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Make a Rain Machine to Spice Up Your Portraits for $20 and Some Elbow Grease
When Benjamin Von Wong was commissioned to do a series of black and white portraits of SmugMug employees for the company’s gym, he knew he wasn’t going to be taking the easy route. But just because he was going to try to do something really cool, didn’t mean things needed to get expensive. To spice up the sporty portraits, Von Wong decided to add water into the equation, and thanks to some help from the folks at SmugMug, they were able to make it rain for only $20. To create the rain-machine, Von Wong enlisted the help of SmugMug...
read morePhotographer’s 100-Year-Old Notebook Discovered in Antarctica After Snow Melts
A photographer’s notebook from over a century ago has been discovered in Antarctica. It belonged to British explorer and photographer George Murray Levick, who was part of Robert Falcon Scott’s last expedition to the continent from 1910 to 1913. A self-portrait by George Murray Levick New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered the notebook outside the expedition base after summer snow melted, exposing the old expedition record. The notebook is a “Wellcome Photographic Exposure Record and Dairy 1910,†and has Levick’s...
read morePronto: An Insanely Fast-Charging Battery Pack That Can Juice Up Your Gear On-The-Go
No matter how much you prepare for every shoot or vacation you embark upon, it’s inevitable that you will one day find yourself holding a dead camera. It happens to the best of us. And while there are a number of backup chargers out there than can get the job done, none seem to quite stack up to Pronto: a backup that its creators claim can charge itself up to twelve times faster than conventional power banks. Pronto, which still has 15 days left to raise funding on Kickstarter, has already surpassed its funding goal of $50,000 by...
read moreOld Faithful: Studio Portraits of Really Old Dogs
Toronto-based photographer Pete Thorne has been shooting a series of studio portraits of dogs. Not just any dogs, though: Thorne is only accepting subjects that are “really, really old.†The project is titled “Old Faithful,†and now includes over 50 dogs. Thorne says that he receives multiple inquiries per day from owners who would like to see their dog included in the series. Oftentimes the dogs will have interesting backstories that shed some light on their lives. Here are some of the photographs captured so far: “Meet...
read moreA Partial Solar Eclipse this Thursday Will Turn the Sunset Into Pac-Man for the US
Less than a month after the total lunar eclipse and blood moon made for some spectacular shooting opportunities all across the US and Asia, the cosmos is treating us to another eclipse. This one, the final eclipse of 2014, will be a partial solar eclipse that will be enjoyed by pretty much everybody in the United States. A partial solar eclipse happens when the moon passes in front of only part of the sun, ‘taking a bite’ out of it and making it look like Pac-Man has returned to seek revenge on the ghosts and eat all your pac-dots....
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 moreNikon Releases New FPD Lithography Systems FX-86S2 and FX-86SH2
October 22, 2014 Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) today announced the release of two FPD Lithography Systems, FX-86S2 and FX-86SH2. FX-86S2 and FX-86SH2 are the optimal FPD Lithography Systems for manufacturing high-definition large-sized LCD panels as well as organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels. Those demands for high-definition large-sized LCD panels are ever increasing by the adoption of 4K TVs, whose resolution is four times higher than the...
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read moreFive Ways to Improve Your Eye for Composition
A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson An eye for composition is one of the things that elevates the work of the best photographers above the rest. One of the best ways to learn about composition is focus on applying one idea at a time. You can treat it as an exercise that will help you improve your composition skills, the same way that piano players practice scales. Here are five ideas to get you started. #1 Use a single lens Lenses have an enormous influence on the look of a photo, and the best way to learn exactly what effect they have is to spend...
read moreUsing Cameras with Electronic Viewfinders for Close-Up Photography
A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson I recently bought a mirrorless camera (the Fujifilm X-Pro 1) and since then I’ve been getting to know the camera, using it in a variety of situations to familiarize myself with the way it works. Today I’d like to offer a few observations, based on my experience so far, on using cameras with electronic viewfinders for close-up photography. 1. The light weight of the camera and lens is very nice. This is a camera I can carry around all day without it feeling like a burden. It’s nearly half the weight of my EOS...
read moreCanon PowerShot G7 X First Impressions updated
I see that the PAL/NTSC doesn’t change the recording frame rate, so it looks to be only for analog video output. Just out of curiosity, for what do you use 25fps? I’m from PAL region but always liked the faster 30fps (or 60), and for our current displays it’s better fit too. If you want to tilt down, you can still shoot upside down, I agree that it’s not so convenient but it works 🙂 The front ring is really overly stiff and clicky for my taste. You can however pull focus on touch screen, with up/down buttons or with...
read moreApple iPhone 6 Plus camera review
Connect smartphone reviews are written with the needs of photographers in mind. We focus on camera features, performance and image quality. Introduction The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are Apple’s latest contributions to the smartphone world and joint successors to the iPhone 5S. On the surface, both new models are very similar in terms of specification and differ only in screen size and the addition of an optical image stabilization system in the larger Plus model. The latter, which is the subject of this review, comes with a...
read moreLomography adds Lomochrome Turquoise film to lineup
Back in January 2013, Lomography announced that it would be releasing a color negative film called Lomochrome Purple, which was based on Kodak’s Aerochrome. With that film, photographers could capture images with shifted colors skewed towards the presence of purple. Today the company has made a follow-up announcement, introducing the upcoming Lomochrome Turquoise XR 100-400. Similar to Lomochrome Purple, the newest version will shift colors toward various shades of blue rather than purple. Warm colors, says Lomography, will be...
read moreThis is What Happens When a Football Player Lands on a $10,499 Canon Lens
One of the stranger stories that occurred in the world of photography this past weekend was when Oklahoma football player Sterling Shepard crash landed on a Canon telephoto lens, snapping it into two pieces. Now that the dust is settled, the photographer has come forward with his account of the incident and an apology to the player. It turns out the man behind the camera was Tulsa World photojournalist Mike Simons. In an article published today, Simons writes that he “felt horrible†that his camera gear caused Shepard pain. He also...
read moreThe Intrepid 4×5 is a Large Format Camera That’s Light On Your Back and Your Wallet
If you’ve been wanting to get into the large format game, but the financial investment was just too rich for your blood, the Intrepid 4×5 camera might be exactly what you’re looking for. Created by The Intrepid Camera Company, the Intrepid 4×5 camera was born out of a love of large format photography and the desire to create the perfect large format camera. The team wanted it to be affordable, without making any major sacrifices in weight and quality, so for over a year they whittled away at the design little by little until they...
read moreOne Light Tutorial: How Small Adjustments to Light Position Can Drastically Affects Your Portraits
Whether it’s by necessity or personal decision, sometimes we’re left shooting an image with only a single-light setup. But just because you only have one light, that doesn’t mean you can’t toss in some variety and spice up your image appropriately. Here to highlight that fact is photographer Joel Grimes, who created the above video to show how experimenting with just a single light can produce some impeccable results. It’s worth noting that the video is definitely a bit of a Westcott commercial, but the info shared by Grimes...
read moreRhino’s Odd 360º Helmet Mount Lets You Capture a 2nd-Person Point of View Without the 2nd Person
The accessories available for GoPro cameras are as diverse as the adventures people take them on. But while most at least opt for subtlety, Rhino accessories makes its presence known, both in name and aesthetics. The Rhino accessory lineup, currently funded and then some on Kickstarter, includes a variety of mounting objects that use everything from neodymium magnets to 3M adhesive plates. Also included in their lineup are two separate carbon fiber poles, one of which is extendable and one which is fixed. The most interesting piece of...
read moreInspiration: John Cleese on How to Be Creative
Legendary writer and actor John Cleese is known more for his sense of humor than almost any other attribute. But as he demonstrates brilliantly in the above video, he also has an inspirational outlook and deep interest in the subject of creativity. In the half hour speech, Cleese talks about creativity and how it relates to both ‘open’ and ‘closed’ modes of thinking, each of which come with their own benefits and results. The open mode allows us to be curious, ‘playful’ and toy with ideas until we latch on to one… the...
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...
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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.