So, here’s the shoot and the idea: We’ve come to the woodlands, we are shooting in the winter, in the rain. There’s no foliage but lots of silver birch trees rolling off into the distance. Our Model, Kanishk, is wearing an outfit that works well with the surrounding colour palette.

Milwaukee Bucks rookie Sterling Brown plans to file a civil suit against Milwaukee police officers who tased him in January. Here are some other incidents in which people have complained about excessive Taser use:

But Reuters uncovered "1,005 incidents in the United States in which people died after police stunned them with Tasers." The news organization noted that "it's impossible to know precisely what role the Taser played in many of the deaths."

In our opinion the Canon R100, paired with the RF 85mm F2 lens has come out on top in all accounts - Tell us what which combination you prefer in the comments!

Canon R5 with the kit lens produces a perfectly fine headshot. There’s a bit of bokeh in the background and the image is quite crisp.

We’re putting these two camera and lens configurations against each other in an outdoor portrait shoot. Before we get to the test, a giant thankyou to Wex for supplying us with the camera gear for this video!

The images look OK, the colours look quite nice together and the cloudy sky creates nice soft lighting. It’s nice and sharp and we’ve managed to achieve a good standard of image here.

The family of Adam Trammell recently filed a civil suit against police in the Village of West Milwaukee who tased him repeatedly. He later died.

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Looking at the images, it’s obvious that if you’ve got a limited budget and you want to get the best image possible, you want to invest your budget into the lens. The Canon R5 may be the professional photographer’s go-to body, but the Canon R100 still hold its own very well when paired with a good prime lens!

In 2014, a supervisor at the House of Correction was suspended after delivering a drive stun with a Taser to the left wrist of a mentally ill 22-year-old woman, who was alone inside a segregation cell at the time.

Here we have our pro camera body, the Canon R5. This camera body retails for around £4k (at the time of making this video) and we’ve paired it with the 18-45mm standard kit lens, which retails around £379 for the budget lens. We’re putting this against the Canon R100, (Canon’s £400 entry-level mirrorless body) with the pro Canon RF 85mm f.2 prime lens. This lens is geared towards macro and portraiture and retails for around £620 (which is very well-priced for a lens of this quality!).

The R100, whilst being nowhere near as responsive as the R5, it still does a fantastic job! The images from this set have the ‘WOW’ factor! It’s clear to see, the cheaper body with the expensive lens has much better results than the R5 with the kit lens.

Taser use had been declining among Milwaukee police officers, but rose sharply in 2016. It declined slightly in 2017. The Taser increase came as Milwaukee police officers used their guns less frequently.

A further back headshot with the Canon R5 and the 18-45mm kit lens. To learn more about headshot photography, check out our course with Mark McGee here.

For this combination, we’re pairing Canon’s high-end, professional-grade mirrorless camera body, the Canon R5, with the standard 18-45mm lens. This lens is the standard kit lens that is usually paired with the entry-level models as a starter kit, it’s not intended to be for any specific type of photography, just a general all-rounder lens to get you started.

With this combination, we are using a prime lens, which means we can’t zoom in and out like we did with the standard kit lens. Also, using a focal length of 85mm means it is zoomed in further and paired with the fact that the Canon R100 is a crop sensor, means that we’re going to be even more zoomed in than what it would be on a full-frame camera. This, in turn, means we really need to be aware of camera shake. It’s also going to give us a very shallow depth of field.

A reflector is a really handy bit of kit for redirecting the light you have in low light or highly diffused low-light situations.

Earlier this month, Milwaukee Police officers were criticized for the violent arrest of Demetrious Lowe, 25 who ignored their orders and punched them repeatedly. Police later said he appeared to be experiencing a mental health episode.

Witness video circulated widely on social media showing a swarm of officers punching and kicking Lowe once he was on the ground. At one point, police appeared to use a Taser on him. The man later was charged with three felony battery counts.

The company that produces Tasers, now called Axon Enterprise, told Reuters last year that only 24 people had died from its devices.

To keep things fair, we’re going to be shooting in the same setting, with the same model and poses for each test. We’ll also be using a silver reflector to help bounce some of the light back at the model as the weather is quite overcast and the natural light is very diffused.

A training guide disseminated by the state’s Law Enforcement Standards Board states that electronic control devices should be used primarily if someone is actively resisting, which “involves a subject who is physically counteracting an officer’s control efforts — under circumstances in which the behavior itself, the environment in which the behavior occurs, or officer/subject factors create a risk of bodily harm.”

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Tasers, also known as stun guns, were hailed as an innovation in policing when they were introduced to police departments around the country in the early 2000s. Tasers are designed to produce a low-level shock that temporarily immobilizes someone, making it easier to apply handcuffs. Once heralded as “nonlethal,” Tasers are now marketed as “less-lethal” — less likely to result in death than guns.

We’re shooting in the woodlands, using the natural surroundings to help with composition. To learn more about composition, check out our Beginner’s Photography Course.

When an officer pulls the trigger, two wires with probes on the ends are released and become embedded in the person’s body. Each trigger pull results in a 5-second burst of electricity. Holding down the trigger results in a continuous flow of electricity.

Axon's training materials recommend, among other things, that officers give someone “a reasonable opportunity to comply before force is used or repeated,” and to “be able to justify every … trigger pull or 5 seconds of discharge under the specific circumstances presented.”

Reuters obtained autopsy findings for 712 of the 1,005 deaths it documented. In 153 of the cases, "Taser was cited as a cause or contributing factor in the death, typically as one of several elements triggering the fatality," according to the news organization.

The devices also can be placed flush against the skin in what is known as a "drive stun." This causes pain rather than temporary paralysis and is used to get people to follow officers' commands.

Is it more important to have a pro camera body or a pro camera lens? We know what you’re thinking, you want ‘both’! But what if you’ve got a low budget camera body and you want a pro lens to go with it? Is this going to be better than using a pro camera body with a budget lens? Well we’re putting this to the test here!

Guidelines by the Police Executive Research Forum state that "exposure longer than 15 seconds (whether continuous or cumulative) may increase the risk of serious injury or death and should be avoided."