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How to Add a Grunge Effect to Your Portraits Using Lightroom
A Post By: Gina Milicia All images copyright Gina Milicia – Model credits from left to right: Jess Kenneally, Nathan Kennedy, Firass Dirani. Gina has a new dPS ebook just released – Portraits: After the Shot – check out out! The style of side lighting (in the image below) is a great way to enhance muscle definition, and the post-production technique complements the lighting style. You can see that it appears as if Nathan has far better muscle definition in his after shot. I love using this post-production technique in character...
read more5 Tips for More Successful Event Photography Using a Shot List
A Post By: Suzi Pratt Company parties. Special galas. Nonprofit fundraisers. When someone asks you to shoot one of these events, you aren’t exactly leaping for joy, right? Corporate event photography can get a bad reputation among creatives, mostly because it sounds like an unglamorous style of photography. While it is true that many aspects of corporate event photos can be very rote, these events actually a huge advantage that can lead to even more creative expression. Here’s why: There is almost always a set structure and schedule...
read moreCanon EOS 7D Mark II studio samples added to first impressions
Having examined the files in comparison with those of IDX, MK3, D4s and others, I would say there isn’t really much of an improvement in IQ and low noise performance. Canon hyped it up too much. People looking for near FF performance had better be more realistic. In my eyes, the improvement of iq over the 70D is slight. It appears to let in a wee bit more light and perhaps a very slight noise reduction, very slight. With advanced post processing, the raw files can be rendered much better. However, there are a host of new features,...
read moreCanon patents lens designs with variable and glass elements
It’s not uncommon for a company to patent technologies that might be incorporated into products at some point, though the company might not have any plans to use it in the immediate future. Such a business move appears to be the case with a recent Canon patent, which details the use of variable lens elements in combination with traditional glass elements. Including a variable lens such as a liquid element potentially allows for smaller zoom lenses, and lenses that maintain the same overall length as they’re zoomed. The patent...
read moreConcept Camera Designs for the Panasonic Lumix GM1 Made with 3D Printing
Panasonic recently collaborated with German design firm WertelOberfell in creating a series of case designs for the Lumix DMC-GM1 mirrorless camera. The cases were created with a 3D printer and were inspired by three “design epochs.†The three resulting cases were crafted with copper and nickel, and are titled, “Roots,†“Interference,†and “Weave.†Roots Interference Weave Exhibited at Photokina 2014, these looks are currently concept designs that aren’t set to appear in any consumer camera. However, the purpose was...
read moreFlorida Man Shoots Selfie with Phone After Ex-Lover Shoots Him with Gun
A strange story from over in Florida: the Tampa Bay Times reports that back in August, a 23-year-old man named Andrew Noll (picture above at right) was shot by his former lover. When the home’s alarm went off and she heard someone coming up the stairs, she grabbed a 9mm Ruger. When the door opened, she fired. A bullet sliced through Noll’s chest and exited his back, piercing a painting on the wall behind him. […] As he lay bleeding, Noll raised the phone and snapped a selfie. Now that’s one “decisive moment†that...
read moreThis Photo of China’s President in the Rain Just Won the Country’s Equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize
This photograph of Chinese President Xi Jinping is more than a snapshot captured in the rain: today it was awarded China’s highest photojournalism prize, the National News Award. The award is known as China’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The announcement was made today by China’s state media group, which tweeted that the “Photo of President Xi on a site inspection in Wuhan on a rainy day last year won the China top journalism award.†According to Adam Taylor of the Washington Post, the photograph appears to have been...
read moreGoogle Street View Takes to Tanzania to Retrace the Footsteps of Jane Goodall
Google has teamed up with the Jane Goodall Institute to bring their Street View Trekker cameras to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by world-famous primatologist Jane Goodall and her research of the local chimpanzees. Step by step, the Google Street View Trekker camera retraced the steps Goodall took during the 54 years she spent studying the social behavior of chimpanzees. After capturing thousands of images, they were put together to allow us couch potatoes to explore this historical location ourselves, and meet...
read moreHow to Capture a Complex 5-Light Beer Bottle Product Shot from Start to Finish
Have you ever wondered how those beautiful beer bottle ads in magazines are shot? Product photography is one of the more complicated genres out there, packed full of neat ‘tricks of the trade’ and lighting techniques. And if you wanna learn a few of them, this beer bottle product photo tutorial is a great place to start. The tutorial was put together by Lee Morris of Fstoppers and makes use of Morris’ FlashDisc portable softbox, though other diffusers can be used in its place. From how to set up a complex shot featuring 5 total...
read moreSeriously Capable, Surprisingly Compact: Packing Pro Features and FX-Format Image Quality, The Nikon D750 is the Full Frame D-SLR That’s Been Worth Waiting For
MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the D750, the D-SLR that provides adept enthusiasts with the powerful combination of pro-caliber photo and video features with FX-format image quality. The new D750 represents a leap forward for this camera segment, inheriting some of the best elements from Nikon’s revered full-frame professional cameras, with new and refined features aimed at sparking creativity and sharing with built-in Wi-Fi. Additionally, Nikon has also announced the SB-500, a versatile yet compact multimedia Speedlight, and...
read moreFor high-speed, high-precision surface shape evaluation The new high accuracy non-contact sensor 3D metrology system HN-C3030
October 23, 2014 TOKYO – Nikon Corporation (President: Kazuo Ushida) is pleased to announce the release of high accuracy non-contact sensor 3D metrology system HN-C3030, which realizes high-speed and high-precision non-contact 3D measurement. This product will be displayed at the 27th JIMTOF (Japan International Machine Tool Fair, from October 30 to November 4, Tokyo). Product Concept Along with the...
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read moreTwo Models (M/F) Photo-Shoot for Painting Reference by Established
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read moreCrew Needed for Christian Mini-Series Titled "Unconditional Love"
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read moreWho Are You as a Photographer?
A Post By: Nick Fancher This is a shot I did on my own for my portfolio. In other words, it was unpaid. Who am I? This is a question that I ask myself all the time. What kind of photography do I do? Since I am inspired by so many different photographers, across multiple genres (fashion, portrait, photojournalist, product, commercial), it can get hard for me to remember that I can’t be all things to all people, or clients. For the sake of time, I’ve had to learn to narrow down the types of photography that I will pursue. It takes a...
read more5 Easy Steps to Exposure Blending for High Contast Landscapes
A Post By: Bruce Wunderlich Final Image: Bear Rock, Dolly Sod Wilderness Area, West Virginia. Sunrise and Sunsets can be extremely contrasting and very challenging to capture the wide exposure range. Here’s a problem I am sure you have encountered, instances where you try to photograph an image that has a greater range of light and dark than your camera can accurately capture. In the example above, when we set our exposure to expose the sky correctly, the foreground objects are severely under-exposed. Likewise, if we set our exposure...
read morePanono announces pricing and availability for rolling ball camera
German startup Panono has said that its ball-shaped Panono Camera, capable of shooting spherical panorama images, will cost $549/€549 when it ships worldwide in the spring of 2015. The first to receive the camera will be the backers of the crowd-funding project the company used to get started before the camera goes on general release. Originally due for a September 2014 delivery date, the Panono uses 36 small cameras positioned to look in every direction, built into what the company describes as a grapefruit-sized ball. The cameras are...
read moreCanon announces EOS C100 Mark II
Canon has announced the upcoming release of its second-generation EOS C100 Mark II digital video camera. The device houses a Super 35mm 8.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, and is being positioned as an affordable solution for film and video production, providing a variety of new design and performance upgrades. On the design front, the EOS C100 Mark II includes a new eyecup that can be paired with the unit’s 1.23 megapixel color EVF. Red trigger buttons and a built-in mono microphone have been added to the camera’s body to allow basic capture...
read morePentax launches K-S1 Sweets Collection
Ricoh Imaging is set to introduce three new colors for the company’s Pentax K-S1 DSLR camera, in what it calls the Pentax K-S1 Sweets Collection. Already available in 12 different main body colors, the 20-million-pixel APS-C camera will now also come with a white body featuring cyan, lime or pink colored panels. The company has named these Strawberry Cake, Blue Cream Soda and Lime Pie, and each features the trademark colored light strip on the hand-grip from the original K-S1 that was launched back in August. The company says that the...
read moreCanon EOS 7D Mark II: A professional’s opinion
With the increasing affordability of digital full frame cameras, there’s been speculation about the future of APS-C as an enthusiast format. But with the launch of the 7D Mark II, Canon has made it pretty clear it believes there’s still a high-end market for crop-sensor formats. We spoke to Bettina Hansen, a photographer who regularly shoots Canon and has experience working with the original EOS 7D to see what she made of the new camera. Bettina Hansen • Usually shoots: Canon EOS-1D X, EOS 5D Mark III Bettina Hansen is a staff...
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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.