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A Post By: Suzi Pratt There are many ways to approach food and drink photography, from big budget shoots with food stylists and complicated lighting setups, to low budget natural lighting setups. For a formal restaurant photo shoot, which setup would you choose? I’ve had successes doing both types of photo shoots, but in this particular example, I’ll show you super low budget ways to pull off professional, tasty-looking food photos appropriate for a menu. Client Brief Based in Seattle, this client is an American restaurant going in a new direction with the hiring of a new chef and his...
A Post By: Serge Ramelli I will show you an experience I had of shooting in the middle of the night after sunset without a tripod. Many monuments don’t allow you to shoot with a tripod but you still want to take a photo. The nicer light in my opinion is usually after sunset or before sunrise, so I will show you how to take and process a photo without a tripod at night. If you have a nice high vantage point to take a beautiful photo but cannot put down your tripod you will see that there is something we can do about it. The trick is you must put your camera on a timer, (use the built-in...
A Post By: Darren Rowse On the 9th day of Christmas dPS gave to me – the biggest discount of the year with… 88% off Hacking Photography’s mega preset deal! Yesterday Our Deal Was Big… But Today is Bigger! Yesterday we brought back a popular deal from over at SnapnDeals and the response was amazing – over 1000 of you saved 70% on a great course. Today’s deal is another of our most popular from SnapnDeals this year and it’s at the biggest discount yet – 88% off the retail price on this great presets bundle. For just $10 you’ll pick up 100 professionally-developed presets from Mike Newton over...
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty started out as a dull copper color, but turned green over time due to oxidation occurring on the copper skin? The green patina (also called verdigris) can occur naturally or with human intervention on copper, brass, and bronze. Know what else is brass? The body of the Leica M2 underneath the chrome surface. Photographer Bellamy Hunt used this fact to create a custom DIY special edition of the M2, the “Patina Edition.” Did you know the Statue of Liberty was once a dull copper color? Hunt, who also blogs over at Japan Camera Hunter, studied some...
Here’s an interesting weekend photography project of moderate technical difficulty: the video above is a tutorial on how you can make a DIY coffee cup spy camera. The camera sees out of the cup’s base and has a shutter that’s triggered whenever you lift the cup and pretend to drink from it. The build comes courtesy of tinkerer Steve Hobley over at Make. It’ll require an Arduino Uno Rev 3 microcontroller board, a JPEG camera module, an SD card shield, a Memsic 2125 accelerometer, and a few various small components (e.g. resistors and LEDs). An interesting feature of the DIY cup camera...
Street photography is one of the most difficult forms of photography out there. Not only do you have to rapidly compose, frame, and approach strangers, but you have to do so with the risk of “injury.” They might injure you verbally (threaten to break your camera, give you a dirty look and call you a creep, or curse at you) or they might injure you physically (try to grab your camera, hit you, shove you, etc). Of course these fears are legitimate fears. After all, we are in a society in which taking a photograph of a stranger (without their permission) is totally taboo. Most people are...
A Post By: Jim Hamel I like shooting all manner of outdoor scenes. I am a sucker for landscapes and seascapes, which almost always require a wide-angle lens. I really enjoy exploring new cities with my camera, which also requires a wide-angle lens but can also be helped by a little zoom to capture details. And, of course, I like taking pictures of my family while we are out, which requires portrait focal lengths. My favorite lens, the Canon 24-105mm f/4 does all these things, and does them remarkably well. A wide angle allows you to get right behind your subject and also get the background....
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Whew it’s been a while since I actually wrote a tutorial here on dPS so I thought it was time. Some of my most popular articles are about portrait lighting patterns and other aspects of creating great portraits. In this article I want to give you a few tips to help you take better portraits on location, flatter your subjects and make sure you are all happy with the final results. My models for this article are my Nicaraguan friend Luis and his fiancé Sonia. He’s been a great help to us on our tours here and has become a good friend so this was win/win for us as...
A Post By: Darren Rowse Today’s deal is perfect for those of you wanting to awaken your creative genius and create some art with your images. It is 70% off the Photoshop Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition course. We offered this course on our sister site – SnapnDeals – earlier this year and it ended up being our most popular deal of the year, so we convinced it’s creator – Sebastian Michaels – to bring it back for dPS readers today. The best thing you can do to learn what this course is about is to head over to the sales page where Sebastian has created a great video run down of what the...
Canon shooters have a bit of 400mm excitement right now. The biggest news, of course, is the release of the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS II lens, replacing the original version that’s had a very long, successful run. Not quite so much excitement was generated by the release of the 400mm f/4 DO IS II lens. It too replaces a long running lens, but one that has been considered more of a niche lens. (I’ll admit, though, it’s been one of my favorite niches. I used the 400mm DO a lot over the years.) Most surprisingly, neither lens was released at a huge price increase. The new DO II lists for...
When Facebook agreed to acquire Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock back in April 2012, the world balked at the price. Instagram was only a 17-month-old company at the time that had just launched on Android, and there was no income on the horizon. Well, fast forward two years, and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks like a genius for making the deal: Instagram is estimated to be worth $35 billion now. The figure comes from a report released by Citigroup today. Using “conservative assumptions about growth and monetization,” analysts estimated that Instagram is worth...
Planning to purchase a Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4D lens? You might want to hold off for now: Nikon is rumored to have a replacement to that lens ready for a near-future launch.Nikon Rumors is hearing that Nikon will soon unveil its new (and long rumored) Nikkor AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4 VR lens. It will reportedly feature nano and flourine coating on the glass, a “very lightweight” body, a minimum focusing distance of 1.4 meters, a 77mm filter size, and a tripod collar that’s sold separately from the lens. If price is a big factor, though, you might want to go for the current ~$1,360...
Bristol, England-based photographer Peter Thorpe has a special treat for his clients every holiday season. For the past 20 years, he has sent hilarious promo Christmas cards featuring his dogs as different animals in elaborate handmade scenes. What’s interesting about Thorpe’s images is that, through the years, he has continued to create the scenes using sets and props rather than digital trickery in Photoshop. Here’s a collection of photos that have appeared on his cards over the years: As a bonus, here are some behind-the-scenes shots showing how elaborate the sets and props have...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Well it’s that time of the year again. We spend days cooking and preparing for the big feast, then we stuff ourselves and retire to the sofa. Yup it’s holiday time. By Grant Frederiksen Whichever religion or faith you practice, and wherever you live – there is likely some sort of festivities going on this month. I’m spending the holidays in Nicaragua so it will be very different that back home in Canada with my family. I’m sure we’ll have a big meal but it may not be the traditional turkey with all the trimmings – it could look like grilled meat of some kind...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt With the holiday season upon us that also means big family gatherings and festive meals. Food photography is a great way to capture some of the festivities and color of the season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Omisoka or something else – likely it involves food. Enjoy this set of holiday food photos to help you get in the mood or maybe even get some menu or photo ideas or both! Dream House by Siggi B on 500px Christmas tiramisu by Darius Dzinnik on 500px Untitled by Julia Hernandez on 500px x mas cocktail by Peter Harasty on...
A Post By: Darren Rowse I can’t believe we’re at day 7 in our 12 days of Christmas! Deal 7 this year is perfect for those of you who secretly dream of making money from their photography. If that’s you – today we’re offering a 60% saving on our ‘Going Pro’ kit. Bundled in this kit are: Going Pro: How To Make Money From Your Photography, 91 pages of first-hand experience to help you sell your images the way you want, by experienced magazine photo editor Kelly Kingman. 2 hours of Audio downloads of interviews with pro photography experts Susannah Conway, Charles Borst, Suzanne Sease, and...
Flickr has apologized to users upset over its Creative Commons-licensed print options. Effective immediately, all CC images have been removed from its Wall Art printing service. Users are still able to order prints of their own images, photos provided by Flickr’s own licensed artists and photographers who have requested their images be included. This change follows backlash over the company’s decision to include Creative Commons-licensed images in its Wall Art printing service. Upon launch, users could only order prints of their own hosted photographs. Soon...
If you’re the proud owner of a Fujifilm X-T1, X-E2, X-E1, and X-Pro1, here’s an early present for you this holiday season: Fujifilm has released firmware updates that add some pretty big new features your camera. All four cameras have been given a new AF+MF function that offers seamless manual focusing. Half press to autofocus, and then you’ll be able to fine-tune the focus using the manual focus ring. That’s the only update to the X-Pro1 and X-E1. The X-E2 receives a bit more: it gets a new Classic Chrome film simulation that provides a new look to your photos. There’s also a new...
Flickr is apologizing for its decision to sell Creative Commons photos as wall art. The images have been pulled, and all sales made with CC photos will be refunded. In a message posted today to the Flickr blog titled “An Update on Flickr Wall Art,” Flickr head honcho Bernardo Hernandez apologizes for the program saying, “We’re sorry we let some of you down.” Flickr began selling Creative Commons photos through the Wall Art feature on November 20th. They soon began receiving criticism for selling photographers’ work for profit without compensating the photographers. This only applied...
Photographers Chris Limbrick and Francesco Fragomeni both work for the website hosting company Squarespace. During times in which they’re not hard at work, the duo has been shooting a lighthearted photo project called foolsdoart. Each photograph is a recreation of a famous painting with Limbrick and Fragomeni as the subjects and with their office as the stage. “All of the painting remixes are done at the Squarespace office in NYC,” the project says. “The only rules are that all props must be things found in the office and all editing must be done on a phone.” Here are some of the...
There have been a few film versus digital articles here and there on the interwebs, but seems like very few have approached the subject in a scientific fashion or with the advice of both film and digital experts. However, with the help of Joe Cornish (a landscape photographer who made his living shooting on medium and large format but now shoots Phase One IQ280s), Chris Ireland (who sells Phase One cameras), and myself, Tim Parkin, (I shoot film and run a drum scanning service), a definitive test was born. The first part of the test compared large/medium format film with medium format...
500px released a major update to its iOS app today. Users can now take advantage of an in-app camera and editing tools powered by Adobe Lightroom technologies. The new built-in camera has controls for manually adjusting focus and exposure, and allows users to snap, edit, and share their photos through 500px without having to leave the app. There’s also a new suite of editing tools with Adobe Lightroom code behind them. They include adjustments for exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, vibrance, temperature, tint, sharpening, and noise reduction. A Photo Import feature now...
A Post By: Laura Babb Seven Things You’ll Wish You Knew Before Turning Pro Do you remember your first job? Your first, proper, grown up full-time job. You probably walked in on your first day, not really having much of a clue about what was expected from you. Your manager probably sighed to themselves at the thought of moulding your young, inexperienced self into a viable member of the workforce. It probably took time but with some guidance, a bit of a learning curve, and probably a few mistakes along the way, you made it. Now replicate that situation, but imagine you don’t have a manager,...
A Post By: Martin Bailey My winter wildlife photography tours and workshops put us in locations with lots of snow on the ground, which presents a new issue for most people – how to get good exposure without continuously messing around with exposure compensation. You have to tell the camera to brighten your images by up to two stops of exposure to make whites white, because the meter in your camera wants everything to be a mid-tone gray. For example, here is a photograph of one of our main subjects, the Japanese Red-Crowned Crane (above, left). It’s a predominantly white bird on a snowy white...
A Post By: Darren Rowse Todays deal is epic. It gives you access to the teaching of some of the world’s best photography educators for a whole year for just a few cents per day. What better way to head into 2015! In a nutshell today’s deal is that we’ll give you access to KelbyOne for a full year for $189 – $60 off the regular price. This works out to a be a full year of photography training for just 55 cents per day. KelbyOne was founded by best selling author, online personality and pro photographer Scott Kelby and it brings together 80 photography instructors who have put together...
Hello. My name’s Tom. After two years of tinkering around with DSLR photography, I believe that I may have passed an important milestone and successfully made the transition from amateur to enthusiast. I am by no means great, but I am aware of how great I’m not, which I’m told is a significant step. I’d like to share a few tips that I’ve learned. I think a lot of the advice that gets passed around on the Web is between amateurs and seasoned professionals, so there’s an inevitable gulf in empathy. I guess what I wanted to do was help out those who are brand-spanking new to the game,...
Canon will be launching a new high megapixel DSLR sometime in 2015. The camera will reportedly offer a resolution of somewhere around 50 megapixels, and the body shape will not be of the EOS-1 style with a built-in vertical grip. This latest information comes from Canon Rumors, which writes that, due to the body shape of the camera, we will likely see a sub-$4,000 price tag on the camera. This report confirms the rumored launch year and resolution, but there are other details that have not been confirmed yet. One of the big ones is that the new camera will mark the start of a new...
Reporters all over the world are digging for nuggets in documents that were leaked in Sony’s hacking. Here’s one of the interesting finds: back in March, Snapchat secretly purchased a company that builds stealthy camera glasses.Business Insider reports that the documents show an acquisition price of $15 million ($11M in cash and $4M in stock) for the startup company called Vergence Labs. The company is behind a product called Epiphany Eyewear, which sells a stylish frame with a camera built in. The frames allow users to begin recording 720p video footage by pressing a button on the...
Samsung has launched a clever new marketing campaign to promote its tiny NX Mini mirrorless camera. The ads imagine a few famous self-portrait paintings as a result of selfies captured with the company’s camera. But the camera’s 3-inch flip-up LCD screen and interchangeable lenses are too good to be used for “selfies,” the ad says. It’s for “self-portraits.” The ads show the creation of self-portraits by Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, and Albrecht Dürer. (via Ads Of the World via Photoblog.hk) Source Article from...
A Post By: Nancy Young Photography has never been as popular as it is today. People of all ages learn photography in various schools and online universities, and lots of talented photographers have a wonderful opportunity to reveal themselves not only as artists, but also as teachers. By Alex Eylar Like all creatives, photographers can sometimes experience creative block or a lack of interesting ideas, no matter what side of the school desk they are sitting on. One way for photography mentors and teachers to fight this problem is through the use of creative assignments. In this article I’ve...
A Post By: Nick Fancher Implementing water into a shoot ratchets up the drama in the images but also the difficulty in the execution. I equate the learning curve of lighting water to learning how to light metal objects and other reflective surfaces. It’s not a quick learn, so be patient with yourself. Rain puddles are awesome. I bet you never thought to run out after it rained to hunt for decent puddles. But as you can see in the image below, that’s exactly what I was working with. Since the product I was shooting was a cologne bottle, which is rather small, the puddle didn’t need to be very...
A Post By: Darren Rowse On the 5th day of Christmas dPS gave to me… another amazing $7 eBook and bundle option! Yesterday saw our servers pushed to their limit with a $7 USD eBook deal so today we’ve decided to roll our best selling eBooks of all time at that sweet price of… $7. That eBook is… Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool by renowned travel photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich. Natural Light is one of the best guides on the market written specifically with beginner to intermediate photographers in mind. Written in easy to understand language, this eBook will...
Camera bag manufacturer Think Tank Photo has announced that it will be introducing a backpack designed specifically for photographers using Phantom Quadcopters paired with GoPro cameras. The Airport Helipak is said to be able to accommodate DJI Phantom 2, Phantom 2 Vision or similar quadcopters with their accessories, along with a 15-inch laptop, small cameras, such as GoPros, and personal effects. The company says that it will have external dimensions of 14″x20.5″x9″ (35.6×52.1×22.9cm) and will thus comply with carry-on bag regulations for...
Stumped for a gift for your favorite photographer? Or maybe you came in under budget on your holiday shopping and you have just enough left over for a little something for yourself? Either way, we’ve got some suggestions. Our holiday gift guides cover gifts in three categories – $25-100, $100-500, $500 and up – to help you find the right present with the right price. Whether it’s the perfect gift you’re after, you’re looking to make your own holiday a little brighter, take a look at our 2014 holiday gift guide. Read our 2014 Holiday...
Canon Digital Photo Professional 4 was introduced in June 2014. Canon has updated its Digital Photo Professional 4 (DPP) software to version 4.1.50. The update brings support for a couple of new lenses and several camera models, improvements to multiple functions, and compatibility with 64-bit native environments, among other things. The newest version, says Canon, incorporates feedback from both APS-C and older full-frame owners eager for ‘the very latest Raw workflow solution’. Version 4.1.50 adds support for both the EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM and EF 100-400mm...
The Tower of David in the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas is an unfinished skyscraper and the third tallest building in the country. The construction of the tower came to an abrupt halt in 1994 due to the Venezuelan banking crisis, and it was quickly taken over by squatters. Thus, for years the building was known as the “tallest slum in the world.” 24-year-old photographer Alejandro Cegarra spent time with the residents and documented their way of life through images. The resulting project is titled, “The Other Side of the Tower.” The Tower of David rises 640 feet off the ground...
Heads up: there are fake Nikon D800E DSLRs floating around. That’s according to Nikon Europe, which posted a notice “regarding fraudulent Nikon D800E digital SLR.” Apparently some unscrupulous folk are taking the D800, replacing its outer shell with the D800E cover, and selling the fake cameras through online auction sites (presumably eBay). Nikon says that it discovered the problem when D800E owners sent their cameras in for repair. After examining the cameras, the technicians discovered that they were simply D800 DSLRs with their covers swapped with the D800E. Nikon’s warranty does...
In a show of solidarity with photojournalists who are seeing their jobs disappear, some reporters in the UK are resolving to not take assignments that should go to professional photographers. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), a union comprising 38,000 journalists in the UK and Ireland, published a news story yesterday titled, “Reporters take stand over cuts to photographers’ jobs.” The union reports that one of its chapels (Stourbridge Newsquest) has “resolved not to accept assignments which would normally be given to professional photographers.” “Other [NUJ] chapels are...
Here’s a short clip from the Smithsonian Channel‘s series “Hunt for the Super Predator.” It shows an encounter a team of photographers and scientists had with killer whales at Bremer Canyon off the coast of Western Australia. Using a special camera rig he designed, wildlife cameraman David Riggs shot some amazing underwater footage of killer whales that looks too good to be true (you can find it at 1:35 in the video). The custom tow camera system captured killer whales chasing the boat and playing underwater. Apparently the footage is so amazing that many people are questioning...
Instagram today announced that it has added five new photo filters to its enormously popular app. The filter selection process has also been revamped in order to make it easier to use. The new photo filters are designed to “soften and subtly shift colors to achieve the look and feel you want for your each photo.” Their names are: Slumber, Crema, Ludwig, Aden and Perpetua. The filter selection bar now features blurred previews of your actual photo with the filter’s effect applied, providing you with a better idea of what you’ll get before you apply the filter. A new “Manage” button...
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December 17, 2014
A global download site supporting 43 languages from which imaging product manuals and software can be downloaded
TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce its launch of Download Center on December 17, 2014. Download Center is a global download site that offers software and manuals for Nikon digital cameras and related products.
Download Center consolidates and offers downloads of Nikon software and product documentation previously available from the websites administered...
A Post By: Samantha Decker A challenging nighttime scene was overcome with multiple exposures and layer masking. Blending indoors and outdoors in architectural photography can often create a compelling image. Unfortunately, however, it is often fraught with exposure and white balance issues. These issues are compounded at night, when artificial lights inside buildings coupled with the darkness of the night sky create an especially contrasty image with an unattractive colorcast created by the different light sources. Luckily, with multiple exposures and layer masking in Photoshop, you can...
A Post By: Ken Lyons Can you use micro four thirds or other mirrorless cameras to photograph motorsports? Well, the answer is a resounding YES, but with some caveats. You can certainly make good and interesting images using any camera at a motorsport event. All of the images in this article were made with either a Fujifilm X100S or an Olympus OMD EM-5 and two lenses – the m.Zuiko 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 and the m.Zuiko 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II. Planning Perhaps one of the most important things to consider when you intend to photograph motorsports with a micro four thirds camera is the pre-planning...
A Post By: Darren Rowse Today we’re rolling out a deal that our team are very excited about – our best selling Portrait eBooks are just $7 each for the next 24 hours! Over the last couple of years we’ve worked with talented Aussie portrait photographer – Gina Milicia – to put together this comprehensive library of portrait eBooks. There are four in the series that cover everything from taking your shots, lighting your subject, posing your subject through to processing your portraits. Every time we’ve added to the series we’ve seen them push our servers to the limits so tonight we’re a little...
ProGearX has announced the availability of several new accessories for mounting GoPro action cameras to a variety of surfaces. Among the new accessories is an extendable pole, body mounts, and a kit for mounting the action cam on different sports boards. The accessories are available now, and ProGearX will be showcasing them during the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show next month. The Universal Board Kit allows a GoPro to be attached to paddle boards, surfboards, kayaks, and other similar gear, and is priced at $34.95. The other four accessories include a Shoulder &...
Photos for Life is a “charity photo bank” where all the stock photos are created by cancer patients and survivors and for other cancer patients. Each of the models you see in the images was personally affected by cancer in their own lives. “They love their lives and want to show it to the world!” the website says. Image categories found on the site include sport, hobby, career, friendship, nature, relax, and family. Prices range from $8 for non-commercial use up to $850 for use in an advertising package. Here are a few sample photographs offered by the service: Here’s how Photos for...
Lens and camera body caps aren’t usually very informative or personalized, and LenzBuddy wants to change that. The Dallas, Texas-based business sells custom lens caps that help photographers both add branding to their gear and find lenses in their bags more quickly. Founder and photographer Brian Herbert came up with the idea for the business back in the summer of 2012 when he was digging through his camera bag. He was using a permanent market and masking tape to label his equipment, but wondered if there was a better solution. Thus, LenzBuddy was born. The lens caps are designed to...
Joel Snow was visiting a flea market in Colorado this past October when he came across a box with several packets of old negatives at the bottom. After digitizing them, Snow realized that it was a fascinating collection of old photos from the early part of the 20th century. Many of the photos appeared to have been taken in Mexico, and some of the shots appear to show soldiers during the 1916 Punitive Expedition to Mexico. Here are some of the photographs discovered in the box: Snow is sharing his find through a new website called Vintage Photo Finds. He’s also sharing a portion of the...
Back in September of this year, Olympus announced that it would be trying its hand at “lens cameras” with a new “Open Platform” project. The goal is to create a camera module that features a sensor, a lens mount, and wireless pairing with a smartphone. Early illustrations showed a cube-like camera, but Olympus is now showing off a new rounded prototype that looks a lot more like a lens than it does a camera. According to 43 Rumors, which received the photos below from a tipster named Alvin, the gadget was being exhibited at an electronics event in Tokyo: As you can see from the shot...
Griffin Lamb is a 19-year-old freelance photographer based out of Seattle, Washington. On weekends Lamb goes on adventures, hiking and backpacking in the great outdoors with his friends. Over the years, he has built up quite an impressive portfolio of breathtaking landscape photographs that capture the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Lamb tells us that he shoots with a Canon 6D and a 17-40mm f/4 lens at f/8 “in order to get as much in focus as possible.” Resulting photos are processed in Lightroom 5 and VSCO Film (usually the 01 series). Here are some of the landscape photographs...
A Post By: Peter West Carey Flickr/Crystian Cruz Barely a day goes by when I don’t see a tweet or Facebook post about yet another photo contest I must enter. “Big prizes! Fame! Exposure! Magazine Cover!” they yell out at me and I’m often tempted for various reasons. On the surface, most contests seem like a good idea given the potential upside. However, there are many aspects to any contest which photographers should consider. Those considerations will depend upon where you are along the photography spectrum, from beginner to advanced professional. When I look at a photo contest more...
A Post By: Joel Dryer When was the last time you did not primarily light your scene using a large soft source, such as a soft box or umbrella? Large soft sources easily create a beautiful, wrap-around quality of light. Just pop one up and you have instant “good” light. Final image: before and after in Lightroom Though soft light is beautiful and has its place, it represents only one part of the artist’s palette. In this article we are going to dissect the lighting setup for a men’s fashion shoot, and look at how using hard light can add dramatic impact to your photographs. I think two-time...
A Post By: Darren Rowse Today is day 3 in our 12 Days of Christmas and today is all about helping you improve your post production skills with a great deal on Gavin Gough’s Lightroom Video Tutorials. The Deal For one day only you can pick up Gavin’s ‘Post-Production Lightroom Video Course’ for just $29 – that’s a saving of just over 57%. This value-packed course with 20 videos, companion eBook and some great high-res RAW files to learn with gives you step by step training in using the incredibly powerful Lightroom to help take the photos that you’ve taken to their potential. Gavin has...
There’s no doubt that JPEG is the web’s go-to image format, offering both widespread compatibility and small file sizes, but its compression artifacts and an 8-bit limitation mean it’s far from perfect. Alternative image formats have been developed that provide higher-quality compression, but nothing yet has come close to toppling JPEG thanks to its ubiquity. BPG is the latest new format to challenge it. Created by Fabrice Bellard, a developer responsible for other open-source projects, BPG stands for Better Portable Graphics and offers a number...
Travel photographers get to traverse the world in search of one-of-a-kind photo ops, so finding interesting things to capture usually isn’t a problem for them. But what if you’re limited in terms of mobility and find yourself shooting in the same locations, day after day? Things can quickly start to feel dry and “boring.” If you’re just starting out in photography and that describes how you feel about where you are, here’s a nice video that may inspire you and jump start your creativity. In it, photography instructor Mike Browne offers some advice on how to take interesting photos in...
Aerial Wallpapers is a website filled with beautiful wallpapers for your mobile device. Each of the images is a 1242×2208 pixel crop of a beautiful satellite photograph. The project is curated by João Paulo Bernardes, who searches through the Creative Commons archives of NASA and the Airbus Defense and Space. The images are sized for the iPhone 6 Plus, but they should look decent on other phones as well. Here is a sampling of what you’ll find on the site: Aerial Wallpapers (via Colossal) Source Article from...
Back in 2012, the George Eastman House released a series of six videos showing six photo processes used in the history of photography. This month, the museum re-released those six videos alongside six new ones. It’s a video series that now spans 12 videos showing major processes spanning from the Daguerreotype all the way up through digital photography. The discovery of these processes have forever changed our understanding of time. For the first time in history we could see what our ancestors looked like. Take a look behind the scenes into our world class photograph collection from...
Colorizing old black and white photographs in Photoshop has become quite a trend over the past few years, and communities of retouchers have sprung up in order to share and compare their work. One particular colorizer named Jordan Lloyd has decided to turn his hobby into a business called Dynamichrome. It specializes “in high fidelity colour reconstruction services in culture, history and entertainment.” Lloyd comes from the world of architecture, which trained his eye and Photoshop skills for the tedious process of eyeballing colors and digitally “painting” them by hand into images....
For the last 21 days I have been in Japan putting Fujifilm’s new X100T through its paces. This review will not cover every technical aspect of the X100T, but rather how it feels to shoot with it every day and how it fits in with my workflow. It is also very photo heavy. You can find pictures of the camera itself on any review site, so I’ll mostly only include work that I have produced with this camera. I’ve upgraded from the X100S, so I will also comment on the main differences and whether or not I think it may be worth upgrading. This is the 3rd release of the X100 series, and in my...
A Post By: Jim Hamel In a recent article about the LAB colorspace, I covered the basic LAB move to enhance colors. Hopefully that gave you an idea of the power of the LAB colorspace to manipulate color in Photoshop. In this article we are going to build on that a little bit. Whereas in the last article we simply used the basic LAB color move to enhance color, now we will get into color manipulation. Specifically, I will show you how to remove an unwanted color cast from your photos using LAB. In many ways doing this in LAB is simpler and more powerful than doing it in your normal color space...
A Post By: Darren Rowse It is day 2 in our 12 Days of Christmas and if you like $7 eBooks (and the popularity of yesterdays deal says you do) you’re going to LOVE this one. The Deal It’s our very own Essential Guide to Black and White Photography for just $7 It’s normally $20 so that’s a discount of 65%… but that’s not all. We’re going to throw in a bonus eBook ’10 Recipes for Amazing Black And White Photography’ which is worth $10! This eBook from renowned photographer David Nightingale launched earlier in 2014 and got some fantastic reviews. The Essential Guide to Black and White...
(Newswire, December 13th, Las Vegas) — A group of leading photographers, curators, and general taste arbiters has determined that Peter Lik’s sale of a photograph may constitute torture under the Geneva conventions. The photograph in question, an open edition of a mundane Southwestern landscape, sold recently for $6.5 million, the largest figure for a photograph in history. The sale, announced in an artistically unsanctioned press release which circumvented auction houses and was generally agreed upon as “fishy”, was conducted in conjunction with two others totaling $10 million....
Check out this crazy self-portrait photo by a guy named Timothy LaBranche. It’s a composite image showing LaBranche posing as all 100 passengers in the cabin of a passenger plane. We got in touch with LaBranche, who offers some details on how he created, “100 Tims on a Plane” (you can find a larger version here). First of all, he’s an airline employee who works for JetBlue Airways out of Houston, Texas. The idea for this photo had been brewing in his mind for months, but he didn’t have a plane stay overnight in his station until October of this year. When the opportunity arose, he...
Have a ton of old prints lying around but not enough time or energy to scan them? Since 1990, Southern California-based ScanMyPhotos has helped customers scan over 250 million physical prints. As digitizing old family photos is catching on as a trend, the company’s most popular service is something it pioneered: the USPS prepaid box deal. It’s a flat rate option for scanning large quantities of photos. Pack as many photos as you can into it, send it in, and receive digital versions of every photo. Here’s a video produced by the United States Post Office that offers a glimpse into its...
In February 2013, Hindus from around the world made a pilgrimage of faith to bathe in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. The event was called Maha Kumbh Mela, a particular festival held once every 144 years, and an estimated 100 million people visited the site over a period of days. It was likely the single largest peaceful gathering of people in the history of the world. Photographer Rufus Blackwell was on hand to shoot photographs and a time-lapse video of the festival. Here’s his award-winning video he created: Blackwell says that his goal was to create “an animated painting of...
Want to read lines into your camera while maintaining eye-contact with your lens? The Parrot is a new teleprompter system that can help you do just that. It attaches to the front of your DSLR or mirrorless camera, and is uses your smartphone for the text it reflects toward you. If you have ever tried to memorize lines for a video, then you know how challenging it can be. Teleprompters display a script in front of the camera so the actor can read their lines and maintain eye contact allowing them to connect with their audience. The Parrot measures in at 4x4x3-inches, and weighs only...
A Post By: Amy Fraughton Starting a photography business can be a very exciting yet scary thing. It’s exciting to share your talents with others, yet the business can be overwhelming! By Sebastien Wiertz If you’re at all like me when I started a photography business, you are worried that you won’t make any money. Taking pictures was so much fun, but would anyone pay for my work? With a lot of blind faith I jumped in and began working towards my dream. For me that meant many late nights and long weekends, shooting as much as I could and learning as I went along. Through years of growth,...
A Post By: Adam Welch Do you want a sharp and well built lens? Of course you do. Everyone does. Think you can’t afford great glass? Think again. You may not be looking in the right place. If you’re like me, browsing through latest high-end lenses can be a little depressing. The cost of luxury grade glass can easily peak in the thousands of dollars. What if I told you that you could have excellent lenses without breaking the bank? Recently I learned about a method for retrofitting older film lenses to function with our modern cameras. The possible bad news is that these are mostly manual...
A Post By: Darren Rowse As we announced yesterday – today is Day 1 in our 12 Days of Christmas dPS promotion – and we’re kicking things off with a cracker of a deal! The Deal Today’s deal has two options: 1. 53% off Ed Verosky’s new Introduction to Close-Up and Macro Photography. Today is is yours for just $7. OR 2. Ed’s entire 9 eBook Bundle with Bonus Mini-Guide for a whopping 78% off the regular price. That’s 9 eBooks on everything from Flash Photography, to Portraiture, to the Basics of DSLR and much more. They’re all yours today for just $29 (or just $3.20 per eBook). Ed Verosky will be...
A Post By: Ed Verosky This post is by Ed Verosky whose new Macro Photography eBook is 53% off today only. Close-up and macro photography continue to be popular with shooters of all levels. Practical applications include product detail shots, food photography, and technical illustration (see image below). But the fun and artistic motivations are undeniable; flowers, insects, creative abstract, and the excitement of discovering the hidden worlds found in everyday objects. If you’ve been interested in doing some close-up and macro work, but don’t quite know how to get started, this article will...
The Colbert Report is coming to an end on TV, and The Hobbit trilogy will soon come to an end in theaters. Knowing that Stephen Colbert is a huge fan of JRR Tolkien (author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings), Entertainment Weekly invited Colbert to write a cover story about the movies and pose for a series of portraits as characters from the trilogy. He agreed. With the help of NYC-based fashion photographer Ruven Afanador, what resulted was a wonderfully lighthearted photo series in which Colbert blends seamlessly into the look of each well-known fantasy character. Here’s a...
A New York woman has been awarded $1.12 million in damages after being arrested back in 2009 while taking photographs outside a military base.The Guardian reports that in July 2009, 58-year-old Nancy Genovese was photographing a display helicopter outside the Gabreski Airport Air National Guard in Long Island for a “Support Our Troops” website. She was confronted by a deputy, who allegedly told her that he would arrest her on suspicion of terrorism to set an example for other “right wingers.” Here’s an account of what happened, according to Personal Liberty: After taking a few...
Digital picture frames often steal attention away from the photos they display — the quality and resolution on most displays don’t always do photos justice and end up detracting from the viewing experience. Depict is a new frame that wants to revolutionize the experience of displaying and viewing art digitally. It’s a giant and beautifully made frame that can display high resolution photographs in 4K. Physically, the Depict Frame measures 50-inches across diagonally and boasts a native resolution of 3,840×2,160. The border of the frame is handcrafted using American maple, and the...
Camera shake could one day be used to help track down people who record footage anonymously. Researchers say that footage captured by wearable cameras contain a “motion signature” that’s unique to the wearer — a hidden “fingerprint” of sorts.The finding comes from scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem over in Israel. They asked 34 people to wear GoPro cameras on their baseball caps, and then had the participants record video with the “hat cam.” By taking a minimum of 12 seconds of video recorded by each person and running it through a computer algorithm, the researchers...
Here’s a behind-the-scenes video in which photographer Nigel Barker talks about one of the craziest photo shoots he has been a part of: capturing models posing with real bulls in a bullring. The shoot was for America’s Next Top Model and was located at the Monumental Bullring in Barcelona, Spain. Here are a couple of the photographs that resulted from the shoot: You can find more of the final images on this Top Model website. (H/T Imaging Resource) Image credits: Photographs by Nigel Barker/America’s Next Top Model Source Article from...
A Post By: Darren Rowse It’s that time of year where we at dPS kick off our annual 12 days of Christmas campaign! This is the fifth time we’ve run this and this year we’ve got our biggest deals yet! Here’s how it works. Every day between now and Christmas we have put together a fantastic deal on some photography training products. In the coming 12 days you’ll see some of our own dPS eBooks at discounts we’ve never offered before as well as some deals from other photography sites that we’ve negotiated on your behalf. Deals this year are as high as 88% off. Each deal only lasts for 24 hours so...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In an earlier post I shared a set of some images of street art, also often referred to as graffiti. If you live an urban area or any city, than likely you have some of this type of art nearby. Graffiti artists range from ones who just seems to do vandalism, to other who are highly talented and skilled artists. Your job in this week’s photograph challenge is to seek out some street art in your area and photograph it in a manner fitting for the artwork. That could mean some grungy post-processing, a funky filter over the lens, or whatever creative idea you can...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Urban photography is a great way to get out and find some unique images, whether in your own city or abroad. Cities provide a multitude of interesting subjects. In this week’s image collection I’ve found a bunch of gritty photos of street art, also known as graffiti. In some cities like Melbourne they encourage this graffiti and businesses or the government actually sponsor the artists and provide a space to create murals and street art. Enjoy this series of grungy, gritty, street photography and art. Justin arrives by Shady ezz on 500px Street Tagging by Lin...
Sony has released a firmware update for the SLT-a77 II, its 24MP semi-pro APS-C camera. Firmware 2.00 claims improved autofocus speed in all light conditions, but notably a 2.5x improvement in low light. Also added is support for XAVC-S format full HD video recording at 60p/30p/24p (requiring a Class 10 or faster SDXC card). The firmware update is currently available for download from Sony’s support website. Download the latest Sony a77 II firmware version Source Article from...
Adobe has announced plans to acquire stock photography service Fotolia. Once the acquisition is complete, Fotolia will be offered to Adobe users as a ‘single Creative Cloud marketplace experience’, as well as a standalone service to others. Adobe will buy Fotolia for $800 million in cash, and expects the deal will be finalized in the beginning of 2015. Says Adobe, Fotolia will continue to operate independently until the transaction is complete, at which point it will be integrated into Creative Cloud. Users will then be able to find and purchase the stock...
I am not at the top. I’m not even skating the middle, but I have been doing this photography thing for a while, and there are some things I’ve learned along the way that I thought I would put out to the universe. Mainly because these things were bouncing around in my head and it’s nice to put things out there… so here they are. #1. It’s Okay to Compare …because it’s going to happen anyway. I don’t care if you’re a 14 year old who has just picked up a camera for the first time or if you’re Annie Leibovitz, you’re always going to compare yourself and your work with other people. Here’s...
Canadian camera shop The Camera Store has posted the video above naming its selections for this year’s best and worst camera gear. It’s 19-minutes long, and features hosts Chris and Jordan discussing some of camera, equipment, and trends that made a mark on 2014 in good and bad ways. Here’s a quick look at a few of the big winners and losers mentioned in the video: Best Still Camera of 2014: Sony Alpha a6000 A powerful, compact, and versatile camera that’s selling like hotcakes and leading in the mirrorless camera revolution. Runner ups: 2nd place: Pentax 645Z 3rd place: Nikon D750...
We’re a bit late this year, but here’s the latest edition of our holiday gift guide! Unlike other photography gift guides you might find this holiday season, ours is more lighthearted and geared more toward novelty gifts than serious gear. Without further ado, here’s our roundup (we’ll continue to update the list as we remember/come across new things): $5: Camera Stickers One of our very own products. You get 3 sheets containing 273 stickers total. $6: Camera Lens Case This is a camera-shaped case for your lenses. Not your camera lenses, but your contact lenses. $13: Camera Ice Cubes...
Last summer I visited Norway for the second time. I had been in Oslo once before, but that was many years ago. This time I wanted to experience the famous scenery while driving through the mountains with a camper. My travels took me from Oslo to Geiranger, Dalsnibba, Trollstigen, Ålesund and Atlanterhavsveien. This was for sure one of my best journeys so far. The idea to visit Norway actually came from a music video that I saw. I had no idea where the video was shot, but the scenery looked amazing. After doing some research, I found out that the video was shot in Geiranger and Ålesund in...
Here’s a camera-shaped case you can use to carry your lenses around — not your camera lenses, but your contact lenses. The covers snap on tightly to keep your lenses safe from dirt and scratches when they’re not in use, and the 2x3x.8-inch case is a perfect size for traveling. They can be purchased for $6 each over in the store of San Francisco-based design GAMAGO. Source Article from...
Flamingo Island: Script Writer needed for Film (2015)
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Co-filmmaker Needed! Great Opportunity!
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Director of Photographer/ Camera Operator Needed for Drama Short Film
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Two Production Assistant Wanted
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Filmmakers Worldwide Wanted
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Expressions of Interest – Budding videographers wanted?
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Congratulations Hamish Beeston, Bristol UK – PFRE Videographer Of The Year 2014
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Restaurant Menu Food Photography Using Natural Light
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A Post By: Suzi Pratt There are many ways to approach food and drink photography, from big budget shoots with food stylists and complicated lighting setups, to low budget natural lighting setups. For a formal restaurant photo shoot, which setup would you choose? I’ve had successes doing both types of photo shoots, but in this particular example, I’ll show you super low budget ways to pull off professional, tasty-looking food photos appropriate for a menu. Client Brief Based in Seattle, this client is an American restaurant going in a new direction with the hiring of a new chef and his...
Tips for Retouching a Night Photograph using Lightroom
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A Post By: Serge Ramelli I will show you an experience I had of shooting in the middle of the night after sunset without a tripod. Many monuments don’t allow you to shoot with a tripod but you still want to take a photo. The nicer light in my opinion is usually after sunset or before sunrise, so I will show you how to take and process a photo without a tripod at night. If you have a nice high vantage point to take a beautiful photo but cannot put down your tripod you will see that there is something we can do about it. The trick is you must put your camera on a timer, (use the built-in...
Deal 9: Grab Hacking Photography’s 100 Lightroom Presets for just $10 (88% Off)
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A Post By: Darren Rowse On the 9th day of Christmas dPS gave to me – the biggest discount of the year with… 88% off Hacking Photography’s mega preset deal! Yesterday Our Deal Was Big… But Today is Bigger! Yesterday we brought back a popular deal from over at SnapnDeals and the response was amazing – over 1000 of you saved 70% on a great course. Today’s deal is another of our most popular from SnapnDeals this year and it’s at the biggest discount yet – 88% off the retail price on this great presets bundle. For just $10 you’ll pick up 100 professionally-developed presets from Mike Newton over...
Starstruck: Adam Woodworth’s nighttime photography
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Adam, if you read this… thank you. Tremendous skill and compositional talent. I’m crazy envious. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/2557169178/adam-woodworth-astrophotography
This DIY ‘Patina’ Leica M2 Was Turned Green Like the Statue of Liberty
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Did you know that the Statue of Liberty started out as a dull copper color, but turned green over time due to oxidation occurring on the copper skin? The green patina (also called verdigris) can occur naturally or with human intervention on copper, brass, and bronze. Know what else is brass? The body of the Leica M2 underneath the chrome surface. Photographer Bellamy Hunt used this fact to create a custom DIY special edition of the M2, the “Patina Edition.” Did you know the Statue of Liberty was once a dull copper color? Hunt, who also blogs over at Japan Camera Hunter, studied some...
A Brief Intro to Shooting with a Rangefinder Camera
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If you’ve never picked up a rangefinder camera before and have always wondered how it differs from single-lens reflex cameras, here’s a short video that may be of interest to you. In it, photographer Craig Semetko discusses the basics of rangefinder photography — in this case he’s using a Leica M — and its advantages compared to SLRs. (H/T Leica Rumors) Source Article from...
Megatron is Not a Fan of Selfies
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Universal Studios in Hollywood recently offered guests a photo op with a performer dressed very impressively as Megatron, one of the main baddies in Transformers. It turns out Megatron is not a fan of selfies. When Alexandra Trew walked up and tried to snap one, she ended up capturing this video of the villain ranting about selfies and arguing how people need to learn to live in the moment. Here are the strangely eloquent words spoken by the giant robot: You will not receive a selfie so long as you stand before me with your ridiculous furred hoodie! When will you learn that your...
How to Make a Coffee Cup Spy Camera That Snaps a Shot When You Take a Swig
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Here’s an interesting weekend photography project of moderate technical difficulty: the video above is a tutorial on how you can make a DIY coffee cup spy camera. The camera sees out of the cup’s base and has a shutter that’s triggered whenever you lift the cup and pretend to drink from it. The build comes courtesy of tinkerer Steve Hobley over at Make. It’ll require an Arduino Uno Rev 3 microcontroller board, a JPEG camera module, an SD card shield, a Memsic 2125 accelerometer, and a few various small components (e.g. resistors and LEDs). An interesting feature of the DIY cup camera...
How to Harness Your Fear to Become a More Confident Street Photographer
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Street photography is one of the most difficult forms of photography out there. Not only do you have to rapidly compose, frame, and approach strangers, but you have to do so with the risk of “injury.” They might injure you verbally (threaten to break your camera, give you a dirty look and call you a creep, or curse at you) or they might injure you physically (try to grab your camera, hit you, shove you, etc). Of course these fears are legitimate fears. After all, we are in a society in which taking a photograph of a stranger (without their permission) is totally taboo. Most people are...
Male Models for Haircuts, Patterns and Barbering Techniques – £150!
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Miss South Auckland 2015
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Calendar Shoot Needs Urgent Models
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New Surf/Street Label Needs Face
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Variety of Exceptional Models and Actors Wanted for Various Jobs
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Writer’s Favorite Lens – The Canon 24-105mm f/4
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A Post By: Jim Hamel I like shooting all manner of outdoor scenes. I am a sucker for landscapes and seascapes, which almost always require a wide-angle lens. I really enjoy exploring new cities with my camera, which also requires a wide-angle lens but can also be helped by a little zoom to capture details. And, of course, I like taking pictures of my family while we are out, which requires portrait focal lengths. My favorite lens, the Canon 24-105mm f/4 does all these things, and does them remarkably well. A wide angle allows you to get right behind your subject and also get the background....
6 Tips for Better Portraits on Location
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Whew it’s been a while since I actually wrote a tutorial here on dPS so I thought it was time. Some of my most popular articles are about portrait lighting patterns and other aspects of creating great portraits. In this article I want to give you a few tips to help you take better portraits on location, flatter your subjects and make sure you are all happy with the final results. My models for this article are my Nicaraguan friend Luis and his fiancé Sonia. He’s been a great help to us on our tours here and has become a good friend so this was win/win for us as...
Deal 8: 70% off Photoshop Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition Course
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A Post By: Darren Rowse Today’s deal is perfect for those of you wanting to awaken your creative genius and create some art with your images. It is 70% off the Photoshop Artistry: Fine Art Grunge Composition course. We offered this course on our sister site – SnapnDeals – earlier this year and it ended up being our most popular deal of the year, so we convinced it’s creator – Sebastian Michaels – to bring it back for dPS readers today. The best thing you can do to learn what this course is about is to head over to the sales page where Sebastian has created a great video run down of what the...
National Geographic Photo Contest 2014 winners announced
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#1 is something that I’d LOVE if I had taken it. However, for a National Geographic photography winner, it’s boring. The theme itself — technology taking over our lives — is boring, and since the photo can’t survive on other attributes such as beauty or skill (e.g. the owl photo), I wonder why it wins? Again, it’s a good capture, and I’d love the photo if I had taken it myself. I do expect more from contest winners though. I’m not that great a photographer, and even I wouldn’t have felt confident submitting that photo into a competition....
A Brief Comparison of Canon 400mm Lenses, Mark I Against Mark II
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2014 |
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Canon shooters have a bit of 400mm excitement right now. The biggest news, of course, is the release of the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS II lens, replacing the original version that’s had a very long, successful run. Not quite so much excitement was generated by the release of the 400mm f/4 DO IS II lens. It too replaces a long running lens, but one that has been considered more of a niche lens. (I’ll admit, though, it’s been one of my favorite niches. I used the 400mm DO a lot over the years.) Most surprisingly, neither lens was released at a huge price increase. The new DO II lists for...
Brooklyn Street Photographer Andre D. Wagner Talks Us Through His Photographic Process
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Here’s a short, inspiring video profile of Brooklyn-based street photographer Andre D. Wagner. We’re offered a glimpse into Wagner’s mind as he talks about his process for creating images, from how he approaches photographing people on sidewalks with a Leica 35mm film rangefinder to his love of making photos with his hands in his darkroom. On his website, Wagner writes that his “love and true desire to capture his subject using traditional film is not solely based on the tangible textures and grains that’s visible in the final shot, but also the reality of shooting individuals from...
Photo Sharing is Big, Big Business: Instagram is Now Reportedly Worth $35 Billion
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When Facebook agreed to acquire Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock back in April 2012, the world balked at the price. Instagram was only a 17-month-old company at the time that had just launched on Android, and there was no income on the horizon. Well, fast forward two years, and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks like a genius for making the deal: Instagram is estimated to be worth $35 billion now. The figure comes from a report released by Citigroup today. Using “conservative assumptions about growth and monetization,” analysts estimated that Instagram is worth...
Rumor: Nikon Will Soon Unveil a New 300mm f/4 VR Lightweight Telephoto Lens
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Planning to purchase a Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4D lens? You might want to hold off for now: Nikon is rumored to have a replacement to that lens ready for a near-future launch.Nikon Rumors is hearing that Nikon will soon unveil its new (and long rumored) Nikkor AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4 VR lens. It will reportedly feature nano and flourine coating on the glass, a “very lightweight” body, a minimum focusing distance of 1.4 meters, a 77mm filter size, and a tripod collar that’s sold separately from the lens. If price is a big factor, though, you might want to go for the current ~$1,360...
This Photographer Transforms His Dog Into Different Animals Every Holiday Season
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Bristol, England-based photographer Peter Thorpe has a special treat for his clients every holiday season. For the past 20 years, he has sent hilarious promo Christmas cards featuring his dogs as different animals in elaborate handmade scenes. What’s interesting about Thorpe’s images is that, through the years, he has continued to create the scenes using sets and props rather than digital trickery in Photoshop. Here’s a collection of photos that have appeared on his cards over the years: As a bonus, here are some behind-the-scenes shots showing how elaborate the sets and props have...
Cartoon Designer Required for Illustration
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Camera and Editing Crew Required for Film Trailer
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Sound and Helper Member Needed
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Photographer Wanted for Beauty Shoot
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Real Estate Photographers Must Educate Their Clients About Photo Licensing
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Weekly Photography Challenge – Festive Food
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Well it’s that time of the year again. We spend days cooking and preparing for the big feast, then we stuff ourselves and retire to the sofa. Yup it’s holiday time. By Grant Frederiksen Whichever religion or faith you practice, and wherever you live – there is likely some sort of festivities going on this month. I’m spending the holidays in Nicaragua so it will be very different that back home in Canada with my family. I’m sure we’ll have a big meal but it may not be the traditional turkey with all the trimmings – it could look like grilled meat of some kind...
25 Mouthwatering Holiday Food Photos to Wet Your Appetite
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt With the holiday season upon us that also means big family gatherings and festive meals. Food photography is a great way to capture some of the festivities and color of the season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Omisoka or something else – likely it involves food. Enjoy this set of holiday food photos to help you get in the mood or maybe even get some menu or photo ideas or both! Dream House by Siggi B on 500px Christmas tiramisu by Darius Dzinnik on 500px Untitled by Julia Hernandez on 500px x mas cocktail by Peter Harasty on...
Deal 7: Save 60% On our ‘Going Pro’ eBook
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse I can’t believe we’re at day 7 in our 12 days of Christmas! Deal 7 this year is perfect for those of you who secretly dream of making money from their photography. If that’s you – today we’re offering a 60% saving on our ‘Going Pro’ kit. Bundled in this kit are: Going Pro: How To Make Money From Your Photography, 91 pages of first-hand experience to help you sell your images the way you want, by experienced magazine photo editor Kelly Kingman. 2 hours of Audio downloads of interviews with pro photography experts Susannah Conway, Charles Borst, Suzanne Sease, and...
Gold Standard: Nikon D750 review posted
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2014 |
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Very impressive camera indeed! Well done DPR – you’ve earned a few days of rest now 😉 One thing that surprized me is the lack of mention of the lack of a touchscreen (TS). I know many will at this point want to reply that TSs are useless and even call it a plus that the D750 (like all other FF DSLRs?) doesn’t have one, but (1) you can disable them; (2) if well implemented like on the Eos 70D I have, it’s amazing how natural it comes to use them and operate the camera more quickly, esp when shooting on a tripod. Before I had a TS, I never thought I’d use it much...
Flickr Wall Art removes Creative Commons prints
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Dec, 2014 |
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Flickr has apologized to users upset over its Creative Commons-licensed print options. Effective immediately, all CC images have been removed from its Wall Art printing service. Users are still able to order prints of their own images, photos provided by Flickr’s own licensed artists and photographers who have requested their images be included. This change follows backlash over the company’s decision to include Creative Commons-licensed images in its Wall Art printing service. Upon launch, users could only order prints of their own hosted photographs. Soon...
Fujifilm Firmware Updates Add Big New Features to the X-T1, X-E2, X-E1, and X-Pro1
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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If you’re the proud owner of a Fujifilm X-T1, X-E2, X-E1, and X-Pro1, here’s an early present for you this holiday season: Fujifilm has released firmware updates that add some pretty big new features your camera. All four cameras have been given a new AF+MF function that offers seamless manual focusing. Half press to autofocus, and then you’ll be able to fine-tune the focus using the manual focus ring. That’s the only update to the X-Pro1 and X-E1. The X-E2 receives a bit more: it gets a new Classic Chrome film simulation that provides a new look to your photos. There’s also a new...
Flickr Sorry for Selling Creative Commons Photos as Wall Art, Will Stop and Refund All Sales To Date
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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Flickr is apologizing for its decision to sell Creative Commons photos as wall art. The images have been pulled, and all sales made with CC photos will be refunded. In a message posted today to the Flickr blog titled “An Update on Flickr Wall Art,” Flickr head honcho Bernardo Hernandez apologizes for the program saying, “We’re sorry we let some of you down.” Flickr began selling Creative Commons photos through the Wall Art feature on November 20th. They soon began receiving criticism for selling photographers’ work for profit without compensating the photographers. This only applied...
Famous Paintings Recreated as Photos Using Things Around the Office
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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Photographers Chris Limbrick and Francesco Fragomeni both work for the website hosting company Squarespace. During times in which they’re not hard at work, the duo has been shooting a lighthearted photo project called foolsdoart. Each photograph is a recreation of a famous painting with Limbrick and Fragomeni as the subjects and with their office as the stage. “All of the painting remixes are done at the Squarespace office in NYC,” the project says. “The only rules are that all props must be things found in the office and all editing must be done on a phone.” Here are some of the...
Comparing the Image Quality of Film and Digital
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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There have been a few film versus digital articles here and there on the interwebs, but seems like very few have approached the subject in a scientific fashion or with the advice of both film and digital experts. However, with the help of Joe Cornish (a landscape photographer who made his living shooting on medium and large format but now shoots Phase One IQ280s), Chris Ireland (who sells Phase One cameras), and myself, Tim Parkin, (I shoot film and run a drum scanning service), a definitive test was born. The first part of the test compared large/medium format film with medium format...
500px iOS App Update Brings Lightroom-Powered Editing and a Built-In Camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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500px released a major update to its iOS app today. Users can now take advantage of an in-app camera and editing tools powered by Adobe Lightroom technologies. The new built-in camera has controls for manually adjusting focus and exposure, and allows users to snap, edit, and share their photos through 500px without having to leave the app. There’s also a new suite of editing tools with Adobe Lightroom code behind them. They include adjustments for exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, vibrance, temperature, tint, sharpening, and noise reduction. A Photo Import feature now...
Two Female Models for Portrait/Lingerie Studio Shoot
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Urgent WA Male Models Required for Lifestyle Apartments Shoot
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Two Promo Girls Needed to Support Grand Opening
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Models Required for Several Projects
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Videomaker for Video Recording of Monologue in London
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Creative Writer Required
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Studio Engineer Needed Asap
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Sound Person Needed ASAP
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Camera Operator for Youtube Content Based in Manchester
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Experienced Wedding Photographer 23.05.2015/Folkstone
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How should Real Estate Photographers Handle Christmas Trees and Other Holiday Decorations?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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7 Things You’ll Want to Know Before Turning Pro
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Laura Babb Seven Things You’ll Wish You Knew Before Turning Pro Do you remember your first job? Your first, proper, grown up full-time job. You probably walked in on your first day, not really having much of a clue about what was expected from you. Your manager probably sighed to themselves at the thought of moulding your young, inexperienced self into a viable member of the workforce. It probably took time but with some guidance, a bit of a learning curve, and probably a few mistakes along the way, you made it. Now replicate that situation, but imagine you don’t have a manager,...
Why Manual Exposure is Better for Winter Wildlife Photography?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Martin Bailey My winter wildlife photography tours and workshops put us in locations with lots of snow on the ground, which presents a new issue for most people – how to get good exposure without continuously messing around with exposure compensation. You have to tell the camera to brighten your images by up to two stops of exposure to make whites white, because the meter in your camera wants everything to be a mid-tone gray. For example, here is a photograph of one of our main subjects, the Japanese Red-Crowned Crane (above, left). It’s a predominantly white bird on a snowy white...
Get Access to Hundreds of Photography Courses for Just 55 Cents per Day
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse Todays deal is epic. It gives you access to the teaching of some of the world’s best photography educators for a whole year for just a few cents per day. What better way to head into 2015! In a nutshell today’s deal is that we’ll give you access to KelbyOne for a full year for $189 – $60 off the regular price. This works out to a be a full year of photography training for just 55 cents per day. KelbyOne was founded by best selling author, online personality and pro photographer Scott Kelby and it brings together 80 photography instructors who have put together...
Leica issues T (Typ 701) firmware update
Posted by Chris Roubis on 19th, Dec, 2014 |
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You know that the X-Pro 1 debuted at the same price, that the X-T1 sells for almost the same price in certain places, etc. and so on. Mirrorless is expensive. Leica have a name, a history, and a target customer. Most other companies compete solely on technology, and losing that edge, have nothing to sell because they have no target customer in mind besides: everyone on the planet and more and more sales. To be number 1! And to do that, they have to sell cheap and bristle with ‘features’. There is nothing good about that system. It has leaked too far here in Japan where you...
My Top 10 Tips for a Brand New Photographer, From a Slightly-Not-So Brand New One
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Hello. My name’s Tom. After two years of tinkering around with DSLR photography, I believe that I may have passed an important milestone and successfully made the transition from amateur to enthusiast. I am by no means great, but I am aware of how great I’m not, which I’m told is a significant step. I’d like to share a few tips that I’ve learned. I think a lot of the advice that gets passed around on the Web is between amateurs and seasoned professionals, so there’s an inevitable gulf in empathy. I guess what I wanted to do was help out those who are brand-spanking new to the game,...
High Megapixel Canon DSLR Will Arrive in 2015, Will Likely Cost Less Than $4,000
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Canon will be launching a new high megapixel DSLR sometime in 2015. The camera will reportedly offer a resolution of somewhere around 50 megapixels, and the body shape will not be of the EOS-1 style with a built-in vertical grip. This latest information comes from Canon Rumors, which writes that, due to the body shape of the camera, we will likely see a sub-$4,000 price tag on the camera. This report confirms the rumored launch year and resolution, but there are other details that have not been confirmed yet. One of the big ones is that the new camera will mark the start of a new...
Snapchat Quietly Acquired a Company That Makes Stealthy Camera Glasses
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Reporters all over the world are digging for nuggets in documents that were leaked in Sony’s hacking. Here’s one of the interesting finds: back in March, Snapchat secretly purchased a company that builds stealthy camera glasses.Business Insider reports that the documents show an acquisition price of $15 million ($11M in cash and $4M in stock) for the startup company called Vergence Labs. The company is behind a product called Epiphany Eyewear, which sells a stylish frame with a camera built in. The frames allow users to begin recording 720p video footage by pressing a button on the...
Focus Breathing: When Focusing Your Lens Changes Your Composition
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Here’s a term that most of you have probably experienced before, but some of you may never have heard before. It’s called “focus breathing” (or simply “breathing“), and it refers to the shift in angle of view that often occurs when you focus a lens. If you’ve ever carefully composed a shot, refocused, and then discovered that your composition changed, you’ve been a victim of focus breathing. In the video above, photographer Matt Granger offers an explanation of the term and a demonstration of its effects using the “holy trinity” of Nikon zoom lenses. “Even the crème de la crème do...
Samsung Camera Ads Imagine Famous Self-Portrait Paintings as the Result of Selfies
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Samsung has launched a clever new marketing campaign to promote its tiny NX Mini mirrorless camera. The ads imagine a few famous self-portrait paintings as a result of selfies captured with the company’s camera. But the camera’s 3-inch flip-up LCD screen and interchangeable lenses are too good to be used for “selfies,” the ad says. It’s for “self-portraits.” The ads show the creation of self-portraits by Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, and Albrecht Dürer. (via Ads Of the World via Photoblog.hk) Source Article from...
URGENT TALENT Chinese – Looking for Shoot Mon/Tues TBC
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Alcohol Sampling Job
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Model Needed Tomorrow – TFP
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Photographer Wanted for Swimwear Photo Shoot
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Call for Producer, Melbourne, Victoria
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Photographer Wanted for a Photo Shoot (Editorial/Beauty)
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Photographer Wanted for a Collaboration Shoot
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Dancers, Entertainer, Cameraman and Makeup Artist Required for an Event
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Looking for a Photographer in Brighton –
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Getting Started In Real Estate Photography
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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15 Project Ideas to Spark Your Creativity
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A Post By: Nancy Young Photography has never been as popular as it is today. People of all ages learn photography in various schools and online universities, and lots of talented photographers have a wonderful opportunity to reveal themselves not only as artists, but also as teachers. By Alex Eylar Like all creatives, photographers can sometimes experience creative block or a lack of interesting ideas, no matter what side of the school desk they are sitting on. One way for photography mentors and teachers to fight this problem is through the use of creative assignments. In this article I’ve...
Using Rain Puddles to Create Unique Reflection Photos
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Nick Fancher Implementing water into a shoot ratchets up the drama in the images but also the difficulty in the execution. I equate the learning curve of lighting water to learning how to light metal objects and other reflective surfaces. It’s not a quick learn, so be patient with yourself. Rain puddles are awesome. I bet you never thought to run out after it rained to hunt for decent puddles. But as you can see in the image below, that’s exactly what I was working with. Since the product I was shooting was a cologne bottle, which is rather small, the puddle didn’t need to be very...
Deal 5: Your Guide to Natural Light Photography for $7 (65% off)
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse On the 5th day of Christmas dPS gave to me… another amazing $7 eBook and bundle option! Yesterday saw our servers pushed to their limit with a $7 USD eBook deal so today we’ve decided to roll our best selling eBooks of all time at that sweet price of… $7. That eBook is… Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool by renowned travel photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich. Natural Light is one of the best guides on the market written specifically with beginner to intermediate photographers in mind. Written in easy to understand language, this eBook will...
Think Tank launches Airport Helipak for Phantom Quadcopter
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Camera bag manufacturer Think Tank Photo has announced that it will be introducing a backpack designed specifically for photographers using Phantom Quadcopters paired with GoPro cameras. The Airport Helipak is said to be able to accommodate DJI Phantom 2, Phantom 2 Vision or similar quadcopters with their accessories, along with a 15-inch laptop, small cameras, such as GoPros, and personal effects. The company says that it will have external dimensions of 14″x20.5″x9″ (35.6×52.1×22.9cm) and will thus comply with carry-on bag regulations for...
2014 Holiday Gift Guides
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Stumped for a gift for your favorite photographer? Or maybe you came in under budget on your holiday shopping and you have just enough left over for a little something for yourself? Either way, we’ve got some suggestions. Our holiday gift guides cover gifts in three categories – $25-100, $100-500, $500 and up – to help you find the right present with the right price. Whether it’s the perfect gift you’re after, you’re looking to make your own holiday a little brighter, take a look at our 2014 holiday gift guide. Read our 2014 Holiday...
Canon updates Digital Photo Professional to version 4.1.50
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Canon Digital Photo Professional 4 was introduced in June 2014. Canon has updated its Digital Photo Professional 4 (DPP) software to version 4.1.50. The update brings support for a couple of new lenses and several camera models, improvements to multiple functions, and compatibility with 64-bit native environments, among other things. The newest version, says Canon, incorporates feedback from both APS-C and older full-frame owners eager for ‘the very latest Raw workflow solution’. Version 4.1.50 adds support for both the EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM and EF 100-400mm...
2014 Holiday Gift Guide: $500 and up
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type-oThe gift of gigantic storage capacity is loving permission for the photographer in your live to shoot change to The gift of gigantic storage capacity is loving permission for the photographer in your life to shoot Also logic error. Implied strongly is that you get 12tb of storage AND raid protection. If you choose 12tb, you get NO protection and in fact raise your probability of an error by a ^2 since in a stripe set the entire data set is lost if either disk goes down. So you get 12TB of storage in a high risk configuration or 6tb with data protected in a mirror (raid). Source Article...
2014 Holiday Gift Guide: $25-100
Posted by Chris Roubis on 18th, Dec, 2014 |
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Great list! A few nit picks: Re: protection filters, your recipient probably already falls into one of two camps: they like them and use them religiously, or they think that they’re going to mess with the image quality and wouldn’t touch one with a ten foot pole. I doubt there are many who will spend a grand on a lens and sit around pining for the $80 filter that will go on it. My bigger concern is with the flashlight sporting a crenelated strike bezel. Anything intended to maim an attacker is also going to wreak havoc on things like lens barrels and the soft insides of a camera...
The Tower of David: Photographs Showing Life Inside the Tallest Slum in the World
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Dec, 2014 |
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The Tower of David in the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas is an unfinished skyscraper and the third tallest building in the country. The construction of the tower came to an abrupt halt in 1994 due to the Venezuelan banking crisis, and it was quickly taken over by squatters. Thus, for years the building was known as the “tallest slum in the world.” 24-year-old photographer Alejandro Cegarra spent time with the residents and documented their way of life through images. The resulting project is titled, “The Other Side of the Tower.” The Tower of David rises 640 feet off the ground...
Nikon Warns That There Are Fake D800E DSLRs Out in the Wild
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Dec, 2014 |
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Heads up: there are fake Nikon D800E DSLRs floating around. That’s according to Nikon Europe, which posted a notice “regarding fraudulent Nikon D800E digital SLR.” Apparently some unscrupulous folk are taking the D800, replacing its outer shell with the D800E cover, and selling the fake cameras through online auction sites (presumably eBay). Nikon says that it discovered the problem when D800E owners sent their cameras in for repair. After examining the cameras, the technicians discovered that they were simply D800 DSLRs with their covers swapped with the D800E. Nikon’s warranty does...
UK Reporters Say They Won’t Take Assignments That Should Go to Pro Photographers
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Dec, 2014 |
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In a show of solidarity with photojournalists who are seeing their jobs disappear, some reporters in the UK are resolving to not take assignments that should go to professional photographers. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), a union comprising 38,000 journalists in the UK and Ireland, published a news story yesterday titled, “Reporters take stand over cuts to photographers’ jobs.” The union reports that one of its chapels (Stourbridge Newsquest) has “resolved not to accept assignments which would normally be given to professional photographers.” “Other [NUJ] chapels are...
Underwater Cameras Capture Incredible Footage of Killer Whales at Play
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Here’s a short clip from the Smithsonian Channel‘s series “Hunt for the Super Predator.” It shows an encounter a team of photographers and scientists had with killer whales at Bremer Canyon off the coast of Western Australia. Using a special camera rig he designed, wildlife cameraman David Riggs shot some amazing underwater footage of killer whales that looks too good to be true (you can find it at 1:35 in the video). The custom tow camera system captured killer whales chasing the boat and playing underwater. Apparently the footage is so amazing that many people are questioning...
Instagram Adds Five New Photo Filters and Improves the Filter Selection Process
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Dec, 2014 |
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Instagram today announced that it has added five new photo filters to its enormously popular app. The filter selection process has also been revamped in order to make it easier to use. The new photo filters are designed to “soften and subtly shift colors to achieve the look and feel you want for your each photo.” Their names are: Slumber, Crema, Ludwig, Aden and Perpetua. The filter selection bar now features blurred previews of your actual photo with the filter’s effect applied, providing you with a better idea of what you’ll get before you apply the filter. A new “Manage” button...
Nikon launches its Download Center
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Fitness and Sexy Sport
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Test Photoshoot
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Female Promotional Models for Poker Night
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Voice Over Artist Required English & French
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Production Assistant Needed For This Weekend
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Crew Required for Short Film to Be Shot Near Gosford NSW
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Need a Photographer in London
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Photographers For Collaboration Beauty Shoot
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News Of Interest To Real Estate Photographers Flying or Thinking About Flying Drones
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Architectural Photography Using Layer Masking to Correct Contrast and White Balance
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A Post By: Samantha Decker A challenging nighttime scene was overcome with multiple exposures and layer masking. Blending indoors and outdoors in architectural photography can often create a compelling image. Unfortunately, however, it is often fraught with exposure and white balance issues. These issues are compounded at night, when artificial lights inside buildings coupled with the darkness of the night sky create an especially contrasty image with an unattractive colorcast created by the different light sources. Luckily, with multiple exposures and layer masking in Photoshop, you can...
Shooting Motorsports with a Micro Four Thirds Camera
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A Post By: Ken Lyons Can you use micro four thirds or other mirrorless cameras to photograph motorsports? Well, the answer is a resounding YES, but with some caveats. You can certainly make good and interesting images using any camera at a motorsport event. All of the images in this article were made with either a Fujifilm X100S or an Olympus OMD EM-5 and two lenses – the m.Zuiko 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 and the m.Zuiko 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II. Planning Perhaps one of the most important things to consider when you intend to photograph motorsports with a micro four thirds camera is the pre-planning...
Deal 4: Our Best Selling Portraits eBooks are $7 Each
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse Today we’re rolling out a deal that our team are very excited about – our best selling Portrait eBooks are just $7 each for the next 24 hours! Over the last couple of years we’ve worked with talented Aussie portrait photographer – Gina Milicia – to put together this comprehensive library of portrait eBooks. There are four in the series that cover everything from taking your shots, lighting your subject, posing your subject through to processing your portraits. Every time we’ve added to the series we’ve seen them push our servers to the limits so tonight we’re a little...
ProGearX announces new line of GoPro accessories
Posted by Chris Roubis on 17th, Dec, 2014 |
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ProGearX has announced the availability of several new accessories for mounting GoPro action cameras to a variety of surfaces. Among the new accessories is an extendable pole, body mounts, and a kit for mounting the action cam on different sports boards. The accessories are available now, and ProGearX will be showcasing them during the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show next month. The Universal Board Kit allows a GoPro to be attached to paddle boards, surfboards, kayaks, and other similar gear, and is priced at $34.95. The other four accessories include a Shoulder &...
Photos for Life: A Stock Photography Service By and For Cancer Patients and Survivors
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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Photos for Life is a “charity photo bank” where all the stock photos are created by cancer patients and survivors and for other cancer patients. Each of the models you see in the images was personally affected by cancer in their own lives. “They love their lives and want to show it to the world!” the website says. Image categories found on the site include sport, hobby, career, friendship, nature, relax, and family. Prices range from $8 for non-commercial use up to $850 for use in an advertising package. Here are a few sample photographs offered by the service: Here’s how Photos for...
LenzBuddy: Custom Lens and Body Caps for Branding and Ease of Use
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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Lens and camera body caps aren’t usually very informative or personalized, and LenzBuddy wants to change that. The Dallas, Texas-based business sells custom lens caps that help photographers both add branding to their gear and find lenses in their bags more quickly. Founder and photographer Brian Herbert came up with the idea for the business back in the summer of 2012 when he was digging through his camera bag. He was using a permanent market and masking tape to label his equipment, but wondered if there was a better solution. Thus, LenzBuddy was born. The lens caps are designed to...
Vintage Photo Finds is an Online Collection of Old Pictures Found at Flea Markets
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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Joel Snow was visiting a flea market in Colorado this past October when he came across a box with several packets of old negatives at the bottom. After digitizing them, Snow realized that it was a fascinating collection of old photos from the early part of the 20th century. Many of the photos appeared to have been taken in Mexico, and some of the shots appear to show soldiers during the 1916 Punitive Expedition to Mexico. Here are some of the photographs discovered in the box: Snow is sharing his find through a new website called Vintage Photo Finds. He’s also sharing a portion of the...
Olympus Showing Off New ‘Lens Camera’ Prototypes with a Rounded Design
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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Back in September of this year, Olympus announced that it would be trying its hand at “lens cameras” with a new “Open Platform” project. The goal is to create a camera module that features a sensor, a lens mount, and wireless pairing with a smartphone. Early illustrations showed a cube-like camera, but Olympus is now showing off a new rounded prototype that looks a lot more like a lens than it does a camera. According to 43 Rumors, which received the photos below from a tipster named Alvin, the gadget was being exhibited at an electronics event in Tokyo: As you can see from the shot...
Majestic Views of Pacific Northwest Landscapes by Photographer Griffin Lamb
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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Griffin Lamb is a 19-year-old freelance photographer based out of Seattle, Washington. On weekends Lamb goes on adventures, hiking and backpacking in the great outdoors with his friends. Over the years, he has built up quite an impressive portfolio of breathtaking landscape photographs that capture the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Lamb tells us that he shoots with a Canon 6D and a 17-40mm f/4 lens at f/8 “in order to get as much in focus as possible.” Resulting photos are processed in Lightroom 5 and VSCO Film (usually the 01 series). Here are some of the landscape photographs...
Female Models Required for Collaborating on a Urban Photo Shoot
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Model Needed for Crazy Designer Shoot
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Santa’s Little Helpers
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Male Model – Underwater Fashion Shoot
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‘Mum’ Wanted for Shoot Tomorrow – Wed 17th December
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Animator Needed for Youtube Content Based in Manchester UK
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Sound Recordist Needed for Shortfilm
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Lighting Specialist
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Urgent Production Assistants Needed for 20th Dec Shoot of Feature Film
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PFRE Blog Links To Real Estate Photography Job Opportunities
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Is The White Balance Variation Between Different Flash Brands Significant?
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How To Evaluate Photo Contests Before Submitting Your Images And Cash
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Peter West Carey Flickr/Crystian Cruz Barely a day goes by when I don’t see a tweet or Facebook post about yet another photo contest I must enter. “Big prizes! Fame! Exposure! Magazine Cover!” they yell out at me and I’m often tempted for various reasons. On the surface, most contests seem like a good idea given the potential upside. However, there are many aspects to any contest which photographers should consider. Those considerations will depend upon where you are along the photography spectrum, from beginner to advanced professional. When I look at a photo contest more...
How to Use Hard Lighting to Create a Dramatic Portrait
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Joel Dryer When was the last time you did not primarily light your scene using a large soft source, such as a soft box or umbrella? Large soft sources easily create a beautiful, wrap-around quality of light. Just pop one up and you have instant “good” light. Final image: before and after in Lightroom Though soft light is beautiful and has its place, it represents only one part of the artist’s palette. In this article we are going to dissect the lighting setup for a men’s fashion shoot, and look at how using hard light can add dramatic impact to your photographs. I think two-time...
Deal 3: Save 57% On This Fantastic Lightroom Post Production Course
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse Today is day 3 in our 12 Days of Christmas and today is all about helping you improve your post production skills with a great deal on Gavin Gough’s Lightroom Video Tutorials. The Deal For one day only you can pick up Gavin’s ‘Post-Production Lightroom Video Course’ for just $29 – that’s a saving of just over 57%. This value-packed course with 20 videos, companion eBook and some great high-res RAW files to learn with gives you step by step training in using the incredibly powerful Lightroom to help take the photos that you’ve taken to their potential. Gavin has...
Have your say in our 2014 Readers’ Polls
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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@ quezra Strange that I own one……and that I’m not the only one, that owns one: This lens has no objectionable LO CAs – wide open at F2.8: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3768138?page=2#forum-post-54918429 No objectionable coma, astigmatism – wide open, at F2.8: http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/4164548502/photos/3091860/4s-citylights Is sharp across the whole frame – wide open at F2.8 – including the edges: http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/4164548502/photos/3091712/nx1-60mm-f2-8-uncut-20mp-srw-to-dng-rawtherapee Very well build including fine...
BPG image format aims to replace JPEGs
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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There’s no doubt that JPEG is the web’s go-to image format, offering both widespread compatibility and small file sizes, but its compression artifacts and an 8-bit limitation mean it’s far from perfect. Alternative image formats have been developed that provide higher-quality compression, but nothing yet has come close to toppling JPEG thanks to its ubiquity. BPG is the latest new format to challenge it. Created by Fabrice Bellard, a developer responsible for other open-source projects, BPG stands for Better Portable Graphics and offers a number...
Have your say: Best Lens of 2014
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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I have bought three lenses in the last year, and just as others are saying the Tamron 150-600, with VR, should have been on this list. It is much better than the Tamron lens that was listed. This lens opened up a category previously reserved for lenses costing over $6000. It is a superb lens, and I was surprised it was so cheap after using it, and marveling over the image quality. It is putting out pro caliber images, attached to my Nikon D7100, that I have no problem selling. By the way, on my D7100 set to 16megs, that puts the lens crop factor at 1200mm, at F6.4. Try buying that lens for...
Have your say: Best Consumer ILC of 2014
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Well, at least not having a distinct mirror-less category allowed Nikon and Canon to keep participating. Yes, I know they both have mirror-less cameras…that most would like to forget. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/9654927030/have-your-say-best-consumer-ilc-of-2014
Have your say: Best High-end ILC of 2014
Posted by Chris Roubis on 16th, Dec, 2014 |
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My take.. 1) NX1 – cause its first and apparently very good “pro” mirrorless from Samsung, also with some edge in various things, some are future stuff even 2) 645Z – “affordable” Sony based MF camera, could be better, but its very good as it is 3) D810 – cause Nikon finally made what they should do instead D800/e .. proper replacement for D700 too Rest is sometimes interesting, sometimes not at all. Not sure why those votes for D750. Its “cheap” and? And nothing.. Source Article from...
How to Find Interesting Photographs When You’re Stuck in ‘Boring’ Locations
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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Travel photographers get to traverse the world in search of one-of-a-kind photo ops, so finding interesting things to capture usually isn’t a problem for them. But what if you’re limited in terms of mobility and find yourself shooting in the same locations, day after day? Things can quickly start to feel dry and “boring.” If you’re just starting out in photography and that describes how you feel about where you are, here’s a nice video that may inspire you and jump start your creativity. In it, photography instructor Mike Browne offers some advice on how to take interesting photos in...
Aerial Wallpapers: Beautiful Satellite Photos Turned Into Backgrounds for Your Phone
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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Aerial Wallpapers is a website filled with beautiful wallpapers for your mobile device. Each of the images is a 1242×2208 pixel crop of a beautiful satellite photograph. The project is curated by João Paulo Bernardes, who searches through the Creative Commons archives of NASA and the Airbus Defense and Space. The images are sized for the iPhone 6 Plus, but they should look decent on other phones as well. Here is a sampling of what you’ll find on the site: Aerial Wallpapers (via Colossal) Source Article from...
Video Series Walks Through the Major Photographic Processes Used Throughout History
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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Back in 2012, the George Eastman House released a series of six videos showing six photo processes used in the history of photography. This month, the museum re-released those six videos alongside six new ones. It’s a video series that now spans 12 videos showing major processes spanning from the Daguerreotype all the way up through digital photography. The discovery of these processes have forever changed our understanding of time. For the first time in history we could see what our ancestors looked like. Take a look behind the scenes into our world class photograph collection from...
A Look at How Dynamichrome Infuses Color Into Old Black and White Photos
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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Colorizing old black and white photographs in Photoshop has become quite a trend over the past few years, and communities of retouchers have sprung up in order to share and compare their work. One particular colorizer named Jordan Lloyd has decided to turn his hobby into a business called Dynamichrome. It specializes “in high fidelity colour reconstruction services in culture, history and entertainment.” Lloyd comes from the world of architecture, which trained his eye and Photoshop skills for the tedious process of eyeballing colors and digitally “painting” them by hand into images....
A Casual Review of the Fujifilm X100T
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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For the last 21 days I have been in Japan putting Fujifilm’s new X100T through its paces. This review will not cover every technical aspect of the X100T, but rather how it feels to shoot with it every day and how it fits in with my workflow. It is also very photo heavy. You can find pictures of the camera itself on any review site, so I’ll mostly only include work that I have produced with this camera. I’ve upgraded from the X100S, so I will also comment on the main differences and whether or not I think it may be worth upgrading. This is the 3rd release of the X100 series, and in my...
Model Needed for Artist/StoryTelling Portrait Shoot
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Apartments/Hotel Promotional Video and Photography Shoot
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Models/ Host
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MODELS needed for Fashion Technology Brand Shoot
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Fit Model for Dress Fits – Size 10
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Video Editor Needed
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Cameramen required
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Freelance Videographer Required
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Video Editor for YouTube Chanel : Final Cut Pro (Volunteer)
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Need a Good Photographer and/or Cinematographer for our Event – Melbourne
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Should You Use Deferred Payment Strategies For Real Estate Photography
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How to Use LAB Color in Photoshop to Remove an Unwanted Color Cast
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Jim Hamel In a recent article about the LAB colorspace, I covered the basic LAB move to enhance colors. Hopefully that gave you an idea of the power of the LAB colorspace to manipulate color in Photoshop. In this article we are going to build on that a little bit. Whereas in the last article we simply used the basic LAB color move to enhance color, now we will get into color manipulation. Specifically, I will show you how to remove an unwanted color cast from your photos using LAB. In many ways doing this in LAB is simpler and more powerful than doing it in your normal color space...
Setting Your White Balance with a Gray Card – a Tip from Phil Steele
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Setting your white balance can be done two ways: in camera when you’re shooting or later in post-processing. In this short video tutorial Phil Steele shows you how to do both methods. Part one is using a gray card to set a custom white balance. Read more about that topic with: Get your White Balance Right in Seconds Using Grey Card. Part two is how to adjust the white balance using a gray card in Lightroom. Read more here: Adjusting White Balance in Lightroom. Phil also mentioned where to buy gray cards, you can find several options on Amazon: If you liked this...
2 B&W Photography eBooks Worth $30… Yours Today for $7
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse It is day 2 in our 12 Days of Christmas and if you like $7 eBooks (and the popularity of yesterdays deal says you do) you’re going to LOVE this one. The Deal It’s our very own Essential Guide to Black and White Photography for just $7 It’s normally $20 so that’s a discount of 65%… but that’s not all. We’re going to throw in a bonus eBook ’10 Recipes for Amazing Black And White Photography’ which is worth $10! This eBook from renowned photographer David Nightingale launched earlier in 2014 and got some fantastic reviews. The Essential Guide to Black and White...
Sony World Photography Awards 2015: Standout submissions
Posted by Chris Roubis on 15th, Dec, 2014 |
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The penguin shot isn’t great. You just need the shooting opportunity, and a long lens. The photo posted is an inevitable photo result when you have been given both, and shoot for 15-20 minutes. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but given how crowded that scene appears to be, I view such a shot as being simple to take, and not unique if given the opportunity. I disagree with the air show. The photo itself is excellent because of the position and angle of the planes, which is part foresight, and part luck. Source Article from...
Seattle PI.com showcases its ‘pictures of the year’
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InTheMist, the other 3 posters will not be able to “enter” next year, if you read it, the Seattle Pi only has two photographers on staff, Joshua Trujillo and Jordan Stead. So you won’t see anyone else photos next year, as its not a contest. Hence why to me its underwhelming to see an article like this in DPreview, especially since there are so many better online Photo Journalist websites, even major newspapers have better photo blogs then the Seattle PI, one thats popular online is the darkroom.baltimoresun.com who have photo contributors from around the world. (which you...
This Just In: Peter Lik’s Record-Breaking Photo Sale May Constitute Torture
Posted by Chris Roubis on 14th, Dec, 2014 |
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(Newswire, December 13th, Las Vegas) — A group of leading photographers, curators, and general taste arbiters has determined that Peter Lik’s sale of a photograph may constitute torture under the Geneva conventions. The photograph in question, an open edition of a mundane Southwestern landscape, sold recently for $6.5 million, the largest figure for a photograph in history. The sale, announced in an artistically unsanctioned press release which circumvented auction houses and was generally agreed upon as “fishy”, was conducted in conjunction with two others totaling $10 million....
This Guy Captured a 100 Clone Selfie in the Cabin of an Airplane
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Check out this crazy self-portrait photo by a guy named Timothy LaBranche. It’s a composite image showing LaBranche posing as all 100 passengers in the cabin of a passenger plane. We got in touch with LaBranche, who offers some details on how he created, “100 Tims on a Plane” (you can find a larger version here). First of all, he’s an airline employee who works for JetBlue Airways out of Houston, Texas. The idea for this photo had been brewing in his mind for months, but he didn’t have a plane stay overnight in his station until October of this year. When the opportunity arose, he...
ScanMyPhotos Can Scan Your Prints a Priority Mail Boxful at a Time
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Have a ton of old prints lying around but not enough time or energy to scan them? Since 1990, Southern California-based ScanMyPhotos has helped customers scan over 250 million physical prints. As digitizing old family photos is catching on as a trend, the company’s most popular service is something it pioneered: the USPS prepaid box deal. It’s a flat rate option for scanning large quantities of photos. Pack as many photos as you can into it, send it in, and receive digital versions of every photo. Here’s a video produced by the United States Post Office that offers a glimpse into its...
Maha Kumbh Mela: The Largest Peaceful Gathering in the History of the World
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In February 2013, Hindus from around the world made a pilgrimage of faith to bathe in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. The event was called Maha Kumbh Mela, a particular festival held once every 144 years, and an estimated 100 million people visited the site over a period of days. It was likely the single largest peaceful gathering of people in the history of the world. Photographer Rufus Blackwell was on hand to shoot photographs and a time-lapse video of the festival. Here’s his award-winning video he created: Blackwell says that his goal was to create “an animated painting of...
The Parrot is a Teleprompter You Attach to the Front of Your Camera Lens
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Want to read lines into your camera while maintaining eye-contact with your lens? The Parrot is a new teleprompter system that can help you do just that. It attaches to the front of your DSLR or mirrorless camera, and is uses your smartphone for the text it reflects toward you. If you have ever tried to memorize lines for a video, then you know how challenging it can be. Teleprompters display a script in front of the camera so the actor can read their lines and maintain eye contact allowing them to connect with their audience. The Parrot measures in at 4x4x3-inches, and weighs only...
Asian or Latin Model for Website – Olive Skin, Dark Hair
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Project Anchor – my4wdrules
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3 boys 3 girls required for photo shoot Stockton beach
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Female Models Required for Lingerie Shoot
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Models Wanted For Portrait Photography (no experience required)
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Stagehands Needed Feb 6, 2015 – Cambridge
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Sound Designer / Foley Artist Required for Sci-Fi Short Film
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Feature Film Required Production Experts
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Producer Required for a Community Channel Program
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The Foundations of Starting a Photography Business
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A Post By: Amy Fraughton Starting a photography business can be a very exciting yet scary thing. It’s exciting to share your talents with others, yet the business can be overwhelming! By Sebastien Wiertz If you’re at all like me when I started a photography business, you are worried that you won’t make any money. Taking pictures was so much fun, but would anyone pay for my work? With a lot of blind faith I jumped in and began working towards my dream. For me that meant many late nights and long weekends, shooting as much as I could and learning as I went along. Through years of growth,...
Old Glass: How to Use Old Film Lenses with New DSLR Cameras
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A Post By: Adam Welch Do you want a sharp and well built lens? Of course you do. Everyone does. Think you can’t afford great glass? Think again. You may not be looking in the right place. If you’re like me, browsing through latest high-end lenses can be a little depressing. The cost of luxury grade glass can easily peak in the thousands of dollars. What if I told you that you could have excellent lenses without breaking the bank? Recently I learned about a method for retrofitting older film lenses to function with our modern cameras. The possible bad news is that these are mostly manual...
78% Off Ed Verosky’s eBook Bundle (or His New Macro Ebook for just $7): Today Only
Posted by Chris Roubis on 14th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse As we announced yesterday – today is Day 1 in our 12 Days of Christmas dPS promotion – and we’re kicking things off with a cracker of a deal! The Deal Today’s deal has two options: 1. 53% off Ed Verosky’s new Introduction to Close-Up and Macro Photography. Today is is yours for just $7. OR 2. Ed’s entire 9 eBook Bundle with Bonus Mini-Guide for a whopping 78% off the regular price. That’s 9 eBooks on everything from Flash Photography, to Portraiture, to the Basics of DSLR and much more. They’re all yours today for just $29 (or just $3.20 per eBook). Ed Verosky will be...
Macro Photography on a Budget
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A Post By: Ed Verosky This post is by Ed Verosky whose new Macro Photography eBook is 53% off today only. Close-up and macro photography continue to be popular with shooters of all levels. Practical applications include product detail shots, food photography, and technical illustration (see image below). But the fun and artistic motivations are undeniable; flowers, insects, creative abstract, and the excitement of discovering the hidden worlds found in everyday objects. If you’ve been interested in doing some close-up and macro work, but don’t quite know how to get started, this article will...
Stephen Colbert Transformed by Photo Shoot Into Characters from ‘The Hobbit’
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Dec, 2014 |
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The Colbert Report is coming to an end on TV, and The Hobbit trilogy will soon come to an end in theaters. Knowing that Stephen Colbert is a huge fan of JRR Tolkien (author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings), Entertainment Weekly invited Colbert to write a cover story about the movies and pose for a series of portraits as characters from the trilogy. He agreed. With the help of NYC-based fashion photographer Ruven Afanador, what resulted was a wonderfully lighthearted photo series in which Colbert blends seamlessly into the look of each well-known fantasy character. Here’s a...
Woman Awarded $1.12M After Being Arrested While Taking Photos Outside a Military Base
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A New York woman has been awarded $1.12 million in damages after being arrested back in 2009 while taking photographs outside a military base.The Guardian reports that in July 2009, 58-year-old Nancy Genovese was photographing a display helicopter outside the Gabreski Airport Air National Guard in Long Island for a “Support Our Troops” website. She was confronted by a deputy, who allegedly told her that he would arrest her on suspicion of terrorism to set an example for other “right wingers.” Here’s an account of what happened, according to Personal Liberty: After taking a few...
Depict is a Giant and Gorgeous 4K Digital Frame That Does Photos Justice
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Dec, 2014 |
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Digital picture frames often steal attention away from the photos they display — the quality and resolution on most displays don’t always do photos justice and end up detracting from the viewing experience. Depict is a new frame that wants to revolutionize the experience of displaying and viewing art digitally. It’s a giant and beautifully made frame that can display high resolution photographs in 4K. Physically, the Depict Frame measures 50-inches across diagonally and boasts a native resolution of 3,840×2,160. The border of the frame is handcrafted using American maple, and the...
Camera Shake Could Be Used to Identify the Person Behind the Camera, Researchers Say
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Camera shake could one day be used to help track down people who record footage anonymously. Researchers say that footage captured by wearable cameras contain a “motion signature” that’s unique to the wearer — a hidden “fingerprint” of sorts.The finding comes from scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem over in Israel. They asked 34 people to wear GoPro cameras on their baseball caps, and then had the participants record video with the “hat cam.” By taking a minimum of 12 seconds of video recorded by each person and running it through a computer algorithm, the researchers...
A Crazy (and Dangerous) Photo Shoot with Models in a Bull Ring
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Here’s a behind-the-scenes video in which photographer Nigel Barker talks about one of the craziest photo shoots he has been a part of: capturing models posing with real bulls in a bullring. The shoot was for America’s Next Top Model and was located at the Monumental Bullring in Barcelona, Spain. Here are a couple of the photographs that resulted from the shoot: You can find more of the final images on this Top Model website. (H/T Imaging Resource) Image credits: Photographs by Nigel Barker/America’s Next Top Model Source Article from...
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Female Brand Ambassadors for In Store Body Products launch
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Flashy Sexy Confident Model Wanted for CD
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Fashion Model Wanted For a Vintage Test Shoot
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Marilyn Monroe Type Required for Shoot
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Crew Wanted for Short Student Film
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A Cinematographer for a Short Movie
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Production Designer Needed to Create Ambitious Short Film World
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Videographer Wanted to Shoot Music Type Video
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Looking for a Producer
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Homes For Sale Get More Attention With The Huizenpromoter in Ermelo Netherlands!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Dec, 2014 |
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Are Your Clients Pressuring You To Shoot Real Estate On Weekends?
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dPS 12 Days of Christmas: Save up to 88% on Some Great Photography Training
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darren Rowse It’s that time of year where we at dPS kick off our annual 12 days of Christmas campaign! This is the fifth time we’ve run this and this year we’ve got our biggest deals yet! Here’s how it works. Every day between now and Christmas we have put together a fantastic deal on some photography training products. In the coming 12 days you’ll see some of our own dPS eBooks at discounts we’ve never offered before as well as some deals from other photography sites that we’ve negotiated on your behalf. Deals this year are as high as 88% off. Each deal only lasts for 24 hours so...
Weekly Photography Challenge – Graffiti Street Art
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In an earlier post I shared a set of some images of street art, also often referred to as graffiti. If you live an urban area or any city, than likely you have some of this type of art nearby. Graffiti artists range from ones who just seems to do vandalism, to other who are highly talented and skilled artists. Your job in this week’s photograph challenge is to seek out some street art in your area and photograph it in a manner fitting for the artwork. That could mean some grungy post-processing, a funky filter over the lens, or whatever creative idea you can...
33 Gritty Photos of Graffiti Street Art
Posted by Chris Roubis on 13th, Dec, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Urban photography is a great way to get out and find some unique images, whether in your own city or abroad. Cities provide a multitude of interesting subjects. In this week’s image collection I’ve found a bunch of gritty photos of street art, also known as graffiti. In some cities like Melbourne they encourage this graffiti and businesses or the government actually sponsor the artists and provide a space to create murals and street art. Enjoy this series of grungy, gritty, street photography and art. Justin arrives by Shady ezz on 500px Street Tagging by Lin...
Sony Alpha 77 II firmware update improves AF speed
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Sony has released a firmware update for the SLT-a77 II, its 24MP semi-pro APS-C camera. Firmware 2.00 claims improved autofocus speed in all light conditions, but notably a 2.5x improvement in low light. Also added is support for XAVC-S format full HD video recording at 60p/30p/24p (requiring a Class 10 or faster SDXC card). The firmware update is currently available for download from Sony’s support website. Download the latest Sony a77 II firmware version Source Article from...
Adobe to acquire Fotolia for $800 million cash
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Adobe has announced plans to acquire stock photography service Fotolia. Once the acquisition is complete, Fotolia will be offered to Adobe users as a ‘single Creative Cloud marketplace experience’, as well as a standalone service to others. Adobe will buy Fotolia for $800 million in cash, and expects the deal will be finalized in the beginning of 2015. Says Adobe, Fotolia will continue to operate independently until the transaction is complete, at which point it will be integrated into Creative Cloud. Users will then be able to find and purchase the stock...
Camera FV-5 update brings DNG Raw capture to Android
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“On the other hand, stock JPEG processing on smartphones is often borderline horrible, specially from OEMs that have little to no imaging experience, so this could help on phones that tend to be let down by the built in processing rather than their hardware.” Exactly. The prime example of this is the Note 4, which, otherwise, has an excellent camera. Its stock Camera app, however, is plain bad. It applies far too much noise reduction (NR for short) and oversharpening even when it’s absolutely unnecessary – for example, in broad daylight. Also, it has rather strong JPEG...
14 Things I Have Learned From Being a Photographer
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I am not at the top. I’m not even skating the middle, but I have been doing this photography thing for a while, and there are some things I’ve learned along the way that I thought I would put out to the universe. Mainly because these things were bouncing around in my head and it’s nice to put things out there… so here they are. #1. It’s Okay to Compare …because it’s going to happen anyway. I don’t care if you’re a 14 year old who has just picked up a camera for the first time or if you’re Annie Leibovitz, you’re always going to compare yourself and your work with other people. Here’s...
The Best and Worst Cameras and Lenses of 2014, According to The Camera Store
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Dec, 2014 |
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Canadian camera shop The Camera Store has posted the video above naming its selections for this year’s best and worst camera gear. It’s 19-minutes long, and features hosts Chris and Jordan discussing some of camera, equipment, and trends that made a mark on 2014 in good and bad ways. Here’s a quick look at a few of the big winners and losers mentioned in the video: Best Still Camera of 2014: Sony Alpha a6000 A powerful, compact, and versatile camera that’s selling like hotcakes and leading in the mirrorless camera revolution. Runner ups: 2nd place: Pentax 645Z 3rd place: Nikon D750...
PetaPixel Photography Gift Guide 2014
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Dec, 2014 |
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We’re a bit late this year, but here’s the latest edition of our holiday gift guide! Unlike other photography gift guides you might find this holiday season, ours is more lighthearted and geared more toward novelty gifts than serious gear. Without further ado, here’s our roundup (we’ll continue to update the list as we remember/come across new things): $5: Camera Stickers One of our very own products. You get 3 sheets containing 273 stickers total. $6: Camera Lens Case This is a camera-shaped case for your lenses. Not your camera lenses, but your contact lenses. $13: Camera Ice Cubes...
The Beauty of Norwegian Landscapes
Posted by Chris Roubis on 12th, Dec, 2014 |
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Last summer I visited Norway for the second time. I had been in Oslo once before, but that was many years ago. This time I wanted to experience the famous scenery while driving through the mountains with a camper. My travels took me from Oslo to Geiranger, Dalsnibba, Trollstigen, Ålesund and Atlanterhavsveien. This was for sure one of my best journeys so far. The idea to visit Norway actually came from a music video that I saw. I had no idea where the video was shot, but the scenery looked amazing. After doing some research, I found out that the video was shot in Geiranger and Ålesund in...
A Camera-Shaped Case for Your Contact Lenses
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Here’s a camera-shaped case you can use to carry your lenses around — not your camera lenses, but your contact lenses. The covers snap on tightly to keep your lenses safe from dirt and scratches when they’re not in use, and the 2x3x.8-inch case is a perfect size for traveling. They can be purchased for $6 each over in the store of San Francisco-based design GAMAGO. Source Article from...
Nikon D750 Full-Frame DSLR Receives Popular Photography Magazine’s Prestigious Camera of the Year Award
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MELVILLE, NY – Popular Photography Magazine has named the Nikon D750 as the top digital camera of the year in 2014. The honor acknowledges the camera that has “most refined or redefined photography in the past 12 months, as determined by lab and field tests as well as overall performance and technological advancement.” The magazine cited the D750 as the best digital camera of 2014 because of its strengths in overall image quality, operation speed, amazing autofocus system and ability to capture in low light. Popular Photography also applauded the full-frame D750’s built in Wi-Fi, tilting...
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Two Natural Looking Female Models for Eco Luxury Label
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Models Needed for Wedding Style Shoot
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20-32 year old "natural look" models for Playboy (US, print) submission
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Hot Girls Wanted for Bond Movie Spoof – London
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Cast and Crew for Short
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.