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Manfrotto launches miniature Lumie LED lights
Accessories manufacturer Manfrotto has announced a new series of consumer LED lights that offer portable continuous output for stills and video photographers from lightweight and compact housings. The Lumie Art, Play and Muse lights are powered by a USB rechargeable Lithium-ion battery that is said to deliver over an hour’s worth of continuous lighting. While the Art and Play models come with a hotshoe adapter and a tripod mount, the Muse additionally has a ball and socket head that makes angling the light easy. The...
read moreIsland life: Samsung NX500 Shooting Experience
It’s impossible to talk about the NX500 without talking about its big brother the NX1, which we’ve been using intensively since it was launched later last year. I like the NX1 a lot. Even though most of my personal experience of shooting with it in late 2014 involved using a model running a beta version of a beta version of a beta version of Firmware 1.0, I was impressed. This is despite the fact that the early NX1 I was using had more bugs in it than Edward Snowden’s apartment, including a habit of...
read moreAmazon launches unlimited cloud photo storage for $11.99 per year
Amazon has announced two new ‘unlimited’ storage plans as part of its Cloud Drive service. The Unlimited Photos plan costs $11.99 per year and an ‘Unlimited Everything’ plan allows users to store an infinite number of photos, videos, documents and music for $59.99 per year. Both services can be tried out for free for three months, starting now, and users who opt not to pay for the service after the trial period will be able to view and download their files for another 30 days. Of course, Amazon...
read morePhotographing Basketball in Rwanda
Back in June, I was lucky enough to partner with a Boston-based nonprofit, Shooting Touch, to travel to Rwanda and document the participants in their “Basketball Health Corps†initiative. They use the sport of basketball and their partnerships with health administrators to teach children valuable skills and preventative treatments when it comes to HIV/AIDS, malaria, and daily health. The stills were then used in their recent print and digital fundraising campaigns and were auctioned off at their annual gala. Photographs from the...
read moreInklet Lets You Use the New Macbook Touchpad as a Pen Tablet for Editing
Apple’s new Macbook features a redesigned pressure-sensitive trackpad called the Force Touch. In addition to being more powerful for inputs from your fingers, the new design allows for the use of a stylus on the touchpad if you’d like to retouch your photographs tablet-style. Inklet by Ten One Design is the first 3rd party application for Mac that offers this. The app runs in the background while you’re using compatible programs such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Lightroom (it’ll work with any app that accepts pen...
read moreThree Photographers Go Head-to-Head in Capturing ‘Intimacy’ with Strangers in 20 Minutes
Every year at the Gulf Photo Plus photography festival in Dubai, attendees are treated to a special event called the GPP ShootOut. Called the “most exciting hour in the photography world†by David Hobby, the event pits famous photographers head-to-head in creating the best photo they can on the spot. It’s a freestyle battle for imaging. You can watch this year’s GPP ShootOut 2015 in the 18-minute video above, which shows photographers Sara Lando, Ryan Brenizer and Joel Grimes battling each other with their eyes, minds, and...
read moreAnalyzing a Collection of B&W Street Photos Captured Around the World
Last year I launched a new initiative called the Streettogs Academy, a biweekly challenge for motivating and sharpening the skills of street photographers around the world. Photographers are given 2 weeks to shoot photos for the latest theme and upload 1 to 3 of them to our Facebook page. Our latest assignment was “Black and White.†The submitted photos that received the most attention from members of the group were those that had the simple basic requirement of a good image: a strong visual hook. Here’s a look at photos. Photo...
read moreWeegee Shares His Thoughts on News Photography
The subject is news photography. This was the most wonderful experience for any man or woman to go through. It’s like a modern Aladdin’s Lamp, you rub it and, in this case the camera, you push the button and it gives you the things you want. News photography teaches you to think fast, to be sure of yourself, self confidence. When you go out on a story, you don’t go back for another sitting. You gotta get it. And, I have found covering stories as they happen – in my particular case I didn’t wait till somebody gave me a job or...
read moreNikon’s New DX-Format D7200 DSLR Will Help Passionate Photographers Conquer Their Next Challenge with Incredible Speed and Image Quality
MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. introduced the Nikon D7200, a powerful DX-format DSLR built for enthusiasts ready to conquer the next challenge in their photographic journey. Featuring a 24.2-megapixel CMOS sensor with no optical low-pass filter (OLPF) and the EXPEED 4 image processing system, the D7200 is capable of incredibly fast performance and capturing phenomenally detailed, sharp images and HD video. Nikon’s newest lightweight DSLR also adds increased buffer capacity compared to the D7100, includes new Picture Controls and offers...
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read moreCinematographer Needed for Short Film
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read moreCan You Be Audrey Hepburn? Be as Beautiful?
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read morePhotographer Needed for Movie Poster
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read morePhotographers Required for Creative Collective at Style and Talent
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read moreTips for Creating Landscape Photos during the Golden Hour
A Post By: Tim Gilbreath The golden hour. Even if you haven’t been involved in photography for very long, you undoubtedly have heard the term thrown around. As photographers we are in the business of capturing light, and there is no better light to have cast on our subjects, than sun light that is low on the horizon. The golden hour is defined as periods of time; specifically, the hour after sunrise, and the hour before sunset. The length and time of these occurrences depends on your location on our planet, and time of the year. Regardless...
read more4 Tips for Creating Portraits with Impact
A Post By: Andrew Faulk Since the birth of the camera, an overwhelming number of photographers have concentrated on portraiture. Capturing the personality, mood, or expression of a fellow human is sublimely beautiful. Because of this, many of us have thousands of portraits saved on hard drives, and eagerly await the next portrait contest. Honestly, how many of these portraits actually have visual impact? How many of our portraits are powerful enough to hold a viewer’s attention longer than a couple of seconds? We can continue to produce...
read moreReikan announces major update to FoCal AF tuning software
Reikan has announced a major update to its AF tuning software, FoCal. FoCal automates the process of calibrating your lens to your DSLR camera body, important – if not absolutely necessary – for critical focus when using fast lenses that yield shallow depth-of-field. Calibration options are typically available under ‘AF microadjustment’ (or AFMA for Canon and Sony bodies) or ‘AF Fine Tune’ (AFFT for Nikon bodies) menu items, with the process being pretty laborious and relying on the...
read moreImpossible launches B&W 2.0 quick-process instant film for 600 series cameras
Instant film manufacturer Impossible has launched what it calls a Generation 2.0 film called B&W 2.0. The company claims it’s not only sharper and clearer than previous Impossible products, but also develops much quicker. The new film is the result of a new chemical formula for Impossible that has been developed by former Polaroid research chemist Stephen Herchen, and which aims to deliver more accurate tones, more contrast and ca visible image in just 20 seconds. Images become fully developed black and white...
read moreUniversity of Texas crowdfunding project will release macro images into public domain
Public domain image by Alex Wild, from the University of Texas ‘Insects Unlocked’ project. The University of Texas has initiated a new crowdfunding campaign that, if successful, will result in macro photos of insects being released into the public domain. The photos will be taken by the university’s Insect Image Lab under the guidance of Dr. Alex Wild, who is both the school’s curator of entomology and a professional photographer (also a confirmed ant photography enthusiast). The funding for the...
read moreRetro, refined: Fujifilm X100T reviewed
Equivalent aperture means the same shot noise, the same DOF and the same diffraction softening. Like it or not, this is what it is and saying that this lens is f/3 equivalent is absolutely correct. In the same way, 23mm is the actual FL, and 35mm is the equivalent one. Do a test if you want. The lens is 23/2. A fact, it is what it is. It is 34.5/3 equivalent – meaning the same DOF, shot noise, diffraction, AOV as an 34.5/3 lens on FF. It is also 34.5mm equivalent, f/2. It is also f/3 equivalent, 23mm. All those four statements are...
read morePhase One’s Capture One Pro 8.2 software now available
Phase One has released its new Capture One Pro 8.2 software, and with the update comes a new Color Balance Tool making it easier to produce color graded images, as well as additional ways to find images and support for higher resolution displays, including 4K. In addition, support for a few new cameras and nearly a dozen lenses is in place. The update is available now for existing Capture One Pro users and new customers. The newest Capture One Pro software offers 3-Way Color Balance, a new tool that Phase One says allows...
read moreEerie Photos of an Abandoned NASCAR Speedway
The North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina was home to top NASCAR races from when it opened in 1949 through when it closed in 1996. It reopened briefly in 2010 but was shuttered again in 2011. Since then, it has been lying dormant as investors and businesses sort out the fate of the historic racetrack. Photographer Seph Lawless recently paid the track a visit, capturing what the location currently looks like years after it was bustling with racing fans and speeding cars. “This was America. Gone were the sounds of the car engines...
read moreChinese Official Busted for Corruption Related to His Love for Photography
As Chinese expands its anticorruption initiatives, quite a few government officials have met their political demise through being caught in a wide range of unethical behavior. One of them, a politician named Qin Yuhai, was busted under different circumstances than most: his corruption was related to his love for photography. The South China Morning Post reports that Qin, seen in the picture above that was used for a Kodak-sponsored exhibition, received millions of Chinese yuan worth of cameras, exhibitions, and gifts in return for...
read moreIconic Space Photos Are Actually B&W: Here’s How NASA Colorizes Hubble Shots
Did you know that the Hubble Space Telescope is only able to capture black-and-white photos? In order to capture a maximum amount of information in their space photos, NASA captures multiple black-and-white images using different filters in the camera. These images are then combined in post to create the iconic color photographs that you see published by the space agency. The video above shows how NASA goes about colorizing the photos by compositing the individual shots. The retoucher has blue, green, and red layers for light from...
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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.