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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In this set of speed busting images you can see the effect that using a fast shutter speed can have on your images. If you want to photograph a moving subject and freeze them in mid-action, that is what is required. By TexasEagle Weekly Photography Challenge – A Need for Speed This week your challenge is to find something moving – fast! It could be traffic on a busy street, or something involving sports of some kind. Just get out there and work on using a fast shutter speed to freeze the subject at the peak of action. You can try the following settings to help...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Last week we saw some ethereal and mysterious long exposure photos. Now let’s go the opposite way and look at some images there would not be possible without fast shutter speeds (with a couple that have some help using flash to freeze motion too). Images at either end of the shutter speed scale give us a chance to capture life in an altered state; one we cannot see with our eyes. Long exposures blur things beyond recognition and add mystery. Short exposures freeze things in time and space and capture literally a millisecond of time in an image. Add flash and...
![How I Made Myself a 16×20-inch Bellows Camera]()
Starting back in May of 2014, I finally put my first foot forward in the making of a 16×20 inch bellows camera. The idea to build a camera was nothing new to me, but I was always hesitant to begin construction since I am the type of person that prefers to work off a set of blue prints and directions. Unfortunately, since my drawing skills aren’t amazing, it was pretty difficult to visualize and plan a solid blueprint of the project – which ultimately forced me to bite the bullet and simply begin construction of the camera and problem solve along the way. Before building the camera, I...
![Olympus EE-1 is a Red Dot Sight Hotshoe Attachment for Aiming at Speedy Subjects]()
Olympus had some pretty big camera announcements today, unveiling the E-M5 II and the Air. Lost amidst the hoopla was a small new accessory called the EE-1. It’s a red dot sight hotshoe attachment that helps you aim your camera at hard-to-track subjects. The accessory is basically a standalone version of the dot sight included in the Stylus SP-100 super zoom, which was announced back in January 2014. The sight in that camera was conveniently tucked between the pop-up flash and the camera body: The EE-1 brings this same feature to the new E-M5 II mirrorless camera and the Stylus 1...
![Fujifilm Bringing Film Simulation to Its Official RAW Conversion Software]()
Fujifilm is bringing its popular mirrorless camera film simulation modes to its desktop RAW conversation software. Rather than shoot photos in certain modes and have those looks baked into the JPEG files, photographers will be able to choose their film look during post-processing.Fuji says the Film Simulation feature will be appearing in the next version of its Raw File Converter EX, which is powered by the software company SilkyPix. Photographers using the software will be able to apply the looks of Fuji’s popular film stocks to their RAW photographs. Film looks offered in Fuji...
![Here’s a Look Into the ‘Photos for Mac’ App That Will Replace iPhoto and Aperture]()
Apple announced last year that it was pulling the plug on its two main photo editing and management programs: iPhoto, which is aimed at consumers, and Aperture, which is geared toward pros. Both products would be replaced with a single app called “Photos for Mac.” Here’s a look at what we can expect when the app arrives later this year. It’s a clean app with four main tabbed sections: Photos, Shared, Albums, and Projects. The interface is clean and intuitive, borrowing many visual elements from how photos are experienced through iOS. Apple is working hard to make OS X and iOS uniform...
![Stacking Five 2x Teleconverters to Create a Ridiculous 9600mm Lens]()
Teleconverters are a great way to get some extra reach without having to drop some serious money for a 400mm+ lens. It can be an essential tool for many photographers who are constantly cropping in on their images, even when shooting with a crop camera and telephoto lens. In case you didn’t know, a teleconverter is a small lens element that attaches to your lens and increases the effective focal range, typically by a factor of 1.4x or 2x. Also known as an extender, tele-extender, or a doubler (2x), teleconverters are an important piece of equipment for long lens photography… but is...
A Post By: Viktor Elizarov HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography was developed out of necessity to overcome limitations of photography equipment, mostly in digital cameras’ sensors. From the beginning, the technology was intended to make photographs as close as possible to human experience by bridging the gap between what the human eye perceives, and what the digital camera can actually capture. Montreal, Canada – HDR processed, five exposures, tripod. Think of HDR as a sophisticated, software based, ND (Neutral Density) filter. Instead of placing it in front of the lens at the moment of...
A Post By: Etienne Bossot Here is one of my most valuable tips. The one I will offer to someone who comes to me, complaining that after 20 years of taking photos they can’t get out of their usual compositions, and want to get into a new level of creativity. It may sound like something you have heard before. Yes, photography is all about light, and if there is a good light then there is a good photo. But no, I am talking about something more specific. Please note that I have always focused my photography, and my articles on travel photography, on people. So when reading this article, please...
![Special Nikon D810 Designed for Astrophotography is Reportedly On the Way]()
Nikon will reportedly announce a special version of the D810 full frame DSLR next week that’s designed specifically for astrophotography.Nikon Rumors reports that the camera will boast increased hydrogen-alpha sensitivity for people who want to do deep-sky astrophotography. If you’ve never heard of H-alpha before, here’s what astrophotographer Jerry Lodriguss has to say about the subject over at Catching the Light: Since most deep-sky objects are faint, we usually can’t see color in them. They only appear to us in shades of gray because the light is too faint to be sensed by our...
![miggo is the World’s First Camera Strap That Doubles as a Padded Case]()
miggo is an innovative new camera accessory that can serve two purposes. It can be used as a padded strap, but when you’re done shooting, the strap can be transformed into a protective case for your precious camera. The product comes in two sizes, DSLR and mirrorless, and in two forms, the Strap & Wrap and the Grip & Wrap. Here’s an introduction video: The Strap & Wrap is a larger strap that’s designed to fit comfortably around your neck and/or torso when it’s unzipped in strap form. When you’re done shooting and would like to put your camera away, you simply wrap the...
![Full-Frame Pentax DSLR Will Arrive by the End of the Year, Says Ricoh]()
If you’re a Pentax shooter who has been waiting for years to buy a full-frame K-mount DSLR, your wait will soon be coming to an end. Pentax parent company Ricoh has finally officially announced that it’s developing a full frame Pentax DSLR. Ricoh says the currently-unnamed camera will be arriving by the end of 2015, and that it will be compatible with the Pentax DA series of lenses with the help of a crop function. The product photo above may not be what the actual camera looks like when it’s unveiled — it’s simply a concept design that will be on display next week at the CP+ expo in...
![30% of Film Shooters Are Younger Than 35, Says Ilford]()
Last month we shared a news segment that explored the renaissance that appears to be happening in the world of analog photography. Now a new poll is backing that idea up with statistics. Nearly a third of film photographers are younger than 35 years of age, and “support for traditional film is growing,” says Ilford Photo. The company, best known for its analog photo products, reported these findings after doing an international survey of film users. The “comprehensive” survey was conducted at the tail end of 2014, and “thousands of users” from over 70 countries around the world...
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![Revision of the Consolidated Financial Forecast for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2015]()
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A Post By: Barry J Brady In many ways, shutter speed is an inaccurate term. I read an article a few years ago and the photographer referred to shutter speed as shutter time. The logic was spot on. A shutter always opens or closes at the same “speed”. The key value is how long the shutter stays open, hence shutter time. On Canon cameras the shutter speed function (shutter priority) on the mode dial is abbreviated to Tv, which stands for “Time Value”, and is a more accurate description of what this article is about. I am going to refer to shutter time as opposed to shutter speed, it sounds...
A Post By: Anne McKinnell I love to travel. To me, nothing compares to living on the road and waking up to new places every day. All the different photographs I’ve made during my journeys are the most rewarding part of it all. Making photos while traveling or on vacation has a special quality because you’re seeing your subjects often for the first time. Travel also presents unique challenges, though – unfamiliar landscape, climate, and culture can easily throw you off. However, it is those very things that can also make beautiful, one-of-a-kind photographs! Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick When...
Olympus has unveiled the OM-D E-M5 II. Picking up where its successor left off, the E-M5 II continues to offer weather sealing and 5-axis IS while adding a redesigned 16MP Four Thirds sensor and 5-axis image stabilization. The E-M5 II also boasts a 40MP high resolution shot mode, achieved by shifting the sensor in half-pixel steps and capturing eight images over a period of one second. The E-M5 II also offers a built-in 2.36 million dot EVF, Wi-Fi and an articulating 3″ 1.04 million dot touchscreen LCD. It’s capable of 10 fps shooting with single AF (5 fps...
Olympus has announced a revamped, second generation of its 14-150mm F4.0-5.6 zoom. Resistant to dust and moisture, it uses a new ZERO (Zuiko Extra-low Reflection Optical) coating to protect against scratches and minimize flare. The 28-300mm equivalent lens uses Olympus’ MSC (Movie and Still Compatible) focusing technology for quiet, fast AF. It will be available in March for $599.99 Press release: A NEW BENCHMARK FOR VERSATILITY: THE OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO® DIGITAL ED 14-150mm f4.0-5.6 II LENS Olympus’ Improved M.ZUIKO Interchangeable Lens Brings Enhanced Optical and...
The Olympus OM-D E-M1 is about to get a significant update with the release of firmware version 3.0 later this month. The update’s primary function is to boost maximum framerate from 6.5 fps to 9 when shooting in continuous AF mode. This is thanks to enhancements for the camera’s 37-point phase-detect algorithm. The maximum of 10 fps remains for shooting with fixed AF. Also included in the update is the ability to record movies while using the E-M1 with the latest version of the O.I.S. app. Press release: OLYMPUS ADVANCES FLAGSHIP CAMERA WITH INCREDIBLE...
Olympus Japan has announced the ‘Air’ – a new camera which clips onto smartphones in much the same way as Sony’s QX-series products. The Air features a 16MP Four Thirds sensor behind a Micro Four Thirds lens mount, a physical shutter release button and tripod mount. Inside you’ll find a microSD slot and lithium-ion battery. The Air has an 81-point AF system and can shoot at an impressive maximum rate of 10 frames per second. We’re following up with Olympus to see if there will be Raw support. The Air is controlled entirely via Wi-Fi...
![I Made a Super Bowl Commercial with Seven Photos]()
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would begin 2015 by shooting a Super Bowl commercial. Even further removed from the unlikeliness of shooting said commercial is… well… shooting said commercial in seven images. Not seven scenarios or seven videos — seven photos. The idea, straight from the mind of Pete over at LaneTerralever, was to parallax a commercial. “What is parallax” you say? Think of when you were in grade school and you had to do one of those cheesy plays where every parent in the audience thinks that his or her child should be in search of a talent agency because they...
![Pilot Selfies Likely Caused Deadly Plane Crash, NTSB Investigation Concludes]()
On May 31st, 2014, a small Cessna plane crashed in a field a few miles away from Denver, killing its pilot and passenger. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) just published a report with findings from its investigation, concluding that the crash was most likely caused by the pilot becoming disoriented while taking selfies of himself. In its report, the NTSB states that a GoPro was found near the wreckage with its files intact. The footage recovered from the camera shows the pilot, Amritpal Singh, snapping selfies with various passengers on the two days leading up to the...
![A Look Inside the World’s First Photo Book from 1843]()
Want to see what it’s like to flip through the first photo book that ever appeared in the world? The online show Objectivity recently paid a visit to The Royal Society in London to see its copy of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a 1843 book by English botanist and photographer Anna Atkins that’s considered to be the first book ever to be illustrated exclusively with photographs. The book’s title page. Only 17 copies of this book are known to exist in the world, and the Royal Society’s 403-page, 389-photo copy is thought to be “the only existing copy of the book as...
![Contest Copyright Controversy a Crazy Coincidence]()
Here’s one of the stranger copyright controversies we’ve come across. It all started with a photo contest and an accusation of copyright infringement. The story was reported by The Telegraph and has to do with the Big Picture photo competition the newspaper holds on a weekly basis. In round 36 of the contest back in 2009, photographer Sarah Scurr of Harpenden, Herts submitted a photo she had captured back in 2006 showing an iceberg off the coast of Chile. Scurr had been on a cruise traveling along the coast of Chile when she snapped this photo: The photograph was selected as one of...
![Actor Keegan Allen is a Photography Buff Who Just Published a Photo Book]()
Keegan Allen is an American actor who’s best known for playing the character Toby Cavanaugh on the ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. He’s also a passionate photographer. Above is a 3-minute interview USA Today recently did with Allen about his interest and background. Allen “never goes anywhere without a Leica by his side,” the paper says. Allen says he came from an artistic family in which his actor father was a hobbyist photographer and his mother was a watercolor painter. His first camera was a Leica M6, given to him when he was just 10 years old. He now owns quite a few...
A Post By: Daniel Korzeniewski For travel photography, geotagging your photos has become fundamental. By geotagging your images, you’ll not only be able to remember the locations once you are back home, but also it will help on searches. If you intend to sell your photos at any time, adding the metadata pertaining to the location into the file is going to improve searches and make your photograph easier to find on the web. Geotagging is a rather simple process and there are a couple different ways to do it. At the simplest level, you simply attach a GPS data-logger to your camera and the...
A Post By: Simon Ringsmuth Picking a favorite lens can be tricky, because there are aspects of a variety of lenses that I like. Sometimes I like to use zoom lenses, sometimes prime lenses, and other times specialty lenses like macro or ultra-wide-angle. But despite the variety of options available, at the end of the day I keep coming back to one particular lens as my pick of the litter. The lens that gets the job done no matter what situation I’m in, the one that consistently produces outstanding results more than any other, is my trusty Nikon 50mm f/1.8G. It’s a workhorse that has survived...
![A Look at How Michael Paul Smith Creates Historical Photos with Incredibly Detailed Models]()
Here’s a fascinating video about how photographer Michael Paul Smith creates and photographs Elgin Park, a 20th century town created through miniature 1/24th-scale models. Smith creates incredibly realistic photos by capturing the detailed dioramas with an ordinary compact camera, and his images have gone viral in recent years on the Internet (the project has over 70 million views on Flickr). The video was created by Animal, which will soon be publishing Smith’s photo book on this project. Everything in each of Smith’s scenes was made by hand — well, everything except the 1/24th-scale...
![kraftwerk: A Portable Power Plant That Can Charge Your Camera with Standard Gas]()
Want a portable generator for recharging your devices that you can literally fill up in just seconds? It’ll soon be available… but you’ll need to be comfortable carrying a gas-powered power plant around in your bag. The kraftwerk is the world’s first fuel cell power generator that’s operated on standard gas. It takes just 3 seconds to refill. The small and “highly efficient” device is refilled using standard camping gas or commercially available lighter gas. Just spray some gas in using a canister and it can be used immediately after it’s filled up. A single filling gives you enough...
![It Looks Like Someone’s Solargraphy Camera Just Got Blown Up by an Atlanta Bomb Squad]()
If you’re looking to do a solargraphy project by leaving a pinhole camera in a place for months, a bridge above a busy freeway is not a smart location choice. Someone doing this caused a bomb scare in Virginia back in 2013, and it looks like the exact same thing caused a ridiculously huge commotion in Atlanta, Georgia this morning. A busy freeway was shut down in both directions, and a bomb squad was called out to detonate the device. Local news station WSB-TV reports that the ‘tube shaped object” was duct taped to the side of the bridge overlooking the interstate. A worker who...
![A Review of the Venus 60mm f/2.8, the World’s First 2:1 Macro Lens with Infinity Focus]()
Last month, a Chinese company called Venus Optics unveiled a 60mm f/2.8 lens, the first 2:1 magnification lens with infinity focus. Thomas Shahan, the “Bob Ross of macro photography“, was sent a copy from the company and reviewed it in the 4.5-minute video above. Shahan notes that the lens weighs in at a little over a pound and has a solid metal housing. It’s “hefty” and “robust,” he says. A quirky aspect is that the front element of the lens is relatively small, and it recedes way back into the lens housing when you’re focusing to infinity: There’s also no automatic aperture control...
A Post By: James Brandon A hard graduated neutral density filter worked great here to darken the sky. There are three types of photographers in the world; those that try to get it right in camera, those that simply rely on post-processing, and those who believe that both mindsets together lead to the best possible outcome. I try to always keep the mindset of that third type. If I can get everything right in camera (and save minutes or even hours in post) I will. I also have always loved post-processing and the art of making an image come to life. When shooting landscapes, you are more often...
A Post By: Melinda Smith Why natural lifestyle newborn photography? There are lots of different styles of photography when it comes to capturing a newborn baby. Some people love to use lots of props, and introduce many fun things into every photo. Some are experts at posing the baby in unique and whimsical positions. Although I can appreciate all the different styles, I prefer to capture a newborn baby the way that I remember my three newborns. My kids are almost all grown up now, and it’s hard to remember exactly what they were like when they were brand new. Every once in awhile, I have...
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, more commonly referred to as the LSST, will take ultra-high-resolution images of the universe around us in the relatively near future, thanks to recent construction approval from the US Department of Energy. This will pave the way for the telescope’s completion for its anticipated 2022 launch date. The LSST contains a 3.2 gigapixel (3200 megapixels) digital camera, which will be the largest in the world – in total, about the size of a small car. The focal plane uses 189 individual 16MP CCD sensors, organized into 3×3...
![‘The Cut’: A Stop-Motion That Offers a Cross-Section Look Into Fruits and Vegetables]()
Photographer Carl Pendle created this clever stop-motion titled “The Cut” that offers an interesting perspective into different fruits and vegetables. Pendle created the project over the course of 3 days with a very sharp knife. He would slice off a layer of the produce and then shoot a photograph with each cut. He ended up capturing around 1,000 separate photos. When played back in sequence, the photos turn into a stop motion animation of the fruits and vegetables changing shape and exposing their innards. Source Article from...
![Underwater Photographer Snaps Selfies with Sharks]()
Underwater photographer Aaron Gekoski was recently on an outing to photograph one of the largest migrations in the world’s oceans, but the project was hampered by unfavorable conditions. Instead of writing the trip off as a failure, however, Gekoski and his buddy decided to tackle a different photo project instead: selfies with sharks. Gekoski jumped into the water with large sharks swimming all around him and started trying to snap the perfect self-portrait with “one of the sea’s apex predators. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video by EpicTV showing how the shoot went down: It may look...
![Canon 5Ds Won’t Have 4K, but the 1D C Just Got a $4K Price Drop and the 5D Mark IV Might]()
When the upcoming Canon 5Ds was leaked a couple of days ago, one of the features that was notably absent was 4K video recording. Instead, it will be a high-res, photo-centric DSLR that can capture 1920×1080 video at 30fps. This detail about the 5Ds’ video capabilities was leaked in a much more comprehensive spec lineup over at digicam-info. Other new details include a 100% field of view viewfinder, an electronic level, a fastest shutter speed of 1/8000s, a 3.2-inch 1.04-million-dot LCD screen, mini HDMI out, and an external microphone terminal. If you’ve been hoping that 4K video...
![How to Shoot Large Products on a White Background]()
London-based interdisciplinary photographer Sean Tucker has created a helpful three-part video tutorial that teaches the basics of shooting larger products in a studio in front of a white background. Part One: Shooting Tucker starts out by walking through camera settings and setting up your lighting for the shot. Part Two: Editing Next, we learn about the editing process from retouching the image and cutting the product out onto a pure white background to adding a drop shadow. Part Three: Recoloring Tucker concludes by discussing sampling and gradient mapping. This is a technique for...
![Microsoft OneDrive Gets Photo-Centric Updates That Improve the Image Experience]()
There’s a royal rumble going on in the world of cloud storage, and photo storage is one of the battlegrounds upon which the war is being waged. Dropbox launched a photo storage and sharing service in late 2014, and Amazon recently added unlimited photo storage to its Prime membership. Now Microsoft is getting more serious with photography as well: this past week the company announced updates to its OneDrive service that greatly improve the photo experience. The updates introduce all new ways to “view, manage, and share your photos” using the OneDrive cloud file storage service, which...
A Post By: Suzi Pratt If you’ve been taking photos for a while, this question will undoubtedly cross your mind at some point: “Am I a professional photographer or an amateur?” The idea of what separates an amateur from a professional sparks many debates, and there are many ways of looking at it. By Bob Prosser What the Dictionary says Perhaps the most straightforward way of separating amateurs from professionals is looking in the dictionary. By definition, an amateur is “a person who engages in a pursuit or activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit.” On the other hand,...
A Post By: Alex Morrison There are many reasons that you might want to add words over your images. Text on photos makes great promotional items such as postcards; you can create your own social media messages with quotes or inspirational sayings; and you can add your name or your website URL. I’m sure that once you understand all the creative options for adding text, you’ll come up with hundreds of other things you can create with your photos. This article will guide you through the many ways you can work with text in Photoshop to create beautiful and eye-catching messages with your...
![Will the Real Landscape Photography Please Stand Up?]()
This post is a curmudgeonly look at the current state of landscape photography. I was in Munich yesterday, munching on some bratwurst and drinking a beer in a place where a huge TV monitor on the wall was playing a slideshow of landscape photos. I couldn’t keep my eyes away from it, as the photos were really beautiful. You know the type of photo: amazing locations, wonderful light, colorful sunsets, starry skies, waterfalls, ocean waves, tropical beaches, brilliant colors. Most of them revealed a mastery of technique, accurate choice of location, delightful composition, and masterful...
![Creating a Fake Chilly Look in a Studio for a ‘Fortitude’ Poster Photo Shoot]()
Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing a recent photo shoot for the new British psychological thriller TV show Fortitude. It shows how the team went about making the actors look cold and frosty while posing in an ordinary warm photo studio. Various products are used on the subjects’ faces to give the appearance of broken skin (with a ‘scar making’ material), red cheeks, and split lips. There’s also a fake snow product that can be used both dry to look like powdered snow or mixed with water to look like slushy, melting ice. Here are the resulting promotional photos and posters that...
![Graph: How the Mirrorless Camera Industry in Japan Changed in 2014]()
Want to see how the mirrorless camera war is going over in Japan? Here’s a simple graph that will illuminate the situation. It was published recently by tech industry research company BCN, and shows how market share changed in Japan over the course of 2014. According to these numbers, Sony has remained the market leader with its popular mirrorless camera models, but its share of the pie has actually decreased from over 40% a year ago to under 30% today. A good portion of that decrease is to Olympus trending upward. Panasonic and Canon are both slightly trending upward in 3rd and 4th...
![The Magical Fairy Tale-Inspired Portraits of Ukranian Photographer Anita Anti]()
Anita Anti is a photographer based in Ukraine who uses elaborate costumes, props, and makeup to create magical portraits that are often inspired by fairy tales. The photograph above is the “Queen of Hearts” from Alice in Wonderland. Anti documents some of her shoots with behind-the-scenes videos. Here are a few of them with their resulting photographs: Wonderland Queen of Spades Butterflies Other Work Here’s a selection of Anti’s other work: You can find more of Anti’s work on Flickr, DeviantArt, and 500px. (H/T Reddit) Image credits: Photographs by Anita Anti and used with permission...
![Abstract Photographs of Hong Kong’s Neon Signs]()
At first glance, photographer Rainer Torrado‘s “Eye Carry the Night” may look to you like a strange grid of lines and colors. They’re actually photos of neon signs. Instead of photographing the design on the face of the signs, Torrado took his camera directly beneath each one, capturing what the displays look like from an angle that most people ignore. “The glowing neon tubes contrast with the night sky,” Torrado writes. “Structural wires act as a testimony of the human intervention on a dark, ruthless nature.” (via Laughing Squid) Image credits: Photographs by Rainer Torrado and used...
A Post By: Tomas Haran In the late 2000s a new segment formed in the photography industry. This segment goes by many names, but the most common nowadays is “Mirrorless”. These cameras fall between the generic point and shoot cameras and the professional full frame DSLR systems. By Zhao ! So what is Mirrorless all about? The first mirrorless cameras came out with a traditional rangefinder design. They were small, had many manual settings, and were geared more towards street photographers who wanted great image quality in a small body. From these first cameras it became evident that a smaller...
![Shooting Aston Martins from a Minivan at 120MPH on the Daytona Speedway]()
Here’s an interesting 1-minute behind-the-scenes video showing how the racing team The Racer’s Group (TRG) recently did a photo shoot that involved two Aston Martins zipping around the Daytona International Speedway. The shoot involved 6 people, two Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 racecars worth about $750,000 each, and a van rental policy from Enterprise Rent-a-Car. TRG Chief Communications Officer Jason Myers drove the minivan around the track at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour while team photographer Brian Cleary pointed his camera out the back of the open vehicle. Cleary wasn’t...
![Photographer Brandon Stanton Raises $1 Million+ for Brooklyn School Through Portraits]()
Photographer Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York has become one of the most influential photo projects in the world since it launched back in November 2010. Tens of millions of people follow Stanton as he shoots portraits of people on the street and shares the images online with their stories. Here’s a great example of how powerful his photos have become: a single photo posted earlier this month has raised more than $1 million for a school in Brooklyn to help send students to college. It all started when Stanton ran into a 13-year-old student named Vidal. When asked about who had...
![The Super Bowl is a “No Drone Zone,” Says the FAA]()
If you’re anywhere near the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona this Sunday while the Super Bowl is going on, you should keep your camera drone stored away. The FAA is warning the public that the Super Bowl is a “No Drone Zone”: fly your drone anywhere within 30 miles of the stadium during the game and you’re breaking the law. Here’s the short 15-second public service announcement released this week by the FAA: “Don’t spoil the game, leave your drone at home,” the agency says. Gizmodo created a map showing what a 30-mile radius around the stadium looks like, calling the...
![‘Cloud Bursting’ Service Can Ensure Sunny Wedding Photos for $150,000]()
Want to ensure sunshine for bright and happy outdoor wedding photographs? All you need is $150,000. A UK-based company has begun offering a “cloud bursting” service that can 100% guarantee fair weather for your wedding day and photographs. Oliver’s Travels, a luxury travel and rental service, has begun offering the service for prospective brides and grooms who are interested in a sunny destination wedding at certain venues in France (the company is planning on expanding availability to the UK and Italy if the concept “takes off”). For a fee starting at £100,000 (~$150K), the company...
![Leaked Photo and Specs of the Canon 11-24mm f/4L Ultra-Wide Zoom Lens]()
Another photo of the soon-to-be-announced Canon 11-24mm lens has leaked onto the Internet. This lens was first outed back in September 2014 when a different photo popped up briefly online before being taken down. In case you missed it the first time, here’s that first photo that shows the bulbous front element of the lens: The latest leak was published today over at digicam-info. Features will reportedly include: dust and water resistance, Subwavelength Structure Coating (SWC) and Air Sphere Coating (ASC) for reducing ghosting and flare, fluorine anti-smear coating for easier...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In this collection of long exposure photographs you can see some great examples of how you can use this technique to produce stunning images. By Stewart Ayrey I teach a night photography class and many times I’ve seen a whole new world of exciting things open up for my students when they learn about long exposures. Of course you can use this technique in the daytime as well, but it is often associated with night photography. On a weekend workshop I lead we go out and photograph the sunset and I MAKE them use tripods, amid much grumbling. Then after the sun goes...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Landscape photographers use a technique involving long exposures to create those milky smooth waterfalls, and misty images of coastlines. But what other ways are long exposures used? Here are a few long exposure photographs that seem almost otherworldly or supernatural in their appearance for you to ponder and enjoy: Smoking Jungle by Karim Nafatni on 500px Snake on a Train by Brian Donovan on 500px Skipping Rocks by Michael Shainblum on 500px Autumn Swirl by Andrew Kumler on 500px 49 Shades of Grey by Dylan Toh & Marianne Lim on 500px The Proposal by Ryan...
A Post By: Darren Rowse A VERY BIG Thank You to everyone who entered our recent competition to win one of three lenses from our friends and site sponsors at Tamron. Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro and Tamron SP 70-300mm Di VC USD This was not actually a photography competition, per se, but so many of you shared your beautiful photographs, we encourage you all to go back and scroll the comments section for some wonderful photographs and links to reader pages/sites. The response was absolutely AMAZING with over 1,000 entries! In fact, it was so great that we here at Digital Photography...
Flash and accessories brand Phottix has introduced a new studio flash head that can be powered via the mains in a studio environment or through a portable battery pack when flash is needed in the field. The Phottix Indra 500TTL offers 500 watts of output across eight settings from full power to 1/128th power and, according to Phottix, it can be synchronised with shutter durations as short as 1/8000sec. Depending on output required, flash duration ranges between 1/250sec and 1/15,000sec. The TTL in the name refers to the fact that the heads have the Phottix Odin wireless...
Athentech has released the latest version of its auto-enhancement photo editor Perfectly Clear App for Android, bringing it up to version 4. With the latest update users are given several new features for further improving their photographs, as well as new detection algorithms for the Next Generation Beautify feature specifically. Those who upgrade will have access to five more photo enhancement features comprised of: Face Slimming, Blemish Removal, Shine Removal, Circle Removal, and Catchlight. Of course the original features from earlier version Skin Smoothing, Eye Enhance, Eye...
![The Graceful Movements of Tennis Players Captured with Long Exposures and Strobe Lights]()
For a series of photos titled “Chronophoto,” photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne paid tribute to old strobe photography camera tests with his own series of images that explore the movements of tennis players. The effect was achieved entirely in-camera by photographing the athletes in a dark studio with long exposures and repeatedly flashing strobe lights. Each of the flashes records a ghostlike image of the player in the frame at a different moment in time. These photos were captured for a special tennis issue of Black Rainbow Magazine. Scientist and photographer Harold Eugene Edgerton of...
![How I Made Myself a DIY Spider Light for $40]()
I recently made myself a DIY Spider Light as a thrifty alternative to the Spiderlite that costs hundreds of dollars. The entire project ended up costing $40 per light and can be built entirely with parts from a local home improvement store. It turned out pretty well I think, with the added benefit of being bulletproof — you can stand on the body without breaking it. What You’ll Need How to Build It I started off by using a holesaw to drill socket holes in the 4” domed cap. Then I trimmed some length off the back end of the 4” cap and both ends of the 3-4 reducer. This isn’t necessary...
![Watch How DSLR Shutters Work in 10,000FPS Super Slow Motion]()
If you want to see the mechanics of how a modern DSLR shutter works, one way to do so is through slow-motion captured with a high-speed camera. That’s what Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys recently did by pointing a Phantom Flex at his Canon 7D and capturing what goes on inside the mirror box during exposures of various shutter speeds. By slowing down the movements after shooting at up to 10,000 frames per second, we get to see exactly what goes on in the camera in the blink of an eye. Viewed side-by-side, we see the gaps of various sizes in the rolling shutter that expose the CMOS...
![Crowdsourced Instagram Photos of Snowstorm Land on the Front Page of the New York Times]()
Yesterday’s front page of the New York Times featured a story about the snow that has been falling on the Northeastern United States. Accompanying the article and dominating a large portion of the page were 9 Instagram photos of the snow as snapped by Times readers. Poytner points out that this appears to have been the first time the New York Times published audience-submitted photographs on the front page of its printed newspaper. On Monday, the New York Times published an article that asked readers to share their Instagram photos from the snowstorm by tagging them with #NYTsnow. “We...
A Post By: Anthony Epes We’ve all seen hundreds of gorgeous photos of sunrises over beaches and beautiful landscapes. Of course they have the capacity to wow and inspire, but I would argue that it’s far more interesting to photographs cities at dawn. You have so much more to work with – buildings, graffiti, debris, rivers, glass, the odd person, roads, and greenery in the midst of all of this urban-ness. The possibilities to create unique photos are endless. So, if you combine all this intense city landscape with the wonderful and quickly-changing light of dawn, you have an amazing...
A Post By: Joel Dryer The wonderful thing about food photography is that you can easily turn your apartment, home, or garage into a studio. This image was shot for a local ice cream franchise that offers a different spin on the traditional root beer float. The set was constructed on a coffee table with common household items, and was lit with just two lights. Final image You might be thinking that the featured photo does not look like your normal, every-day root beer float, and you would be right. The ice cream pellets in the float were created by flash freezing ice cream mixed with liquid...
DxO OpticsPro 10.2 is now available, joined by DxO ViewPoint 2.5.2 and DxO FilmPack 5.1. With this trio of updates, photographers will find new support for four more camera models: the Lumix DMC-LX100, Pentax K-S1, Sony A7 II, and the Samsung Galaxy S5. New camera and lens combinations have been added, the user interfaces have been improved, and more. Both OpticsPro 10 and ViewPoint 2 have added support for the aforementioned cameras, while FilmPack 5 now has support for all but the Galaxy S5. A total of 291 camera and lens combination have been added to the Optics...
Canon has released firmware updates for its EOS 5D Mark III and EOS-1D X DSLRs. Both updates claim to improve the user’s ability to control autofocus in Live View mode when wide angle lenses are used. Firmware 2.0.7 for the 1D X also fixes a couple of issues, including a problem with vertical lines appearing when long exposures are used and some instances when the electronic level indicator didn’t work properly. See full details below. Download Canon 5D Mark III firmware version 1.3.3 Download Canon EOS-1D X firmware version 2.0.7 Canon EOS-1D X firmware...
DPReview is pleased to announce ‘Photo Interactive Expo, PIX2015′. PIX2015 is a live-streamed photo show which will be taking place on May 2nd and 3rd 2015. A true celebration of photography, the show – which will be live-streamed here on DPReview.com and on our partner sites – will feature inspiring, entertaining, educational and interactive talks and demonstrations by leading photographers and industry experts. Tickets to the live event, which will take place in downtown Seattle WA, will be available soon – watch this space for more...
The Nike ‘Jumpman’ logo in question. Copyright battles are nothing new in the world of freelance photography, but a lawsuit filed in federal court this week by Jacobus Rentmeester against Nike is particularly interesting. Rentmeester claims that Nike ripped off a photo he shot of Michael Jordan back in 1984 for Time Magazine, by reshooting a nearly identical image, after originally licensing his. The new image was then used as the basis for the Nike Jordan ‘Jumpman’ logo, a now billion dollar Nike brand. Here’s the full story: In 1984,...
![First Person View: Covering a Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball Game]()
Photographer Nate Olsen is the Assistant Athletic Photographer for the University of Nebraska’s athletics department, so he covers all of the school’s sporting events. He recently decided to strap a GoPro HERO4 to his head to show what it’s like to cover a Cornhuskers basketball game through his eyes and lens. The video above is what resulted. Here are some of the published photographs that Olsen captured that day: (via DigitalRev) Image credits: Photographs by Nate Olsen/University of Nebraska and used with permission Source Article from...
![Pen, Brush and Camera: A 1998 Documentary on the Life and Work of Henri Cartier-Bresson]()
Above is a full 50-minute documentary from 1998 about the life and work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photographer who’s considered to be the father of photojournalism. It’s titled “Pen, Brush and Camera.” The film was directed by Patricia Wheatley, who interviewed the 90-year-old Cartier-Bresson to learn more about his lifetime of creating art. The photographer actually started off in the world of painting, having enrolled in a private art school in 1927 at the age of 20. He studied under French painter André Lhote, who taught Cartier-Bresson the art of “photography without...
![This Group Photo Was Captured by a Satellite Camera 373 Miles Overhead]()
This past week, 300 employees at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) posed for an unusual group picture to mark Israeli Space Week. They arranged themselves in the shape of giant letters to spell out “IAI” and posed as a satellite camera snapped the shot (shown above). The “space selfie” — we’re not sure why it was called a selfie — was captured by the camera on the Earth Resources Observation Satellite (EROS) B satellite, which IAI designed and manufactured. The group figured out the exact minute at which the satellite would be passing directly overhead at an altitude of about 373...
![Monkey Latch: One-Click Changeovers Between Your Camera and Its Accessories]()
Wilson Tse and Craig Hansen of British Columbia want to make it easier for photographers to switch their cameras between accessories such as straps and tripods. The duo has created a new universal camera mount system called the Monkey Latch that aims to tackle this issue. It’s a quick release system that lets you move your camera from one accessory to another in just seconds with one click. Here’s a quick video showing how easily changeovers become: Monkey Latch works with any camera that has a standard ¼-20 mounting point. The system comprises four components. The first and main one...
![DJI Mandatory Firmware Update Will Disable Camera Drones in Washington DC’s No Fly Zone]()
Yesterday we reported that a DJI Phantom quadcopter operator had accidentally crashed his camera drone onto the lawn of the White House at 3 in the morning, causing a security panic among those tasked with ensuring the President’s safety (later reports suggest the man was drunk). DJI wants to make sure this type of incident never happens again: the company is issuing a mandatory firmware update that will disable its camera drones in Washington DC’s no fly zone. The new firmware will prevent Phantom 2 drones from flying anywhere inside a 15.5-mile radius of downtown Washington DC, so...
A Post By: Gina Milicia “Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.” – Og Mandino All images copyright Gina Milicia What to do with your model’s hands is the one thing most...
A Post By: Bruce Lovelace Are you seeking some inspiration for getting creative with some new macro photographs? Perhaps you’ve grown tired of taking close-ups of typical macro subjects like flowers and insects. Help is on the way. There is a whole world of macro photography available to you that doesn’t involve the typical subject matter so often associated with close-up photography. There are some amazing images of insects and flowers to enjoy on the web, but what about going in a different direction? Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing, to challenge your imagination,...
The Nike ‘Jumpman’ logo in question. Copyright battles are nothing new in the world of freelance photography, but a lawsuit filed in federal court this week by Jacobus Rentmeester against Nike is particularly interesting. Rentmeester claims that Nike ripped off a photo he shot of Michael Jordan back in 1984 for Time Magazine, by reshooting a nearly identical image, after originally licensing his. The new image was then used as the basis for the Nike Jordan ‘Jumpman’ logo, a now billion dollar Nike brand. Here’s the full story: In 1984,...
Instagram Web interface provider INK361 has introduced a new service for Instagram photographers that allows them to create temporary tattoos from their pictures. Once logged in to Instagram via the Picattoo website, users can select up to 12 of their own images to have made into 3x3cm square format prints on sheets of transfer material. The images can then be applied to skin for a tattoo effect that the company claims will last for about a week. A spokesperson for Picattoo told DPR “Our advice for the best looking tattoos are to select images that are not too busy...
Moment, a Seattle-based company that is known for its high-quality smartphone accessory lenses has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its latest product idea, the Moment case. The Moment case is a case for the Apple iPhone 6 that offers a two-stage shutter button, of the sort used in most conventional cameras. Using the shutter button you can half-press to lock focus and exposure and press and hold for burst mode. Currently only very few smartphones with a dedicated shutter button, such as some Microsoft Lumia Models or the Sony Xperia Z series offers this feature. The connection to...
![Study Finds that Professionally Captured Photos Are More Memorable Than Amateur Ones]()
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) recently conducted a study that compares public perception of professional photographs versus amateur ones. The main conclusion was that, yes, people can tell the difference between the two, and that professional photographs are generally more memorable than their counterparts. The study involved 52 subjects and 200 photographs — 100 captured by a professional photographer and 100 amateur “crowdsourced” photos that were published by various news organizations. The order of the photos was random, and the images appeared next to their...
![Illusion of Lights: A Time-Lapse of the Night Sky Above the Western United States]()
In 2013, photographer Brad Goldpaint and his wife Marci quit their day jobs, sold all of their possessions, and began living out of a motorhome while traveling through the Western United States. Their new career was teaching photography workshops while educating the public about the damaging effects of light pollution. As the duo moved from place to place through some of the nation’s most pristine wilderness areas, Goldpaint spent countless nights out in the dark, capturing long exposure photos over many hours with his camera gear. The images have since been put together into an...
![Muslim Cleric Warns Against Selfies, Saying They Lead to Different Sins]()
A popular Muslim cleric from Earth’s most populous Muslim country is causing quite a stir due to public comments about the sinfulness of selfies. Felix Siauw of Indonesia warned his nearly 1.2 million followers on Twitter against the practice, saying that it opens the door to a multitude of sins. First noticed by Coconuts Jakarta, the message came in the form of seventeen notes Siauw posted to his personal Twitter account. Siauw recommended that young people avoid taking selfies, and then put forward a number of arguments as to why. Here are a few of them alongside translations by...
![Keepers of the Streak: A Film About the 4 Guys Who Have Photographed Every Super Bowl]()
Countless photographs have been captured by numerous photographers over the course of Super Bowl history, but only four photographers have covered all 48 Big Games since Super Bowl I in 1967: John Biever, Walter Iooss, Mickey Palmer and Tony Tomsic. “Keepers of the Streak” is a new documentary film by sports photographer Neil Leifer that chronicles the journey of those four men. Above is the official trailer for the movie. Leifer himself has spent quite some time on the sidelines of the NFL with a camera in hand. “Nobody can appreciate more than I just how incredible this streak is,”...
![The Moment Case Equips Your iPhone with a Shutter Button, Lens, and Camera Strap]()
When Moment launched a Kickstarter campaign for its smartphone lenses last year, it blew past its $50K funding goal in a single day. The company is hoping to repeat its success with a new product called the Moment Case. It claims to be “the world’s best iPhone case for mobile photography.” Many people are using their smartphones for capturing photos of life these days, but there are some benefits and features that are lost when moving from a traditional camera to a phone. The Moment Case aims to brings those best features back to your phone. The shutter button on side of the Moment...
A Post By: Ken Lyons There is no shortage of podcasts about photography. They cater for everyone from beginners to experienced amateurs, semi-pros and professionals. A quick search in Google returns so many options it can be a bit overwhelming. It’s impossible to listen to them all, so how do you decide which ones to download or subscribe to? The simplest answer is to follow recommendations from friends and colleagues. So, in no particular order, here are seven photography based podcasts that I currently subscribe to, that I think will be of interest to you as a photographer: 1. This Week in...
A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson Buying Lightroom used to be simple. All you had to do was buy the full version of the program, and upgrade (if you wished) every time a new version came out. But ever since Adobe announced the Creative Cloud subscription service, photographers have been faced with two choices. You can still go for the standalone version, or you can buy Lightroom as part of a Creative Cloud monthly membership. But how do you know which is the best option for you? Read on to find out. Creative Cloud is announced Adobe’s initial announcement of the Creative Cloud licensing concept...
Connect smartphone reviews are written with the needs of photographers in mind. We focus on camera features, performance and image quality. Introduction While both the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 were built by Korean manufacturer LG, the Nexus 6 – the latest model in Google’s Nexus line of showcase devices – was designed and built in cooperation with US company Motorola. In light of this, it’s no surprise that the Nexus 6 looks very much like an enlarged version of the 2014 edition of the Motorola Moto X, with the same metal frame, curvy design and dimpled back. The...
![Identity At Play: Basketball Culture In the Sierra Norte Villages of Mexico]()
I grew up in Guelatao de Juárez, a Mexican village of approximately 500 people in Oaxaca’s Sierra Norte. Guelatao is famous not only as the birthplace of Mexican president Benito Juárez, but also as the site of the annual Copa Benito Juárez, in which more than 200 teams of indigenous Zapotec, Mixe, and Chinantec players compete at basketball over a period of three days. Unlike in most of Mexico, where soccer reigns supreme, basketball is king in the Sierra. The sport was introduced in the 1930s by president Lazaro Cardenas as a way to bring Oaxaca’s disparate and historically...
![Walk Through a Wedding: 20 BTS Videos That Cover a Wedding from Start to Finish]()
Last year, lighting company Profoto teamed up with New England-based wedding photographers Justin and Mary Marantz to create a series of behind-the-scenes videos showing how the duo goes about shooting a wedding from start to finish. The Walk Through a Wedding series started in February 2014 and ended in December of that year with 20 short videos. Each video offers a glimpse into the couple’s mindset and photo process for a particular shot, starting with an “iconic” portrait of the bride at the beginning of the day to capturing a couple’s sparkler exit at the end. As you might expect,...
![Macro Photos That Focus In on the Beautiful Details of Ordinary Things]()
Can you tell what the translucent object is in the photograph above? It’s a single grain of sugar captured in a macro photograph by artist Pyanek, whose “Amazing Worlds Within Our World” project is a series of macro shots that show the beautiful details of ordinary things — things that we generally don’t (or can’t) see with our naked eyes. Here’s the project presented in video form. For each of the photos, see if you can figure out what the photo is of before the answer shows up on the screen: The photos were captured using a Canon T3i DSLR with a reversed kit lens and edited with...
![A Simple Video Tutorial on Creating a Hyperlapse with Your DSLR]()
If you’ve been itching to try your hand at shooting a hyperlapse video, the short and sweet video tutorial above may be a nice place to start your journey. It was made by Cal Thomson, the same guy who created the popular time-lapse tutorial that we featured earlier this month. A “hyperlapse” is a timelapse with camera movements. By changing the position of the camera slightly in between each exposure, tracking is introduced and the viewer can be taken across long distances in a very short amount of time. “Whilst I’m definitely no expert, I thought I’d share some tips and techniques in...
![W. Eugene Smith Considered Darkroom Work to be 90% of a Photo’s Creation Process]()
American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith was widely praised for his devotion to photography and for pioneering the use of the photo essay to tell stories. He is said to have “created at least fifty images so powerful that they have changed the perception of our history.” There’s one little fact about how Smith worked that may be of great interest to photographers these days, especially as debates rage on regarding the merits of “straight out of camera” (SOOC. i.e. non-Photoshopped) photography: Smith believed that most of what makes a photo is done in the darkroom rather than in the...
A Post By: Sarah Hipwell Warp command in Photoshop, showing the grid over a selection and the presets What is Warp? The Warp command was introduced in Photoshop CS2 along with Vanishing point feature. This meant an image, or part of one, could now be distorted or transformed into a new shape. You may have seen popular online tutorials where the warp command was used to create a realistic page curl in Photoshop? How useful is the Warp Command as a photographer? Honestly, to answer this question it will depend on the type of photography you specialize in, and to what degree you post-process...
Photographers Required Sydney
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Photographers Required on a Freelance Basis
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The New Tamron 15-30mm May Be Close To The Nikon 14-24mm
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Weekly Photography Challenge – A Need for Speed
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In this set of speed busting images you can see the effect that using a fast shutter speed can have on your images. If you want to photograph a moving subject and freeze them in mid-action, that is what is required. By TexasEagle Weekly Photography Challenge – A Need for Speed This week your challenge is to find something moving – fast! It could be traffic on a busy street, or something involving sports of some kind. Just get out there and work on using a fast shutter speed to freeze the subject at the peak of action. You can try the following settings to help...
26 Speed Busting Fast Shutter Speed Images
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Last week we saw some ethereal and mysterious long exposure photos. Now let’s go the opposite way and look at some images there would not be possible without fast shutter speeds (with a couple that have some help using flash to freeze motion too). Images at either end of the shutter speed scale give us a chance to capture life in an altered state; one we cannot see with our eyes. Long exposures blur things beyond recognition and add mystery. Short exposures freeze things in time and space and capture literally a millisecond of time in an image. Add flash and...
How I Made Myself a 16×20-inch Bellows Camera
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Olympus EE-1 is a Red Dot Sight Hotshoe Attachment for Aiming at Speedy Subjects
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Fujifilm Bringing Film Simulation to Its Official RAW Conversion Software
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Here’s a Look Into the ‘Photos for Mac’ App That Will Replace iPhoto and Aperture
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Stacking Five 2x Teleconverters to Create a Ridiculous 9600mm Lens
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Canberra Brand Ambassadors Required
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Assistant Scrip writer/ Script editor needed for finished script.
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DoP/Camera Operator Needed
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Sound Recordist Required For Comedy Promo Next Week
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Need an Assistant Director/DOP for a Short Film on Virtual Reality
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Models, HMUAs, Bridal Designers for Bridal TFP Photoshoot
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Google Earth Pro Was $399 – Now Its Free
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Natural Looking HDR in Photoshop and Lightroom in 5 Easy Steps
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A Post By: Viktor Elizarov HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography was developed out of necessity to overcome limitations of photography equipment, mostly in digital cameras’ sensors. From the beginning, the technology was intended to make photographs as close as possible to human experience by bridging the gap between what the human eye perceives, and what the digital camera can actually capture. Montreal, Canada – HDR processed, five exposures, tripod. Think of HDR as a sophisticated, software based, ND (Neutral Density) filter. Instead of placing it in front of the lens at the moment of...
Shoot for the Light – Improve Your Composition
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A Post By: Etienne Bossot Here is one of my most valuable tips. The one I will offer to someone who comes to me, complaining that after 20 years of taking photos they can’t get out of their usual compositions, and want to get into a new level of creativity. It may sound like something you have heard before. Yes, photography is all about light, and if there is a good light then there is a good photo. But no, I am talking about something more specific. Please note that I have always focused my photography, and my articles on travel photography, on people. So when reading this article, please...
Nifty Fifty: Canon EOS 5DS / 5DS R First Impressions Review
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Not so sure of the new 5D… Megapixel is great, but image quality is utmost important to me, to see that their press are comparing this to 7D Mark II, simply definitely is a turn off, even the image quality of 7D Mark II is not even that much better than the first one. To be the owner of the original 5D, 7D, 1D 4 and 1DX, I can say that even 5D 3 wasn’t even good enough, so when they are comparing the 5 series with a 7, really doesn’t sound good. They need to do better, rather than inflate the resolution. Ever since Nikon introduces the D3, the landscape changes, Canon has...
Rebels with a cause: Canon EOS Rebel T6s / T6i First Impressions Review
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When average users think “DSLR” Canon Rebel is the first thing that pops into their head. I bet that the new Rebel cameras will have higher total sales than the new Olympus E-M5 MKII and the Samsung NX500 combined. I am positive that these cameras can take excellent still images and probably half decent 1080p @ 30 FPS video. However, I can’t help but smile when I see how gigantic these cameras are even with their “kit” lenses. I will gladly go on using my Panasonic LX100 and GH4 + 35-100mm F2.8 + 25mm F1.4 + 14mm F2.5 lens all in a nice little bag. While everyone else lugs around these...
Hands-on with Canon’s ‘not-coming-to-USA’ EOS M3
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Jeeze! Look at the size of that thing! That looks nice and light and compact! (I’m being facetious here…) Canon…Seriously??? What *are* you thinking? Oh, wait, you’re not. Man, Fuji is going to eat your lunch in this segment. Come to think of it, they already are…. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/4715674623/hands-on-with-canon-eos-m3
Rebel Alliance: Hands-on with Canon’s new Rebel T6s and T6i
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Nice to see at last that someone at Canon noticed better AF and advanced features of junior Nikon and Sony bodies, but splitting the lineup in two and creating even more mess in consumers poor brains… Quite unexpected. Logical, though, considering rivaling lineups. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/0113790578/rebel-alliance-hands-on-with-canon-s-new-rebel-t6s-and-t6i
Go wide! Hands-on with Canon’s 11-24mm F4 L
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This is good news for photo magazines, websites and LensRentals. Being introduced along with 50mp cameras, I’m sure it’s wonderfully sharp. It will be interesting to see what looks attractive at 11mm. But why, oh why, is it that Canon can meet or exceed Nikon in lens quality, variety, even price, but the bodies are never as nice? This was true in the film era too, so they’ve had some time to work on it. Source Article from...
Special Nikon D810 Designed for Astrophotography is Reportedly On the Way
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Photographer Brandon Stanton on The Ellen Show to Talk About Raising $1M+ with His Photos
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Less than a week ago, we shared how photographer Brandon Stanton had raised well over $1 million for a struggling Brooklyn school after a chance encounter with a 13-year-old boy named Vidal. Stanton was invited onto The Ellen Show this week to talk to Ellen DeGeneres about the story alongside Vidal and his principal Ms. Lopez. It’s an interesting case of a photographer creating a life-changing national story as he’s shooting it. Source Article from...
miggo is the World’s First Camera Strap That Doubles as a Padded Case
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Full-Frame Pentax DSLR Will Arrive by the End of the Year, Says Ricoh
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30% of Film Shooters Are Younger Than 35, Says Ilford
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The Third Quarter of the Year ending March 2015 Financial Results/Financial and Business Data
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Revision of the Consolidated Financial Forecast for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2015
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Fit Model Wanted for Artistic Experiment Photo Shoot
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Fit Male To Play Stripper In Music Video on Sunday the 8th of February.
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Animator/ Editor
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Tv Show writer, Director and Crew
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Casting Featured Female Extra For Online Content Piece
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Assistant Director & Cinematographer Needed for a Feature Film
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YouTube Channel About Life
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Photographs Required for Travel Site.
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International Film ‘Mountains May Depart’ Casting Chinese Actors!
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Lighting Professional is Required for Fashion Show
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Interview With Ethan Tweedie In Hawaii – Rapid Success In Interiors Photography
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6 Ways to Use Shutter Speed Creatively
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A Post By: Barry J Brady In many ways, shutter speed is an inaccurate term. I read an article a few years ago and the photographer referred to shutter speed as shutter time. The logic was spot on. A shutter always opens or closes at the same “speed”. The key value is how long the shutter stays open, hence shutter time. On Canon cameras the shutter speed function (shutter priority) on the mode dial is abbreviated to Tv, which stands for “Time Value”, and is a more accurate description of what this article is about. I am going to refer to shutter time as opposed to shutter speed, it sounds...
3 Simple Ways to Take Better Photos on Your Next Trip
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A Post By: Anne McKinnell I love to travel. To me, nothing compares to living on the road and waking up to new places every day. All the different photographs I’ve made during my journeys are the most rewarding part of it all. Making photos while traveling or on vacation has a special quality because you’re seeing your subjects often for the first time. Travel also presents unique challenges, though – unfamiliar landscape, climate, and culture can easily throw you off. However, it is those very things that can also make beautiful, one-of-a-kind photographs! Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick When...
Olympus OM-D E-M5 II First Impressions Review posted
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Since it doesn’t have on-sensor PDAF, I wouldn’t expect it to be as good as the E-M1 at driving Four Thirds lenses, which are primarily designed for PDAF. I’ve not had a chance to check yet, though. The E-M1 is one of the best-handling small cameras I’ve ever used, so I wouldn’t quite rate the E-M5 II as highly. The M5 II is smaller, cheaper and prettier, though. Source Article from...
Olympus announces OM-D E-M5 II with 40MP high resolution mode
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Olympus has unveiled the OM-D E-M5 II. Picking up where its successor left off, the E-M5 II continues to offer weather sealing and 5-axis IS while adding a redesigned 16MP Four Thirds sensor and 5-axis image stabilization. The E-M5 II also boasts a 40MP high resolution shot mode, achieved by shifting the sensor in half-pixel steps and capturing eight images over a period of one second. The E-M5 II also offers a built-in 2.36 million dot EVF, Wi-Fi and an articulating 3″ 1.04 million dot touchscreen LCD. It’s capable of 10 fps shooting with single AF (5 fps...
Olympus 14-150mm F4.0-5.6 II offers cosmetic improvements and optical coatings
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Olympus has announced a revamped, second generation of its 14-150mm F4.0-5.6 zoom. Resistant to dust and moisture, it uses a new ZERO (Zuiko Extra-low Reflection Optical) coating to protect against scratches and minimize flare. The 28-300mm equivalent lens uses Olympus’ MSC (Movie and Still Compatible) focusing technology for quiet, fast AF. It will be available in March for $599.99 Press release: A NEW BENCHMARK FOR VERSATILITY: THE OLYMPUS M.ZUIKO® DIGITAL ED 14-150mm f4.0-5.6 II LENS Olympus’ Improved M.ZUIKO Interchangeable Lens Brings Enhanced Optical and...
Olympus announces OM-D E-M1 firmware version 3.0
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The Olympus OM-D E-M1 is about to get a significant update with the release of firmware version 3.0 later this month. The update’s primary function is to boost maximum framerate from 6.5 fps to 9 when shooting in continuous AF mode. This is thanks to enhancements for the camera’s 37-point phase-detect algorithm. The maximum of 10 fps remains for shooting with fixed AF. Also included in the update is the ability to record movies while using the E-M1 with the latest version of the O.I.S. app. Press release: OLYMPUS ADVANCES FLAGSHIP CAMERA WITH INCREDIBLE...
Olympus ‘Air’ clip-on camera for smartphones coming to Japan
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Olympus Japan has announced the ‘Air’ – a new camera which clips onto smartphones in much the same way as Sony’s QX-series products. The Air features a 16MP Four Thirds sensor behind a Micro Four Thirds lens mount, a physical shutter release button and tripod mount. Inside you’ll find a microSD slot and lithium-ion battery. The Air has an 81-point AF system and can shoot at an impressive maximum rate of 10 frames per second. We’re following up with Olympus to see if there will be Raw support. The Air is controlled entirely via Wi-Fi...
I Made a Super Bowl Commercial with Seven Photos
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Pilot Selfies Likely Caused Deadly Plane Crash, NTSB Investigation Concludes
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A Look Inside the World’s First Photo Book from 1843
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Contest Copyright Controversy a Crazy Coincidence
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Actor Keegan Allen is a Photography Buff Who Just Published a Photo Book
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Visual Effects Artist for Short Film Animation
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Cameraman Needed for VT and TO Film Pilot
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Camera Man, Camera Crew Required for Projects in Town
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Looking for Model and Photographer to Collaborate on Student Project
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Searching for Two London Based Photographers
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Videographer Taking BTS For Professional Hair Shoot
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Should Real Estate Photographers Modify Staging?
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Geotagging Photos in Lightroom in 4 Easy Steps
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A Post By: Daniel Korzeniewski For travel photography, geotagging your photos has become fundamental. By geotagging your images, you’ll not only be able to remember the locations once you are back home, but also it will help on searches. If you intend to sell your photos at any time, adding the metadata pertaining to the location into the file is going to improve searches and make your photograph easier to find on the web. Geotagging is a rather simple process and there are a couple different ways to do it. At the simplest level, you simply attach a GPS data-logger to your camera and the...
Writer’s Favorite Lens: 50mm f/1.8
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A Post By: Simon Ringsmuth Picking a favorite lens can be tricky, because there are aspects of a variety of lenses that I like. Sometimes I like to use zoom lenses, sometimes prime lenses, and other times specialty lenses like macro or ultra-wide-angle. But despite the variety of options available, at the end of the day I keep coming back to one particular lens as my pick of the litter. The lens that gets the job done no matter what situation I’m in, the one that consistently produces outstanding results more than any other, is my trusty Nikon 50mm f/1.8G. It’s a workhorse that has survived...
Readers’ Choice Awards 2014: The Winners
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This isn’t a contest about what product of 2014 is the best for “serious” photographers, though. This is about the best new product, overall. D750 is a great camera, but it isn’t nearly as groundbreaking as the X-T1 was, nor as accessible and versatile. And if we want to judge this by pure numbers, like MP or AF speed, obviously the one released latest will win. But this isn’t purely about which has the best specs. The XT-1 is nearly $700 cheaper, and lighter. If we are to exclude things like that, then this would be a silly contest… Like a “Who made...
A Look at How Michael Paul Smith Creates Historical Photos with Incredibly Detailed Models
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BTS: Shooting Portraits of Celebrities at Sundance in a Tiny Tent Studio
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Here’s a short 2-minute behind-the-scenes video showing how Getty’s Chief Entertainment Photographer Larry Busacca shot celebrity portraits at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Busacca had to shoot all the portraits in the same tiny, green-walled tent studio, so he had to get creative with posing to shoot unique portraits of the actors. The speed at which Busacca had to operate was ridiculous. Tasked with shooting thousands of portraits over the course of five days, Busacca would typically have only 10 minutes with each cast (generally 6 or 7 people) for solo, group, and pairing...
kraftwerk: A Portable Power Plant That Can Charge Your Camera with Standard Gas
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It Looks Like Someone’s Solargraphy Camera Just Got Blown Up by an Atlanta Bomb Squad
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A Review of the Venus 60mm f/2.8, the World’s First 2:1 Macro Lens with Infinity Focus
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Promotional Staff Required in Maroochydore for Beach Event
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Models Needed for Hair Competition
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Miss Teen British Empire
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One Promotional Model needed in Bunbury, WA
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Model Search UK
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Production Manager Required for VCA Graduating Film!
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Explosion/Fire Scene in Student Film
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Gaffer / Lighting Technician Required
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Experienced Writer Wanted for Feature Film or Web Series Pilot
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Assistant Director, Production Manager & Editor Needed
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Photographer & Videographer
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Can You Take Credit Card Payments For Your Shoots?
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Why I Switched From LEE Filters to Formatt-Hitech for Landscape Photography
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A Post By: James Brandon A hard graduated neutral density filter worked great here to darken the sky. There are three types of photographers in the world; those that try to get it right in camera, those that simply rely on post-processing, and those who believe that both mindsets together lead to the best possible outcome. I try to always keep the mindset of that third type. If I can get everything right in camera (and save minutes or even hours in post) I will. I also have always loved post-processing and the art of making an image come to life. When shooting landscapes, you are more often...
Natural Style Newborn Photos: The Way I Like to Remember Them
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A Post By: Melinda Smith Why natural lifestyle newborn photography? There are lots of different styles of photography when it comes to capturing a newborn baby. Some people love to use lots of props, and introduce many fun things into every photo. Some are experts at posing the baby in unique and whimsical positions. Although I can appreciate all the different styles, I prefer to capture a newborn baby the way that I remember my three newborns. My kids are almost all grown up now, and it’s hard to remember exactly what they were like when they were brand new. Every once in awhile, I have...
3,200 megapixel LSST camera gets construction approval
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, more commonly referred to as the LSST, will take ultra-high-resolution images of the universe around us in the relatively near future, thanks to recent construction approval from the US Department of Energy. This will pave the way for the telescope’s completion for its anticipated 2022 launch date. The LSST contains a 3.2 gigapixel (3200 megapixels) digital camera, which will be the largest in the world – in total, about the size of a small car. The focal plane uses 189 individual 16MP CCD sensors, organized into 3×3...
Samsung NX1 First Impressions Review updated with shooting experience
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I have not looked at the 45, as I have no interest in that focal length. The 30 is sharp, but the distortion is high, is highly corrected electronically, and more importantly, it is too slow (in APS-C I need a 1.4) and the bokeh is horrid. Those pancake lenses were designed around size, weight, and most importantly, cost. I do not mind paying $1000 for a lens I will use for tens of thousands of shots over the years, and am willing to deal with the size and weight. The pancakes were designed for the little LCD-only cameras, and were meant to be small, light, and cheap, and give sharp...
Royal Photographic Society announces medals touring exhibition for International Members’ Biennial competition
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Most of these are boring… 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, I don’t get it…I see where some tried and just didn’t achieve that pop-out and where some were with a “just some guy snapping on vacation” 1 and 7 are the most beautiful. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/4122675364/royal-photographic-society-announces-medals-touring-exhibition
‘The Cut’: A Stop-Motion That Offers a Cross-Section Look Into Fruits and Vegetables
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Underwater Photographer Snaps Selfies with Sharks
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Canon 5Ds Won’t Have 4K, but the 1D C Just Got a $4K Price Drop and the 5D Mark IV Might
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How to Shoot Large Products on a White Background
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Microsoft OneDrive Gets Photo-Centric Updates That Improve the Image Experience
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Need a Photographer
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Producer Required for Single-Location Comedy Feature Film
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Watch & Win with StarNow
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Photographer Wanted for Collaboration
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Sound Technician – On Location Throughout Feb & March
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Wanted a Videographer ASAP to Capture Video & Edit it Accordingly
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What Defines an Amateur versus a Professional Photographer?
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A Post By: Suzi Pratt If you’ve been taking photos for a while, this question will undoubtedly cross your mind at some point: “Am I a professional photographer or an amateur?” The idea of what separates an amateur from a professional sparks many debates, and there are many ways of looking at it. By Bob Prosser What the Dictionary says Perhaps the most straightforward way of separating amateurs from professionals is looking in the dictionary. By definition, an amateur is “a person who engages in a pursuit or activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit.” On the other hand,...
Congratulations Charlie Dresen – Steamboat Springs, CO – January PFRE Videographer Of The Month
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How to Use the Text Tool in Photoshop
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A Post By: Alex Morrison There are many reasons that you might want to add words over your images. Text on photos makes great promotional items such as postcards; you can create your own social media messages with quotes or inspirational sayings; and you can add your name or your website URL. I’m sure that once you understand all the creative options for adding text, you’ll come up with hundreds of other things you can create with your photos. This article will guide you through the many ways you can work with text in Photoshop to create beautiful and eye-catching messages with your...
Royal Photographic Society announces medals touring exhibition for International Members’ Biennial competition
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I believe that not every accomplished photographer is gear-oblivious. Case in point, it looks like the author of “Joie de Vivre” (the horse) likes fast shutters; the tips of the hairs of the mane and the tail look frozen in air.And, on other technicalities, one staple discussion here (more often than not scoffed at as pointless) is about sensor DR, especially across brands. I wonder, though, if the author of Leading Actress/photo 11 would settle for a so-so sensor? (No crushed shadows, nothing miserably blown next to the light bulb… yet probably shot at a high ISO.)So yes,...
Will the Real Landscape Photography Please Stand Up?
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Creating a Fake Chilly Look in a Studio for a ‘Fortitude’ Poster Photo Shoot
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Graph: How the Mirrorless Camera Industry in Japan Changed in 2014
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The Magical Fairy Tale-Inspired Portraits of Ukranian Photographer Anita Anti
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Abstract Photographs of Hong Kong’s Neon Signs
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Male Nude Model Required – Sydney & Illawarra
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Earth, Fire, Air, Water – Elemental Goddess
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Two Female Models required for Dressmaking Fashion Shoot
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Model needed for music video lead role
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Eight male and female models required for photography project
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Are Mirrorless Cameras Here to Stay?
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A Post By: Tomas Haran In the late 2000s a new segment formed in the photography industry. This segment goes by many names, but the most common nowadays is “Mirrorless”. These cameras fall between the generic point and shoot cameras and the professional full frame DSLR systems. By Zhao ! So what is Mirrorless all about? The first mirrorless cameras came out with a traditional rangefinder design. They were small, had many manual settings, and were geared more towards street photographers who wanted great image quality in a small body. From these first cameras it became evident that a smaller...
3 Principles of Light Behaviour Every Photographer Needs to Know
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In this short video by Ed Vorosky he covers three rules about the behaviour of light. When you understand these principles you can then use them better in your photography. Light travels in straight lines The subject receives less light as the distance to the light source is increased The larger the light source relative to the subject, the softer the light source Watch the video for a more detailed description and demonstration of each: So what does that mean for your photography? How can you use this information in practice? Source Article from...
Canon EOS-1D C sees $4000 price drop in North America
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@Papi61 China is a unique situation, since they have abandoned a “communist economy” in favor of a capitalist one (although I will admit that many industries are mostly own by generals in their army). But they have retained their communist style police state. So you probably could call them a hybrid of sorts. North Korea, Cuba, Laos or Vietnam would be a much better example of a purely communist state. And the last two seem to be drifting towards the Chinese model of a hybrid state. In any case, China has the world’s largest economy today, and with a population of 1.35...
Shooting Aston Martins from a Minivan at 120MPH on the Daytona Speedway
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Photographer Brandon Stanton Raises $1 Million+ for Brooklyn School Through Portraits
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The Super Bowl is a “No Drone Zone,” Says the FAA
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‘Cloud Bursting’ Service Can Ensure Sunny Wedding Photos for $150,000
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Leaked Photo and Specs of the Canon 11-24mm f/4L Ultra-Wide Zoom Lens
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TFP Models and Make-Up Artists
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Body Painting Models/Dancers
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Male Model Needed on TFP Basis Fashion Photoshoot
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Five Children Models Needed for NEPA’s Print Ad
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Model Search 2015
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Crew Wanted for a Mind Blowing Thriller Feature Film
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Need Artists for Different Character for a Thriller Movie.
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A production assistance needed for short film
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Lights Man Needed for "Sandow" Teaser Shoot
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Looking for Camera-Men and Videomaker
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Beginner/Amateur Photographer for Baby Cake Smash Shoot
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Photographer Required for Engagement Party n
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Weekly Photography Challenge – Long Exposures
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In this collection of long exposure photographs you can see some great examples of how you can use this technique to produce stunning images. By Stewart Ayrey I teach a night photography class and many times I’ve seen a whole new world of exciting things open up for my students when they learn about long exposures. Of course you can use this technique in the daytime as well, but it is often associated with night photography. On a weekend workshop I lead we go out and photograph the sunset and I MAKE them use tripods, amid much grumbling. Then after the sun goes...
37 Ethereal Almost Supernatural Long Exposure Photographs
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Landscape photographers use a technique involving long exposures to create those milky smooth waterfalls, and misty images of coastlines. But what other ways are long exposures used? Here are a few long exposure photographs that seem almost otherworldly or supernatural in their appearance for you to ponder and enjoy: Smoking Jungle by Karim Nafatni on 500px Snake on a Train by Brian Donovan on 500px Skipping Rocks by Michael Shainblum on 500px Autumn Swirl by Andrew Kumler on 500px 49 Shades of Grey by Dylan Toh & Marianne Lim on 500px The Proposal by Ryan...
The Contest Winners of the Three Tamron Lenses Are…
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A Post By: Darren Rowse A VERY BIG Thank You to everyone who entered our recent competition to win one of three lenses from our friends and site sponsors at Tamron. Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro and Tamron SP 70-300mm Di VC USD This was not actually a photography competition, per se, but so many of you shared your beautiful photographs, we encourage you all to go back and scroll the comments section for some wonderful photographs and links to reader pages/sites. The response was absolutely AMAZING with over 1,000 entries! In fact, it was so great that we here at Digital Photography...
Phottix launches Indra 500 TTL mains or battery powered studio heads
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Flash and accessories brand Phottix has introduced a new studio flash head that can be powered via the mains in a studio environment or through a portable battery pack when flash is needed in the field. The Phottix Indra 500TTL offers 500 watts of output across eight settings from full power to 1/128th power and, according to Phottix, it can be synchronised with shutter durations as short as 1/8000sec. Depending on output required, flash duration ranges between 1/250sec and 1/15,000sec. The TTL in the name refers to the fact that the heads have the Phottix Odin wireless...
Canon 7D mirror box filmed at 10,000fps
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I asked this question on the YouTube page, but maybe I’ll have better luck here: I’m sure I’m making an obvious mistake here, but it’s killing me 🙂 At 4:20 he explains how the top of the picture is “older” than the bottom, due to the way the shutter leaves work. Then at 4:28 he further explains that this is in fact reversed due to the way lenses invert the image, i.e. the bottom of the picture will be “older”. So why is the shadow of the cork, which is lower in the frame and therefore should be “older”, actually younger (i.e. it...
Last Chance to vote! 2014 Readers’ Polls – best product of 2014
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Think what you want. People are no longer buying cameras, they are buying reviews. They read the reviews, mingle in the fanbois forums, click through to B&H, Adorama, Amazon, etc., pay their money — and five days later they finally get their camera, bought sight unseen. Pretty crappy products when people are no longer inspecting the actual product before they buy. Look at the “I want it” numbers in the voting. And then the links at the bottom inviting you to “Shop Now” at Amazon. People are buying reviews. Bricks and mortar stores are dying if not dead. The D810...
Perfectly Clear App for Android updated to version 4, iOS update to follow
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Athentech has released the latest version of its auto-enhancement photo editor Perfectly Clear App for Android, bringing it up to version 4. With the latest update users are given several new features for further improving their photographs, as well as new detection algorithms for the Next Generation Beautify feature specifically. Those who upgrade will have access to five more photo enhancement features comprised of: Face Slimming, Blemish Removal, Shine Removal, Circle Removal, and Catchlight. Of course the original features from earlier version Skin Smoothing, Eye Enhance, Eye...
The Graceful Movements of Tennis Players Captured with Long Exposures and Strobe Lights
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How I Made Myself a DIY Spider Light for $40
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Watch How DSLR Shutters Work in 10,000FPS Super Slow Motion
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Crowdsourced Instagram Photos of Snowstorm Land on the Front Page of the New York Times
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‘Photographs’: A Touching Animated Short About an Old Lady and a Polaroid Camera
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“Photographs” is a touching 6-minute-long animated short film about an elderly woman who comes across an old (but working) Polaroid camera. She begins snapping instant photo selfies and uses those images to relive her younger days. The film was created back in 2010 as an undergraduate animation thesis project by animators Brendan Clogher and Christina Manrique while they were studying at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. (via DigitalRev) Source Article from...
Qantas frequent flyer online video
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Promotional Staff needed in Sydney
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Promotional Staff Needed in Melbourne
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Promotional Staff Needed in Adelaide
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Promotional Staff Needed in Perth
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Costume Designer For Short Film
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Looking for Photographer for Editorial Bridal Shoot
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11 Tips for Creating Stunning Photographs of Cities at Dawn
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A Post By: Anthony Epes We’ve all seen hundreds of gorgeous photos of sunrises over beaches and beautiful landscapes. Of course they have the capacity to wow and inspire, but I would argue that it’s far more interesting to photographs cities at dawn. You have so much more to work with – buildings, graffiti, debris, rivers, glass, the odd person, roads, and greenery in the midst of all of this urban-ness. The possibilities to create unique photos are endless. So, if you combine all this intense city landscape with the wonderful and quickly-changing light of dawn, you have an amazing...
Food Photography – How to Shoot A Beverage With Only Two Lights
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A Post By: Joel Dryer The wonderful thing about food photography is that you can easily turn your apartment, home, or garage into a studio. This image was shot for a local ice cream franchise that offers a different spin on the traditional root beer float. The set was constructed on a coffee table with common household items, and was lit with just two lights. Final image You might be thinking that the featured photo does not look like your normal, every-day root beer float, and you would be right. The ice cream pellets in the float were created by flash freezing ice cream mixed with liquid...
DxO OpticsPro 10.2 adds support for Sony A7 II and Panasonic LX100
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DxO OpticsPro 10.2 is now available, joined by DxO ViewPoint 2.5.2 and DxO FilmPack 5.1. With this trio of updates, photographers will find new support for four more camera models: the Lumix DMC-LX100, Pentax K-S1, Sony A7 II, and the Samsung Galaxy S5. New camera and lens combinations have been added, the user interfaces have been improved, and more. Both OpticsPro 10 and ViewPoint 2 have added support for the aforementioned cameras, while FilmPack 5 now has support for all but the Galaxy S5. A total of 291 camera and lens combination have been added to the Optics...
Canon offers EOS 5D Mark III and EOS-1D X firmware updates
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Canon has released firmware updates for its EOS 5D Mark III and EOS-1D X DSLRs. Both updates claim to improve the user’s ability to control autofocus in Live View mode when wide angle lenses are used. Firmware 2.0.7 for the 1D X also fixes a couple of issues, including a problem with vertical lines appearing when long exposures are used and some instances when the electronic level indicator didn’t work properly. See full details below. Download Canon 5D Mark III firmware version 1.3.3 Download Canon EOS-1D X firmware version 2.0.7 Canon EOS-1D X firmware...
Save the date! DPreview PIX2015 Expo May 2-3
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DPReview is pleased to announce ‘Photo Interactive Expo, PIX2015′. PIX2015 is a live-streamed photo show which will be taking place on May 2nd and 3rd 2015. A true celebration of photography, the show – which will be live-streamed here on DPReview.com and on our partner sites – will feature inspiring, entertaining, educational and interactive talks and demonstrations by leading photographers and industry experts. Tickets to the live event, which will take place in downtown Seattle WA, will be available soon – watch this space for more...
Canon’s Q4 earnings report shows camera sales are down
Posted by Chris Roubis on 30th, Jan, 2015 |
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And I know Canon realizes this: A 2006 DSLR is still very good still camera in most situations. They’ve been lazy about introducing any serious mirrorless system. Much of the world’s economy is still a big mess, because of the derivatives fiasco. Better question: Why in 2015, if I were starting from scratch for digital, would I pick a Canon? There are two recent exciting cameras: The 7DII and the G7X–neither is without serious challengers. And the older 5DIII, 6D, and 70D all have serious competition. Fuji, Samsung, Olympus, Sony, Panasonic, and even Nikon, Leica and Ricoh are significantly...
Photographer sues Nike over rights to Jordan ‘Jumpman’ logo
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The Nike ‘Jumpman’ logo in question. Copyright battles are nothing new in the world of freelance photography, but a lawsuit filed in federal court this week by Jacobus Rentmeester against Nike is particularly interesting. Rentmeester claims that Nike ripped off a photo he shot of Michael Jordan back in 1984 for Time Magazine, by reshooting a nearly identical image, after originally licensing his. The new image was then used as the basis for the Nike Jordan ‘Jumpman’ logo, a now billion dollar Nike brand. Here’s the full story: In 1984,...
First Person View: Covering a Nebraska Cornhuskers Basketball Game
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Pen, Brush and Camera: A 1998 Documentary on the Life and Work of Henri Cartier-Bresson
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This Group Photo Was Captured by a Satellite Camera 373 Miles Overhead
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Monkey Latch: One-Click Changeovers Between Your Camera and Its Accessories
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DJI Mandatory Firmware Update Will Disable Camera Drones in Washington DC’s No Fly Zone
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Indian Film Festival presents Western Union ShortFilm Competition
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UK CO-PRODUCER NEEDED FOR CANADIAN TV SERIES
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Wanted Camera Person/Gaff to Help With Video Clip Creation
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Crew Required For Web Series
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Gaffer/ Lighting Tech Wanted
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Real Estate Photography Terms Of Service Summary
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Frank Breslin Wants To Help You With Your Post-processing
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Handiwork: How to Pose Hands
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A Post By: Gina Milicia “Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.” – Og Mandino All images copyright Gina Milicia What to do with your model’s hands is the one thing most...
5 Tips for Getting Fresh Ideas for Macro Photography
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A Post By: Bruce Lovelace Are you seeking some inspiration for getting creative with some new macro photographs? Perhaps you’ve grown tired of taking close-ups of typical macro subjects like flowers and insects. Help is on the way. There is a whole world of macro photography available to you that doesn’t involve the typical subject matter so often associated with close-up photography. There are some amazing images of insects and flowers to enjoy on the web, but what about going in a different direction? Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing, to challenge your imagination,...
Photographer sues Nike over rights to Jordan ‘Jumpman’ logo
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The Nike ‘Jumpman’ logo in question. Copyright battles are nothing new in the world of freelance photography, but a lawsuit filed in federal court this week by Jacobus Rentmeester against Nike is particularly interesting. Rentmeester claims that Nike ripped off a photo he shot of Michael Jordan back in 1984 for Time Magazine, by reshooting a nearly identical image, after originally licensing his. The new image was then used as the basis for the Nike Jordan ‘Jumpman’ logo, a now billion dollar Nike brand. Here’s the full story: In 1984,...
Print tattoos of your Instagram photos with INK361’s Picattoo service
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Instagram Web interface provider INK361 has introduced a new service for Instagram photographers that allows them to create temporary tattoos from their pictures. Once logged in to Instagram via the Picattoo website, users can select up to 12 of their own images to have made into 3x3cm square format prints on sheets of transfer material. The images can then be applied to skin for a tattoo effect that the company claims will last for about a week. A spokesperson for Picattoo told DPR “Our advice for the best looking tattoos are to select images that are not too busy...
Little, Improved: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5 review posted
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HowAboutRAWplease consume less of your stuff, whatever you’re using – it’s kinda joke, m43 is in no way competive to normal APS-C Sony sensors: http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GM5-versus-Sony-A5100-versus-Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GM1___979_967_920 At everything, DR, Lowlight Score, ColorDepth, ISO performance…m43 looses with flying colors. 😉 The only great thing about m43: many good native lenses, compared to the current E mount lineup, and smaller lenses, bodies – in all other ways: it’s way inferior to APS-C. And...
Moment phone case brings two-stage shutter button to iPhone 6
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Moment, a Seattle-based company that is known for its high-quality smartphone accessory lenses has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its latest product idea, the Moment case. The Moment case is a case for the Apple iPhone 6 that offers a two-stage shutter button, of the sort used in most conventional cameras. Using the shutter button you can half-press to lock focus and exposure and press and hold for burst mode. Currently only very few smartphones with a dedicated shutter button, such as some Microsoft Lumia Models or the Sony Xperia Z series offers this feature. The connection to...
Study Finds that Professionally Captured Photos Are More Memorable Than Amateur Ones
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Illusion of Lights: A Time-Lapse of the Night Sky Above the Western United States
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Muslim Cleric Warns Against Selfies, Saying They Lead to Different Sins
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Keepers of the Streak: A Film About the 4 Guys Who Have Photographed Every Super Bowl
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The Moment Case Equips Your iPhone with a Shutter Button, Lens, and Camera Strap
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Model/Assistant Required for Artistic Video
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BTS Photographer 29th Jan
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Professional Wedding Photographer/Videographer Required
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Stills Photographer Needed
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Videotographer Needed
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Crew Wanted for Rap Mix Tape Contest
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You Must Be Selective At Choosing Your Clients To Be Successful
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7 Photography Podcasts That are Worth a Listen
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A Post By: Ken Lyons There is no shortage of podcasts about photography. They cater for everyone from beginners to experienced amateurs, semi-pros and professionals. A quick search in Google returns so many options it can be a bit overwhelming. It’s impossible to listen to them all, so how do you decide which ones to download or subscribe to? The simplest answer is to follow recommendations from friends and colleagues. So, in no particular order, here are seven photography based podcasts that I currently subscribe to, that I think will be of interest to you as a photographer: 1. This Week in...
How to Choose Which Version of Lightroom to Buy
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A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson Buying Lightroom used to be simple. All you had to do was buy the full version of the program, and upgrade (if you wished) every time a new version came out. But ever since Adobe announced the Creative Cloud subscription service, photographers have been faced with two choices. You can still go for the standalone version, or you can buy Lightroom as part of a Creative Cloud monthly membership. But how do you know which is the best option for you? Read on to find out. Creative Cloud is announced Adobe’s initial announcement of the Creative Cloud licensing concept...
Google Nexus 6 camera review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Jan, 2015 |
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Connect smartphone reviews are written with the needs of photographers in mind. We focus on camera features, performance and image quality. Introduction While both the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 were built by Korean manufacturer LG, the Nexus 6 – the latest model in Google’s Nexus line of showcase devices – was designed and built in cooperation with US company Motorola. In light of this, it’s no surprise that the Nexus 6 looks very much like an enlarged version of the 2014 edition of the Motorola Moto X, with the same metal frame, curvy design and dimpled back. The...
Identity At Play: Basketball Culture In the Sierra Norte Villages of Mexico
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Walk Through a Wedding: 20 BTS Videos That Cover a Wedding from Start to Finish
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Macro Photos That Focus In on the Beautiful Details of Ordinary Things
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A Simple Video Tutorial on Creating a Hyperlapse with Your DSLR
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W. Eugene Smith Considered Darkroom Work to be 90% of a Photo’s Creation Process
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Want to Get into Music Industry ?
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TFP studio Photoshoot – Balmain
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Seeking a Photographer
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Shootsac – You May Be Able To Use This
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4 Ways to Use the Warp Command in Photoshop
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Jan, 2015 |
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A Post By: Sarah Hipwell Warp command in Photoshop, showing the grid over a selection and the presets What is Warp? The Warp command was introduced in Photoshop CS2 along with Vanishing point feature. This meant an image, or part of one, could now be distorted or transformed into a new shape. You may have seen popular online tutorials where the warp command was used to create a realistic page curl in Photoshop? How useful is the Warp Command as a photographer? Honestly, to answer this question it will depend on the type of photography you specialize in, and to what degree you post-process...
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.