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Digital photography has changed the way people take photos, and how many are taking them. Anyone with a camera can be a photographer these days, and many of those want to be professional photographers or artists, though they can be the both. All over the internet there is a rise of those who are calling themselves Fine Art Photographers; so maybe it is time to look into what they are and how they are different to the usual photographers. Below is what I consider to be one of my fine art images. Home built in the 30s and then abandoned only a few years ago. I have lots of images that may be...
This is a fun twist on portraiture that can often tell a bit more of a story about your subject, by allowing them to reveal two or more sides to their personality. It’s an old photography trick used in the days of the darkroom, and now with modern technology can be done in minutes with a few simple steps in Photoshop. First you are going to need two or more photographs of your subject, so find yourself a victim to experiment on, or try a self portrait. The main trick to this technique is to get things set up well in the shooting stage so everything goes smoothly when you go to edit. Getting...
Shooting splashes is always great fun, even if it’s a simple image with a coffee cup and a falling piece of refined sugar. Plus, there is always so much room for experimentation for even more fun! When I made the “Empty Cup” image seen above, many people asked me how I shot it. And I thought it would be better to show you in a step-by-step breakdown rather then answer individual questions. So, here’s a look at how it was done. Props First of all you will need a solid background (paper or set of boards only will make things more complicated; I used a sheet of painted plywood), a large...
If you can carve a couple of hours out of your day, you should watch the film “Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning.” It’s a 2-hour-long documentary by PBS about the life and work of photographer Dorothea Lange, who created the iconic Migrant Mother photo back in 1936 during the Great Depression. The film “explores the life, passions and uncompromising vision of the influential photographer, whose enduring images document five turbulent decades of American history,” PBS says. It’s directed and narrated by Lange’s granddaughter, Dyanna Taylor, who “combines family memories and...
It’s true, we all make mistakes, that’s what makes us human, right? Well yes, but there are some mistakes that can, and should be avoided, when it comes to photography. In this article we will be talking about automotive photography in specific. You could be shooting cars for years but if you don’t fix your mistakes, how do you expect to get some great shots? These are the 5 biggest mistakes that car photographers make when first starting out. Don’t worry, I will tell you how to fix those mistakes so other car photographers stop calling you a newbie, and they might actually ask “HOW?” 1. Not...
Have you ever wondered how professional newborn photographers get their backdrops so smooth and wrinkle free? Are they Photoshop masters? Do they have a team of highly paid assistants pulling the fabric? No. The answer is a DIY backdrop stand that costs less than $20 and that you can make in less than 15 minutes. When I first started in the world of newborn photography I used the tools that I had available. I would use a traditional background stand to hold the back of my fabric backdrops. I would then ask my clients if I could borrow a vacuum, dining room chair or some other house hold...
Since Globell Deutschland revived the Meyer-Optik-Görlitz brand, they have been committed to continuing the legendary engineering of lens optics that began in 1896. As of late, they have introduced a number of high-quality lenses designed and crafted in Germany. Now, Globell wants to breathe life into a modern 100mm f/2.8 Trioplan ‘soap bubble bokeh’ lens, a piece of glass known for its unique bokeh. The company has launched a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign that has already raised more than $250,000 to bring this lens back to life. The original Meyer Optik Trioplan lens was...
Photographer Aaron Draper wants people to see homelessness in a different light — literally. For his project titled Underexposed, he hit the streets with his camera and off-camera strobe in order to capture portraits of the homeless and “bring them into the light and out of the shadows for others to view and appreciate.” Draper, a professor of photography at Chico State University, says the goal of the series is to “make the homeless as visually appealing as possible in a society that is visually demanding.” “I use lighting as a way to interest the viewer in the subjects shown,”...
Photo Box is a monthly subscription service that is aimed at delivering surprise and inspiration to photographers around the world. The service has yet to launch, but we got our hands on a ‘Photo Box Pro’ sample for a special unboxing preview for all of you. Take a look at our unboxing video and don’t forget to subscribe to PetaPixel on YouTube for upcoming content! Here’s a rundown of what we received in this first sample box that was shipped to us: 5 x 7 inch portfolio album: 2 oz. bottle of cleaning fluid: Three cord wranglers: Post Cards of the Hoover Damn by John Milleker Jr:...
We reported at the end of last year that Yongnuo was planning to expand beyond Canon lens clones and begin offering thrifty lenses for Nikon DSLRs by the end of 2015. It looks like the lenses are just around the corner: Yongnuo is already showing off the new lenses over in China, and here’s a first look at them. The Chinese news site Sina Technology reports that Yongnuo had a new Yongnuo AF-S 50mm f/1.8 for Nikon F mount cameras on display at the Photo & Imaging 2015 exhibition in Shanghai. Visitors were able to get a hands-on look at the upcoming lens. The overall shape of the...
Men with beards have become commonplace in my area. Guys without them are almost more noticeable than those with a beard. Have a look at this bunch of images of bearded guys as an example. By Sergio Carbajo Weekly Photography Challenge – Beards This week’s challenge is just about having some fun with it. Go out and see if you can find some guys with beards and photograph them. If not, think outside the box – who or what else might have a beard? By Marc Dalmulder By Micolo J By Neil Howard By heather buckley By Aaron Morton By Daniel Guy Share your images below: Simply upload your shot into...
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this trend where you live, but here in my city it seems like every second guy has a beard. Not just a goatee but a full-on, full face beard. So I thought I’d see if I could find a set of images that captures this current trend in society. I thought it was just Portland (Oregon) with its hipsters, but it seems that it’s spread. kashmir by Mahmoud Yakut on 500px – Bruce – by Rey Vladyc Mangouta on 500px Winter Skin by Juan García on 500px mr. Unknown by Alexander Bootsman on 500px Another Day in Paradise by Michael Steverson on 500px *** by Mr. Vander on 500px...
Nikon has issued a service advisory regarding the D750, specifically targeting units made in October and November 2014. An issue with the shutter in these units could result in shading in a portion of images taken with the camera. Nikon will examine and replace the shutter on affected models free of charge to correct the problem. Nikon D750 owners are advised to enter the 7-digit serial number located on the bottom of the camera into Nikon’s serial number tool. If the camera is covered under the service advisory, instructions will be given advising the owner how to...
Phase One 645DF+ with IQ250www.phaseone.com This is a field test of the Phase One 645DF+ combined with the IQ250 digital back. The back can be used with other bodies, just as the body can be used with other backs, but what I will be looking at is the way they work together. It is worth noting at this point that the 645DF+ has recently been superseded by the Phase One XF camera system, which seems a little more modern, and the IQ2 50MP back is now the IQ3 50. Though the XF system is on the way, there are plenty of 645DF+ bodies still for sale. Stepping back a bit, we can...
If your camera lets you automatically add copyright EXIF metadata to every photo you take, you should do it: it could help you recover your gear if it ever gets stolen. That’s exactly what happened to photographer Jon Grundy: after losing $15,000 in gear, Grundy was able to identify the thief and recover his stolen equipment after seeing his name in the copyright info of online photos.According to The Daily Mail, the whole thing started back on July 11th, 2014, when Grundy advertised two Canon lenses online in Melbourne, Australia. He was soon contacted by photographer Bryce Wilson,...
Nikon has issued a new service advisory for the D750 DSLR, warning owners that some cameras may have a shutter defect that causes shading in a portion of photos. This notice comes half a year after Nikon warned D750 owners of a flare issue that had been discovered by photographers. In the advisory, Nikon says that affected Nikon D750 were manufactured between October and November 2014. The shutter on certain cameras made in that window “may not function properly sometimes resulting in a shading of a portion of images taken.” To address the issue, Nikon is offering free repairs to...
As long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with the small and wondrous world of macro imaging, predominantly as a macro videographer, but also in the stills realm as of late. One thing that is a constant in any form of creative imaging is the need to constantly update, modify and adapt the base equipment we are dealt when we make our already-expensive gear purchases. Recently, I’ve been focusing my attention on adapting photographic flash guns for macro photography. My ‘go to’ lens for macro is the infamously difficult MP-E 65mm f/2.8 from Canon. It allows me to shoot at macro...
Want to learn from Lynda’s paid photography and videography tutorials for free? It turns out you can at many public libraries around the country. The popular online learning company recently began to team up with libraries to provide patrons with high-quality training resources at no extra charge. Lynda.com says it’s currently working with select libraries to “promote literacy and personal growth that boosts quality of life.” The program is currently available at a number of libraries including those located within North Logan City, Onondaga County, Arlington, Hennepin, and New York...
Good news for photographers in Europe: freedom of panorama will live on to see another day — in most countries, at least. Today the European Parliament voted on a controversial proposal that threatened to restrict the photography of copyrighted buildings and sculptures from public places. An overwhelming majority of MEPs voted against the plan.Amateur Photographer reports that only 40 of the 751 members of the European Parliament voted to keep the proposal at the vote in Strasbourg, France. This comes after 540,000 people around the world signed a petition on Change.org to petition...
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July 9, 2015
Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President) announced the world’s first ever 450 mm immersion scanner, the Nikon NSR-S650D, has been installed at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) and is transitioning to wafer patterning. This milestone is a significant achievement in accelerating development of the next generation of computer chips.
In July of 2013, Nikon announced it had entered into a partnership with SUNY Polytechnic’s...
Have you been noticing little aches and pains lately, especially around your arms and back? If you do a decent amount of photography, your camera may be the culprit. While photography is largely seen as a hobby or art form, make no mistake about the fact that lugging gear around can be serious physical activity, especially as you accumulate more gear over time. Consider this: a Canon 5D Mark III body only weighs 1.9 lbs (860 grams), and a Canon 70-200 f/2.8 telephoto lens weighs 3.28 lbs (1.49 kg). Combine the two, and you’ve got over 5 lbs of gear to tote, not to mention the added weight of...
Why do black and white photographs speak to us? In nature, colors are meant to attract, and cause things to catch our attention. Still, even without color, black and white images are a mainstay of our craft, and are powerful representations of the artistic spirit. There are many differing opinions when it comes to black and white photography. Some photographers love it, and shoot black and white exclusively, while other photographers absolutely shun the notion and shoot only in color. Then you have the majority of our lot who fall somewhere in between the love and hate poles. Luckily, the...
Lytro has introduced updates for its ILLUM light field camera and desktop software. ILLUM 2.0 provides an almost generational leap for the camera itself, providing a re-designed user interface and making it possible to view and interact with full living pictures in camera. You can now view living images on the camera the same way you would view them embedded in web pages and on the desktop software. Full with aperture preview as well, ranging from F1.0 to F16. And in case you’ve forgotten some of our earlier coverage of the Illum, F1.0 gets you 35-250mm F2.7...
Ricoh Imaging Americas is addressing an anomaly found on a small group of its Pentax K-3 II digital SLRs. On affected models the camera will not turn off, even when the power lever is in the ‘off’ position. Ricoh will service any K-3 II with a serial number lower than 6206660 at no charge – even if the camera is not having any problems. Users can contact Ricoh at 1-800-234-0276 for further information. Press release: PENTAX K-3 II Digital SLR Camera ‘Power-Off’ Notice DENVER, CO, July 9, 2015 – At Ricoh, we are dedicated to delivering...
The Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) is one of the ten cameras to gain support in Apple’s photo editing applications. Apple has released version 6.05 of Raw compatibility software for Mac OS X Yosemite. This update adds support for ten cameras to Apple’s Aperture, Photos, and iPhoto software. The cameras that have been added via this update include: Canon EOS M3 Fujifilm X-T10 Fujifilm XQ1 Fujifilm XQ2 Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) Nikon 1 J5 Nikon D810A Olympus Stylus SH-2 Olympus Stylus Tough TG-4 Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7 The latest Raw Compatibility Update is now...
The so-called bullet time effect, as seen in the 1999 movie ‘The Matrix,’ freezes action while simultaneously changing the angle of view. Creating the effect has always required a large array of cameras and a lot of expensive electronic components to make sure shutters are perfectly synchronized. With the technology becoming more affordable, we have seen amateurs experimenting with the technique, including one effort that used an array of 50 Nokia Lumia 1020s. Despite advances in technology, it is still expensive and time-consuming to create a bullet time scene. Now it...
In February, Serif launched a beta version of its image editing application Affinity Photo. The software is a Photoshop alternative designed specifically for Mac OS X, and the beta has been updated several times since the February launch. Yesterday, Serif took the software out of beta and officially launched it in the Mac App Store for users running OS X 10.7 and later. Affinity Photo is hailed as a Photoshop alternative that is considerably cheaper while retaining the same variety of pro-level features Photoshop users require. Serif’s software supports...
Director Sean Baker’s latest film, Tangerine, features two transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles on a hunt to find a cheating boyfriend. If that premise isn’t interesting enough to attract your interest, then consider how it was filmed: the movie had a budget of $100,000 and was filmed entirely using the iPhone 5.According to Wired, Baker planned on using the iPhone from the start to help save money on the project. Larger cameras are not only more expensive, but they also require a larger paid crew to operate. Baker says his camera choice also helped contribute to the film’s unique...
DxOMark published its sensor test scores for the 50.6-megapixel Canon 5DS and 5DS R DSLRs today, and the news is both good and bad for Canon shooters. On the good side, the cameras scored the highest scores (87 and 86, respectively) ever achieved by Canon sensors. On the other hand, they still lag behind the Nikon D810 and Sony a7R (97 and 95, respectively) in overall quality. Here’s the score breakdown comparison between the 5DS, D810, and a7S: “Sitting outside the top 20 in the rankings, the headline scores for the EOS 5DS suggest that it’s far behind the best sensors we’ve tested,”...
With Google’s first prototype version of its Glass head-mounted computer, users can take pictures by pressing a button on the side or by “OK Glass, take a picture.” In the future, composing a specific photo with Google Glass may be as easy as framing the shot with your fingers.Quartz reports that a newly published patent filing shows that Google has worked on “hand-triggered head-mounted photography.” The document outlines a feature that detects a user’s hands in a scene and takes a picture if the hands are held in certain positions. The framing and shape of the fingers would...
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By Steven Anderson
Over the last decade, underwater photography has been graced with new technology, equipment. and (most of all) spirit. Today, a person without any real knowledge of cameras and general photography can take a decent photo underwater. The real challenge comes when you decide to make one of the ocean’s largest apex predators the subject of that photograph.
This article aims to give helpful tips and techniques for photographing sharks successfully in different conditions. During the last...
As you are aware, there are two ways to buy Lightroom. The first is to buy a perpetual license, which means that you pay a set one-off fee to use the software for as long as you want. The second way is to subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography plan. With this, you pay a monthly fee that allows you to use Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, Lightroom mobile and Lightroom web for as long as you keep up the subscription. The subscription plan is somewhat controversial, and I know from comments on previous articles that some of you don’t like it. However, as it gives you access to Lightroom...
If you find portrait photography difficult, then you’re not alone. Interacting with another person at the same time as using a complex camera, and combining the two activities to make a pleasing image isn’t easy. There’s a lot to think about, even if you’re already familiar with your camera and have put in some good preparation time. Aside from the lighting, the background, the composition, the pose and the expression, there is also the question of what even makes a pleasing image. Will the subject like the way they look, which is their best side, is their hair perfect, what’s the best angle...
It’s been another huge dPS mid year sale and we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have sharing it with you. Over 7 days, 7 amazing photography deals were released, 24 hours at a time. But did you miss a deal you’d love to have? Well, we’d like to give you one last chance before they’re gone for good (it’s about helping you with your photography, after all). So until Friday, all 7 deals are back! Deal #1: Living & Loving Landscapes ebooks – $10 each Deal #2: 60% OFF Photography Concentrate’s Incredibly Important Composition Skills Deal #3: 100 Hacking Photography Lightroom presets for...
Lensbaby, the maker of a range of ‘creative lenses’ and mobile accessories has launched the Creative Mobile Kit. It consists of a mounting device and kickstand for your smartphone and two lenses, the LM-20 and LM-30. The former captures a large sweet spot of focus surrounded by gradually increasing blur, and the latter produces images that have a sharp center surrounded by reflections. According to Lensbaby the kit is compatible with Apple’s iPhone 5 series, the iPhones 6 and 6 Plus and all Android phones running version 4.1 or newer of the Google mobile operating...
Canon has introduced a new printer that can print images directly from Instagram and other social networks. The PIXMA MG3620 Wireless Inkjet all-in-one printer works with the Canon PRINT app for iOS and Android to both access and print from Instagram accounts, as well as other social and online services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, OneDrive, Evernote, Google Drive, Photobucket, Creative Park, and Dropbox. The printer and app combo can also be used to scan images and documents to several online services. Canon says it is the first to offer direct printing from...
Tangerine is filmmaker Sean Baker’s latest movie, and was on show earlier this year at the renowned Sundance independent film festival in Utah. It is about two transgender prostitutes who meet in a Doughnut-shop in LA when one of them finds out that her boyfriend had been cheating on her while she was in jail. However, not only does the storyline sound intriguing, but the movie is also interesting from a technology point of view. Tangerine was entirely shot on the iPhone 5. Initially the decision was made in order to keep the cost for equipment and crew down as the total budget...
Should smartphone cameras be considered “real cameras” when used by journalists? It appears Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s staff members don’t think so. Despite having press credentials, a handful of reporters were denied entry to a photo op between Harper and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley yesterday because they only had smartphones and not non-phone cameras. Reporter Justin Giovannetti of the Globe and Mail was one: Despite getting credentials, eight print reporters told they can’t take photos of PM Harper and Notley because iPhones don’t count. — Justin...
A group of Google researchers have created a new system called DeepStereo that can predict views of scenery it has never seen before. The technology allows a collection of images to be turned into a three-dimensional walkthrough using sophisticated algorithms to fill in areas that were absent from the photographs — interpolating missing frames for a smooth experience. The 2-minute video above shows some examples of what the system can create using Street View-style still photos. DeepStereo works by taking input photos and extracting depth and color information from the images and...
Lensbaby is known for their creative art lenses and mobile accessories including the Composer Pro, LM-10, and Velvet 56. Today, the company has announced their latest addition to their product lineup aimed at smartphone photographers. The new ‘Creative Mobile Kit’ includes two lenses: the LM-20 and the LM-30, a mobile mounting mechanism, and a kickstand for long exposures. The first lens, the LM-20, features Lensbaby’s famous ‘center sweet spot of focus’ with a sharp drop-off into blur. The second lens, the LM-30, takes a sharply focused image surrounded by reflections. Taken with the...
Over the last couple of weeks, the matter of photo contracts has once again been debated. First came Jason Sheldon’s blog post, calling Taylor Swift out on her hypocrisy when attacking Apple for demanding musicians give away their music for free while doing the exact same thing to concert photographers in her photo contracts. If you’re reading this, you’re probably well aware of that whole ordeal, so there’s no need to get into it further other than to say that I fully support Sheldon’s views. His post made some waves, the latest being The Washington City Paper refusing to sign the...
Some photographers find that shooting with a Leica camera provides an experience unlike any other. If you happen to be one of those photographers, or possibly a curious individual, we have quite a bit of exciting news. Photography enthusiast Daniel Neal has uploaded a large collection of Leica Photography magazines to the web for public viewing. Neal writes that he has been a camera enthusiast for years and wanted to help share his collection of Leica Photography Magazines. All of the magazines have been digitally uploaded to Google Drive, along with complete OCR scans; this means...
There’s a line in Return of the Jedi that has always struck me as particularly insightful, especially considering its inclusion in a movie filled with a two-ton slug-shaped bounty hunter and a planet full of fighting teddy bears. In a conversation with his former mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, newly-minted Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker asks his sensei if Darth Vader is indeed his father. When Obi-Wan confirms the awful truth, Luke asks why his teacher had formerly lied to him, telling him instead that Darth Vader “betrayed and murdered your father.” Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi discussing the...
This image, titled “Star Gazers”, won Grand Prizes at the 2015 Shoot the Hills photo competition. Held in the Hocking Hills region near Logan, Ohio, this competition takes place the 3rd weekend every April. 160 photographers from several states participated this year. I initially came up with the idea for this shot over a year earlier, but my first attempt at the image failed miserably. (see below) What mistakes did I make? If I had checked the histogram I would have noticed that the image was extremely under-exposed with all the data pushed up against the left side of the histogram. The...
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America’s largest enclave in Afghanistan, Bagram Airfield, was home to more than 40,000 people, most of whom never leave the base, says Edmund Clark, who has recorded the everyday spaces in which they live and their limited views of the country they are occupying.
Our impression of war is shaped by images of soldiers on patrol or in combat. Actually, points out photographer Edmund Clark, the vast majority of the 40,000 people who were stationed at Bagram Airfield – America’s largest enclave in Afghanistan – never left it. Protected, but also confined, by perimeter walls...
Alice was born with Down’s Syndrome. Her mother at first struggled to accept her. “I wondered how it might be for Alice to be valued without distinction,” Sian Davey says, “without exception and without second glance.”
On one level, Looking for Alice is an illustration of family life, says Sian Davey, with “all the tensions, joys, ups and downs that go with the territory”. But on another, this photography series challenges perceptions of difference, because it focuses on images of her youngest daughter, who was born with Down’s syndrome....
The Greek financial crisis is the source of headlines the world over. But what is it like to call it your home, and be forced to leave? Living in London, Marita Pappa returned home to explore the seductive beauty and power Athens held over her, and to celebrate a people who have, despite everything, carried on having fun.
It seems fitting that we have the Ancient Greeks to thank for the word ‘crisis’, or κρίσις. They interpreted it as a “separation from a judgement or decision”, and there is an air of apocalyptic fervour surrounding Athens that borders on the cinematic:...
Ricoh Japan has announced a new app called THETA+ for iOS and Android. With THETA+, owners of Ricoh’s THETA spherical camera can edit images shot with the device via a smartphone or tablet. Due to be released ‘soon,’ the new app is designed to work in tandem with the existing THETA app, which enables shooting and sharing from a smartphone. THETA+ includes options to trim photos, change their color tone and switch projection format. In addition, Ricoh will be expanding the THETA accessory lineup and releasing firmware version 1.30 for the THETA M15...
Last month, we shared how “freedom of panorama” has come under attack in Europe. According to a proposed amendment to copyright reforms being considered, photographers would need to seek authorization before commercially using photos showing copyrighted works that are permanently located in public spaces. Once word of the proposed amendment got out, photographers have been working hard to speak out against the proposal in order to retain freedom of panorama. On July 3rd, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales himself wrote an op-ed for The Guardian to warn the public about the threat faced by...
Having failed woodworking at school, probably the worst thing I could have done is venture into the world of wet plate photography. Back in 2012, I learned the dark art of the silver stuff, just around the time the wave of interest was starting to build worldwide. However, as I live in New Zealand, an island nation, it has taken a while (and is still taking a while) to reach us. As a result, getting anything wet plate-related is quite a task. One does not simply walk into a store and buy a ‘wet plate kit’. As a result of wet plate collodion, my DIY skills have improved considerably...
Kaleta Bartosz was on a boat with his girlfriend off the coast of Croatia last week when they spotted the Royal Clipper — a five-masted cruise ship — sailing by in the distance. Bartosz raised his binoculars, placed his smartphone camera against the eyepiece, and captured this vintage-looking photo that looks like something from the pages of an old book. The Warsaw, Poland-based cinematographer tells PetaPixel that the ship was about 10 miles away on the Adriatic sea when he examined the “spooky boat” through his binoculars and snapped this photo. His girlfriend shot a couple of...
There is an all-too-common path that many people follow when they begin to practice street photography. They grab their camera, go to the busiest place they can find, and capture people head-on over and over again. While this is certainly something that you should do, it is not the only thing. I want to dispel a few myths about street photography to help broaden the content that you photograph. There is a wide range of ways to capture interesting street photographs for you to try. Plant, Chase Bank 1. People need to be present in the image Street photography is about people, but it does not...
Photoshop can be extremely intimidating to learn, but once you start to get a grasp on some of the tools it has to offer, you’ll wonder how you ever processed photographs without it. If there’s one area of Photoshop that is both extremely confusing, and yet, extremely powerful when harnessed properly, it’s got to be the collection of blend modes. While this article won’t cover all of the options available within Photoshop, it should give you a good place to start your journey into using Photoshop blend modes. Photoshop blend modes: a few basics to get you started Photoshop blend modes are...
Raymond Cauchetier’s name is synonymous with his candid shots of nouvelle vague stars, but his career goes far beyond set photography. A new exhibition at the James Hyman Gallery, including never before editioned photographs, brings him to reflect on his unusual path.
“I’m famous here for Nouvelle Vague photographs but far more famous in Indochina for pictures like these,” Raymond Cauchetier says, gesturing to two pictures taken during his time in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. They are the only ones in the James Hyman’s Mayfair gallery that give us a glimpse of the other...
Korean lens manufacturer Samyang has announced two versions of a new 100mm macro lens. The 100mm F2.8 ED UMC Macro is designed for stills photographers, while the 100mm T3.1 VDSLR ED UMC Macro is aimed at those shooting video. The lenses are essentially the same internally, using 15 elements in 12 groups (although the schematic shows only 14 elements) but the VDSLR version is fitted with an uncoupled aperture ring and gears around both aperture and focus controls. The 100mm T3.1 VDSLR ED UMC Macro The 1:1 manual focus macro lenses feature a 9-bladed iris, and...
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GoPro has introduced the HERO4 Session, a cube-shaped waterproof camera that is half the size of and 40% lighter than its other HERO4 cameras. The HERO4 Session is waterproof to a depth of 33ft/10m without requiring a separate housing and features one-button operation. Though the design differs, the HERO4 Session is also compatible with existing GoPro mounts. The HERO4 Session records video at 1440/30p, 1080/60p, and 720/100p, and is able to take 8MP still images in single, burst, and time lapse modes. Many of the HERO4 Black and Silver cameras’ features are...
After its recent app update it seems Instagram has further improvements up its sleeve, as the mobile image sharing platform has started storing higher resolution images on its servers. In the app and on the web interface, as before, images are still displayed at the small 640 x 640 pixel size, but a look at the website source code reveals that images are now actually stored at 1080 x 1080 pixels. This update is not exactly groundbreaking and the images still won’t be suitable for large-format printing in high quality. Services like Flickr or Google Photos are much better suited...
Capturing animals riding other animals seems to be a new trend in wildlife photography. First there was a weasel riding a woodpecker. Next was a raccoon riding an alligator. The latest: this photo of a crow hitching a ride on the back of a bald eagle. It was shot by California-based amateur photographer Phoo Chan, who watched the image go viral online over the past several days. “Crows are known for aggressively harassing other raptors that are much bigger in size when spotted in their territories and usually these ‘intruders’ simply retreat without much fuss,” Chan writes. “However,...
Last week, the Washington City Paper made a stand against what it considered an unfair concert photography contract presented by the Foo Fighters with an article entitled “Why We’re Not Photographing The Foo Fighters.” Concert photographers everywhere stood up and slow clapped for the headline, the main idea of the article, and the stand it took on photographers rights. In the last paragraph of the article however, the City Paper did something even worse to photographers than the Foo Fighters ever could have: they called on the fans to submit photos of the show, and they offered to...
A new idea by Hillary Clinton is going viral on the Web, and this one has nothing to do with government policies. While walking through the streets during the Independence Day parade in Gorham, New Hampshire, yesterday, Clinton’s aides used ropes to contain and control photographers and others members of the press corps. Photos of the unusual “wrangling” quickly went viral online after being shared by reporters.USA Today calls this moving parade rope line a new “Clinton innovation“. New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman was on the scene, and says that the press was “being...
Photographing people in their natural environment can produce amazing photos, and tell a story. But it can also be incredibly challenging, as you will have to work fast and adapt to the location. Follow these simple steps and you should capture some great environmental portrait photos: Use a wide-angle lens The nature of this type of photography is that you need to capture the person’s surroundings, and to do that you will need a wide-angle lens such as 24mm, 28mm or 35mm lens. This will allow you to get close enough to avoid things coming between you and your subject, but at the same time...
With so many cameras on the market now it’s hard to know which one to buy if you’re just getting into digital photography. Should you get a full on DSLR or go for the more streamlined mirrorless ones? In this video Tony Northrup and his partner Chelsea do a comparison of four different cameras in roughly the same price range (under $1000) including: The relatively new Nikon D5500 – $747 body only Nikon D3300 – $497 with 18-55mm lens Canon’s 70D – $949 body only Sony’s a6000 – $548 body only Watch as they put all four cameras through their paces doing a portrait in studio, outdoor landscape...
Today as part of our Mid Year Deal week we’ve got two amazing courses for you from the amazing Sebastian Michaels. Deal 1: 70% Off Photo Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition Course It’s back! But for 24 hours only… Photoshop Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition course — at an incredible 70% off the RRP! This was the hottest deal featured on our site in 2014. It flew out the door and smashed records in our dPS Christmas sale. So due to popular demand, we’ve brought it back for one more day here! Create Stunning Works Of Art from Your Photography If you want to go from merely editing your...
The highly-regarded Sony a7S is known to be a monster in low-light situations, a fact demonstrated by a number of short films have used moonlight as the only light source. Those projects are eye-opening, but another way to see just how good the camera’s high ISO quality is is to compare it with other well-known cameras. That’s what photographer Tony Northrup does in the short 1-minute comparison above, pitting the a7S against the Nikon D810 and Sony a7 II at various ISOs. Here’s one still frame of the side-by-side comparison that shows you all you need to know: The Sony a7S “beat the...
With every report of virtual reality news, we seem to step closer and closer to a world such as the one depicted in Ernest Cline’s Science Fiction novel, Ready Player One. Today is no exception as we report on the new Sphericam 2: a 4K 360-degree video camera for transporting minds through the power of audio and video. The product, launched by Jeffery Martin, is on Kickstarter looking to meet its $150,000 goal, and it is almost there thanks to 130 generous backers thus far. The Sphericam 2 is the first 360-degree camera designed for the Oculus Rift that offers global shutter capture...
Cinema and photography are two close-knit relatives that help us to tell stories through the use of a camera and mindful composition. This week, we are taking a look at the visual style heavily relied upon by the film noir genre that was most prevalent in the mid 20th century. Through the exploration of Hollywood’s film noir visuals, we can learn a bit more about the history of cinema while finding inspiration for our own work. Film noir is a genre that encapsulates a number of dramas from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. The movies themselves were typically hard-boiled crime...
My Canon and I. We were like two peas in a pod. We met when I was just a young man, knowing nothing about love or how to use a camera. My Canon taught me so much so quickly. We would go out everywhere together and my Canon would teach me how to see things in a new light, see things that I’ve never seen before. My Canon was everything I could ever have wanted. Beautiful on the outside, but so strong and reliable on the inside. Zoom lenses, primes lenses, my Canon offered me everything I wanted, and helped me grow as person, and as a man. I would never leave my Canon. My Canon showed me...
Take a look at this photo and remember what your initial thoughts are: Inlaid marble detail inside Taj Mahal, Agra, India, Asia Where was the first place you looked in the photo? What about the second? Some of the more interesting photos (and artwork in general) moves your view around the image, and often brings you back for more. When you take a photo, you know what you’re looking at and what is most important, but this doesn’t always come through in your picture, unless you make a concerted effort to help the viewer see the same thing. Luckily, as a photographer you have more than a few...
What could be more exciting than metadata? Okay, so pretty much everything else. If you need to find an image later however, to win that big photo contest or finish that assignment, metadata could be invaluable. What is metadata? Simply put it is; data that describes other data. Meta is a prefix that in most information technology usages means “an underlying definition or description”. Metadata summarizes basic information about data, which can make finding and working with particular instances of data easier. Data such as keywords like; blue sky, airplane, interior, flight deck, etc. It...
It’s the 4th of July and time for deal #4 in the dPS summer sale. Today you can pick up a copy of our Photo Magic ebook for just $7 here! At 65% off the normal price of $19.99, there’s no better way to learn the tricks and techniques for creating spectacular special effects images: Zoom effect 360 panorama Flour hair flick Light painting sparklers Light painting steel wool Little world Mixing ambient and flash Multiple exposures Star trails Water droplets And best of all, you don’t need expensive high-end equipment or advanced skills in Photoshop to pull these off — they can all be done with...
The right to use pictures taken in a public place is under threat by a European Parliament proposal for the harmonization of copyright laws across the region. Buried in a complex set of amendments is the idea that the automatic Freedom of Panorama be removed from those countries that maintain it, so that copyright holders of permanent artworks and buildings will need to authorize commercial use of pictures that include their works. On the face of it that doesn’t sound too bad, only that professionals who use locations with copyrighted buildings and art as a...
Singapore-based photographer Mezame Shashin-ka is a big fan of incorporating science fiction themes into his photography. Recently an engaged couple approached him with a special request: they wanted a Star Wars-themed pre-wedding photo shoot that would be “out of this world.” Shashin-ka delivered. “Being Star Wars fans, they decided to portray themselves as Jedi Knights who have fallen in love with one another,” Shashin-ka writes. “Together, they are ready to battle the evil Galactic Empire together.” In an interview with DIYPhotography, Shashin-ka says that the shoot took weeks to...
We recently reported on the 10th anniversary of Canon’s EOS 5D DSLR lineup at the end of May, but Canon isn’t done celebrating. The Japanese camera manufacturer has released a new video in which the development team behind the 5D talk about the thought process behind the 5D’s design and construction. Makoto Hiramatsu, a General Manager at Canon’s ICP Development Center 2, says that the greatest mission of offering the EOS 5D “is to serve the needs of the advanced amateur user with value-added features such as a full frame sensor and full frame imaging.” Hiramatsu also points out how...
I just installed an ANKR in my camera bag. Over the past 10 years I’ve had this reoccurring dream about my camera gear and my backpack being stolen. I’ve actually had two cameras stolen over the years, unfortunately. When you use your camera every day like I do, it’s a hazard to have to deal with. My friend Trey Ratcliff was jacked of his camera bag earlier this year. So I was very pleased to learn about ANKR. ANKR is a new product that allows you to track the geolocation of your gear. The ANKR itself is super small, not much thicker than a quarter. I hid mine in a hidden area of my...
Flying an aerial drone over a raging fire can be quite problematic, so much so that it can endanger the rescue and recovery abilities of fire officials. Recently, two incidents created difficulties for fire officials trying to battle a 24,000-acre wildfire in Southern California. The drones were flown into airspace over the blaze that then prevented the department from using aircrafts in subduing the fire. According to NBC News, “the drones were hovering above the fire and directly interfered with firefighting aircraft being used to drop frame-repellent materials.” California’s...
In this image roundup I gathered a set of images that contain bright colors, more specifically the colors of summer. By James Blunt Your challenge this week will be to do similar. Weekly Photography Challenge – Bright Colors The real challenge with incorporating bright colors into your photography is to make sure you have a clear subject. Of course the subject can be color itself as well, but you need to still showcase the subject. Keep that in mind as you tackle this one. Even if it’s not summer in your part of the world, go find some bright colors and make some good photographs. By Liam...
Paul Simon said it best in Kodachrome: Kodachrome – give us the nice bright colors. Give us the greens of summers, makes you think all the world’s a sunny day. For those of us old enough to remember and know what Kodachrome is – and the song – this is for you. By T Okay, enough strolling down memory lane. Yes it’s summer in the northern hemisphere and we better enjoy it while it lasts. Let’s see some images of those great colors that summer gives us: Precious Love by Sue Hsu on 500px Green Summer Rain by Max Ellis on 500px Winds of Summer by Alex Greenshpun on 500px *** by Laura Pashkevich...
It’s day 3 in our Mid Year Sale and today we have the return of a deal that went absolutely bananas during our Christmas sale last year. 100 Lightroom* presents for just $10! These normally go for $89, so this is your chance to save a whopping 88%. Grab yours here before they’re gone. Have you ever looked at a stunning image and wondered, “why don’t mine look like that”? While taking a great photo is definitely the first step, great editing can be equally as important and is a pro secret for enhancing the beauty of your shots. With these professionally-developed presets from Mike Newton at...
Photographers.pro$70/year photographers.pro Many services exist that allow non-developers to create their own websites without too much hassle, but only a handful cater specifically to photographers. Photographers.pro aims to stand out by offering an all-inclusive package for photographers that provides a website (including a custom domain address and email) for a yearly fee of $70. That flat-rate fee includes a full management interface for creating and maintaining a website, unlimited storage, and the promise that ‘no special IT knowledge’ is required. Does...
Did you know that a Nikon F3 still photography film SLR was used to shoot the 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? The mine cart chase scene in the film would have been too expensive if the track were built to scale, so George Lucas and Steve Spielberg turned to the special effects team at Industrial Light and Magic. They modified a Nikon F3 to shoot the chase scene in miniature using stop motion. By adding a large film magazine and motor drive to the back of the camera, the team created a stop-motion camera that could expose 50 feet of motion picture film for just 15...
Photographers, beware: there may be scammers on your local Craigslist that target photography assistants. Fall into this trap, and you could soon find yourself separated from your own money. A reader named John tells us that he recently responded to a Craigslist job listing that was looking for an administrative assistant for Marcel Schaar, an international photographer based out of Hamburg, Germany. The reply to John’s email appeared to come straight from Schaar: Thanks for your interest in the job offer. You applied for the position of (ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY/ASSISTANT POSITION)...
Nikon today announced three new lenses: a 16-80mm f/2.8-4 for DX cameras, a 500mm f/4 for FX, and a 600mm f/4 for FX. The 16-80mm brings Nano Crystal Coating and Electromagnetic Diaphragm to DX lenses, while the 500mm and 600mm use fluorite elements for significant weight savings. Nikkor 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR The new 16-80mm f/2.8-4E is a DX lens that offers the equivalent focal range of 24-120mm in 35mm terms, so it’s a flexible walk-around lens that’s a jack-of-all-trades for enthusiast photographers. It’s the first Nikon DX lens that comes with Nano Crystal Coating for reducing...
Believe it or not, the image above isn’t a digital composite created in Photoshop — it’s a light painting photo captured using a film camera. Photographer Jason D. Page spent four years planning for this shot before finally capturing it in just the right conditions recently. “My idea was to shoot lightning storms and then light paint stars and planets into the image creating a lightning filled universe all on one single frame of film,” Page tells PetaPixel. The main difficulty in the project was finding the right type of lighting for the shot: cloud-to-cloud lightning that turned out...
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From nearly 89,000 submissions from more countries and regions, 164, than ever before
TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce that the winners of the Nikon Photo Contest 2014-2015 have been determined.
The winner of the Grand Prize (photograph category) is “Fukushima Flowers”, submitted by Katsuhiro Noguchi of Japan. The winner of the Grand Prize (video category) is “One”, submitted by Chris Rudz of Poland. All winning images will be exhibited on the Nikon Photo Contest 2014-2015 Judging Results page beginning today...
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July 2, 2015
Adoption of fluorite elements for the world’s lightest*1 lenses500 mm and 600 mm super-telephoto lenses with a maximum aperture of f/4
TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the release of two super-telephoto lenses compatible with Nikon FX-format digital SLR cameras. Both lenses offer a maximum aperture of f/4. The AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/4E FL ED VR has a focal length of 500 mm, and the AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR has a focal length of 600 mm.
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Film Crew Wanted – Birmingham UK
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Casting & Crew Call for Short Film in Houston
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Stagehand Needed For Galway Fringe Play
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Crew Wanted for Glamour Booty Video
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Home Seller Asks For Photographers Photos Of A Property That Is Not Sold
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What is Fine Art Photography and How to Do it?
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Digital photography has changed the way people take photos, and how many are taking them. Anyone with a camera can be a photographer these days, and many of those want to be professional photographers or artists, though they can be the both. All over the internet there is a rise of those who are calling themselves Fine Art Photographers; so maybe it is time to look into what they are and how they are different to the usual photographers. Below is what I consider to be one of my fine art images. Home built in the 30s and then abandoned only a few years ago. I have lots of images that may be...
How To Create Two of the Same Person in One Photograph Using Photoshop
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This is a fun twist on portraiture that can often tell a bit more of a story about your subject, by allowing them to reveal two or more sides to their personality. It’s an old photography trick used in the days of the darkroom, and now with modern technology can be done in minutes with a few simple steps in Photoshop. First you are going to need two or more photographs of your subject, so find yourself a victim to experiment on, or try a self portrait. The main trick to this technique is to get things set up well in the shooting stage so everything goes smoothly when you go to edit. Getting...
Readers’ showcase: Dan Hogman
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For me number 9 in this impressive set of images is the pièce de résistance, simplicity and space has been used to great effect, it’s beautifully composed, the people in the distance really draws your eye into the space, and gives the image depth.Excellent work! Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7282845124/readers-showcase-dan-hogman
How to Photograph Swirling Splashes of Liquid
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Shooting splashes is always great fun, even if it’s a simple image with a coffee cup and a falling piece of refined sugar. Plus, there is always so much room for experimentation for even more fun! When I made the “Empty Cup” image seen above, many people asked me how I shot it. And I thought it would be better to show you in a step-by-step breakdown rather then answer individual questions. So, here’s a look at how it was done. Props First of all you will need a solid background (paper or set of boards only will make things more complicated; I used a sheet of painted plywood), a large...
Watch ‘Grab a Hunk of Lightning,’ A PBS Documentary About Dorothea Lange
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If you can carve a couple of hours out of your day, you should watch the film “Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning.” It’s a 2-hour-long documentary by PBS about the life and work of photographer Dorothea Lange, who created the iconic Migrant Mother photo back in 1936 during the Great Depression. The film “explores the life, passions and uncompromising vision of the influential photographer, whose enduring images document five turbulent decades of American history,” PBS says. It’s directed and narrated by Lange’s granddaughter, Dyanna Taylor, who “combines family memories and...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Impatient Prince Philip Caught Dropping F-Bomb on Photographer
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Queen Elizabeth II’s 94-year-old husband, Prince Philip, is making headlines today after he was caught on camera cursing at a photographer. The prince was at an event honoring the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain yesterday, where he was asked to pose for a group portrait with six surviving veterans. Displeased with how much time the photographer was taking in setting up the shot, the Prince tells the man to “Just take the f***ing picture!” This is only the latest incident in a decades-long war between the Prince and photographers. “I go out of my way to line people up for the...
Plus Size Lingerie Photo Model Wanted for an Established Lingerie Company .
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Gold Coast Bikini Models Female + Male for ‘Network Approved’ TV Pilot
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Promotions Work Immediate Start
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Beginer Models Needed for TFP Shoots
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15 Models, 2 Photographers, 3 Hair and Make up Artists
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Wanted a Line Producer
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Production Designer / Script Supervisor
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We Are Looking for Fashion Photographers
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The 5 Biggest Mistakes Newbie Car Photographers Make
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It’s true, we all make mistakes, that’s what makes us human, right? Well yes, but there are some mistakes that can, and should be avoided, when it comes to photography. In this article we will be talking about automotive photography in specific. You could be shooting cars for years but if you don’t fix your mistakes, how do you expect to get some great shots? These are the 5 biggest mistakes that car photographers make when first starting out. Don’t worry, I will tell you how to fix those mistakes so other car photographers stop calling you a newbie, and they might actually ask “HOW?” 1. Not...
How to Make a DIY Newborn Photography Background Stand
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Have you ever wondered how professional newborn photographers get their backdrops so smooth and wrinkle free? Are they Photoshop masters? Do they have a team of highly paid assistants pulling the fabric? No. The answer is a DIY backdrop stand that costs less than $20 and that you can make in less than 15 minutes. When I first started in the world of newborn photography I used the tools that I had available. I would use a traditional background stand to hold the back of my fabric backdrops. I would then ask my clients if I could borrow a vacuum, dining room chair or some other house hold...
Photographer captures once-in-a-lifetime Las Vegas sunset
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Hey everyone! Thanks for the comments (good and bad) about my image. It’s funny really – I almost didn’t share this, but I was pushed by some close friends to post online. The reason was because I thought people wouldn’t really believe this was a genuine shot and start criticizing the image for the wrong reasons – I mean, it looks fake, but it really is what happened. It was the glow from the sun that bugged me. There was such a fine mist falling on that part of the city that gave it such a brilliant glow. That glow ended when the rain ended just before the...
Video: An Intro to Polarizing Filters in Photography
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If you’re unfamiliar with the subject of polarizing filters in photography, here’s an educational video that can bring you up to speed. Mark Ryan Sallee of Michromatic just released this 12-minute primer that covers the purpose of polarizers, the science behind them, and tips for purchasing a polarizer for yourself. Source Article from...
Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 Rebirth will Bring ‘Soap Bubble’ Bokeh to Modern Cameras
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Since Globell Deutschland revived the Meyer-Optik-Görlitz brand, they have been committed to continuing the legendary engineering of lens optics that began in 1896. As of late, they have introduced a number of high-quality lenses designed and crafted in Germany. Now, Globell wants to breathe life into a modern 100mm f/2.8 Trioplan ‘soap bubble bokeh’ lens, a piece of glass known for its unique bokeh. The company has launched a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign that has already raised more than $250,000 to bring this lens back to life. The original Meyer Optik Trioplan lens was...
Lighting Portraits to Bring Exposure to Homelessness in America
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Photographer Aaron Draper wants people to see homelessness in a different light — literally. For his project titled Underexposed, he hit the streets with his camera and off-camera strobe in order to capture portraits of the homeless and “bring them into the light and out of the shadows for others to view and appreciate.” Draper, a professor of photography at Chico State University, says the goal of the series is to “make the homeless as visually appealing as possible in a society that is visually demanding.” “I use lighting as a way to interest the viewer in the subjects shown,”...
Hands On with Photo Box, A New Monthly Delivery of Photography Goodies
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Photo Box is a monthly subscription service that is aimed at delivering surprise and inspiration to photographers around the world. The service has yet to launch, but we got our hands on a ‘Photo Box Pro’ sample for a special unboxing preview for all of you. Take a look at our unboxing video and don’t forget to subscribe to PetaPixel on YouTube for upcoming content! Here’s a rundown of what we received in this first sample box that was shipped to us: 5 x 7 inch portfolio album: 2 oz. bottle of cleaning fluid: Three cord wranglers: Post Cards of the Hoover Damn by John Milleker Jr:...
This is the Upcoming Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 for Nikon
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We reported at the end of last year that Yongnuo was planning to expand beyond Canon lens clones and begin offering thrifty lenses for Nikon DSLRs by the end of 2015. It looks like the lenses are just around the corner: Yongnuo is already showing off the new lenses over in China, and here’s a first look at them. The Chinese news site Sina Technology reports that Yongnuo had a new Yongnuo AF-S 50mm f/1.8 for Nikon F mount cameras on display at the Photo & Imaging 2015 exhibition in Shanghai. Visitors were able to get a hands-on look at the upcoming lens. The overall shape of the...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Model Needed For Music Video
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Hair Models Needed for Photography
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Country Girl Australia is Coming to Logan!
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Female Model Needed For Fragerance Style Fashion Film
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Female Model Required For Couples Style Photoshoot
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VFX Artists
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Sound Designer for Completed Feature Film
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Seeking New Camera Men/Women For Mayhem TV
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Can You Collab And Put A Slideshow Video To An Original Song?
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Weekly Photography Challenge – Beards
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Men with beards have become commonplace in my area. Guys without them are almost more noticeable than those with a beard. Have a look at this bunch of images of bearded guys as an example. By Sergio Carbajo Weekly Photography Challenge – Beards This week’s challenge is just about having some fun with it. Go out and see if you can find some guys with beards and photograph them. If not, think outside the box – who or what else might have a beard? By Marc Dalmulder By Micolo J By Neil Howard By heather buckley By Aaron Morton By Daniel Guy Share your images below: Simply upload your shot into...
27 Hairy Situations – People with Beards
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed this trend where you live, but here in my city it seems like every second guy has a beard. Not just a goatee but a full-on, full face beard. So I thought I’d see if I could find a set of images that captures this current trend in society. I thought it was just Portland (Oregon) with its hipsters, but it seems that it’s spread. kashmir by Mahmoud Yakut on 500px – Bruce – by Rey Vladyc Mangouta on 500px Winter Skin by Juan García on 500px mr. Unknown by Alexander Bootsman on 500px Another Day in Paradise by Michael Steverson on 500px *** by Mr. Vander on 500px...
Nikon D750 service advisory warns of shutter issue
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Nikon has issued a service advisory regarding the D750, specifically targeting units made in October and November 2014. An issue with the shutter in these units could result in shading in a portion of images taken with the camera. Nikon will examine and replace the shutter on affected models free of charge to correct the problem. Nikon D750 owners are advised to enter the 7-digit serial number located on the bottom of the camera into Nikon’s serial number tool. If the camera is covered under the service advisory, instructions will be given advising the owner how to...
Phase One 645DF+ with IQ250 field test
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Phase One 645DF+ with IQ250www.phaseone.com This is a field test of the Phase One 645DF+ combined with the IQ250 digital back. The back can be used with other bodies, just as the body can be used with other backs, but what I will be looking at is the way they work together. It is worth noting at this point that the 645DF+ has recently been superseded by the Phase One XF camera system, which seems a little more modern, and the IQ2 50MP back is now the IQ3 50. Though the XF system is on the way, there are plenty of 645DF+ bodies still for sale. Stepping back a bit, we can...
Photographer Recovers $15K in Stolen Gear Thanks to EXIF Copyright Info
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If your camera lets you automatically add copyright EXIF metadata to every photo you take, you should do it: it could help you recover your gear if it ever gets stolen. That’s exactly what happened to photographer Jon Grundy: after losing $15,000 in gear, Grundy was able to identify the thief and recover his stolen equipment after seeing his name in the copyright info of online photos.According to The Daily Mail, the whole thing started back on July 11th, 2014, when Grundy advertised two Canon lenses online in Melbourne, Australia. He was soon contacted by photographer Bryce Wilson,...
Some Nikon D750s Have a Shutter Issue That Causes Shading, Nikon Warns
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Nikon has issued a new service advisory for the D750 DSLR, warning owners that some cameras may have a shutter defect that causes shading in a portion of photos. This notice comes half a year after Nikon warned D750 owners of a flare issue that had been discovered by photographers. In the advisory, Nikon says that affected Nikon D750 were manufactured between October and November 2014. The shutter on certain cameras made in that window “may not function properly sometimes resulting in a shading of a portion of images taken.” To address the issue, Nikon is offering free repairs to...
How I Made a DIY Concave Flash Diffuser for Macro Photography
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As long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with the small and wondrous world of macro imaging, predominantly as a macro videographer, but also in the stills realm as of late. One thing that is a constant in any form of creative imaging is the need to constantly update, modify and adapt the base equipment we are dealt when we make our already-expensive gear purchases. Recently, I’ve been focusing my attention on adapting photographic flash guns for macro photography. My ‘go to’ lens for macro is the infamously difficult MP-E 65mm f/2.8 from Canon. It allows me to shoot at macro...
Heads Up: You Can Access Lynda Lessons for Free at Some Public Libraries
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Want to learn from Lynda’s paid photography and videography tutorials for free? It turns out you can at many public libraries around the country. The popular online learning company recently began to team up with libraries to provide patrons with high-quality training resources at no extra charge. Lynda.com says it’s currently working with select libraries to “promote literacy and personal growth that boosts quality of life.” The program is currently available at a number of libraries including those located within North Logan City, Onondaga County, Arlington, Hennepin, and New York...
Anti-Freedom of Panorama Proposal Rejected by EU
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Good news for photographers in Europe: freedom of panorama will live on to see another day — in most countries, at least. Today the European Parliament voted on a controversial proposal that threatened to restrict the photography of copyrighted buildings and sculptures from public places. An overwhelming majority of MEPs voted against the plan.Amateur Photographer reports that only 40 of the 751 members of the European Parliament voted to keep the proposal at the vote in Strasbourg, France. This comes after 540,000 people around the world signed a petition on Change.org to petition...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Nikon Announces 450 mm ArF Immersion Scanner at SUNY Polytechnic Institute is Transitioning to Wafer Patterning
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Announcement of Allotment of Offered Stock Acquisition Rights (Stock Compensation-type Stock Options) (PDF:140KB)
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Filming Video Collaborator Wanted to Work as a Team
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MTV’s True Life Stories is looking for 18 – 26 go with Fascinating Stories
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Looking For A Photographer, For A "Seven Deadly Sins Shoot"
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Product & Model Shoot, Pre-Summer Campaign Lookbook
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Matterport vs Autodesk 3D Max Floorplan Video
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Options and Choices for Photographers To Help You Avoid Injury
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Have you been noticing little aches and pains lately, especially around your arms and back? If you do a decent amount of photography, your camera may be the culprit. While photography is largely seen as a hobby or art form, make no mistake about the fact that lugging gear around can be serious physical activity, especially as you accumulate more gear over time. Consider this: a Canon 5D Mark III body only weighs 1.9 lbs (860 grams), and a Canon 70-200 f/2.8 telephoto lens weighs 3.28 lbs (1.49 kg). Combine the two, and you’ve got over 5 lbs of gear to tote, not to mention the added weight of...
4 Tips to Help you Decide Between Black and White or Color for your Image
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Why do black and white photographs speak to us? In nature, colors are meant to attract, and cause things to catch our attention. Still, even without color, black and white images are a mainstay of our craft, and are powerful representations of the artistic spirit. There are many differing opinions when it comes to black and white photography. Some photographers love it, and shoot black and white exclusively, while other photographers absolutely shun the notion and shoot only in color. Then you have the majority of our lot who fall somewhere in between the love and hate poles. Luckily, the...
Emi Anrakuji – ‘1800 millimetres. It’s the size of my bed’
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Confined to a bed for the better part of a decade, Emi Anrakuji’s brain tumour caused irrevocable damage to her eyesight. Trapped in her own private hell she began to explore photography – by way of the intimate folds of her body. The result is an unorthodox series of self-portraits that seem both liberating and oppressive in equal measure.
The elusive Emi Anrakuji. Her work seems to have exploded onto the photography scene in early 2000, attracting the attention of Daido Moriyama in 2004. “He was very much impressed,” says Emi, whose body of work is a series of...
Lytro ILLUM and Desktop software get major updates
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Lytro has introduced updates for its ILLUM light field camera and desktop software. ILLUM 2.0 provides an almost generational leap for the camera itself, providing a re-designed user interface and making it possible to view and interact with full living pictures in camera. You can now view living images on the camera the same way you would view them embedded in web pages and on the desktop software. Full with aperture preview as well, ranging from F1.0 to F16. And in case you’ve forgotten some of our earlier coverage of the Illum, F1.0 gets you 35-250mm F2.7...
Ricoh addresses ‘power off’ issue on some Pentax K-3 II cameras
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Ricoh Imaging Americas is addressing an anomaly found on a small group of its Pentax K-3 II digital SLRs. On affected models the camera will not turn off, even when the power lever is in the ‘off’ position. Ricoh will service any K-3 II with a serial number lower than 6206660 at no charge – even if the camera is not having any problems. Users can contact Ricoh at 1-800-234-0276 for further information. Press release: PENTAX K-3 II Digital SLR Camera ‘Power-Off’ Notice DENVER, CO, July 9, 2015 – At Ricoh, we are dedicated to delivering...
Apple adds Raw support for ten cameras to Mac OS X Yosemite
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The Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) is one of the ten cameras to gain support in Apple’s photo editing applications. Apple has released version 6.05 of Raw compatibility software for Mac OS X Yosemite. This update adds support for ten cameras to Apple’s Aperture, Photos, and iPhoto software. The cameras that have been added via this update include: Canon EOS M3 Fujifilm X-T10 Fujifilm XQ1 Fujifilm XQ2 Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) Nikon 1 J5 Nikon D810A Olympus Stylus SH-2 Olympus Stylus Tough TG-4 Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7 The latest Raw Compatibility Update is now...
CamSwarm app may soon allow for easy capture of bullet time sequences
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The so-called bullet time effect, as seen in the 1999 movie ‘The Matrix,’ freezes action while simultaneously changing the angle of view. Creating the effect has always required a large array of cameras and a lot of expensive electronic components to make sure shutters are perfectly synchronized. With the technology becoming more affordable, we have seen amateurs experimenting with the technique, including one effort that used an array of 50 Nokia Lumia 1020s. Despite advances in technology, it is still expensive and time-consuming to create a bullet time scene. Now it...
Photoshop alternative Affinity Photo now available in Mac App Store
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In February, Serif launched a beta version of its image editing application Affinity Photo. The software is a Photoshop alternative designed specifically for Mac OS X, and the beta has been updated several times since the February launch. Yesterday, Serif took the software out of beta and officially launched it in the Mac App Store for users running OS X 10.7 and later. Affinity Photo is hailed as a Photoshop alternative that is considerably cheaper while retaining the same variety of pro-level features Photoshop users require. Serif’s software supports...
Tangerine is a Magnolia Pictures Film Shot Entirely on the iPhone 5
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Director Sean Baker’s latest film, Tangerine, features two transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles on a hunt to find a cheating boyfriend. If that premise isn’t interesting enough to attract your interest, then consider how it was filmed: the movie had a budget of $100,000 and was filmed entirely using the iPhone 5.According to Wired, Baker planned on using the iPhone from the start to help save money on the project. Larger cameras are not only more expensive, but they also require a larger paid crew to operate. Baker says his camera choice also helped contribute to the film’s unique...
The Top 8 Pitfalls of Shooting Weddings and How You Can Avoid Them
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Here’s an 8.5-minute video in which wedding photographer Susan Stripling shares her top 8 pitfalls of shooting weddings, and tips that can help photographers overcome them. In case you’d like to jump around, here’s an index of the 8 tips and the time at which you can find them in the video: 1. Not managing expectations (0:55) 2. Finding out who’s in charge (2:00) 3. Schedule changes (2:49) 4. Running late (3:50) 5. Broken gear (5:05) 6. Not having a system (6:12) 7. Awkward situations (6:57) 8. Not having the skills (7:40) You can check out Stripling’s wedding photos on her website...
5DS Handed Highest DxOMark Score for a Canon, But Still Trails Nikon and Sony
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DxOMark published its sensor test scores for the 50.6-megapixel Canon 5DS and 5DS R DSLRs today, and the news is both good and bad for Canon shooters. On the good side, the cameras scored the highest scores (87 and 86, respectively) ever achieved by Canon sensors. On the other hand, they still lag behind the Nikon D810 and Sony a7R (97 and 95, respectively) in overall quality. Here’s the score breakdown comparison between the 5DS, D810, and a7S: “Sitting outside the top 20 in the rankings, the headline scores for the EOS 5DS suggest that it’s far behind the best sensors we’ve tested,”...
Google Glass May One Day Let You Take Pictures by Framing with Your Fingers
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With Google’s first prototype version of its Glass head-mounted computer, users can take pictures by pressing a button on the side or by “OK Glass, take a picture.” In the future, composing a specific photo with Google Glass may be as easy as framing the shot with your fingers.Quartz reports that a newly published patent filing shows that Google has worked on “hand-triggered head-mounted photography.” The document outlines a feature that detects a user’s hands in a scene and takes a picture if the hands are held in certain positions. The framing and shape of the fingers would...
Photo Challenge: Shooting a Portrait with $1 DIY Light Modifiers
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Tokyo-based editorial photographer Irwin Wong is starting a new series of videos titled “Nissin Impossible.” Each episode will feature Wong trying to create the best photos he can while following unusual restrictions and conditions imposed on him by the folks over at the flash company Nissin. In the 9.5-minute pilot episode above, Wong is tasked with shooting studio portraits using DIY light modifiers that cost a maximum of ¥100 (~80 cents) each. Wong is given ¥1,000 (~$8) to go and buy the supplies needed. At the end, Wong reviews the resulting photos he created and describes the...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
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Video Editor Required For My Inspiring Unique Story Exclusive
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Assistant Screen Writer Required
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Crew Required for a Documentary Filmed in Liverpool
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Photographer for Sports Action Photos
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Looking For Some Product Shots – Photography
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Shark Diving Photography
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Is Anyone Using Area Listing Sites to Get Real Estate Photography Business?
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A Brief Guide to Lightroom Mobile and Lightroom Web
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As you are aware, there are two ways to buy Lightroom. The first is to buy a perpetual license, which means that you pay a set one-off fee to use the software for as long as you want. The second way is to subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography plan. With this, you pay a monthly fee that allows you to use Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, Lightroom mobile and Lightroom web for as long as you keep up the subscription. The subscription plan is somewhat controversial, and I know from comments on previous articles that some of you don’t like it. However, as it gives you access to Lightroom...
The Essence of a Great Portrait
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If you find portrait photography difficult, then you’re not alone. Interacting with another person at the same time as using a complex camera, and combining the two activities to make a pleasing image isn’t easy. There’s a lot to think about, even if you’re already familiar with your camera and have put in some good preparation time. Aside from the lighting, the background, the composition, the pose and the expression, there is also the question of what even makes a pleasing image. Will the subject like the way they look, which is their best side, is their hair perfect, what’s the best angle...
All 7 Photography Deals are Back – But only until Friday!
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It’s been another huge dPS mid year sale and we hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as we have sharing it with you. Over 7 days, 7 amazing photography deals were released, 24 hours at a time. But did you miss a deal you’d love to have? Well, we’d like to give you one last chance before they’re gone for good (it’s about helping you with your photography, after all). So until Friday, all 7 deals are back! Deal #1: Living & Loving Landscapes ebooks – $10 each Deal #2: 60% OFF Photography Concentrate’s Incredibly Important Composition Skills Deal #3: 100 Hacking Photography Lightroom presets for...
Lensbaby launches Creative Mobile Kit
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Lensbaby, the maker of a range of ‘creative lenses’ and mobile accessories has launched the Creative Mobile Kit. It consists of a mounting device and kickstand for your smartphone and two lenses, the LM-20 and LM-30. The former captures a large sweet spot of focus surrounded by gradually increasing blur, and the latter produces images that have a sharp center surrounded by reflections. According to Lensbaby the kit is compatible with Apple’s iPhone 5 series, the iPhones 6 and 6 Plus and all Android phones running version 4.1 or newer of the Google mobile operating...
Panasonic looks to reassure G7 owners with rubbed-off serial numbers
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Right. People get G7s for gifts all the time. Uh Huh. The only camera I ever got as a gift was the cardboard one on the table at a wedding reception. Also, if someone can’t store the original box, packing, paperwork, accessories, and a photocopy of the purchase receipt for a camera in this price range, maybe they should be watching Martha Steward organizational videos. Source Article from...
Canon PIXMA MG3620 can print photos directly from social networks
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Canon has introduced a new printer that can print images directly from Instagram and other social networks. The PIXMA MG3620 Wireless Inkjet all-in-one printer works with the Canon PRINT app for iOS and Android to both access and print from Instagram accounts, as well as other social and online services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, OneDrive, Evernote, Google Drive, Photobucket, Creative Park, and Dropbox. The printer and app combo can also be used to scan images and documents to several online services. Canon says it is the first to offer direct printing from...
Ricoh drops GR II price $100 three weeks after announcement
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Yes the old model had been discounted as it was, wait for it, old. At launch the GR was $800 so now this is $100 cheaper than the old version. Doesn’t add that much, sure, but neither do lots of updates. The RAW preview thing would be enough to upgrade and if the WiFi is decent is a nice addition. Not amazing, but heck the original GR has already had significant updates via FW over the course of its life that made it quite a bit better again. The extra raw buffer etc is welcome and not so different from say: D4 to D4SM to M-PX-A1 to X-A2650D to 750DNEX-5R to NEX-5TEOS-M to M2X100S to...
Feature film shot on iPhone 5 coming to cinemas
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Tangerine is filmmaker Sean Baker’s latest movie, and was on show earlier this year at the renowned Sundance independent film festival in Utah. It is about two transgender prostitutes who meet in a Doughnut-shop in LA when one of them finds out that her boyfriend had been cheating on her while she was in jail. However, not only does the storyline sound intriguing, but the movie is also interesting from a technology point of view. Tangerine was entirely shot on the iPhone 5. Initially the decision was made in order to keep the cost for equipment and crew down as the total budget...
Reporters Left Out of Canadian PM Photo Op, Told Phones Aren’t Cameras
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Should smartphone cameras be considered “real cameras” when used by journalists? It appears Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s staff members don’t think so. Despite having press credentials, a handful of reporters were denied entry to a photo op between Harper and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley yesterday because they only had smartphones and not non-phone cameras. Reporter Justin Giovannetti of the Globe and Mail was one: Despite getting credentials, eight print reporters told they can’t take photos of PM Harper and Notley because iPhones don’t count. — Justin...
Google Researchers Turn 2D Street View Photos Into Smooth 3D Tours
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A group of Google researchers have created a new system called DeepStereo that can predict views of scenery it has never seen before. The technology allows a collection of images to be turned into a three-dimensional walkthrough using sophisticated algorithms to fill in areas that were absent from the photographs — interpolating missing frames for a smooth experience. The 2-minute video above shows some examples of what the system can create using Street View-style still photos. DeepStereo works by taking input photos and extracting depth and color information from the images and...
Lensbaby Launches the Creative Mobile Kit with Two ‘Reality Bending’ Lenses
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Lensbaby is known for their creative art lenses and mobile accessories including the Composer Pro, LM-10, and Velvet 56. Today, the company has announced their latest addition to their product lineup aimed at smartphone photographers. The new ‘Creative Mobile Kit’ includes two lenses: the LM-20 and the LM-30, a mobile mounting mechanism, and a kickstand for long exposures. The first lens, the LM-20, features Lensbaby’s famous ‘center sweet spot of focus’ with a sharp drop-off into blur. The second lens, the LM-30, takes a sharply focused image surrounded by reflections. Taken with the...
Concert Photographer, Where Did Your Integrity Go?
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Over the last couple of weeks, the matter of photo contracts has once again been debated. First came Jason Sheldon’s blog post, calling Taylor Swift out on her hypocrisy when attacking Apple for demanding musicians give away their music for free while doing the exact same thing to concert photographers in her photo contracts. If you’re reading this, you’re probably well aware of that whole ordeal, so there’s no need to get into it further other than to say that I fully support Sheldon’s views. His post made some waves, the latest being The Washington City Paper refusing to sign the...
An Online Archive of Leica Photography Magazines Dating Back to 1949
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Some photographers find that shooting with a Leica camera provides an experience unlike any other. If you happen to be one of those photographers, or possibly a curious individual, we have quite a bit of exciting news. Photography enthusiast Daniel Neal has uploaded a large collection of Leica Photography magazines to the web for public viewing. Neal writes that he has been a camera enthusiast for years and wanted to help share his collection of Leica Photography Magazines. All of the magazines have been digitally uploaded to Google Drive, along with complete OCR scans; this means...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Backup Talent to Feature in new Fitness Club Promo Video
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Female and Male Models Required for Catwalk Runway Shoot for RAW Brisbane
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Need Glamour Looking Models for Website Portfolio
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Head of Sound Department For a Feature
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Looking for a Female Videographer
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Your Computer Is An Important Part Of A Real Estate Photographer’s Photo Equipment
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Examples of Perspective Change for More Dynamic Images
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There’s a line in Return of the Jedi that has always struck me as particularly insightful, especially considering its inclusion in a movie filled with a two-ton slug-shaped bounty hunter and a planet full of fighting teddy bears. In a conversation with his former mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, newly-minted Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker asks his sensei if Darth Vader is indeed his father. When Obi-Wan confirms the awful truth, Luke asks why his teacher had formerly lied to him, telling him instead that Darth Vader “betrayed and murdered your father.” Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi discussing the...
Adding an Off-Camera Flash to Create a Winning Image
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This image, titled “Star Gazers”, won Grand Prizes at the 2015 Shoot the Hills photo competition. Held in the Hocking Hills region near Logan, Ohio, this competition takes place the 3rd weekend every April. 160 photographers from several states participated this year. I initially came up with the idea for this shot over a year earlier, but my first attempt at the image failed miserably. (see below) What mistakes did I make? If I had checked the histogram I would have noticed that the image was extremely under-exposed with all the data pushed up against the left side of the histogram. The...
Deal: Portraits eBooks $7 Each [or $21 for the Whole Set of 5 eBooks]
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Wow, we’re already up to our final offer of the sale — how the week has flown! You’re going to love this lucky last deal, it’s BIG… Our best-selling Portraits ebooks by the amazing Gina Milicia only $7 each! Covering all aspects of portrait photography, the ebooks on offer are: Portraits: Making the Shot Portraits: Lighting the Shot Portraits: Striking the Pose Portraits: After the Shot (plus 12 FREE Lightroom presets) And at just $7 each, you save an incredible 65%! Can’t stop at one? You can pick up each Portraits ebook separately for $7, or… Grab the whole set for an amazing $21! Tens of...
Edmund Clark photographed Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base, home to more than 40,000 people
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America’s largest enclave in Afghanistan, Bagram Airfield, was home to more than 40,000 people, most of whom never leave the base, says Edmund Clark, who has recorded the everyday spaces in which they live and their limited views of the country they are occupying.
Our impression of war is shaped by images of soldiers on patrol or in combat. Actually, points out photographer Edmund Clark, the vast majority of the 40,000 people who were stationed at Bagram Airfield – America’s largest enclave in Afghanistan – never left it. Protected, but also confined, by perimeter walls...
Looking for Alice: a mother’s gradual acceptance of her daughter, born with Down’s Syndrome
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Alice was born with Down’s Syndrome. Her mother at first struggled to accept her. “I wondered how it might be for Alice to be valued without distinction,” Sian Davey says, “without exception and without second glance.”
On one level, Looking for Alice is an illustration of family life, says Sian Davey, with “all the tensions, joys, ups and downs that go with the territory”. But on another, this photography series challenges perceptions of difference, because it focuses on images of her youngest daughter, who was born with Down’s syndrome....
Marita Pappa’s Athens: what it’s like to be young and Greek today
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The Greek financial crisis is the source of headlines the world over. But what is it like to call it your home, and be forced to leave? Living in London, Marita Pappa returned home to explore the seductive beauty and power Athens held over her, and to celebrate a people who have, despite everything, carried on having fun.
It seems fitting that we have the Ancient Greeks to thank for the word ‘crisis’, or κρίσις. They interpreted it as a “separation from a judgement or decision”, and there is an air of apocalyptic fervour surrounding Athens that borders on the cinematic:...
Nikon D810A: An astrophotographer’s perspective
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@RetziusWhat they know (and what you fail to notice) is that there will always be a demand for robust, straightforward cameras. So this is a safe bet, although it makes it impossible to keep the revenue they had a while back. These cameras can evolve much slower than the most “innovative” ones, because “being innovative” is not why people buy them anyway. On the other hand, many people who switched to mirrorless, did it because of the size difference. And these people might eventually move to even smaller cameras, when their IQ becomes acceptable. By even smaller I...
Ricoh announces THETA+ app and two new camera accessories
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Ricoh Japan has announced a new app called THETA+ for iOS and Android. With THETA+, owners of Ricoh’s THETA spherical camera can edit images shot with the device via a smartphone or tablet. Due to be released ‘soon,’ the new app is designed to work in tandem with the existing THETA app, which enables shooting and sharing from a smartphone. THETA+ includes options to trim photos, change their color tone and switch projection format. In addition, Ricoh will be expanding the THETA accessory lineup and releasing firmware version 1.30 for the THETA M15...
Canon EOS 5DS R sample gallery updated
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Aside from an ability to print larger, I don’t see the benefit of the megaton of pixels. I mean, the pictures here look great but how much more detail would this camera capture vs the likes of the top Nikons or Sony mirrorless? And just what is that extra detail? Moreover, how does it actually matter, particularly when shooting recreationally? I never thought I’d be the guy to say that, when it comes to pixels, you ought to keep it real. This is especially true with Canon and their history of generally lower than the best in class dynamic range and image processing. Yeah, I know,...
How to Take Criticism to Improve as a Photographer
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Jul, 2015 |
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If you share your photography in any public manner, you’re bound to run into critics who point out things you should improve in. While some of the critiques aren’t worth listening to and should be tuned out as noise, others may be from more experienced people who have genuinely valuable feedback that could help you grow. Photographer Don Giannatti wrote about this subject a few months ago, but here’s another take: above is a 3.5-minute video with tips on how to take criticism without getting defensive. It’s about criticism in general and is by the website The Art of Manliness, but the...
Petition for Saving Freedom of Panorama in Europe Passes 300K Signatures
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Last month, we shared how “freedom of panorama” has come under attack in Europe. According to a proposed amendment to copyright reforms being considered, photographers would need to seek authorization before commercially using photos showing copyrighted works that are permanently located in public spaces. Once word of the proposed amendment got out, photographers have been working hard to speak out against the proposal in order to retain freedom of panorama. On July 3rd, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales himself wrote an op-ed for The Guardian to warn the public about the threat faced by...
A 3D Flythrough of the Milky Way Created with Over 400K Telescope Photos
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Want to be blown away by the size and beauty of the Milky Way? daveachuk of Vancouver, Canada, created this 8-minute-long flythrough of our galaxy in 3D. It may look like a CGI rendering, but it’s not: it’s actually the result of combining over 400,000 photos captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope across various wavelengths and over 6 years. Gigapixels upon gigapixels of photos were processed and manipulated over 5 months of spare-time work to create what you see above. Dave has posted a technical explanation of how the 3D effect was done over on Reddit. Source Article from...
How I Turned a Caravan Into a Mobile Darkroom for Wet Plate Photos
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Having failed woodworking at school, probably the worst thing I could have done is venture into the world of wet plate photography. Back in 2012, I learned the dark art of the silver stuff, just around the time the wave of interest was starting to build worldwide. However, as I live in New Zealand, an island nation, it has taken a while (and is still taking a while) to reach us. As a result, getting anything wet plate-related is quite a task. One does not simply walk into a store and buy a ‘wet plate kit’. As a result of wet plate collodion, my DIY skills have improved considerably...
No Filter: This ‘Vintage’ Photo Was Shot with a Phone and Binoculars
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Kaleta Bartosz was on a boat with his girlfriend off the coast of Croatia last week when they spotted the Royal Clipper — a five-masted cruise ship — sailing by in the distance. Bartosz raised his binoculars, placed his smartphone camera against the eyepiece, and captured this vintage-looking photo that looks like something from the pages of an old book. The Warsaw, Poland-based cinematographer tells PetaPixel that the ship was about 10 miles away on the Adriatic sea when he examined the “spooky boat” through his binoculars and snapped this photo. His girlfriend shot a couple of...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Male Dancer for TV Commercial
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Production Sound Mixer/ Boom Operator for exciting Short Film
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Camera Operators, Makeup Artist and Production Manager/Asst
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D.O.P Wanted for Short Web Mini Series "Comedy"
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Sound Recordist/ Boom Operator Needed
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"Humans of New York" Style Photographer Needed For Homeless Group
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Energetic and Creative Female Photographer Required
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CLOSING SOON: WIN Full Access to ‘Power in the Audition Room’
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Three Classic Problems New Real Estate Photographers Need To Deal With
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7 Street Photography Rules That Should Be Broken
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There is an all-too-common path that many people follow when they begin to practice street photography. They grab their camera, go to the busiest place they can find, and capture people head-on over and over again. While this is certainly something that you should do, it is not the only thing. I want to dispel a few myths about street photography to help broaden the content that you photograph. There is a wide range of ways to capture interesting street photographs for you to try. Plant, Chase Bank 1. People need to be present in the image Street photography is about people, but it does not...
The First 3 Photoshop Blend Modes You Need to Understand
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Photoshop can be extremely intimidating to learn, but once you start to get a grasp on some of the tools it has to offer, you’ll wonder how you ever processed photographs without it. If there’s one area of Photoshop that is both extremely confusing, and yet, extremely powerful when harnessed properly, it’s got to be the collection of blend modes. While this article won’t cover all of the options available within Photoshop, it should give you a good place to start your journey into using Photoshop blend modes. Photoshop blend modes: a few basics to get you started Photoshop blend modes are...
Discover the Secrets to Perfectly Focused Photos [Save 50% on Jay & Varina Patel’s Focus Collection]
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It’s deal #6 in our mid year sale and this one is courtesy of two of our favourite photography teachers, Jay & Varina Patel. For the next 24 hours, you can save 50% off their Focus Collection — In Sharp Focus & Hyperfocal Distance! The $44.50 discount will be automatically applied when you click ‘Add to the Cart’ here. These two in-depth courses will help master your focusing techniques. You’ll learn the best practices and camera settings for getting sharp focus every time, and gain the confidence to get in close using a wide angle lens. With 15 video lessons, over 80 minutes of...
Michael Hoppen’s gallery goes online
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Michael Hoppen’s eponymous gallery has been at the cutting edge of photographic print sales in the UK since 1992, but it’s now launching into online sales.
One of the few London galleries solely dedicated to photography, Michael Hoppen Gallery has been at the cutting edge of photographic print sales in the UK since it opened in 1992. Its list of international artists is eclectic and diverse, representing the old and the young, the incredibly famous and the lesser known, and it accommodating a wide range of tastes and genres for prospective collectors. But...
VIDEO – Sound & Vision: BJP’s Music Issue
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Here’s an inside look at British Journal of Photography’s August issue, dedicated to music photograph and available by now.
The latest issue of the oldest photography magazine in the world, available to buy now, has been put together to coincide with the opening of the contemporary music photography show We Want More at The Photographer’s Gallery, curated by BJP Deputy Editor Diane Smyth, from 17 July to 20 September 2015.
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Nicolas Silberfaden’s undercover Los Angeles: “A city of ultimate futility”
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A project shot in Los Angeles explores the difference between wanting to belong and actually belonging
To what extent is the photo-based book a viable or effective way to express photographic practice? This is the question Nicolas Silberfaden was asked to consider while studying for his MFA at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He responded with 738, a project exploring the city. “We were pushed to think about photography, and to work on personal projects that not only meant something to us, but that could also communicate something further, some interaction with...
Raymond Cauchetier’s Nouvelle Vague: “Artists are creators. I am a witness.”
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Raymond Cauchetier’s name is synonymous with his candid shots of nouvelle vague stars, but his career goes far beyond set photography. A new exhibition at the James Hyman Gallery, including never before editioned photographs, brings him to reflect on his unusual path.
“I’m famous here for Nouvelle Vague photographs but far more famous in Indochina for pictures like these,” Raymond Cauchetier says, gesturing to two pictures taken during his time in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. They are the only ones in the James Hyman’s Mayfair gallery that give us a glimpse of the other...
Samyang 100mm macro lenses for stills and video photographers
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Korean lens manufacturer Samyang has announced two versions of a new 100mm macro lens. The 100mm F2.8 ED UMC Macro is designed for stills photographers, while the 100mm T3.1 VDSLR ED UMC Macro is aimed at those shooting video. The lenses are essentially the same internally, using 15 elements in 12 groups (although the schematic shows only 14 elements) but the VDSLR version is fitted with an uncoupled aperture ring and gears around both aperture and focus controls. The 100mm T3.1 VDSLR ED UMC Macro The 1:1 manual focus macro lenses feature a 9-bladed iris, and...
GoPro HERO4 Session waterproof cube-shaped camera announced
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Instagram stores higher resolution images
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After its recent app update it seems Instagram has further improvements up its sleeve, as the mobile image sharing platform has started storing higher resolution images on its servers. In the app and on the web interface, as before, images are still displayed at the small 640 x 640 pixel size, but a look at the website source code reveals that images are now actually stored at 1080 x 1080 pixels. This update is not exactly groundbreaking and the images still won’t be suitable for large-format printing in high quality. Services like Flickr or Google Photos are much better suited...
G whiz: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7 review posted
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Jul, 2015 |
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Prior to posting (ie. complaining) I searched the specs on the A7R, A7S, and A7 II, but I overlooked the A7R II (it’s getting hard to keep up with all the variations!), but yes, it is quite out of my price range, even without any lenses. I keep hoping that Panasonic, or Olympus, or Samsung, or Fuji, or Pentax will release something with 4K and IBIS, but so far, no luck! Excepting the A7R II, it continues to be an either/or proposition for now. At least I have my LX100 to supplement my DSLR. Source Article from...
Travel: Zoom! Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX90V real-world sample gallery
Posted by Chris Roubis on 7th, Jul, 2015 |
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I love the brightness, contrast, colors and sharpness on most close up ISO80 photos, where zoom hasn’t been used. I don’t see that much noise in the photos, which is great. BUT…. The high zoom 30x photos, seems to have a very soft and unsharp IQ? I don’t recall it that bad on other 30x zoom cams. Maybe it is the same with other 30x cams, but it doesn’t look good on the HX90. To me the 30x zoom seems to do better on other cams. Source Article from...
Photographer Captures a Crow Riding on the Back of a Bald Eagle
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Capturing animals riding other animals seems to be a new trend in wildlife photography. First there was a weasel riding a woodpecker. Next was a raccoon riding an alligator. The latest: this photo of a crow hitching a ride on the back of a bald eagle. It was shot by California-based amateur photographer Phoo Chan, who watched the image go viral online over the past several days. “Crows are known for aggressively harassing other raptors that are much bigger in size when spotted in their territories and usually these ‘intruders’ simply retreat without much fuss,” Chan writes. “However,...
Standing Up for the Concert Photographer… By Standing on Their Neck
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Last week, the Washington City Paper made a stand against what it considered an unfair concert photography contract presented by the Foo Fighters with an article entitled “Why We’re Not Photographing The Foo Fighters.” Concert photographers everywhere stood up and slow clapped for the headline, the main idea of the article, and the stand it took on photographers rights. In the last paragraph of the article however, the City Paper did something even worse to photographers than the Foo Fighters ever could have: they called on the fans to submit photos of the show, and they offered to...
Hillary Clinton Uses Rope to Keep Photographers in Check at Parade
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A new idea by Hillary Clinton is going viral on the Web, and this one has nothing to do with government policies. While walking through the streets during the Independence Day parade in Gorham, New Hampshire, yesterday, Clinton’s aides used ropes to contain and control photographers and others members of the press corps. Photos of the unusual “wrangling” quickly went viral online after being shared by reporters.USA Today calls this moving parade rope line a new “Clinton innovation“. New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman was on the scene, and says that the press was “being...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
2016 Miss Universe Australia Victoria Preliminary
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2016 Miss Universe Australia South Australia Preliminary
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Male/Female Models Wanted All Types
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Seeking Models/ Makeup Artists/Stylists for Creative Photoshoots – TFP
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Hair Models Needed – Townsville
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Young Australians needed for Stock Photo Shoot
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Creative Filmmaker – Short Promotion Videos (Online)
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Camera Operator & Editor Needed
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Event Management
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MTV’s True Life Stories is looking for 18 – 26 go with Fascinating Stories
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When An Agent Leaves A Real Estate Office Should The Broker Get To Keep The Listing Photos?
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Simple Tips to Improve Your Environmental Portraits
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Photographing people in their natural environment can produce amazing photos, and tell a story. But it can also be incredibly challenging, as you will have to work fast and adapt to the location. Follow these simple steps and you should capture some great environmental portrait photos: Use a wide-angle lens The nature of this type of photography is that you need to capture the person’s surroundings, and to do that you will need a wide-angle lens such as 24mm, 28mm or 35mm lens. This will allow you to get close enough to avoid things coming between you and your subject, but at the same time...
Camera Showdown: the Nikon D5500 and D3300, Canon 70D and Sony a6000 Compared
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With so many cameras on the market now it’s hard to know which one to buy if you’re just getting into digital photography. Should you get a full on DSLR or go for the more streamlined mirrorless ones? In this video Tony Northrup and his partner Chelsea do a comparison of four different cameras in roughly the same price range (under $1000) including: The relatively new Nikon D5500 – $747 body only Nikon D3300 – $497 with 18-55mm lens Canon’s 70D – $949 body only Sony’s a6000 – $548 body only Watch as they put all four cameras through their paces doing a portrait in studio, outdoor landscape...
Create Stunning Works Of Art from Your Photography: Our Most Popular Deal Back for 24 Hours
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Today as part of our Mid Year Deal week we’ve got two amazing courses for you from the amazing Sebastian Michaels. Deal 1: 70% Off Photo Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition Course It’s back! But for 24 hours only… Photoshop Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition course — at an incredible 70% off the RRP! This was the hottest deal featured on our site in 2014. It flew out the door and smashed records in our dPS Christmas sale. So due to popular demand, we’ve brought it back for one more day here! Create Stunning Works Of Art from Your Photography If you want to go from merely editing your...
Plains, trains and automobiles: The landscape photography of Bill Leigh Brewer
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Excellent work!! I like alot #1 and the self portrait well done, like the mood of it.I like part of your story about “runnning away” from what you didnt like to do or from what others wanted you to do. Sort of what the lyric said… That song is Playing in my head right now 🙂For me, every time i go outdoors and photograph landscapes and wildlife, my lyric says: i wish i can spend the whole day, every day doing this. Source Article from...
This is How Good the Sony a7S is with Low Light and High ISO
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The highly-regarded Sony a7S is known to be a monster in low-light situations, a fact demonstrated by a number of short films have used moonlight as the only light source. Those projects are eye-opening, but another way to see just how good the camera’s high ISO quality is is to compare it with other well-known cameras. That’s what photographer Tony Northrup does in the short 1-minute comparison above, pitting the a7S against the Nikon D810 and Sony a7 II at various ISOs. Here’s one still frame of the side-by-side comparison that shows you all you need to know: The Sony a7S “beat the...
Sphericam 2: 4K 60FPS 360-Degree Video Optimized for Oculus VR
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With every report of virtual reality news, we seem to step closer and closer to a world such as the one depicted in Ernest Cline’s Science Fiction novel, Ready Player One. Today is no exception as we report on the new Sphericam 2: a 4K 360-degree video camera for transporting minds through the power of audio and video. The product, launched by Jeffery Martin, is on Kickstarter looking to meet its $150,000 goal, and it is almost there thanks to 130 generous backers thus far. The Sphericam 2 is the first 360-degree camera designed for the Oculus Rift that offers global shutter capture...
A Look at The Striking Low-Key Black-and-White Style of Film Noir Cinema
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jul, 2015 |
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Cinema and photography are two close-knit relatives that help us to tell stories through the use of a camera and mindful composition. This week, we are taking a look at the visual style heavily relied upon by the film noir genre that was most prevalent in the mid 20th century. Through the exploration of Hollywood’s film noir visuals, we can learn a bit more about the history of cinema while finding inspiration for our own work. Film noir is a genre that encapsulates a number of dramas from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. The movies themselves were typically hard-boiled crime...
A Mirrorless Affair Gone Wrong: A Cautionary Love Story
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My Canon and I. We were like two peas in a pod. We met when I was just a young man, knowing nothing about love or how to use a camera. My Canon taught me so much so quickly. We would go out everywhere together and my Canon would teach me how to see things in a new light, see things that I’ve never seen before. My Canon was everything I could ever have wanted. Beautiful on the outside, but so strong and reliable on the inside. Zoom lenses, primes lenses, my Canon offered me everything I wanted, and helped me grow as person, and as a man. I would never leave my Canon. My Canon showed me...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Models Wanted – Photo Book. Real people with real stories.
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Last Chance to Enter Miss British Empire 2015
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Model Needed TFP Location Shoot
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Female Required for Unique Sock Brand Fashion Shoot
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I’m Looking for a Script Writer who can Help me Develop my Short Film Story
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Sound Recordist & Art Department needed for TropFest Shoot
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Production Cooridnator Required for a Short Film
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Opportunity to Work on a TV Show
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Actors & Actresses Sought to Complete Line Up in Promising Short Film
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How To Lead Your Viewer’s Focus to the Subject
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jul, 2015 |
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Take a look at this photo and remember what your initial thoughts are: Inlaid marble detail inside Taj Mahal, Agra, India, Asia Where was the first place you looked in the photo? What about the second? Some of the more interesting photos (and artwork in general) moves your view around the image, and often brings you back for more. When you take a photo, you know what you’re looking at and what is most important, but this doesn’t always come through in your picture, unless you make a concerted effort to help the viewer see the same thing. Luckily, as a photographer you have more than a few...
How to Add Metadata to Your Images in Photoshop
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jul, 2015 |
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What could be more exciting than metadata? Okay, so pretty much everything else. If you need to find an image later however, to win that big photo contest or finish that assignment, metadata could be invaluable. What is metadata? Simply put it is; data that describes other data. Meta is a prefix that in most information technology usages means “an underlying definition or description”. Metadata summarizes basic information about data, which can make finding and working with particular instances of data easier. Data such as keywords like; blue sky, airplane, interior, flight deck, etc. It...
DEAL: Photo Magic ebook – at the magic price of $7!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jul, 2015 |
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It’s the 4th of July and time for deal #4 in the dPS summer sale. Today you can pick up a copy of our Photo Magic ebook for just $7 here! At 65% off the normal price of $19.99, there’s no better way to learn the tricks and techniques for creating spectacular special effects images: Zoom effect 360 panorama Flour hair flick Light painting sparklers Light painting steel wool Little world Mixing ambient and flash Multiple exposures Star trails Water droplets And best of all, you don’t need expensive high-end equipment or advanced skills in Photoshop to pull these off — they can all be done with...
Photography in public places across Europe threatened by harmonization proposal
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, Jul, 2015 |
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The right to use pictures taken in a public place is under threat by a European Parliament proposal for the harmonization of copyright laws across the region. Buried in a complex set of amendments is the idea that the automatic Freedom of Panorama be removed from those countries that maintain it, so that copyright holders of permanent artworks and buildings will need to authorize commercial use of pictures that include their works. On the face of it that doesn’t sound too bad, only that professionals who use locations with copyrighted buildings and art as a...
How to Light-Paint a Skeleton in a Long Exposure
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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Light-painting photographer Darren Pearson released this 3.5-minute video tutorial on how to paint a skeleton of light into a long-exposure photograph. Pearson is known in the light-painting community for his photos of animals and figures, and for creating beautiful stop-motion animations using thousands of light-painted photos. (via Darren Pearson via Laughing Squid) Source Article from...
An Epic Star Wars-Themed Pre-Wedding Photo Shoot
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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Singapore-based photographer Mezame Shashin-ka is a big fan of incorporating science fiction themes into his photography. Recently an engaged couple approached him with a special request: they wanted a Star Wars-themed pre-wedding photo shoot that would be “out of this world.” Shashin-ka delivered. “Being Star Wars fans, they decided to portray themselves as Jedi Knights who have fallen in love with one another,” Shashin-ka writes. “Together, they are ready to battle the evil Galactic Empire together.” In an interview with DIYPhotography, Shashin-ka says that the shoot took weeks to...
Canon Interviews 5D Developers on the DSLR Model’s 10th Birthday
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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We recently reported on the 10th anniversary of Canon’s EOS 5D DSLR lineup at the end of May, but Canon isn’t done celebrating. The Japanese camera manufacturer has released a new video in which the development team behind the 5D talk about the thought process behind the 5D’s design and construction. Makoto Hiramatsu, a General Manager at Canon’s ICP Development Center 2, says that the greatest mission of offering the EOS 5D “is to serve the needs of the advanced amateur user with value-added features such as a full frame sensor and full frame imaging.” Hiramatsu also points out how...
ANKR: Peace of Mind About Your Camera Bag for $25
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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I just installed an ANKR in my camera bag. Over the past 10 years I’ve had this reoccurring dream about my camera gear and my backpack being stolen. I’ve actually had two cameras stolen over the years, unfortunately. When you use your camera every day like I do, it’s a hazard to have to deal with. My friend Trey Ratcliff was jacked of his camera bag earlier this year. So I was very pleased to learn about ANKR. ANKR is a new product that allows you to track the geolocation of your gear. The ANKR itself is super small, not much thicker than a quarter. I hid mine in a hidden area of my...
Camera Drones Are Getting in the Way of Firefighters Battling Wildfires
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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Flying an aerial drone over a raging fire can be quite problematic, so much so that it can endanger the rescue and recovery abilities of fire officials. Recently, two incidents created difficulties for fire officials trying to battle a 24,000-acre wildfire in Southern California. The drones were flown into airspace over the blaze that then prevented the department from using aircrafts in subduing the fire. According to NBC News, “the drones were hovering above the fire and directly interfered with firefighting aircraft being used to drop frame-repellent materials.” California’s...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Two Photographers For The Price Of One
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TV Commercial Casting Actors & Walk On Roles – Urgent!
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Models/Actresses Required For Loco Dice Music Video ‘Party Angels’
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Two Models Required For One Day Lifestyle Stills Photo Shoot
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Art Nude Model For Outdoor Shoot In Kent Or Sussex
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2nd Assistant Camera Operator
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1st Assistant Camera Operator
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Crew Needed For Dramatic Short Film
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Camera Person or Actor Required
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A Director of Photography for Feature Film
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Seven deadly sins
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Weekly Photography Challenge – Bright Colors
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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In this image roundup I gathered a set of images that contain bright colors, more specifically the colors of summer. By James Blunt Your challenge this week will be to do similar. Weekly Photography Challenge – Bright Colors The real challenge with incorporating bright colors into your photography is to make sure you have a clear subject. Of course the subject can be color itself as well, but you need to still showcase the subject. Keep that in mind as you tackle this one. Even if it’s not summer in your part of the world, go find some bright colors and make some good photographs. By Liam...
26 Nice Bright Colors and Some Greens of Summer to Liven up Your Day
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Paul Simon said it best in Kodachrome: Kodachrome – give us the nice bright colors. Give us the greens of summers, makes you think all the world’s a sunny day. For those of us old enough to remember and know what Kodachrome is – and the song – this is for you. By T Okay, enough strolling down memory lane. Yes it’s summer in the northern hemisphere and we better enjoy it while it lasts. Let’s see some images of those great colors that summer gives us: Precious Love by Sue Hsu on 500px Green Summer Rain by Max Ellis on 500px Winds of Summer by Alex Greenshpun on 500px *** by Laura Pashkevich...
DEAL: 100 Lightroom* presents for just $10!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 4th, Jul, 2015 |
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It’s day 3 in our Mid Year Sale and today we have the return of a deal that went absolutely bananas during our Christmas sale last year. 100 Lightroom* presents for just $10! These normally go for $89, so this is your chance to save a whopping 88%. Grab yours here before they’re gone. Have you ever looked at a stunning image and wondered, “why don’t mine look like that”? While taking a great photo is definitely the first step, great editing can be equally as important and is a pro secret for enhancing the beauty of your shots. With these professionally-developed presets from Mike Newton at...
Quick Review: Photographers.pro
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Photographers.pro$70/year photographers.pro Many services exist that allow non-developers to create their own websites without too much hassle, but only a handful cater specifically to photographers. Photographers.pro aims to stand out by offering an all-inclusive package for photographers that provides a website (including a custom domain address and email) for a yearly fee of $70. That flat-rate fee includes a full management interface for creating and maintaining a website, unlimited storage, and the promise that ‘no special IT knowledge’ is required. Does...
How a Nikon F3 Still SLR Was Modified to Film Indiana Jones in 1983
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jul, 2015 |
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Did you know that a Nikon F3 still photography film SLR was used to shoot the 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? The mine cart chase scene in the film would have been too expensive if the track were built to scale, so George Lucas and Steve Spielberg turned to the special effects team at Industrial Light and Magic. They modified a Nikon F3 to shoot the chase scene in miniature using stop motion. By adding a large film magazine and motor drive to the back of the camera, the team created a stop-motion camera that could expose 50 feet of motion picture film for just 15...
Video: How Phase Detection Autofocus Works
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Traditional SLR cameras do phase detection autofocus by directing light onto AF sensors in the camera’s mirror box. Some newer sensor technologies do away with the need for separate sensors by building the phase detection technology directly into the image sensor. If you’re curious about the technical details of how these things work, Toshiba just released this (relatively) easy-to-understand 3-minute video that explains how phase detection autofocus works, both with separate AF sensors and with phase-detection sensor pixels. (via Toshiba via ISW) Source Article from...
This Craigslist Scam Preys on Photography Assistants
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jul, 2015 |
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Photographers, beware: there may be scammers on your local Craigslist that target photography assistants. Fall into this trap, and you could soon find yourself separated from your own money. A reader named John tells us that he recently responded to a Craigslist job listing that was looking for an administrative assistant for Marcel Schaar, an international photographer based out of Hamburg, Germany. The reply to John’s email appeared to come straight from Schaar: Thanks for your interest in the job offer. You applied for the position of (ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY/ASSISTANT POSITION)...
Nikon Launches 3 New Lenses: A 16-80mm, 500mm, and 600mm
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jul, 2015 |
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Nikon today announced three new lenses: a 16-80mm f/2.8-4 for DX cameras, a 500mm f/4 for FX, and a 600mm f/4 for FX. The 16-80mm brings Nano Crystal Coating and Electromagnetic Diaphragm to DX lenses, while the 500mm and 600mm use fluorite elements for significant weight savings. Nikkor 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR The new 16-80mm f/2.8-4E is a DX lens that offers the equivalent focal range of 24-120mm in 35mm terms, so it’s a flexible walk-around lens that’s a jack-of-all-trades for enthusiast photographers. It’s the first Nikon DX lens that comes with Nano Crystal Coating for reducing...
‘Electric Universe’: A Light Painting Photo Straight Out of a Film Camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jul, 2015 |
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Believe it or not, the image above isn’t a digital composite created in Photoshop — it’s a light painting photo captured using a film camera. Photographer Jason D. Page spent four years planning for this shot before finally capturing it in just the right conditions recently. “My idea was to shoot lightning storms and then light paint stars and planets into the image creating a lightning filled universe all on one single frame of film,” Page tells PetaPixel. The main difficulty in the project was finding the right type of lighting for the shot: cloud-to-cloud lightning that turned out...
Pack Lighter to Go Further: Nikon Announces Two New Professional Super Telephoto NIKKOR Lenses
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jul, 2015 |
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced two new super telephoto lenses, the AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/4E FL ED VR and AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR. These two NIKKOR lenses use the latest Nikon lens technologies to enhance autofocus (AF) tracking and optical performance, while benefitting photographers with a significant reduction in weight. Ideal for sports, action, wildlife and press events, these lenses offer photographers the ability to capture striking images from afar with brilliant clarity and sharpness. “The new NIKKOR 500mm and 600mm f/4 lenses were developed to give photographers...
An Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jul, 2015 |
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MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. “The NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4 is a very exciting...
Winners of the Nikon Photo Contest 2014-2015 Decided
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AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/4E FL ED VR AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR
Posted by Chris Roubis on 3rd, Jul, 2015 |
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.