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A Post By: Gavin Hardcastle If the Sony A7R is a champion heavyweight in its prime, the Sony A6000 is the scrappy younger brother with a leaner frame, faster feet and a few tricks up its sleeve that big brother hasn’t bothered to learn. Having spent almost a year with the A7R as my main camera, I’ve become very familiar with the current Sony Alpha system, so I hit the ground running with the A6000. Here is my Sony A6000 review along with a load of example images from my most recent road trip. For this shot I used my Canon 24-105mm with the hated Metabones Adapter. Sporting a 24.3 Megapixels...
A Post By: Bruce Wunderlich The April moon called the “Pink Moon” rose over Marietta, Ohio. The setting sun lit the city in a warm glow. The moon is a very popular subject for photographers of all skill levels to shoot. But if you’ve ever tried to photograph the moon, you’ve probably discovered that it’s not that easy to accomplish. In this article let’s look at some dos and don’ts to take your moon shots from snapshot to artwork. To begin, the first and most important DON’T is: Don’t assume that photographing the moon is going to be easy. #1 Do use a tripod One of the most important pieces...
It just started as a cool idea. New Zealand photographer Tom Hollow had a broken couch he needed to get rid of, and so he decided to burn it and take pictures. Then he decided to put a bride on it because, in his words, it “would look cooler with a bride.” It wasn’t until after the shoot that he realized the images fit a particular storyline quite well: divorce. Speaking with friend and old co-worker Kenny Coverstone at Fstoppers, Hollow explains the culture shock surrounding divorce that he experienced when he moved to the US, and how that inspired him to fit this particular...
Here’s a simple photo idea that photographer Nick Fancher came up with for the folks over at Digital Photography School. If you wanna add some holiday flair to your portrait sessions this Christmas season on the cheap, try shooting through a $5 set of Christmas lights. The idea is really quite simple. To get the effect in the photos you see above, all Fancher did was drape some cheap Christmas lights over a C-Stand, and set up two different speedlights for additional lighting. You can see the setup in the diagram below. Shooting at 1/30th and f/2 using a 100mm f/2 lens, Fancher added...
Christopher Mitchell recently breathed some photographic life into a pice of technology many of us probably have languishing away in some drawer. With the help of an Arduino board, he’s found a way to Frankenstein a Texas Instruments graphing calculator and Game Boy Camera into the ArTICam: a 128–128 grayscale selfie machine. Since the Game Boy Camera and Texas Instruments graphing calculator weren’t exactly designed to work with one another, Mitchell used an Arduino board and ready-made code to get the two to play together nicely. With the code already available, all he needed was...
One afternoon, while hanging out with his coworkers at Bozeman Camera, photographer Tanner Johnson and his friend Beau Larson had an idea: they decided to recreate the Game of Thrones Season 1 poster with camera gear instead of swords. From the Iron Throne to the Stark family’s sword ‘Ice,’ all of the sharp pointing things used to kill people were replaced with huge lenses to create an awesome photographic version. As you can probably tell from looking at it — and given the sheer amount of gear that would be required to create that throne IRL — this image was helped along a good bit...
This is going to be a VERY long year, and we have J.J. Abrams to blame. Since its release on Friday, the trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens has swept across the Internet like a wildfire. But as with almost anything viral, it hasn’t completely taken its course until it’s been parodied and recreated a handful of times. This viral sensation is no exception, and we have our first viral attempt thanks to LEGO fanatic Snooperking, who recreated the entire trailer from start to finish using stop motion animation. After realizing he had some free time on Friday,...
A Post By: Jim Hamel The beach can be a great place for photography. You are in a scenic environment. You typically have friends or family members with you. You are usually there on nice days. All these can contribute to great photographs. But the degree of photography problems you will face on the beach might surprise you. Exposure can be tricky given the bright environment. Often, there is nothing but sand, so the composition can be dull. And of course there are elements like sand and salt-water that do not mix well with electronics. So I want to give you some tips for beach photography,...
In astrophotography, a star tracker is a piece of gear that compensates for the Earth’s rotation so you can take sharp long exposure photographs of the night sky. Unfortunately, not everyone can get their hands on one of these, and so we’ve dug up this awesome tutorial by astrophotographer Forrest Tanaka on how to capture impressive astrophotography images without a star tracker. Tanaka starts the video by briefly explaining what star trackers are and how they can both improve and hinder your workflow. After that brief rundown, he dives into the process he uses to take...
Advertising imagery for everything from basketball shoes to weightlifting attire usually features muscled athletes performing some amazing (if occasionally Photoshop-enhanced) feat. Photographer Dean Bradshaw decided to turn that idea on its head with his series Golden Years. An ongoing project that currently has a part one and part two, Bradshaw’s Golden Years portraits celebrate the weekend warrior, and more specifically the senior citizen weekend warrior. Grandpas playing basketball and grandmas training for ‘the big fight,’ are the subjects of his first two installments, and we...
The most poignant revelations often come at the most unlikely of times. That’s what happen to photographer Elly Heise, who created the touching project #DaughterDoesMyMakeup, a series of portraits of mothers sporting makeup their young daughters did for them. While the original plan for the series was to simply capture a “fresh perspective on beauty,” as she explained to Bored Panda, the series ended up leading Heise to question the true definition of beauty. This project, says Heise, is for anyone who feels the need to follow someone else idea of beauty: I want this to affect people...
A new FAA report is confirming what we imagine many responsible camera drone enthusiasts fear: the number of idiotic drone pilots is on the rise, and they’re threatening to ruin it for everyone or, far worse, cause a full-scale air disaster. The report was released Wednesday in response to requests by news organizations like The Washington Post, and it describes drone-related air traffic incidents reported by air traffic controllers since mid-2014. While the list (downloadable as a spreadsheet from the New York Times) doesn’t cover every incident, it does cover some of the most...
If you need some extra storage or you’ve been waiting for a good quality portable hard drive at a great price, we’ve found a deal you should definitely jump on. The Western Digital 2TB My Passport Ultra is selling at an all-time low price of $80 right now on eBay. Dug up by the deal hunters at Kinja, this is the lowest price they’ve ever seen on the hard drive. In fact, the drive — which retails for $140 — has never sold for less than $100 on Amazon. The best part is that this isn’t just some cheap drive they’re trying to get rid of. Extremely well reviewed on Amazon and B&H...
A Post By: Karthika Gupta Are you a minimalist in terms of your photography? Do you crave simple composition and clean lines in your images? There are many wonderful articles on minimalist photography and simple imagery. In fact Valerie Jardin has a fantastic article on Minimalist Photography – 4 Tips To Keep It Simple right here on Digital Photography School. This article encourages you to take that approach a step further into post-processing to achieve a clean, timeless look to your imagery. A clean, crisp image always stands the test of time. You don’t have to look very far, just dig...
A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson The Filter Hive, made by Mindshift Gear. The fabric exterior is coated with a water resistant coating to help protect your filters in bad weather. If you are a landscape photographer it’s quite possible you own several filters that you use regularly. These may include a polarizing filter, three or four stop neutral density filters, graduated neutral density filters (you might have two or three of these) and, if you practice long exposure photography, a 10 stop neutral density filter such as the LEE Filters Big Stopper. Filters can be difficult to deal with. I’ve...
Amidst the many photos of hate, anger, sadness and sometimes outright destruction that have flooded the media since a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, sparking riots and protests across the US, there are glimmers of hope and humanity. One such glimmer was captured by Oregon-based freelance photographer Jonny Nguyen at a Ferguson demonstration in Portland earlier this week. The photo shows 12-year-old Devonte Hart, his eyes welling with tears as he hugs Portland Police Sgt. Bret Barnum, and the story behind it was reported first by The Oregonian...
22-year-old Alexis Taylor recently shared an email she received from her 96-year-old photographer grandfather, and it’s just too wonderful not to share. Alexis is a proud Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket who is pursuing a career in video production and does freelance photography on the side. Knowing this, when it came time to decide what to do with all his old film photography equipment, her grandpa send Alexis an email to see if she’d be interested in having it. Below is the full e-mail, reprinted with kind permission from Alexis. [Dear Alexis,] On our trip this summer I mentioned to Kathy...
While working with CBS News to capture footage for a 60 Minutes segment about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, filmmaker Danny Cooke got to explore the haunted landscape there in a way most people haven’t yet: by drone. The resulting video, released just 4 days ago, is called Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl, and it’s every bit as eerie as you would imagine. For Cooke, being in Chernobyl was doubly strange, since this place had had such an impact on his family in Italy when he was only months old. As he explains in the video’s description: The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986...
In the age of the iPad, there still is something glorious about a photo book. Here are a few of our favorites from 2014, so send Santa (or Hanukah Harry) a quick tweet, and get a big dose of inspiration this Holiday season. 1. Danny Clinch – Danny Clinch Rockstar photographer, Danny Clinch, compiled his iconic images into his eponymous tome. Fans of contemporary portraiture as well as music lovers will dig this book, and the foreword by the Boss, Bruce Springsteen. 2. Testament – Chris Hondros Chris Hondros was tragically killed in a mortar attack while covering the unrest in Libya....
Micro-drones are typically thought of as more of a toy rather than a tool. If you want to capture real recreational aerial footage, you buy a bigger, heftier drone, right? Well, not necessarily. ZANO wants to change all that by packing both power and ease of use into a tiny package that measures just 2.5 x 2.5-inches and weighs just over 1.2lbs. Created by Torquing Group Ltd — a company that has spent years creating micro-drones for military use — the ZANO is being called, “the world’s most sophisticated nano drone.” ZANO wants to be the best of all drone worlds. Easily piloted with...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Today I rounded up 37 great examples of images in cool tones. The tone or color of your image can create or shift the mood and meaning if your image and is a very powerful compositional tool when used well. This week your goal is to practice creating cool tones in your photography. Photography challenge – cool tones Here are a few examples of images with cool tones. By Kelsi Barr By Chris Smith By Brandon Watts You can create a color tint in your image a few different ways: By shooting at blue hour Adjusting your white balance Changing the color in...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt This week’s image set is all about relaxing and getting to your zen place. Often cool tones relay that message really well as they feel less stressed and calming than warmer colors. Cool tones include blue, purple and even green. See how you feel after viewing these images: Relaxing cool tone images Misty Mono…. by Jay Sabapathy on 500px Arctic Symphony by Mikko Lagerstedt on 500px Nallo Night by Sander van der Werf on 500px Feather-Light by Becky Fuller-Phillips on 500px New buds by Allen Adnan on 500px Beautiful Borage by kreativgrund on 500px Wintery by...
Even for photographers who would not even think about taking pictures with a smartphone camera the mini computer in your pocket can be, with the right accessories, an extremely useful tool. The Lumu light meter is a great example for this. The tiny device plugs into the headphone socket and, with the help of the dedicated Lumu app, turns your smartphone into a fully-fledged light meter that can help enhance your understanding of a scene’s lighting situation. So far the Lumu has only been working as an incident light meter which reads the light falling on the subject rather than...
Lensbaby has announced its Circular Fisheye 5.8mm f/3.5 lens is now available with new mount options. Launched in April for Canon and Nikon DSLRs, the Circular Fisheye brings with it the same 185-degree angle of view and ability to focus up to as close as 1/4-inch. Says Lensbaby, the Circular Fisheye lens will soon be offered with Micro Four Thirds, Sony A and E, Samsung NX, and Pentax K mounts in addition to the Canon EF and Nikon F versions originally launched. The lens features manual focus, a polished internal barrel for flare effects, and both focus distance scale...
Self-taught Canadian photographer Elizabeth Gadd described her photography niche better, perhaps, than anybody else when she said, “I, uh… shoot landscapey stuff… with people in them.” That, however, is something of an understatement. The 21-year-old photographer’s body of work does, indeed contain “landscapey stuff with people in them,” but that hardly does the spectacular vistas she photographs justice. Gadd started taking pictures in 2007, but didn’t really get serious until 2010 when she embarked on a 365 project of self portraits. By the end of that project she had found her...
Product photography — even when done with cheap gear like this awesome tutorial using an iPhone, an IKEA lamp and some flashlights — usually involves multiple light sources. But there is a way around that, as Laya Gerlock over on DIY Photography demonstrates in this awesome tutorial titled “How to Shoot a Perfect Watch with Nothing but an iPad.” In truth, you could nitpick the title since you’re using a camera to take the actual picture, but that’s just splitting hairs. What Gerlock is showing you is how to use an iPad or iPhone as your only light source to light paint a...
Despite the video’s title, the short, encouraging snippet above from photographer Joel Grimes isn’t about finding a specific set of characteristics that define “a great photograph.” Instead, it’s about finding out what a great photograph is to you. It’s a matter of taste, discovering your personal vision, and then coming to terms with the fact that not everybody is going to love what you do. It’s that last point that Grimes spends the most time on, and the one that we think will resonate with the most people. An encouraging message that is particularly pertinent in the Internet age...
A Post By: Nick Fancher This shot was lit with one light on the subject along with the Christmas lights. You can have a luxurious bokeh in any of your images for the low cost of $4.99. Yes, you heard me right, just $4.99. How, you ask? I’ll tell you, but you won’t believe me – Christmas lights. Just a single strand of Christmas lights and a couple of flash units are all you need to immerse your subject in full-blown bokeh bliss. This isn’t a double exposure or a Photoshop trick. It can all be done in camera in a single exposure. I bought a strand of cheap Christmas lights from the store,...
A Post By: Barry J Brady The Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 Lens You will hear this from many photographers – “invest in your lenses”. Camera bodies will come and go, but a good lens can last a very long time. This was the advice that I first received when I started taking my photography seriously. Initially, I thought it was a bit hyped. I bought a cheap 70-300mm lens and used it at the first wedding I shot. I thought the images were fantastic until I bought a better lens a year later. I then realized how much difference a good lens can make. This review is not going to be a technical review of the...
Time-lapse photography seems pretty straightforward, right? You just capture a stream of images over a designated time frame and put them together in post-production to create your video. But as simple as that may sound, there are a few basic elements to the post-processing of your images that can greatly alter what the final product will look like. Here to go over just a few of those basics, including batch-editing for color correction, de-flickering images and more, is J.P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens. The video tutorial above is about as simple as it gets, breaking down the...
Photographer Zeb Andrews prefers to slow the world down when he captures a photograph. The Portland-based photographer first began shooting with a pinhole camera purely for fun, but little did he know that, within a matter of a few years his work would take him to Turkey where he would share his love of pinhole photography with Syrian child refugees. The opportunity came about after Andrews’ pinhole work (below) had already been on display in a number of galleries, and had even secured him a spot on a local television art show. After the television show went live across the globe for...
Want to attend Gulf Photo Plus 2015 in Dubai next year? We’re giving away a free trip to attend the photography festival from March 6, 2015 through March 13, 2015. One lucky winner will receive: free airfare to and from Dubai from your nearest major international airport (~$1,200 if flying from the US), 5 nights at the event’s official hotel (~$700), ~$1,000 worth of workshops during the event, and a $32 free pass to PhotoFriday at the event. The total package is worth roughly $3,000. Gulf Photo Plus is the region’s biggest photography festival bringing the world’s best photographers...
Here’s a wonderful little gift idea (stocking stuffer perhaps?) that’s sure to impress one of the photography lovers on your list this holiday season. It’s the Poladarium 2015, and it’s a peel-away calendar where each day presents a new Polaroid photograph for you to admire. Created by German publishers Seltmann + Söhne, it uses a post-it like peel-away method to present 365 Polaroids, each of which includes a well-chosen typeface for the date and provides information about the photographer who took the photograph in a section on the back. The photographs are printed on high-quality...
DJI better watch out, because the camera that is commonly attached to its most popular line of Drones might soon have a drone of its very own. That’s right, we’re talking about GoPro, and the Wall Street Journal claims the company is planning to release its own line of drones next year. If true, this news would shake up the camera drone market in a big way. According to the WSJ’s “people familiar with [GoPro’s] plans,” the action cam maker and media brand is planning to expand into “multi-rotor helicopters with high-def camera lenses.” The report claims the multi-copers will retail...
A Post By: Alex Morrison If you’ve never heard about the creative use of brushes in Photoshop, this article is for you. If you already know about using brushes, you’ll be able to ramp up your creativity once you learn this easy skill – making your own brushes. What are Photoshop brushes and why you’d want to learn how to make your own? Photoshop brushes are tools that are mostly used just like regular paint brushes to add strokes of color to your images. Most often people will use them as part of their dodging and burning workflow. Some people also use them in digital painting. The built-in...
A Post By: Diego Lapetina Photographers are a special type of people that usually pay a lot of attention to detail. They’re also known to be patient and perseverant. However, in my opinion, landscape photographers are a unique breed. I’m sure that only a hand full of people are willing to hike 10 miles with 25 pounds of photography gear on their back, just because they hope to seize the perfect moment. Generally, in photography, practice leads to improvement. However, practicing landscape photography is a bit trickier since you don’t have control over the light setup, the weather, or the...
In the past, we’ve included both mirrorless and DSLR cameras in our enthusiast interchangeable lens camera roundup. Enthusiast cameras, by the way, are cameras that sit right above the consumer-level category and just under high-end camera-category (high-end refers to cameras with full-frame sensors that are not quite pro-level, think Nikon D610, Canon 6D, Sony a99, and the Sony a7-series). Fujifilm X-T1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 Olympus OM-D E-M1 Samsung NX1 Nikon 1 V3 This year, we opted to split the category in two, as we had a hard time definitively deciding on just...
High speed photography is all about fast-flash; the faster your flash, the faster the instant you can adequately freeze on a digital sensor. Modern strobes are pretty good at this, with flash durations as fast as 1/20,000 of a second, but a Bristol-based company Vela Labs is about to take high-speed photography to unheard-of heights. Introducing the Vela One, ‘the world’s first high speed LED flash’ that boasts a flash speed starting at 1/2,000,000 second, or 500 nanoseconds. To solve the problem of clunky gear, power-hungry filaments and potentially dangerous heat that standard...
Contemporary North Korea Approximately 40% of food is thrown out in America each year. This amounts to roughly $165 billion (with a ‘b’) worth of food, which could feed half of the 50 million Americans who struggle to put food on the table. It’s tough statistics like these that inspired photographer Henry Hargreaves and his friend and food stylist Caitlin Levin to create the series Power Hungry: a poignant set of photos that illustrates the inequality between the rich and the poor by comparing what each class’s meals have looked like throughout history. What initially started out as...
In August of 2013, we shared the news that Thomson Reuters had dropped all of its freelance sports photographers in North America in favor of a deal they struck with USA Today Sports Images. But it appears that sad move was only the beginning. Earlier this week, more members of the photography staff at Thomson Reuters were let go in the multi-national media company’s ongoing effort to downsize and focus its workforce, especially in the imaging department. According to a report from the National Press Photographers Association, Thomson Reuters let go Picture Editor for North America...
Faults: Coscinodiscus and pinnularia, crushed When you look at the photographs in her series Into the Umbra, photographer Julia Bennett wants you to think you’re looking at outer space. And then, just as your mind is struggling to expand to encompass the far reaches of the solar system where the image was captured, that’s when she wants you to realize that you’re looking at something you could find in any old liter of Sea Water. Her images weren’t captured with a telescope peering into the heavens, but a microscope that peers into the micro worlds inside droplets of seawater. This...
Minutes ago, Hasselblad officially unveiled the Stellar II, another Sony rebrand that will likely draw some ridicule from the photo community — except that Hassy has changed their tactics a bit with this camera. Right in the first line of the press release, they’re making one thing clear: this camera is “not intended to be judged against other cameras,” but is, “rather, conceived and crafted exclusively for Aficionados, Collectors and Connoisseurs.” As with the first Stellar, which was announced quietly in July of last year, the Stellar II is a Sony RX100 with an expensive makeover....
A Post By: Will G. MacNeil Sure, the concept of photography falls under the realm of one the arts, but can you strictly label someone an artist based on their job or hobby? Photographers are everywhere nowadays. Beyond the thousands upon thousands of photographers who have businesses and make a living taking pictures, there are also all the families with cameras and anyone who halfway knows how to use a camera phone. Every single one of you who calls yourself a photographer has the opportunity, in my opinion, to call yourself an artist. The term artist has a powerful meaning that is...
A Post By: Sarah Hipwell Canon Pixma MG6350 All-in-one-printer If you like to print hard copies of your photos at home, how do you decide which inkjet printer to buy? With such a myriad of printers on the market it can be daunting which one to choose. However, similar to buying a camera, one main consideration will be how much do you want to spend. I bought a Canon PIXMA MG6350 a little over a year ago. As luck would have it, my local computer shop had the white version in stock for nearly 50 Euros ($62USD) less than the black one. The white one was my first choice. This is a high-end,...
Hasselblad has announced the Stellar II, an enthusiast compact which the company says has been ‘conceived and crafted exclusively for aficionados, collectors, and connoisseurs’. Like other recent Hasselblads, the Stellar II is a rebadged Sony camera – which in this case is the Cyber-shot RX100 II. Available grip finishes include olive, walnut, padouk, and carbon fiber. You can pick one up for yourself at a price of €1650. This is most likely the last of the rebadged Sony cameras from Hasselblad, following the recently closure of the company’s...
Footage shot with smartphones has become much more common in the world of journalism today, where quick turnaround times are just as important as getting the shot. Knowing this, one CNN cameraman wanted to see if it was possible for a smartphone (namely the iPhone 6) to keep up with a much larger, traditional broadcast camera. To find out, 14-year CNN cameraman Harvey Hogan decided to pit the iPhone 6 against his standard broadcast camera in the heart of London’s Piccadilly Square. The three-minute video above dives almost straight into the comparison. Hogan briefly talks about each...
With the release of the D750, much has been made of its ability to recover shadow detail. Given the range of talents that the D750 has it is strange that this has been singled out given that the D800 and D4, released in 2012, outperform it in this regard, and the cheaper D600 (also from 2012) is able to match it at base ISO. And the old guard, the D700, D3 and D3s, weren’t too shabby at recovery either! With news of incredible shadow recovery typically there comes two responses: the hyperbolic “That’s amazing! I want one NOW!” and the cynical “you wouldn’t need shadow recovery if you...
Just four days ago, Sony announced its a7II: the world’s first full-frame digital camera with 5-axis image stabilization build into the body. But as impressive as we know the image stabilization could be, no one was quite sure what glass said stabilization would work with. The news, however, is all good. New reports are confirming that the a7II’s stabilization will work with all(!) 3rd party lenses. According to a number of Sony Alpha Rumors’ ‘highly trusted’ sources, all third party lenses — such as those from the Zeiss ZM, Leica M and Konica Hexanon series — are compatible with the...
It’s easy to assume the successful photographers in the industry have always had it figured out. Commercial shoots fell in their laps and they took to the experience like they were born with a Hasselblad in their hands. But that, of course, is not always the case. In the episode of Behind the Glass above, Nikon Ambassador Dixie Dixon tells the tale of one of her first major campaign shoots… and how it almost went terribly wrong. Keep in mind, Dixon is no slouch behind the camera. Her clients include Nikon (of course), Disney, Virgin, Kodak, Profoto and many more. But when she was...
A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson With my new camera I can set Film Simulation to black and white and the camera gives me a black and white view in the electronic viewfinder. I can also select the square format and see a square image. This is a great aid to composition. Finding and using helpful features like this is part of getting to know your new camera. I recently purchased a new camera and the process of learning to use it has been a good reminder of just how long the process can take. My new Fujifilm X-Pro 1 is a very different machine from the Canon EOS digital SLRs I’m accustomed to using,...
A Post By: Daniel Korzeniewski I have to shamelessly admit that I, as are many other photographers, am a camera bag junkie. Maybe the reason behind it is that I was never able to find the perfect fit for my needs. Granted, different situations or travel circumstances may require different type of bags. It’s not the same to go out for a walk in your neighborhood as it is to go on an overseas trip. As I mentioned in one of my prior posts, I am a big believer in going light. During the years I have purchased, used, tested, abused and torn apart all kinds of bags. But only up until now, as I...
Panasonic has announced that its DMC-CM1 ‘compact camera with smartphone technology’ will be sold in the UK. Originally the company had marked out France and Germany as the only countries to get the device, but citing ‘high demand’ it has included a limited number of UK stores to stock it. The Panasonic DMC-CM1 is being marketed as a camera with smartphone technology, rather than a smartphone with a camera, and Panasonic has selected camera stores through which to sell it. The DMC-CM1 features the same 1-inch 20MP sensor that is used in the...
TIME released this behind-the-scenes video showing a recently photo shoot of actor Benedict Cumberbatch for the cover of the magazine. Cumberbatch will appear in the upcoming film “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing, the renowned British mathematician, codebreaker, and computer science pioneer. Photographer Dan Winters was the man behind the camera. Having studied World War II in great detail, Winters wanted to include an original Enigma code machine as a prop in the shot. After some searching, the team finally located and borrowed one of the last machines, owned by the Computer...
Photographer Chuck Baker is a self-proclaimed “camera and darkroom equipment hoarder” who can’t bear to get rid of gear even when it no longer works. Having a large number of enlargers in his collection, Baker recently decided to upcycle one of them by turning it into a working camera. The large format camera you see about is what resulted from the project. Baker created his camera using an old Meopta 35mm enlarger. Baker started with an old 35mm enlarger created by the Czechoslovakian optics company Meopta, and the lens of the camera is the lens that came with the enlarger. Baker...
Back in June, we reported that a company called Planet Labs is working to improve the efficiency of satellite photography by using a large number of tiny satellites instead of a single satellite. Company co-founder and CEO Will Marshal recently gave a TED Talk (shown above) that sheds some light on what the company is doing. The first image transmitted from one of Planet Labs’ satellite cameras Together, Planet Labs’ satellites will create what is the largest constellation of Earth imaging satellites ever. 28 of these satellites have been launched so far, but its Planet Labs’ goal is...
One of the big selling points of each new iPhone since 2007 has been improved camera quality. If new rumors are to be believed, we may not have seen the biggest quality jump yet. The latest word on the street is that next year’s iPhone may boast “the biggest camera jump ever.” That’s according to tech blogger John Gruber, who regularly writes about Apple over at DaringFireball. Gruber says in a recent podcast that “a birdie of a birdie” gave him some inside scoop on what Apple has up its sleeve: The specific thing I heard is that next years camera might be the biggest camera jump...
A Post By: Phillip VanNostrand Editing Freckles in Lightroom One photo, edited completely in Lightroom I recently photographed a model in New York City. As I was communicating with her leading up to the shoot I noticed in some of her pictures that she had freckles. I personally am a big fan of freckles and wanted to do a shoot that highlighted her skin rather than hide it behind makeup or photoshop tricks. One of my favorite photos that came out of the shoot was this one, cropped close to highlight her eyes and skin: After I posted the photo above on Instagram I was emailed by someone asking...
Having a great mobile experience is key in a day and age when a huge chunk of the online experience is had on a smartphone screen, and Yahoo! is continuing its march towards a great mobile experience today by acquiring the photo app maker Cooliris. Cooliris, in case you’re not familiar, is a company that is best known for apps like Cooliris — which allows users to browse photos from multiple services like Flickr, Dropbox, etc. — and BeamIt — a new photo messaging app. News of the acquisition broke last night with an official announcement on the Cooliris website, where the team writes...
To get the perfect aerial drone shots of the Dom Tower of Utrecht, Dutch filmmakers Jelte Keur and Reinout van Schie had to wait a full 10 months for the perfect weather conditions to arrive. But once they did, the minute forty-five of footage they captured made it all worthwhile. The Dom Tower of Utrecht is the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, measuring in at about 370 feet tall. Usually that would put it far below any kind of cloud cover, which is what makes this footage so awesome. For all intents and purposes, it looks like the tower is bursting through cloud cover...
Need a bit more awe and wonder in your life? Look no further than the newest image released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A high-res reprocessed color view of Jupiter’s moon Europa as captured by the spacecraft Galileo in the late 1990s, the photo “shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution.” According to the JPL, the new image was created by assembling Galileo’s near-infrared, green-filtered and violet-filtered photos, “into a realistic color view of the surface that approximates how Europa would appear to the human eye.” The resolution of the...
With the exception of the opening shot, Joe Capra of Scientifantastic‘s beautiful time-lapse Two Lands stays pretty far away from the humanity. A trip into the snowy wilderness of Iceland and Greenland, the time-lapse treats you to some spectacular landscapes complete with enough Aurora to make your head explode with wanderlust. The Los Angeles-based photographer — whose work has been featured by the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, The Washington Post and many more — shot these scenes while on assignment for Panasonic. Three Canon 5D Mark IIIs, various Canon...
Thinking about your local Yoga studio doesn’t usually conjure up images of masculinity. Yoga mats, yoga pants, yoga in general is seen as a female-dominated, or sometimes even female-only, practice. But as photographer Amy Goalen‘s project Inside the Warrior goes to show, that is definitely not always the case. The idea for Inside the Warrior — a project that has produced the Yoga Men 2015 Calendar and will soon become a photo book complete with an interview component — came to Goalen when one of her yoga teachers asked her to take some new promo shots for him. “We used a local yoga...
A Post By: Jim Hamel Shutter speed is one of those things that is initially a problem to be solved, but once you do that it becomes a tool that allows you to take better and more creative photos. First you should understand how shutter speed works and how to change it. You will need to make sure it is fast enough that your pictures turn out crisp. But once you’ve mastered those things, you can start using shutter speed to your advantage. You can slow it down to create a sense of movement, or speed it up to stop the action. Grey Whale Cove: 1/4 second at f/16, ISO 100 This article will show...
A Post By: Suzi Pratt Even though the prices of digital photography equipment continue to fall significantly, it can be a tough to dole out a thousand plus dollars on a brand new camera or lens. On the positive side, camera gear (especially lenses) retains its value really well. As a result, there’s almost always a surplus of used camera bodies, lenses, and accessories. Before you take the plunge and buy used gear, be sure to understand that used equipment can be a bit tricky to assess in terms of quality and price. As a photographer who shamelessly has about 50% used gear in her collection,...
In this article I’ll take you to the Lofoten Islands in Arctic Norway. I visited Lofoten earlier this year to prepare for my upcoming ‘Northern Spirits‘ workshop, and I had the opportunity to visit a unique location: Skagsanden beach. This is a panorama from a cloudy afternoon in Skagsanden. ‘Clouds over Skagsanden’, February 2014, the Lofoten Islands, Norway There are several interesting and unique features about Skagsanden. The first is the sharp mountains surrounding it. It’s not very common to find beautiful, jagged mountains in...
Now available from Flickr Wall Art. Blue Marble, Eastern Hemisphere March 2014. Photo from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Flickr Wall Art now allows users to order prints from more than 50 million photographs, the service has announced. This follows Wall Art’s arrival in October, and moves to include all applicable freely-licensed Creative Commons images, licensed artists images, and a curated selection of content from NASA. Previously users could only order prints of their own photographs. The collection has been aggregated so that users can browse image...
GoPros exist to take quite a beating… they are action cams after all. However, as much as GoPro might put its products through the wringer to test them and ensure they’re up for anything, it’s unlikely they expect one to survive what the one in the above video did. The functioning camera managed to survive in a riverbed for 17 months! And not only did it survive, the footage of the camera’s final moments was still safe and sound on the memory card inside. The camera was found by YouTuber Beau Ouimette, who spends much of his free time digging up goodies from the bottom of creeks and...
Two years ago we dubbed photographer Thomas Shahan ‘the Bob Ross of bug photography.’ Today, we’re back with a video from the macro master in which he dives into his workflow in the field, dropping bits and pieces of useful knowledge as he goes through a daily shoot. The video begins with a bit of a preface as to what he’ll be doing, after which Shahan dives into his workflow, explaining the techniques and approaches he uses to capture the fantastic up close and personal portraits of insects that he does. In addition to showing his work out in the field, Shahan also gives us a brief...
Long before high-sync speedlights were ever a thing, there was a bleeding-edge technology that forever changed the way people photographed subjects. It was called magnesium flash powder. We’ve seen it in old noir and western films, but today we have for you a video that brings it into the modern era, pitting the age-old technology against a standard electronic flash to see how they compare. The eight minute video was dug up by our friends at The Phoblographer, and it highlights the basic principles of flash powder, followed by a demonstration and comparison of how flash powder...
Two months ago, we told you that Adobe and Google were hard at work bringing Photoshop to the browser. Essentially, this version would run off of a server, allowing you to use as weak of a machine as you like, since the program isn’t relying at all on your computer’s processing power. Up till now, that’s really all we knew, but after two months of testing Adobe has pulled back the veil and given us a sneak peek at what ‘Streaming Photoshop‘ — as the program is called — actually looks like. The long and short of it is that, as Ars Technica puts it, “Streaming Photoshop looked like…...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Earlier I shared a collection of photos shot from above using a bird’s eye view. In the photography challenge last week you were assigned to photograph from a worm’s eye view or low down. This week you will be looking down, using the bird’s eye view to create your images. Bird’s eye view Bird’s are usually flying overhead or sitting up high on a wire looking down on us. So try something to get that kind of perspective in your image this week. Get up high and look down. That could mean: Climb to a roof or the top of a hill and look down Stand on a chair to...
A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Last week I rounded up a bunch of worm’s eye view images so this week we’re going the other way and taking the high road with bird’s eye view photos. Angle of view and perspective use is a great way to make more interesting images. As you might suspect bird’s eye view photos are taken from above, look down on the subject. That could mean standing on a chair, climbing a ladder, shooting from a rooftop or even a mountain top. Enjoy these bird’s eye view photos and allow them to inspire you: Conical Lifestyle by Drew Hopper on 500px Socializing by Edwin Leung on...
The Nexus 6 is Google’s showcase phone for Android 5.0 ‘Lollipop’ and the first Nexus device made by Motorola. It comes with a dual-LED ring flash, a 13MP sensor with a fast F2.0 aperture, optical image stabilization and 4K video recording. DxOMark Mobile put the Nexus 6 through its image and video quality tests and has just published the results. Does Google’s latest Nexus device impress? Take a look at DxO’s findings. Read DxOMark’s Mobile Report on the Google Nexus 6 over at connect.dpreview.com
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One of the biggest weaknesses of mobile cameras is shooting in low-light. The sensor can’t usually handle it very well, and the built-in light sources are usually… well… crap. Here to help with that is Lume Cube, a product currently being funded on Kickstarter that hopes to quite literally light up your smartphone and GoPro imagery. The Lume Cube is a small, pocketable LED light source that can pump out a whopping 1500 lumens worth of light, all of which can be precisely controlled via a dedicated smartphone app. Even better than the 1500 lumens is that you can simultaneously use and...
Inspired by a motherhood epiphany and the work of Cindy Sherman, photographer Susan Copich has spent the past four years creating a darkly comedic photo series called Domestic Bliss. In it, she turns the camera on herself and her family, portray a handful of family life scenes that she has meticulously crafted. A former dancer and actress, as well as a mother of two, Copich decided to begin this project after her life took an unexpected pivot. After living most of her life as a performer, then a number of years as that mother with a camera, snapping up endless photos of her children,...
One pesky issue you may have run into with your DSLR is front-focusing or back-focusing, a problem that, in the past, required that you send your camera into a service center along with any troublesome lenses. Thankfully, that’s not the case anymore. This problem can now be fixed with the help of microfiches adjustments, which almost all DSLRs have built into them now. And here to show us how to properly do just that is John Greengo in the above CreativeLive tutorial. In the video, Greengo lays out what the problem of front-focusing and back-focusing is, and then shares the solution,...
Is it really “crashing” a photo shoot when the person doing the crashing is more than welcome to stick around as much as they like? We’re not sure, but that was certainly the case in Nashville about a week ago when photographer Sarah Bailey had a Christmas family shoot hijacked by a very welcome guest. Pop star Taylor Swift was jogging in Percy Warner park when she spotted the family and decided to drop in. As you might imagine, the young girl of the family was a huge fan, and beyond just talking to her, Swift also posed for a few pictures that Bailey was there to capture. A fun,...
Dubai-based photographer Muhammad Hassan is coming out with a tutorial series that teaches basic to advanced photography techniques. To promote the course, he has created a very… interesting teaser video that uses special effects to dazzle the eyes and minds of prospective students. Without further ado, here’s the video (be sure to watch it in HD for maximum viewing experience): According to his Facebook page, Hassan started out his professional photography career back in 2012 with the Dubai Post, the “News Blog of UAE.” Since then, he has branched from press photography into other...
A Post By: Meredith Clark I vividly remember the first time I was asked to take photos for someone that I didn’t know. We had friends in common, and she had seen some of the photos that I had taken of friends and family, but we had never met. We talked over the phone, and arranged a time for me to come to her home and take some photos of her daughter. The big day arrived a week or so later, and I was SO nervous. I wasn’t sure what her home looked like, or what the lighting situation would be, or whether her daughter was sitting up by herself yet or not. I didn’t know how long I should stay,...
A Post By: Daniel Korzeniewski Ahh, the joy of travel photography, who doesn’t love that? But like everything in life, all that glitters is not gold. For travel photography, you actually need to travel, and in many circumstances, air travel and lengthy waits in airports are common. Nobody likes being stranded in a terminal for hours, or experiencing delays, missed or long connections, all of which happen pretty often. But it can be different for us, the ones who embrace photography. Instead of just sitting there doing nothing, we can have some fun doing what we enjoy the most. At least,...
German television and photographic equipment maker Metz has filed for insolvency according to German media. Metz is known for producing high-end lighting equipment including flash units, studio flashes, and video lights. Approximately 600 jobs will be affected by the situation. Insolvency administrator, Joachim Exner, has noted that Metz’s everyday services would continue for the time being. In a release published by German site Photoscala, he has laid down the long term goal of ‘keeping the business afloat, while securing as many jobs as possible’. Metz has...
Fujifilm has announced two macro extension tubes for its X-series interchangeable lens cameras, the MCEX-11 and MCEX-16. Compatible with Fuji’s XF and XC lenses, they offer full AE function and are designed to ‘seamlessly blend into the original look and feel of the X-series’. The MCEX-11 and MCEX-16 will be available in mid-December for $99.95. Also making its debut is Fuji’s PC Tethered Shooting Software HS-V5 for Windows v1.0. It provides two operation modes, Camera Mode and PC Mode for making exposure adjustments either on the camera or...
The built-in LED flash units in smartphones tend to be very low-powered and only really useful at close subject-distances. If you are serious about your flash photography, using an external light source is a good idea. Lume Cube has announced a new option for low light photographers. The Lume Cube device measures 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) and uses three LEDs to generate up to 1500 lumens. Thanks to its silicone shell it is water resistant and a 1/4-inch thread makes it mountable on a tripod or other camera support. Additionally, it can be attached to most surfaces magnetically or using a...
Every 30 minutes, the weather satellite Elektro-L captures a 121 megapixel image from geosynchronous orbit using both visible and infrared light. And it’s these images, captured between May 15th to May 19th, 2011, that James Tyrwhitt-Drake compiled into an incredibly beautiful, high-res time-lapses of the Blue Marble. It would be easy to assume that just because Tyrwhitt-Drake was using images he found and not images he himself captured that the process of creating this time-lapse was easy. That’s definitely not the case. As he explains in the video’s description on YouTube: The...
DPReview recently got a chance to put the $900 Panasonic Lumix LX100 through a thorough review, and after putting it through the wringer, the camera has come out victorious… like really victorious. In fact, it received the highest ever award in its class. The long and short of the review is that the LX100 provides ‘significantly’ better image quality than essentially every other compact zoom camera on the market. DPReview says this is not only due to the considerably large sensor Panasonic has put into this beast, but also due to the fast, impressive Leica glass. DPReview doesn’t turn...
Earlier this year we told you that Adidas was planning to launch an app and accompanying service that would allow you to print your photographs onto a pair of its shoes. MiZX Flux, the aforementioned iOS and Android app that lets you design your shoe, has been up and live for quite some time, but only now is it ready for the spotlight and allowing people in the US to design and buy a pair of kicks with their own photography on it. Available on both Android and iOS, the creation process is pretty simple: You select your shoe size, the country you’re located in, and your gender. From...
We’ve seen one video demonstration of the Canon 7D Mark II’s impressive AutoFocus system, and we’ve heard the amazing specs, but it’s a picture of a dragonfly that really drove home the point, for us, of how good this system is at locking focus on a moving subject. The image we’re talking about was captured by photographer Romy Ocom with his pre-production 7D Mark II review unit, and it’s safe to say it’s beyond the scope of your standard DSLR AF system. While waiting for some birds in flight a few weeks ago, Ocom saw some dragonflies hovering nearby and decided to up the focus...
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Congratulations Jacob and Jamie McNeil PFRE Videographers Of The Month For Oct/Nov 2014
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Sony A6000 Mirrorless Camera Review and Example Images
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A Post By: Gavin Hardcastle If the Sony A7R is a champion heavyweight in its prime, the Sony A6000 is the scrappy younger brother with a leaner frame, faster feet and a few tricks up its sleeve that big brother hasn’t bothered to learn. Having spent almost a year with the A7R as my main camera, I’ve become very familiar with the current Sony Alpha system, so I hit the ground running with the A6000. Here is my Sony A6000 review along with a load of example images from my most recent road trip. For this shot I used my Canon 24-105mm with the hated Metabones Adapter. Sporting a 24.3 Megapixels...
20 Dos and Don’ts for Shooting the Moon
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A Post By: Bruce Wunderlich The April moon called the “Pink Moon” rose over Marietta, Ohio. The setting sun lit the city in a warm glow. The moon is a very popular subject for photographers of all skill levels to shoot. But if you’ve ever tried to photograph the moon, you’ve probably discovered that it’s not that easy to accomplish. In this article let’s look at some dos and don’ts to take your moon shots from snapshot to artwork. To begin, the first and most important DON’T is: Don’t assume that photographing the moon is going to be easy. #1 Do use a tripod One of the most important pieces...
Bridal Photos On a Burning Couch Make a Statement About Divorce Culture
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It just started as a cool idea. New Zealand photographer Tom Hollow had a broken couch he needed to get rid of, and so he decided to burn it and take pictures. Then he decided to put a bride on it because, in his words, it “would look cooler with a bride.” It wasn’t until after the shoot that he realized the images fit a particular storyline quite well: divorce. Speaking with friend and old co-worker Kenny Coverstone at Fstoppers, Hollow explains the culture shock surrounding divorce that he experienced when he moved to the US, and how that inspired him to fit this particular...
Photo Idea: Shoot Through Christmas Lights to Get a Holiday Bokeh Effect on the Cheap
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Here’s a simple photo idea that photographer Nick Fancher came up with for the folks over at Digital Photography School. If you wanna add some holiday flair to your portrait sessions this Christmas season on the cheap, try shooting through a $5 set of Christmas lights. The idea is really quite simple. To get the effect in the photos you see above, all Fancher did was drape some cheap Christmas lights over a C-Stand, and set up two different speedlights for additional lighting. You can see the setup in the diagram below. Shooting at 1/30th and f/2 using a 100mm f/2 lens, Fancher added...
Hack Combines Graphing Calculator and Game Boy Camera to Create a Selfie-Snapping Machine
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Christopher Mitchell recently breathed some photographic life into a pice of technology many of us probably have languishing away in some drawer. With the help of an Arduino board, he’s found a way to Frankenstein a Texas Instruments graphing calculator and Game Boy Camera into the ArTICam: a 128–128 grayscale selfie machine. Since the Game Boy Camera and Texas Instruments graphing calculator weren’t exactly designed to work with one another, Mitchell used an Arduino board and ready-made code to get the two to play together nicely. With the code already available, all he needed was...
Game of Thrones Season 1 Poster Recreated with Huge Camera Lenses Instead of Swords
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One afternoon, while hanging out with his coworkers at Bozeman Camera, photographer Tanner Johnson and his friend Beau Larson had an idea: they decided to recreate the Game of Thrones Season 1 poster with camera gear instead of swords. From the Iron Throne to the Stark family’s sword ‘Ice,’ all of the sharp pointing things used to kill people were replaced with huge lenses to create an awesome photographic version. As you can probably tell from looking at it — and given the sheer amount of gear that would be required to create that throne IRL — this image was helped along a good bit...
Star Wars Episode VII Trailer Recreated in Awesome LEGO Stop Motion Animation
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This is going to be a VERY long year, and we have J.J. Abrams to blame. Since its release on Friday, the trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens has swept across the Internet like a wildfire. But as with almost anything viral, it hasn’t completely taken its course until it’s been parodied and recreated a handful of times. This viral sensation is no exception, and we have our first viral attempt thanks to LEGO fanatic Snooperking, who recreated the entire trailer from start to finish using stop motion animation. After realizing he had some free time on Friday,...
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SEEKING Male Models
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MissTeenUK – Over £3000 of Prizes To Be Won
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Model Required for Look Book Shoot – Paid
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Ethnic Female Model for Bridal Beauty Shoot
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Photographer/Videographer Wanted in Rockhampton
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$50 a Day Female Photographer
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Congratulations to Sebastian Erras November Photographer Of The Month
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How to Balance Off-Camera Flash and Ambient Light on Location
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In this Adorama TV video Gavin Hoey takes you on location to learn how to balance flash and ambient light to create some stunning portraits in the forest. After going through three different setups outdoors he takes you inside for the post-processing stage so see how he completes the images in Photoshop. Some of the items Gavin used and demonstrated in the video for your convenience: Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L lens BlackRapid Curve RS-7 camera strap Flashpoint RoveLight 600ws monolight Glow ParaPop 28″ R Series Sekonic L-308S Flashmate light meter You can get the...
7 Tips for Better Beach Photography
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A Post By: Jim Hamel The beach can be a great place for photography. You are in a scenic environment. You typically have friends or family members with you. You are usually there on nice days. All these can contribute to great photographs. But the degree of photography problems you will face on the beach might surprise you. Exposure can be tricky given the bright environment. Often, there is nothing but sand, so the composition can be dull. And of course there are elements like sand and salt-water that do not mix well with electronics. So I want to give you some tips for beach photography,...
Video: How to Capture Astrophotography Images Without a Star Tracker
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In astrophotography, a star tracker is a piece of gear that compensates for the Earth’s rotation so you can take sharp long exposure photographs of the night sky. Unfortunately, not everyone can get their hands on one of these, and so we’ve dug up this awesome tutorial by astrophotographer Forrest Tanaka on how to capture impressive astrophotography images without a star tracker. Tanaka starts the video by briefly explaining what star trackers are and how they can both improve and hinder your workflow. After that brief rundown, he dives into the process he uses to take...
Hardcore Athlete Portraits of Weightlifting Grandmas and Basketball Playing Grandpas
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Advertising imagery for everything from basketball shoes to weightlifting attire usually features muscled athletes performing some amazing (if occasionally Photoshop-enhanced) feat. Photographer Dean Bradshaw decided to turn that idea on its head with his series Golden Years. An ongoing project that currently has a part one and part two, Bradshaw’s Golden Years portraits celebrate the weekend warrior, and more specifically the senior citizen weekend warrior. Grandpas playing basketball and grandmas training for ‘the big fight,’ are the subjects of his first two installments, and we...
Heartwarming #DaughterDoesMyMakeup Portraits Question the Idea of Beauty
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The most poignant revelations often come at the most unlikely of times. That’s what happen to photographer Elly Heise, who created the touching project #DaughterDoesMyMakeup, a series of portraits of mothers sporting makeup their young daughters did for them. While the original plan for the series was to simply capture a “fresh perspective on beauty,” as she explained to Bored Panda, the series ended up leading Heise to question the true definition of beauty. This project, says Heise, is for anyone who feels the need to follow someone else idea of beauty: I want this to affect people...
Troubling FAA Report Shows Drone-Related Air Traffic Incidents are On the Rise
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A new FAA report is confirming what we imagine many responsible camera drone enthusiasts fear: the number of idiotic drone pilots is on the rise, and they’re threatening to ruin it for everyone or, far worse, cause a full-scale air disaster. The report was released Wednesday in response to requests by news organizations like The Washington Post, and it describes drone-related air traffic incidents reported by air traffic controllers since mid-2014. While the list (downloadable as a spreadsheet from the New York Times) doesn’t cover every incident, it does cover some of the most...
Super Fast, Well-Reviewed, Portable 2TB WD Hard Drive Selling for Lowest Price Ever
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If you need some extra storage or you’ve been waiting for a good quality portable hard drive at a great price, we’ve found a deal you should definitely jump on. The Western Digital 2TB My Passport Ultra is selling at an all-time low price of $80 right now on eBay. Dug up by the deal hunters at Kinja, this is the lowest price they’ve ever seen on the hard drive. In fact, the drive — which retails for $140 — has never sold for less than $100 on Amazon. The best part is that this isn’t just some cheap drive they’re trying to get rid of. Extremely well reviewed on Amazon and B&H...
Ink’d Tattooed Models TFP
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Fitness and Sexy Sport (TFP)
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Main Model Needed
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Cameraman Needed $500 for 6hours Gold Coast
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Make Up Artist and Photographer Needed
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Simple Post-Processing Tips For Minimalists
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A Post By: Karthika Gupta Are you a minimalist in terms of your photography? Do you crave simple composition and clean lines in your images? There are many wonderful articles on minimalist photography and simple imagery. In fact Valerie Jardin has a fantastic article on Minimalist Photography – 4 Tips To Keep It Simple right here on Digital Photography School. This article encourages you to take that approach a step further into post-processing to achieve a clean, timeless look to your imagery. A clean, crisp image always stands the test of time. You don’t have to look very far, just dig...
Review: The Filter Hive from Mindshift Gear
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A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson The Filter Hive, made by Mindshift Gear. The fabric exterior is coated with a water resistant coating to help protect your filters in bad weather. If you are a landscape photographer it’s quite possible you own several filters that you use regularly. These may include a polarizing filter, three or four stop neutral density filters, graduated neutral density filters (you might have two or three of these) and, if you practice long exposure photography, a 10 stop neutral density filter such as the LEE Filters Big Stopper. Filters can be difficult to deal with. I’ve...
The Story Behind this Powerful Photo of a Black Boy Hugging a White Cop at a Ferguson Demonstration
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Amidst the many photos of hate, anger, sadness and sometimes outright destruction that have flooded the media since a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, sparking riots and protests across the US, there are glimmers of hope and humanity. One such glimmer was captured by Oregon-based freelance photographer Jonny Nguyen at a Ferguson demonstration in Portland earlier this week. The photo shows 12-year-old Devonte Hart, his eyes welling with tears as he hugs Portland Police Sgt. Bret Barnum, and the story behind it was reported first by The Oregonian...
96-Year-Old Photographer Writes a Wonderful Message to His Granddaughter and Gives Her His Gear
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22-year-old Alexis Taylor recently shared an email she received from her 96-year-old photographer grandfather, and it’s just too wonderful not to share. Alexis is a proud Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket who is pursuing a career in video production and does freelance photography on the side. Knowing this, when it came time to decide what to do with all his old film photography equipment, her grandpa send Alexis an email to see if she’d be interested in having it. Below is the full e-mail, reprinted with kind permission from Alexis. [Dear Alexis,] On our trip this summer I mentioned to Kathy...
Drone Footage of Chernobyl is Every Bit as Haunting as You Would Expect
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While working with CBS News to capture footage for a 60 Minutes segment about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, filmmaker Danny Cooke got to explore the haunted landscape there in a way most people haven’t yet: by drone. The resulting video, released just 4 days ago, is called Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl, and it’s every bit as eerie as you would imagine. For Cooke, being in Chernobyl was doubly strange, since this place had had such an impact on his family in Italy when he was only months old. As he explains in the video’s description: The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986...
13 Photo Books for Your Stocking Stuffers
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In the age of the iPad, there still is something glorious about a photo book. Here are a few of our favorites from 2014, so send Santa (or Hanukah Harry) a quick tweet, and get a big dose of inspiration this Holiday season. 1. Danny Clinch – Danny Clinch Rockstar photographer, Danny Clinch, compiled his iconic images into his eponymous tome. Fans of contemporary portraiture as well as music lovers will dig this book, and the foreword by the Boss, Bruce Springsteen. 2. Testament – Chris Hondros Chris Hondros was tragically killed in a mortar attack while covering the unrest in Libya....
Zano Micro-Drone is Tiny, Autonomous, and Equipped with Optical Image Stabilization
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Micro-drones are typically thought of as more of a toy rather than a tool. If you want to capture real recreational aerial footage, you buy a bigger, heftier drone, right? Well, not necessarily. ZANO wants to change all that by packing both power and ease of use into a tiny package that measures just 2.5 x 2.5-inches and weighs just over 1.2lbs. Created by Torquing Group Ltd — a company that has spent years creating micro-drones for military use — the ZANO is being called, “the world’s most sophisticated nano drone.” ZANO wants to be the best of all drone worlds. Easily piloted with...
Looking for full crew to attach to Melbourne based short film
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Camera Assistant required – Victoria
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Looking for a New Film to Produce
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Sound Person Wanted for Independent Feature Film Shooting in London
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2D/3D Animators Wanted For Various Hip Hop Music Videos
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Photographer Needed For Film Noir / 50’s 60’s style Band Shots
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What Lens Should Real Estate Photographers Use On APS-C DSLRs?
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Photography Challenge – Chill Out with Cool Tones
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Today I rounded up 37 great examples of images in cool tones. The tone or color of your image can create or shift the mood and meaning if your image and is a very powerful compositional tool when used well. This week your goal is to practice creating cool tones in your photography. Photography challenge – cool tones Here are a few examples of images with cool tones. By Kelsi Barr By Chris Smith By Brandon Watts You can create a color tint in your image a few different ways: By shooting at blue hour Adjusting your white balance Changing the color in...
37 Relaxing Cool Tone Images To Chill Out With
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt This week’s image set is all about relaxing and getting to your zen place. Often cool tones relay that message really well as they feel less stressed and calming than warmer colors. Cool tones include blue, purple and even green. See how you feel after viewing these images: Relaxing cool tone images Misty Mono…. by Jay Sabapathy on 500px Arctic Symphony by Mikko Lagerstedt on 500px Nallo Night by Sander van der Werf on 500px Feather-Light by Becky Fuller-Phillips on 500px New buds by Allen Adnan on 500px Beautiful Borage by kreativgrund on 500px Wintery by...
Lumu smartphone light meter app updated with reflective mode
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Nov, 2014 |
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Even for photographers who would not even think about taking pictures with a smartphone camera the mini computer in your pocket can be, with the right accessories, an extremely useful tool. The Lumu light meter is a great example for this. The tiny device plugs into the headphone socket and, with the help of the dedicated Lumu app, turns your smartphone into a fully-fledged light meter that can help enhance your understanding of a scene’s lighting situation. So far the Lumu has only been working as an incident light meter which reads the light falling on the subject rather than...
Lensbaby Circular Fisheye 5.8mm f/3.5 now available in new mounts
Posted by Chris Roubis on 29th, Nov, 2014 |
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Lensbaby has announced its Circular Fisheye 5.8mm f/3.5 lens is now available with new mount options. Launched in April for Canon and Nikon DSLRs, the Circular Fisheye brings with it the same 185-degree angle of view and ability to focus up to as close as 1/4-inch. Says Lensbaby, the Circular Fisheye lens will soon be offered with Micro Four Thirds, Sony A and E, Samsung NX, and Pentax K mounts in addition to the Canon EF and Nikon F versions originally launched. The lens features manual focus, a polished internal barrel for flare effects, and both focus distance scale...
Young Self-Taught Photographer Captures Wanderers Against Magnificent Landscapes
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Nov, 2014 |
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Self-taught Canadian photographer Elizabeth Gadd described her photography niche better, perhaps, than anybody else when she said, “I, uh… shoot landscapey stuff… with people in them.” That, however, is something of an understatement. The 21-year-old photographer’s body of work does, indeed contain “landscapey stuff with people in them,” but that hardly does the spectacular vistas she photographs justice. Gadd started taking pictures in 2007, but didn’t really get serious until 2010 when she embarked on a 365 project of self portraits. By the end of that project she had found her...
How to Capture a Beautiful Watch Product Shot Using Only an iPad for Lighting
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Nov, 2014 |
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Product photography — even when done with cheap gear like this awesome tutorial using an iPhone, an IKEA lamp and some flashlights — usually involves multiple light sources. But there is a way around that, as Laya Gerlock over on DIY Photography demonstrates in this awesome tutorial titled “How to Shoot a Perfect Watch with Nothing but an iPad.” In truth, you could nitpick the title since you’re using a camera to take the actual picture, but that’s just splitting hairs. What Gerlock is showing you is how to use an iPad or iPhone as your only light source to light paint a...
What Makes a Great Photograph? A Bit of Thanksgiving Encouragement
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Nov, 2014 |
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Despite the video’s title, the short, encouraging snippet above from photographer Joel Grimes isn’t about finding a specific set of characteristics that define “a great photograph.” Instead, it’s about finding out what a great photograph is to you. It’s a matter of taste, discovering your personal vision, and then coming to terms with the fact that not everybody is going to love what you do. It’s that last point that Grimes spends the most time on, and the one that we think will resonate with the most people. An encouraging message that is particularly pertinent in the Internet age...
Female Models/Extras for Editorial Photo Shoot
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Shift Available in Canberra
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Looking for Asian Female Model for Shoot on the 15th of December
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Models Required for Video Shoot
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Female Artistic Nude Models – London
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A producer and director need for film
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Producer Needed for Festival Short
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Voice Over Recordist Required
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Looking for a Film Crew for Web Series
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VFX Artist and Editor
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Last Minute Photographer Callout
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Immediate Start Christmas/Photography Staff Required in Campbelltown
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Photographer For Half Day, Fun Shoot For Artwork Cover
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Photo Editor Required
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How to Create a Unique Bokeh Portrait for Under $10
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Nick Fancher This shot was lit with one light on the subject along with the Christmas lights. You can have a luxurious bokeh in any of your images for the low cost of $4.99. Yes, you heard me right, just $4.99. How, you ask? I’ll tell you, but you won’t believe me – Christmas lights. Just a single strand of Christmas lights and a couple of flash units are all you need to immerse your subject in full-blown bokeh bliss. This isn’t a double exposure or a Photoshop trick. It can all be done in camera in a single exposure. I bought a strand of cheap Christmas lights from the store,...
A Practical Review of the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens
Posted by Chris Roubis on 28th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Barry J Brady The Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 Lens You will hear this from many photographers – “invest in your lenses”. Camera bodies will come and go, but a good lens can last a very long time. This was the advice that I first received when I started taking my photography seriously. Initially, I thought it was a bit hyped. I bought a cheap 70-300mm lens and used it at the first wedding I shot. I thought the images were fantastic until I bought a better lens a year later. I then realized how much difference a good lens can make. This review is not going to be a technical review of the...
Tutorial: How to Batch Process Your RAW Time-Lapse Photography
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Nov, 2014 |
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Time-lapse photography seems pretty straightforward, right? You just capture a stream of images over a designated time frame and put them together in post-production to create your video. But as simple as that may sound, there are a few basic elements to the post-processing of your images that can greatly alter what the final product will look like. Here to go over just a few of those basics, including batch-editing for color correction, de-flickering images and more, is J.P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens. The video tutorial above is about as simple as it gets, breaking down the...
Talented Pinhole Photographer Uses His Craft to Bring Joy to Syrian Child Refugees
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Nov, 2014 |
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Photographer Zeb Andrews prefers to slow the world down when he captures a photograph. The Portland-based photographer first began shooting with a pinhole camera purely for fun, but little did he know that, within a matter of a few years his work would take him to Turkey where he would share his love of pinhole photography with Syrian child refugees. The opportunity came about after Andrews’ pinhole work (below) had already been on display in a number of galleries, and had even secured him a spot on a local television art show. After the television show went live across the globe for...
We’re Giving Away a Free Trip to Dubai to Attend Gulf Photo Plus 2015
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Nov, 2014 |
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Want to attend Gulf Photo Plus 2015 in Dubai next year? We’re giving away a free trip to attend the photography festival from March 6, 2015 through March 13, 2015. One lucky winner will receive: free airfare to and from Dubai from your nearest major international airport (~$1,200 if flying from the US), 5 nights at the event’s official hotel (~$700), ~$1,000 worth of workshops during the event, and a $32 free pass to PhotoFriday at the event. The total package is worth roughly $3,000. Gulf Photo Plus is the region’s biggest photography festival bringing the world’s best photographers...
This Peel-Away Polaroid Calendar is a Great Gift for Your Instant Photography-Loving Friends
Posted by Chris Roubis on 27th, Nov, 2014 |
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Here’s a wonderful little gift idea (stocking stuffer perhaps?) that’s sure to impress one of the photography lovers on your list this holiday season. It’s the Poladarium 2015, and it’s a peel-away calendar where each day presents a new Polaroid photograph for you to admire. Created by German publishers Seltmann + Söhne, it uses a post-it like peel-away method to present 365 Polaroids, each of which includes a well-chosen typeface for the date and provides information about the photographer who took the photograph in a section on the back. The photographs are printed on high-quality...
Report: GoPro Plans to Start Making Its Own Camera Drones Next Year
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DJI better watch out, because the camera that is commonly attached to its most popular line of Drones might soon have a drone of its very own. That’s right, we’re talking about GoPro, and the Wall Street Journal claims the company is planning to release its own line of drones next year. If true, this news would shake up the camera drone market in a big way. According to the WSJ’s “people familiar with [GoPro’s] plans,” the action cam maker and media brand is planning to expand into “multi-rotor helicopters with high-def camera lenses.” The report claims the multi-copers will retail...
African Teen Required for URGENT Stills Shoot
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Seeking a Female to be the Ambassador/Face of Emani Vegan Colour Cosmetics
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14 Hard Core Cricket Supporters Required for Photography Shoot
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Model Required for American Crew Hair Cut
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Short Hair Model Required for Hair Expo Shoot
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Photographer Wanted for One-Off Shoot
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The Easy Way to Make Your Own Custom Photoshop Brushes
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A Post By: Alex Morrison If you’ve never heard about the creative use of brushes in Photoshop, this article is for you. If you already know about using brushes, you’ll be able to ramp up your creativity once you learn this easy skill – making your own brushes. What are Photoshop brushes and why you’d want to learn how to make your own? Photoshop brushes are tools that are mostly used just like regular paint brushes to add strokes of color to your images. Most often people will use them as part of their dodging and burning workflow. Some people also use them in digital painting. The built-in...
3 Tips to Take Better Landscape Photos Regardless of the Weather
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A Post By: Diego Lapetina Photographers are a special type of people that usually pay a lot of attention to detail. They’re also known to be patient and perseverant. However, in my opinion, landscape photographers are a unique breed. I’m sure that only a hand full of people are willing to hike 10 miles with 25 pounds of photography gear on their back, just because they hope to seize the perfect moment. Generally, in photography, practice leads to improvement. However, practicing landscape photography is a bit trickier since you don’t have control over the light setup, the weather, or the...
2014 Enthusiast Mirrorless Camera Roundup
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“As we round the bend, into the home stretch… Sony pulling away by three lengths, followed Panasonic, Olympus and Samsung neck to neck for second place… Fuji trying to pass those three with renewed breakaway energy… At the far stretch, just now, making it at the halfway mark, is Nikon and Canon… Wait… Nikon is struggling… Oooh! Canon has just collapsed and smashed the M into pieces! What a tragedy! The EOS M has disintegrated into oblivion!” . Source Article from...
2014 High-end Pocketable Compact Roundup
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Let me put it this way. As advanced as Sony or Canon are, or as sympathetic as Fujifilm is, or as much as I like lots of other cameras… The viewfinder, such as it is, on the LF1, gives it a million mile headstart against anything else in its class. I will never, ever understand how can so many people shoot with their arms stretched, using cameras that are completely unfit for such a goal. I can make due with a positionable LCD (such as on my EX1), but fixed LCD? Never. Even though I have such a compact. It’s just a terrible way to take pics (except macro/closeups). I never liked...
2014 Enthusiast DSLR Roundup
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What a bunch of phooey. The D7100 beats the K-3 how exactly….ergonomics, no,IQ, noprice, noLV, nomovie mode, nospeed, NO!!!buffer, noAF, debatable….AF in the dark, Nomenus, no!in body sensor shift, NoGPS stat tracking, noMetering, noViewfinder, noMagnesium body, noshutter actuations reliability, nodampening, noUSB3,noflash sync, yesbattery life yes, flash system yesNikon badge yes!!!!! I think your assessment is total bias. to put it mildly. thanks for putting in time and effort. Source Article from...
Enthusiast mirrorless camera roundup (2014)
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In the past, we’ve included both mirrorless and DSLR cameras in our enthusiast interchangeable lens camera roundup. Enthusiast cameras, by the way, are cameras that sit right above the consumer-level category and just under high-end camera-category (high-end refers to cameras with full-frame sensors that are not quite pro-level, think Nikon D610, Canon 6D, Sony a99, and the Sony a7-series). Fujifilm X-T1 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 Olympus OM-D E-M1 Samsung NX1 Nikon 1 V3 This year, we opted to split the category in two, as we had a hard time definitively deciding on just...
2014 Mid-range Mirrorless Roundup
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Two things before I get to my response; firstly I am not sure of for what purpose you will be using the camera predominantly, and secondly I am not sure what you meant by mentioning that Sony may have discontinued it’s4/3 line up. I am by no means a professional, but having been interested in both of these cameras I have learned a little. You mentioned video, and yes, from what I have read, it seems Fuji is not such a video provider but it is great with still shots. The EM5 has 5-axis in body stabilization (IBIS) and is better equipped for video than the XE2, however, it isn’t...
The Vela One is 100x Faster than Conventional Strobes, Can Stop a Bullet In Its Tracks
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High speed photography is all about fast-flash; the faster your flash, the faster the instant you can adequately freeze on a digital sensor. Modern strobes are pretty good at this, with flash durations as fast as 1/20,000 of a second, but a Bristol-based company Vela Labs is about to take high-speed photography to unheard-of heights. Introducing the Vela One, ‘the world’s first high speed LED flash’ that boasts a flash speed starting at 1/2,000,000 second, or 500 nanoseconds. To solve the problem of clunky gear, power-hungry filaments and potentially dangerous heat that standard...
Power Hungry: Poignant Photos Compare the Meals of the Rich and Poor Throughout History
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Contemporary North Korea Approximately 40% of food is thrown out in America each year. This amounts to roughly $165 billion (with a ‘b’) worth of food, which could feed half of the 50 million Americans who struggle to put food on the table. It’s tough statistics like these that inspired photographer Henry Hargreaves and his friend and food stylist Caitlin Levin to create the series Power Hungry: a poignant set of photos that illustrates the inequality between the rich and the poor by comparing what each class’s meals have looked like throughout history. What initially started out as...
Reuters Layoffs Continue as the Company Continues to Rework Its Photography Department
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In August of 2013, we shared the news that Thomson Reuters had dropped all of its freelance sports photographers in North America in favor of a deal they struck with USA Today Sports Images. But it appears that sad move was only the beginning. Earlier this week, more members of the photography staff at Thomson Reuters were let go in the multi-national media company’s ongoing effort to downsize and focus its workforce, especially in the imaging department. According to a report from the National Press Photographers Association, Thomson Reuters let go Picture Editor for North America...
Beautiful Photographs of Microscopic Plankton that Look Like Photos of Outer Space
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Faults: Coscinodiscus and pinnularia, crushed When you look at the photographs in her series Into the Umbra, photographer Julia Bennett wants you to think you’re looking at outer space. And then, just as your mind is struggling to expand to encompass the far reaches of the solar system where the image was captured, that’s when she wants you to realize that you’re looking at something you could find in any old liter of Sea Water. Her images weren’t captured with a telescope peering into the heavens, but a microscope that peers into the micro worlds inside droplets of seawater. This...
Hasselblad Unveils the Stellar II: A Luxury Item ‘Not Intended to Be Judged Against Other Cameras’
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Minutes ago, Hasselblad officially unveiled the Stellar II, another Sony rebrand that will likely draw some ridicule from the photo community — except that Hassy has changed their tactics a bit with this camera. Right in the first line of the press release, they’re making one thing clear: this camera is “not intended to be judged against other cameras,” but is, “rather, conceived and crafted exclusively for Aficionados, Collectors and Connoisseurs.” As with the first Stellar, which was announced quietly in July of last year, the Stellar II is a Sony RX100 with an expensive makeover....
Nikon Announces New NSR-S322F Dry ArF Scanner with Enhanced Accuracy and Throughput
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November 26, 2014
Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Minato-ku, Tokyo) announced it will begin sale of its latest dry ArF scanner, the NSR-S322F, in December. The NSR-S322F was developed to satisfy customers’ requirements for optimized performance and stable production of state-of-the-art devices. The NSR-S322F leverages the proven Streamlign platform employed on the earlier generation NSR-S320F, to deliver superior overlay accuracy and high throughput for the most advanced dry 193 nm applications.
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Three Very Fit Actors/Models Required for Advertising Role
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Editorial Photo Shoot in Capetown (Male and Female Models)
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Beauty Models Wanted for Photographic Art Project
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Promotional Model Required this Friday 28th November in Maroochydore
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TFP Model Wanted – Melbourne
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Film Crew Required for YouTube Reality Series
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In Need of Wedding Photographer
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Freelance Creative Photographer Wanted 2 Hour Photoshoot
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What About Holiday Gifts or Promotional Gifts As A Marketing Tool?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Nov, 2014 |
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PFRE Still and Property Video Contests Are A Great Learning Opportunity
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Is Being a Photographer Synonymous With Being an Artist?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Will G. MacNeil Sure, the concept of photography falls under the realm of one the arts, but can you strictly label someone an artist based on their job or hobby? Photographers are everywhere nowadays. Beyond the thousands upon thousands of photographers who have businesses and make a living taking pictures, there are also all the families with cameras and anyone who halfway knows how to use a camera phone. Every single one of you who calls yourself a photographer has the opportunity, in my opinion, to call yourself an artist. The term artist has a powerful meaning that is...
How to get more from your printer – besides good quality prints!
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Sarah Hipwell Canon Pixma MG6350 All-in-one-printer If you like to print hard copies of your photos at home, how do you decide which inkjet printer to buy? With such a myriad of printers on the market it can be daunting which one to choose. However, similar to buying a camera, one main consideration will be how much do you want to spend. I bought a Canon PIXMA MG6350 a little over a year ago. As luck would have it, my local computer shop had the white version in stock for nearly 50 Euros ($62USD) less than the black one. The white one was my first choice. This is a high-end,...
Updated: Enthusiast compact camera roundup
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Nov, 2014 |
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Is this large-sensor compacts? Or viewfinder compacts? Or also 1/1.7″, raw-capable compacts? Or compacts above a certain physical size? And why exclude the elephant in the room, the RX100? It seems this is a collection of cameras that stand out in some way or another. Or maybe it was to have one or two contenders in each interesting category. (a) compact, 200 mm, viewfinder, but 1/1.7″ (P7800)(b) compact, fast-ish lens, 1/1.7″ (G16)(c) compact-ish, 200+ mm, viewfinder, 1/1.7″ (Stylus)(d) compact, large-ish sensor (X-20)(e) smaller than a ILC+superzoom, 200+ mm, large...
Hasselblad introduces Stellar II luxury enthusiast compact
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Nov, 2014 |
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Hasselblad has announced the Stellar II, an enthusiast compact which the company says has been ‘conceived and crafted exclusively for aficionados, collectors, and connoisseurs’. Like other recent Hasselblads, the Stellar II is a rebadged Sony camera – which in this case is the Cyber-shot RX100 II. Available grip finishes include olive, walnut, padouk, and carbon fiber. You can pick one up for yourself at a price of €1650. This is most likely the last of the rebadged Sony cameras from Hasselblad, following the recently closure of the company’s...
Nikon D750 shooting experience published
Posted by Chris Roubis on 26th, Nov, 2014 |
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@HowaboutRAW So you are basically saying that 2 cameras that have the same noise level, both of them stochastically, would render differently using magic noise-level reduction?!? Maybe you should consider another training in basic math, when talking about stochastically dispersed noise. My conclusion is that they share the same sensor, maybe with different layers in front of them, one that smooth things but diminish moiré (D610), one that let’s things sharper but increase moiré problems. For me it’s a matter of taste, and I am not sure which one I would choose if allowed, but...
CNN Cameraman Pits the iPhone 6 Against His Standard Issue Broadcast Camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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Footage shot with smartphones has become much more common in the world of journalism today, where quick turnaround times are just as important as getting the shot. Knowing this, one CNN cameraman wanted to see if it was possible for a smartphone (namely the iPhone 6) to keep up with a much larger, traditional broadcast camera. To find out, 14-year CNN cameraman Harvey Hogan decided to pit the iPhone 6 against his standard broadcast camera in the heart of London’s Piccadilly Square. The three-minute video above dives almost straight into the comparison. Hogan briefly talks about each...
Red Bull Raises the Extreme Video Bar with Interactive 3rd Person 360º Little Planet Kite Surfing Video
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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Red Bull is known for its clever advertising and incredible collection of sponsored adrenaline junkies. So, to make the most of both of these assets, the company recently decided to pair up with kite surfer Jason Polakow to create one of the most intense and immersive ‘tiny planet’ videos you’ve probably ever seen. To capture the footage as you see it above — with Polakow’s head and bottom still in the frame — Red Bull’s camera team had to custom build a four-GoPro system that used a long pole attached to Polakow’s back. The resulting third-person perspective gives us an...
Creative Underexposure with Nikon DSLRs
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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With the release of the D750, much has been made of its ability to recover shadow detail. Given the range of talents that the D750 has it is strange that this has been singled out given that the D800 and D4, released in 2012, outperform it in this regard, and the cheaper D600 (also from 2012) is able to match it at base ISO. And the old guard, the D700, D3 and D3s, weren’t too shabby at recovery either! With news of incredible shadow recovery typically there comes two responses: the hyperbolic “That’s amazing! I want one NOW!” and the cynical “you wouldn’t need shadow recovery if you...
Reports Confirm that the 5-Axis Stabilization on Sony’s a7II Works with All 3rd Party Glass
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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Just four days ago, Sony announced its a7II: the world’s first full-frame digital camera with 5-axis image stabilization build into the body. But as impressive as we know the image stabilization could be, no one was quite sure what glass said stabilization would work with. The news, however, is all good. New reports are confirming that the a7II’s stabilization will work with all(!) 3rd party lenses. According to a number of Sony Alpha Rumors’ ‘highly trusted’ sources, all third party lenses — such as those from the Zeiss ZM, Leica M and Konica Hexanon series — are compatible with the...
Dixie Dixon Tells the Nightmarish (Now Funny) Story Behind One of Her First Huge Production Shoots
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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It’s easy to assume the successful photographers in the industry have always had it figured out. Commercial shoots fell in their laps and they took to the experience like they were born with a Hasselblad in their hands. But that, of course, is not always the case. In the episode of Behind the Glass above, Nikon Ambassador Dixie Dixon tells the tale of one of her first major campaign shoots… and how it almost went terribly wrong. Keep in mind, Dixon is no slouch behind the camera. Her clients include Nikon (of course), Disney, Virgin, Kodak, Profoto and many more. But when she was...
Gladiators Required
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Girls and Guys needed for an aviation photo shoot.
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LAST CHANCE: Be signed. 2015
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Online Fashion Store – Female Model Required
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Canberra Summernats, Promotional Hosts; 1 Male and 3 Females Required – ACT
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Photographer – Required Charity Event SE Suburbs
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PFRE Still and Property Video Contests Are A Great Learning Oppurtunity
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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Getting to Know Your New Camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson With my new camera I can set Film Simulation to black and white and the camera gives me a black and white view in the electronic viewfinder. I can also select the square format and see a square image. This is a great aid to composition. Finding and using helpful features like this is part of getting to know your new camera. I recently purchased a new camera and the process of learning to use it has been a good reminder of just how long the process can take. My new Fujifilm X-Pro 1 is a very different machine from the Canon EOS digital SLRs I’m accustomed to using,...
F-Stop Tilopa BC Backpack Review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Daniel Korzeniewski I have to shamelessly admit that I, as are many other photographers, am a camera bag junkie. Maybe the reason behind it is that I was never able to find the perfect fit for my needs. Granted, different situations or travel circumstances may require different type of bags. It’s not the same to go out for a walk in your neighborhood as it is to go on an overseas trip. As I mentioned in one of my prior posts, I am a big believer in going light. During the years I have purchased, used, tested, abused and torn apart all kinds of bags. But only up until now, as I...
Panasonic DMC-CM1 to go on sale in UK
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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Panasonic has announced that its DMC-CM1 ‘compact camera with smartphone technology’ will be sold in the UK. Originally the company had marked out France and Germany as the only countries to get the device, but citing ‘high demand’ it has included a limited number of UK stores to stock it. The Panasonic DMC-CM1 is being marketed as a camera with smartphone technology, rather than a smartphone with a camera, and Panasonic has selected camera stores through which to sell it. The DMC-CM1 features the same 1-inch 20MP sensor that is used in the...
Readers’ Showcase: Portraits and People
Posted by Chris Roubis on 25th, Nov, 2014 |
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LarsLeibgott: Names, names, names, now. Indeed looks can be intrinsically sexual. (It’s a fact of life, you act as if I’m advocating some man, likely, take action based on the look; wrong, the action appears to already be occurring in some fashion.) I’m not the person with the problems of shame here. “you would get laughed out of any women’s studies class in America.” That would likely be an honor, though I think that actual women’s studies types do admit that women, and men, flirt and put on sexualized displays for potential partners, or partners...
A Portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing for the Cover of TIME Magazine
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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TIME released this behind-the-scenes video showing a recently photo shoot of actor Benedict Cumberbatch for the cover of the magazine. Cumberbatch will appear in the upcoming film “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing, the renowned British mathematician, codebreaker, and computer science pioneer. Photographer Dan Winters was the man behind the camera. Having studied World War II in great detail, Winters wanted to include an original Enigma code machine as a prop in the shot. After some searching, the team finally located and borrowed one of the last machines, owned by the Computer...
Photographer Stefan Litster Shoots Portraits on the Street with a 4×5 Camera and Instant Film
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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Photographer Stefan Litster created this “photo adventure” video showing how he shoots portraits on the street with a Tachihara 4×5 large format camera and some Fuji instant film. The 10 minute video is part informative, sharing tidbits about this photographic workflow, and part inspiration, showing off how simple interactions and the instant-gratification of instant film can better help you connect with your subjects and give an experience rather than just a simple image. Source Article from...
Photographer Turns His Old Darkroom Enlarger Into a Large Format Camera
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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Photographer Chuck Baker is a self-proclaimed “camera and darkroom equipment hoarder” who can’t bear to get rid of gear even when it no longer works. Having a large number of enlargers in his collection, Baker recently decided to upcycle one of them by turning it into a working camera. The large format camera you see about is what resulted from the project. Baker created his camera using an old Meopta 35mm enlarger. Baker started with an old 35mm enlarger created by the Czechoslovakian optics company Meopta, and the lens of the camera is the lens that came with the enlarger. Baker...
TED Talk: Photographing the Whole Earth Every Day With an Army of Tiny Satellites
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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Back in June, we reported that a company called Planet Labs is working to improve the efficiency of satellite photography by using a large number of tiny satellites instead of a single satellite. Company co-founder and CEO Will Marshal recently gave a TED Talk (shown above) that sheds some light on what the company is doing. The first image transmitted from one of Planet Labs’ satellite cameras Together, Planet Labs’ satellites will create what is the largest constellation of Earth imaging satellites ever. 28 of these satellites have been launched so far, but its Planet Labs’ goal is...
Next iPhone Camera Said to Pack a ‘Weird Two Lens System’ That Delivers ‘DSLR Quality’
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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One of the big selling points of each new iPhone since 2007 has been improved camera quality. If new rumors are to be believed, we may not have seen the biggest quality jump yet. The latest word on the street is that next year’s iPhone may boast “the biggest camera jump ever.” That’s according to tech blogger John Gruber, who regularly writes about Apple over at DaringFireball. Gruber says in a recent podcast that “a birdie of a birdie” gave him some inside scoop on what Apple has up its sleeve: The specific thing I heard is that next years camera might be the biggest camera jump...
Free Hair Colour and Setting Models
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Editor required – 1 day field shoot
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High Fashion Photographer Wanted for New Updated Portfolio
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Why Doesn’t PFRE Have A Facility For Posting Real Estate Photography Jobs?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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Using a 10 Stop Neutral Density Filter to add Drama to the Sky
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt In this Adorama video Bryan Peterson shows you how he uses a 10 stop neutral density filter to take an image from average, to dynamic. The filter basically just blocks light allowing you to make longer exposures. In this city skyline shot it changes how the clouds appear in the final image. Filter mentioned in the video: B+W 10 stop neutral density filter Other dPS articles about using ND filters: Polarizing and Neutral Density Filters: Essentials for Landscape Photography High Speed Sync Versus a Neutral Density Filter to Overcome Bright Sunlight in Portraits...
How to Make Freckles POP or Disappear using Lightroom
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Phillip VanNostrand Editing Freckles in Lightroom One photo, edited completely in Lightroom I recently photographed a model in New York City. As I was communicating with her leading up to the shoot I noticed in some of her pictures that she had freckles. I personally am a big fan of freckles and wanted to do a shoot that highlighted her skin rather than hide it behind makeup or photoshop tricks. One of my favorite photos that came out of the shoot was this one, cropped close to highlight her eyes and skin: After I posted the photo above on Instagram I was emailed by someone asking...
Readers’ Showcase: Portraits and People
Posted by Chris Roubis on 24th, Nov, 2014 |
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Yahoo! Acquires Photo App Maker Cooliris as It Continues to Focus on Improving Mobile
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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Having a great mobile experience is key in a day and age when a huge chunk of the online experience is had on a smartphone screen, and Yahoo! is continuing its march towards a great mobile experience today by acquiring the photo app maker Cooliris. Cooliris, in case you’re not familiar, is a company that is best known for apps like Cooliris — which allows users to browse photos from multiple services like Flickr, Dropbox, etc. — and BeamIt — a new photo messaging app. News of the acquisition broke last night with an official announcement on the Cooliris website, where the team writes...
Gorgeous Drone Video of the Tallest Church Tower in the Netherlands Bursting Through a Sea of Fog
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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To get the perfect aerial drone shots of the Dom Tower of Utrecht, Dutch filmmakers Jelte Keur and Reinout van Schie had to wait a full 10 months for the perfect weather conditions to arrive. But once they did, the minute forty-five of footage they captured made it all worthwhile. The Dom Tower of Utrecht is the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, measuring in at about 370 feet tall. Usually that would put it far below any kind of cloud cover, which is what makes this footage so awesome. For all intents and purposes, it looks like the tower is bursting through cloud cover...
NASA Releases Spectacular New Realistic Color Image of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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Need a bit more awe and wonder in your life? Look no further than the newest image released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A high-res reprocessed color view of Jupiter’s moon Europa as captured by the spacecraft Galileo in the late 1990s, the photo “shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution.” According to the JPL, the new image was created by assembling Galileo’s near-infrared, green-filtered and violet-filtered photos, “into a realistic color view of the surface that approximates how Europa would appear to the human eye.” The resolution of the...
Two Lands: A Beautiful Time-Lapse Trip to the Snowy Wilderness of Iceland and Greenland
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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With the exception of the opening shot, Joe Capra of Scientifantastic‘s beautiful time-lapse Two Lands stays pretty far away from the humanity. A trip into the snowy wilderness of Iceland and Greenland, the time-lapse treats you to some spectacular landscapes complete with enough Aurora to make your head explode with wanderlust. The Los Angeles-based photographer — whose work has been featured by the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, The Washington Post and many more — shot these scenes while on assignment for Panasonic. Three Canon 5D Mark IIIs, various Canon...
Inside the Warrior: Striking Portraits that Reveal the Masculine Side of Yoga
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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Thinking about your local Yoga studio doesn’t usually conjure up images of masculinity. Yoga mats, yoga pants, yoga in general is seen as a female-dominated, or sometimes even female-only, practice. But as photographer Amy Goalen‘s project Inside the Warrior goes to show, that is definitely not always the case. The idea for Inside the Warrior — a project that has produced the Yoga Men 2015 Calendar and will soon become a photo book complete with an interview component — came to Goalen when one of her yoga teachers asked her to take some new promo shots for him. “We used a local yoga...
Soundperson Required for One Day Shoot
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Hair Stylist & Unite Manager needed for a Feature FIlm
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Sound Editor Needed for Comedy Series Pilot
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Video Editor for Collaboration
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Cinematographers Needed for One Drama and One Action Short Films
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Authority Figure Required to Speak at an Event
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Photographer required for a Feature Film Stills Shoot
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Tips for Using Shutter Speed Creatively
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Jim Hamel Shutter speed is one of those things that is initially a problem to be solved, but once you do that it becomes a tool that allows you to take better and more creative photos. First you should understand how shutter speed works and how to change it. You will need to make sure it is fast enough that your pictures turn out crisp. But once you’ve mastered those things, you can start using shutter speed to your advantage. You can slow it down to create a sense of movement, or speed it up to stop the action. Grey Whale Cove: 1/4 second at f/16, ISO 100 This article will show...
How to Buy Used Camera Gear
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Suzi Pratt Even though the prices of digital photography equipment continue to fall significantly, it can be a tough to dole out a thousand plus dollars on a brand new camera or lens. On the positive side, camera gear (especially lenses) retains its value really well. As a result, there’s almost always a surplus of used camera bodies, lenses, and accessories. Before you take the plunge and buy used gear, be sure to understand that used equipment can be a bit tricky to assess in terms of quality and price. As a photographer who shamelessly has about 50% used gear in her collection,...
Behind the Shot: Clouds over Skagsanden
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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In this article I’ll take you to the Lofoten Islands in Arctic Norway. I visited Lofoten earlier this year to prepare for my upcoming ‘Northern Spirits‘ workshop, and I had the opportunity to visit a unique location: Skagsanden beach. This is a panorama from a cloudy afternoon in Skagsanden. ‘Clouds over Skagsanden’, February 2014, the Lofoten Islands, Norway There are several interesting and unique features about Skagsanden. The first is the sharp mountains surrounding it. It’s not very common to find beautiful, jagged mountains in...
Flickr Wall Art expands to include Creative Commons images
Posted by Chris Roubis on 23rd, Nov, 2014 |
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Now available from Flickr Wall Art. Blue Marble, Eastern Hemisphere March 2014. Photo from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Flickr Wall Art now allows users to order prints from more than 50 million photographs, the service has announced. This follows Wall Art’s arrival in October, and moves to include all applicable freely-licensed Creative Commons images, licensed artists images, and a curated selection of content from NASA. Previously users could only order prints of their own photographs. The collection has been aggregated so that users can browse image...
GoPro Survives 17 Months Bouncing Around a Riverbed After Filming Its Final Moments
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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GoPros exist to take quite a beating… they are action cams after all. However, as much as GoPro might put its products through the wringer to test them and ensure they’re up for anything, it’s unlikely they expect one to survive what the one in the above video did. The functioning camera managed to survive in a riverbed for 17 months! And not only did it survive, the footage of the camera’s final moments was still safe and sound on the memory card inside. The camera was found by YouTuber Beau Ouimette, who spends much of his free time digging up goodies from the bottom of creeks and...
The Bob Ross of Bug Photography Returns with a Solid Overview of the Macro Workflow
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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Two years ago we dubbed photographer Thomas Shahan ‘the Bob Ross of bug photography.’ Today, we’re back with a video from the macro master in which he dives into his workflow in the field, dropping bits and pieces of useful knowledge as he goes through a daily shoot. The video begins with a bit of a preface as to what he’ll be doing, after which Shahan dives into his workflow, explaining the techniques and approaches he uses to capture the fantastic up close and personal portraits of insects that he does. In addition to showing his work out in the field, Shahan also gives us a brief...
Comparing Modern Day Flash Technology with Old School Magnesium Flash Powder
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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Long before high-sync speedlights were ever a thing, there was a bleeding-edge technology that forever changed the way people photographed subjects. It was called magnesium flash powder. We’ve seen it in old noir and western films, but today we have for you a video that brings it into the modern era, pitting the age-old technology against a standard electronic flash to see how they compare. The eight minute video was dug up by our friends at The Phoblographer, and it highlights the basic principles of flash powder, followed by a demonstration and comparison of how flash powder...
Musician Ryan Adams Stops Show to Yell at Fan Whose Flash Triggers His Ménière’s Disease
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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Editor’s note: This video contains NSFW language It’s easy to assume that the whole ‘no flash photography’ rule at concerts is ignorable, but as the clip above shows, not only can it distract the performer, in some rare cases it might actually be a health hazard. Musician Ryan Adams has something called Ménière’s disease (aka. endolymphatic hydrops), an inner ear disorder that can lead to episodes of vertigo. For Adams, his symptoms are triggered by flashing lights, and so when the fan in the front row wouldn’t turn off his or her flash, he had to stop the show mid song to… ummm… ask...
This is What Adobe’s Cloud-Based Version of Photoshop Looks (and Works) Like
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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Two months ago, we told you that Adobe and Google were hard at work bringing Photoshop to the browser. Essentially, this version would run off of a server, allowing you to use as weak of a machine as you like, since the program isn’t relying at all on your computer’s processing power. Up till now, that’s really all we knew, but after two months of testing Adobe has pulled back the veil and given us a sneak peek at what ‘Streaming Photoshop‘ — as the program is called — actually looks like. The long and short of it is that, as Ars Technica puts it, “Streaming Photoshop looked like…...
Model Search UK – Upcoming Female Models Wanted 2015
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Asian (Indian, Pakistani & Bengali) Models Required
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Male and Female Couple for Wedding Styled Photoshoot
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2 x Promo Girls Needed – Brisbane Thurs 27th Nov
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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Looking for a New Film to Produce?
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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Editor Needed for Web Series
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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Production Assistants Required for Feature Documentary
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Film Colour Grader
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Cinematographer Required
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Editor and Colorist Required for Wedding Video Editing
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Weekly Photography Challenge Bird’s Eye View
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Earlier I shared a collection of photos shot from above using a bird’s eye view. In the photography challenge last week you were assigned to photograph from a worm’s eye view or low down. This week you will be looking down, using the bird’s eye view to create your images. Bird’s eye view Bird’s are usually flying overhead or sitting up high on a wire looking down on us. So try something to get that kind of perspective in your image this week. Get up high and look down. That could mean: Climb to a roof or the top of a hill and look down Stand on a chair to...
34 Vertigo Inducing Bird’s Eye View Photos
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Last week I rounded up a bunch of worm’s eye view images so this week we’re going the other way and taking the high road with bird’s eye view photos. Angle of view and perspective use is a great way to make more interesting images. As you might suspect bird’s eye view photos are taken from above, look down on the subject. That could mean standing on a chair, climbing a ladder, shooting from a rooftop or even a mountain top. Enjoy these bird’s eye view photos and allow them to inspire you: Conical Lifestyle by Drew Hopper on 500px Socializing by Edwin Leung on...
Google Nexus 6 DxOMark Mobile Report
Posted by Chris Roubis on 22nd, Nov, 2014 |
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The Nexus 6 is Google’s showcase phone for Android 5.0 ‘Lollipop’ and the first Nexus device made by Motorola. It comes with a dual-LED ring flash, a 13MP sensor with a fast F2.0 aperture, optical image stabilization and 4K video recording. DxOMark Mobile put the Nexus 6 through its image and video quality tests and has just published the results. Does Google’s latest Nexus device impress? Take a look at DxO’s findings. Read DxOMark’s Mobile Report on the Google Nexus 6 over at connect.dpreview.com
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This Small, Portable Flash Cube Can Pump Out 1,500 Lumens of Light for Your GoPro or Smartphone
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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One of the biggest weaknesses of mobile cameras is shooting in low-light. The sensor can’t usually handle it very well, and the built-in light sources are usually… well… crap. Here to help with that is Lume Cube, a product currently being funded on Kickstarter that hopes to quite literally light up your smartphone and GoPro imagery. The Lume Cube is a small, pocketable LED light source that can pump out a whopping 1500 lumens worth of light, all of which can be precisely controlled via a dedicated smartphone app. Even better than the 1500 lumens is that you can simultaneously use and...
A Mother’s Darkly Humorous Portraits of ‘Domestic Bliss’
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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Inspired by a motherhood epiphany and the work of Cindy Sherman, photographer Susan Copich has spent the past four years creating a darkly comedic photo series called Domestic Bliss. In it, she turns the camera on herself and her family, portray a handful of family life scenes that she has meticulously crafted. A former dancer and actress, as well as a mother of two, Copich decided to begin this project after her life took an unexpected pivot. After living most of her life as a performer, then a number of years as that mother with a camera, snapping up endless photos of her children,...
Video: How to Properly Fine Tune Autofocus on Your DSLR Through Micro-Adjustments
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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One pesky issue you may have run into with your DSLR is front-focusing or back-focusing, a problem that, in the past, required that you send your camera into a service center along with any troublesome lenses. Thankfully, that’s not the case anymore. This problem can now be fixed with the help of microfiches adjustments, which almost all DSLRs have built into them now. And here to show us how to properly do just that is John Greengo in the above CreativeLive tutorial. In the video, Greengo lays out what the problem of front-focusing and back-focusing is, and then shares the solution,...
Taylor Swift Crashes Young Fan’s Photo Shoot While Out Jogging in Nashville
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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Is it really “crashing” a photo shoot when the person doing the crashing is more than welcome to stick around as much as they like? We’re not sure, but that was certainly the case in Nashville about a week ago when photographer Sarah Bailey had a Christmas family shoot hijacked by a very welcome guest. Pop star Taylor Swift was jogging in Percy Warner park when she spotted the family and decided to drop in. As you might imagine, the young girl of the family was a huge fan, and beyond just talking to her, Swift also posed for a few pictures that Bailey was there to capture. A fun,...
Dubai Photographer Promotes His Photo Course with Wonderful Special Effects
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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Dubai-based photographer Muhammad Hassan is coming out with a tutorial series that teaches basic to advanced photography techniques. To promote the course, he has created a very… interesting teaser video that uses special effects to dazzle the eyes and minds of prospective students. Without further ado, here’s the video (be sure to watch it in HD for maximum viewing experience): According to his Facebook page, Hassan started out his professional photography career back in 2012 with the Dubai Post, the “News Blog of UAE.” Since then, he has branched from press photography into other...
Female talent aged 42yrs-48yrs
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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Female Models Required for Project
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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Restaurant opening @ Miranda tomorrow
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URGENT CALL – FIT, HEALTHY Woman for TV AD & Stills Shoot
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Need a Female & Male Model for Charity Fashion Shoot
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Crew required for a Short film
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Film Crew wanted for short film
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Film Crew for a online TV series
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Looking for Crew Members for TV Pilot Shoot
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Lighting and Sound Tech Required for Fringe Play
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Photographer Needed For One Day Job
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Tasmanian Homeowner Gordon Brown Stars In Property Video Of His Property
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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Portrait Consultations: Two Questions That Make A Big Difference
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Meredith Clark I vividly remember the first time I was asked to take photos for someone that I didn’t know. We had friends in common, and she had seen some of the photos that I had taken of friends and family, but we had never met. We talked over the phone, and arranged a time for me to come to her home and take some photos of her daughter. The big day arrived a week or so later, and I was SO nervous. I wasn’t sure what her home looked like, or what the lighting situation would be, or whether her daughter was sitting up by herself yet or not. I didn’t know how long I should stay,...
Photographing in Airports
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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A Post By: Daniel Korzeniewski Ahh, the joy of travel photography, who doesn’t love that? But like everything in life, all that glitters is not gold. For travel photography, you actually need to travel, and in many circumstances, air travel and lengthy waits in airports are common. Nobody likes being stranded in a terminal for hours, or experiencing delays, missed or long connections, all of which happen pretty often. But it can be different for us, the ones who embrace photography. Instead of just sitting there doing nothing, we can have some fun doing what we enjoy the most. At least,...
Canon EOS 7D Mark II shooting experience added to first impressions review
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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I’m no photography or camera expert, or indeed even an amateur. I don’t have a 7D2, or the 7D before it, because I understand anything on the Dxomark website, I have it because it is FAST and captures great family photos in conditions that a compact wouldn’t stand a chance in. Using my Canon 17-85 IS USM, here are photos I took of our fireworks yesterday. For nearly all the camera was Av @ 1/500s, auto ISO to 16,000, no NR, -2/3 EV. A few are in P and the very last few after the big green cake are with MF (all of the rest are middle 9 point or middle zone AF, scenario 1, tweaked to be...
Lighting equipment manufacturer Metz files for insolvency
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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German television and photographic equipment maker Metz has filed for insolvency according to German media. Metz is known for producing high-end lighting equipment including flash units, studio flashes, and video lights. Approximately 600 jobs will be affected by the situation. Insolvency administrator, Joachim Exner, has noted that Metz’s everyday services would continue for the time being. In a release published by German site Photoscala, he has laid down the long term goal of ‘keeping the business afloat, while securing as many jobs as possible’. Metz has...
Sony announces Alpha 7 II full-frame mirrorless camera with 5-axis IS
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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I’m sorry but this is your own mistake, take some responsibility rather than trying to ‘blame the internet’. For one thing the A7 and A7R were released at exactly the same time, it wasn’t added as they went. Secondly the A7S was developed at the same time as the A7R and A7, it’s sensor and other differences were the cause for delayed release of that model, it was intended to be released with the others. Then you want to talk about how Sony should have listened, by doing what exactly!? By releasing a model that takes on those criticisms? Or did you expect them to...
Fujifilm announces macro tubes, tethering software and X-series firmware availability
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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Fujifilm has announced two macro extension tubes for its X-series interchangeable lens cameras, the MCEX-11 and MCEX-16. Compatible with Fuji’s XF and XC lenses, they offer full AE function and are designed to ‘seamlessly blend into the original look and feel of the X-series’. The MCEX-11 and MCEX-16 will be available in mid-December for $99.95. Also making its debut is Fuji’s PC Tethered Shooting Software HS-V5 for Windows v1.0. It provides two operation modes, Camera Mode and PC Mode for making exposure adjustments either on the camera or...
Lume Cube is a high-power external lightsource for your smartphone or GoPro
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Nov, 2014 |
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The built-in LED flash units in smartphones tend to be very low-powered and only really useful at close subject-distances. If you are serious about your flash photography, using an external light source is a good idea. Lume Cube has announced a new option for low light photographers. The Lume Cube device measures 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) and uses three LEDs to generate up to 1500 lumens. Thanks to its silicone shell it is water resistant and a 1/4-inch thread makes it mountable on a tripod or other camera support. Additionally, it can be attached to most surfaces magnetically or using a...
Deleted but Not Gone: How to Keep Your Photos and Files From Falling Into the Wrong Hands
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Nov, 2014 |
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We’ve published a number of posts in the past on how you can recover photos that were accidentally deleted from your computer or memory card. But what about when you delete a photo and expect it to actually be gone forever? The ease with which deleted files can often be recovered means that you should be careful when selling or tossing hard drives or memory cards — your photos and files might end up falling into the wrong hands if someone decides to try data recovery. In the short video above, Linus Sebastian of Techquickie explains why simple “deleting” and even emptying your recycle...
Mesmerizing 4K Time-Lapse of Earth Captured by a Weather Satellite 25,000 Miles Away
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Nov, 2014 |
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Every 30 minutes, the weather satellite Elektro-L captures a 121 megapixel image from geosynchronous orbit using both visible and infrared light. And it’s these images, captured between May 15th to May 19th, 2011, that James Tyrwhitt-Drake compiled into an incredibly beautiful, high-res time-lapses of the Blue Marble. It would be easy to assume that just because Tyrwhitt-Drake was using images he found and not images he himself captured that the process of creating this time-lapse was easy. That’s definitely not the case. As he explains in the video’s description on YouTube: The...
The Panasonic LX100 is ‘Probably the Best Zoom Compact Ever Made’, Says DPReview
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Nov, 2014 |
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DPReview recently got a chance to put the $900 Panasonic Lumix LX100 through a thorough review, and after putting it through the wringer, the camera has come out victorious… like really victorious. In fact, it received the highest ever award in its class. The long and short of the review is that the LX100 provides ‘significantly’ better image quality than essentially every other compact zoom camera on the market. DPReview says this is not only due to the considerably large sensor Panasonic has put into this beast, but also due to the fast, impressive Leica glass. DPReview doesn’t turn...
People in the US Can Now Print Their Photos Onto a Pair of Adidas Shoes
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Nov, 2014 |
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Earlier this year we told you that Adidas was planning to launch an app and accompanying service that would allow you to print your photographs onto a pair of its shoes. MiZX Flux, the aforementioned iOS and Android app that lets you design your shoe, has been up and live for quite some time, but only now is it ready for the spotlight and allowing people in the US to design and buy a pair of kicks with their own photography on it. Available on both Android and iOS, the creation process is pretty simple: You select your shoe size, the country you’re located in, and your gender. From...
Can Your DSLR Nail Focus on a Flying Dragonfly? The Canon 7D Mark II Can
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Nov, 2014 |
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We’ve seen one video demonstration of the Canon 7D Mark II’s impressive AutoFocus system, and we’ve heard the amazing specs, but it’s a picture of a dragonfly that really drove home the point, for us, of how good this system is at locking focus on a moving subject. The image we’re talking about was captured by photographer Romy Ocom with his pre-production 7D Mark II review unit, and it’s safe to say it’s beyond the scope of your standard DSLR AF system. While waiting for some birds in flight a few weeks ago, Ocom saw some dragonflies hovering nearby and decided to up the focus...
Model Wanted for Jewellery Designer
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Camera man required
Posted by Chris Roubis on 20th, Nov, 2014 |
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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.