Picture Stories by Stephen Alvarez

Swimming, Yucatan Mexico

Underwater swimmers in Bolonchojol Cenote near Chunkusan, Yucatan, Mexico.

-Stephen Alvarez

Wild Chronicles interview

© Stephen Alvarez/National Geographic Magazine used with permission

I was interviewed on National Geographic Weekend this past Sunday about my Deep South cave story. Listen to it here.

-Stephen Alvarez

Joloniel Chiapas, Mexico

An old picture from Chiapas. It isn't really from the visual diary, but from an old NG assignment on the Maya Underworld. Its been sitting in a box for years dead to the world until my intern Lexi put it in a scanner yesterday. The image, the whole project is being resurrected by going from film to digital.

It is a mark of how much the world has changed that pictures don't seem to exist for me if they are not digitized. 

-Stephen Alvarez

Visual Diary September 15 2007

A frame from my visual diary. The pictures often sit around for years before I have the chance to go back and look at them. It is an interesting way to revisit the past.

-Stephen Alvarez

Magic Lantern: These folks are on to something

OK, right now everyone go to this site and give these people $10. I just did. Why? Magic Lantern is an open platform firmware add on that attempts to fix the major issues with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II video. Namely the awful sound quality.

I'm not suggesting that anyone actually load the beta version of this firmware. Not unless you have $2999.99  to throw away. But for just a couple of bucks we can all move this process along. 

-Stephen Alvarez

Deep South slide show from LOOK 3

Images © Stephen Alvarez and National Geographic Magazine used with permission

Canon 5D Mark II firmware upgrade

Firmware upgrade for the Canon 5D MK II is available here. It provides MANUAL EXPOSURE CONTROL while shooting video.

-Stephen Alvarez

Conoly Hole, Tennessee

Pictures come and go then come back again. This image is from the current National Geographic story Deep South (here). It was one of my favorites when I shot it, then over the course of the story it was forgotten.

Synching sound with the Canon 5D MK II a new solution

Bruce Sharpe has a solution for the constant sound synching problems (here) we are all having with the Canon 5d MK II. Read it here.

He says that the issue seems to be some bug in FCP. I've not actually tried this but it all seems reasonable to me.

-Stephen Alvarez

Boulevared Saint-Denis, Paris

I've promised several people a post about workflow, but after 4 days of Peace Love and Photography till 4 am I need a little sleep first. A frame from Paris last week shot on the G-10.

-Stephen Alvarez

Washington, DC