camera images that are flat or suffer from unwanted color-shifts?
Shoot 360°.
A different way of looking at the world. Create stunning panoramas with tips from Noud van der Boer.
The Edge of Raw.
Imagine shooting trani-film with no grain, a greater dynamic range than colour neg and +/- 2 stop exposure correction.