Photographer and educator Serge Ramelli recently shared a brilliant little post-processing tip that he's calling "the best kept secret to Dodge and Burn in Lightroom." It's a simple technique, but it could end up saving you a lot of post-processing time.
Nissan recently teamed up with professional driver and "automotive video expert" Mauro Calo to transform a Nissan GT-R into what they've dubbed "the ultimate high-performance camera rig." The result should appeal to video and car geeks alike.
Karen X. Cheng made this 1-minute video that shows 5 creative camera shots filmmakers can do on a tiny budget. All you need is a little creativity.
Over three years ago, I tested out the Fuji X100F and was introduced to the pleasantries of carrying around a capable point and shoot. Today’s agenda is the fifth installment of Fujifilm’s X100 line of cameras: the Fuji X100V.
Some cameras on the market these days leave out the traditional optical low pass filter (OLPF), also known as the anti-aliasing filter, to increase sharpness at the expense of increase moiré patterns. If you're not sure what exactly this trade-off is, check out this 10-minute comparison video by New Zealand-based wedding photographer Richard Wong.
It seems Tamron is going to have a busy 2020. As part of its 2019 full-year financial report, the company has revealed that it has five total lenses planned for this year, three of which haven't been announced yet.
Here’s why print wins over digitals every time. Really, it’s simple. It’s all about our children.
Sigma's full-frame mirrorless camera with a Foveon image sensor has been sent "back to the drawing board" and delayed indefinitely. In an update posted to the brand's website, Sigma's CEO apologized for the delay, saying that he was "not in a position to offer any specific release plan."
The New York-based smartphone camera accessory company Moondog Labs has announced its new Multi-Camera Filter Mount, an accessory that lets you use 52mm lens filters on your iPhone.
Fujifilm has apparently dropped ambassador Tatsuo Suzuki from its X Photographer program after Suzuki's "in your face" street photography shooting style sparked controversy over the past week.
On the surface, street photography may seem like a genre of disparate and random images based completely on chance. In reality, when done well, street photography can be turned into a cohesive art form that allows a photographer to show off a strong vision.
So you’re about to shoot someone’s wedding. That’s amazing -- it’s an incredible opportunity to be part of one of the most intimate and beautiful experiences in human love. But between photography and videography, which medium gets the job done?
Photographer Gary Fong, best known for creating the Gary Fong Lightsphere, released this 8-minute video warning about Amazon selling counterfeit copies of his popular collapsible flash diffuser.
Today we are going to use skeleton leaves and glycerin for a creative macro project. Skeleton leaves are fascinating and intricate structures that make great subjects for macro photography and creative projects.
A Reddit user running the Mac application Little Snitch 4 discovered that Skylum's Luminar photo editor is "calling home" to Facebook while the app is in use, allegedly for "analytics purposes."
Free Lightroom alternative RawTherapee just released version 5.8. And in addition to the usual compatibility and performance improvements, the open source software has also added an impressive new feature called "Capture Sharpening."
A new quick-release plate called the "Magic Plate" has made its way onto Kickstarter, where it claims to be the easiest way to quickly switch between portrait and landscape mode without having to remove your camera from your tripod.
COOPH recently got together with London-based street photographer and co-founder of Street Photography Internationa Alan Schaller to talk about one of the most deceptively difficult forms of photography out there: black and white street photography.
Despite plenty of opinions out there saying that stills photography is dying and video is taking over, one metric at least seems to disagree: ad revenue. According to reports, the world's largest photo sharing site (Instagram) out-earned the world's largest video sharing platform (YouTube) by a lot in 2019.
In this short tutorial, well-known portrait and fashion photographer Lindsay Adler will show you how to use "the most inexpensive and under-appreciated" lighting modifier to capture beautiful studio portraits. She's talking, of course, about the lowly umbrella.
Location: Changthang Plateau, Ladakh, Kashmir - December 2019. At an altitude of more than 14,000ft, where winter temperatures can fall to -40 degrees, it is hard to believe anyone or anything can survive in this vast ice desert that is the Changthang Plateau.
Fujifilm Japan has issued a "Notice of discontinuation of some photographic film products," which states that the company will no longer sell 3-packs of Fujicolor 100 and Superia Premium 400 film as of March 2020, "due to a long-term decline in demand."
Using an 8K RED camera and two macro lenses, video artist Thomas Blanchard recently captured an entire solar system's worth of "mini planets" made of paint, oil, ink and soap in excruciating detail. The resulting footage is absolutely stunning.
Instagram has just launched a new feature called "Following Categories," that breaks down the accounts you're following into those you see in your feed the most, and those you interact with the least... more or less giving you an answer to the question "Who should I unfollow?"
The Photographer's Ephemeris—one of the most popular location scouting apps on the market—has just added support for a user-friendly type of location tagging called "what3words." The update should make it easier for landscape and outdoor photographers to save and share their exact photo location no matter where on Earth they're shooting from.
Landscape photographer and YouTuber Mads Peter Iversen has released a helpful on-location tutorial for anybody who wants to photograph waterfalls. The beginner-focused tutorial runs you through 9 simple tips that will help you take better, more deliberate photos of this common landscape photography subject.
Photographer Nicoco (@nicolattes) recently embarked on a personal project to document Shanghai during the coronavirus outbreak, hoping to capture the emptiness, isolation, and fear that the virus has wreaked on this once-bustling city.
Facebook and Google have both sent cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI demanding that the facial recognition startup stop scraping photos and videos to build up its face database.
Andy here, checking in from cloudy and chilly London. Here for work for a week or so but had a pretty epic flight over, as you’ll see in a second. I had a few friends with systemwide upgrades expiring on American Airlines soon and they were generous enough to upgrade me to business class for the flight over.
Lomography has launched its 12th Kickstarter campaign, unveiling its latest Petzval portrait lens to the world: the 180th Anniversary Edition Petzval 80.5mm f/1.9 MKII Art Lens for Canon and Nikon DSLRs.
Wacom tablets are popular among photographers who prefer using a pen to a mouse when retouching photos, and Wacom even bundles Photoshop and Lightroom with some of its models to sweeten the package. But if you use a Wacom tablet for your editing work, there's something you should know: your tablet may be quietly tracking all the apps you open on your computer without you knowing it.
Fujifilm found itself in the middle of a heated debate about ethics and street photography yesterday, when one of the promo videos it released for the Fuji X100V sparked outrage among a certain segment of the company's fans on YouTube. The video has since been taken down.
Following hot on the heels of Instagram's new (and at times controversial) "False Information" warning, Twitter has just announced its own policy around labeling and warning users about photos and videos that have been "deceptively altered" and manipulated.
Ricoh today unveiled its latest "ultra-rugged" compact camera: the WG-70. The camera features a few usability improvements over its predecessor, the WG-60, but remains largely unchanged in terms of the design and core feature set.
A group of aurora enthusiasts in Finland have discovered a new kind of aurora that scientists had never noticed or classified before. It's called "the dunes," and it's being hailed as a boon to scientific research about a mysterious layer of Earth’s atmosphere.
The US Department of Defense is reportedly spending millions on a special "Drone Hunter" system that uses an AI-enabled interceptor drone to catch other, illegal drones by chasing them down and shooting them with a large net... Spider-Man style.
Conversations around photographic style have always felt a little odd to me for a few reasons. It’s something I get asked about a lot by my students, as they feel that without a style, a visual signature, then they will find it very difficult to differentiate themselves from other working artists.
Lightroom and Photoshop are designed to work hand-in-hand, so you can easily pass photos between the two programs while you're working with them. Photography instructor Phil Steele of Steele Training made this beginner's 17-minute tutorial on doing "round trips" (and even "nested round trips") with photos between Lightroom and Photoshop.
YouTuber Denis Shiryaev used publicly available AI-based technology to take a grainy, low-resolution short film from the year 1896 and upscale it all the way to 4K and 60 fps. The results, while not perfect, are downright astonishing.
The Alphabet company Jigsaw—formerly known as Google Ideas—has released a free tool called Assembler that was designed to help journalists identify manipulated imagery, no matter how sophisticated the trickery might be.
Fujifilm pulled an Apple at the end of the London 2020 X-Summit stream today with "one more thing." After revealing the X100V, teasing the much-anticipated XF 50mm f/1.0 lens, and more, the company announced that it would be unveiling the Fuji X-T4 on February 26th.
After many accurate rumors and leaks over the past couple of weeks, Fujifilm has officially unveiled the long-awaited X100V: a fixed-lens APS-C camera with a redesigned lens, the latest generation of X-Trans sensor, a 2-way tilting rear LCD screen, "optional" weather resistance, and much more.
During Fuji's London 2020 X Summit that is streaming live as we write this, Fuji revealed that they are planning to add a 400MP "pixel shift" mode for the GFX 100 medium format mirrorless camera, and showed off the "world's fastest lens with AF."
Wedding photographer Taylor Jackson recently took on what he's calling "wedding photography pricing myths." In a 30-minute video, Jackson tackles some of the most common tips, advice, and outright myths that he found online, setting the record straight for beginners who want to get into this business.
Google is contacting a small percentage of Google Photos users to notify them that a bug in the company's "Takeout" system for downloading your data accidentally sent some users' private videos to random strangers. Oops...
If you're a sports photographer at any level in the United States, the dream gig would be to shoot a national championship: the World Series, the MLS cup, the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup, or perhaps the most coveted of all, the Super Bowl. For Getty Images Chief Sports Photographer Rob Carr, that dream is a reality.
I’m going to share with you 11 secrets that will help you up your night street photography game. These tips are based on what I teach paying customers on my London Soho Night Street Photography workshops, but don’t worry if you’re coming to one, I have many more secrets!
Photographer Usman Dawood recently published an article in defense of Adobe. Reading it was a lot like reading a Microsoft fanboy at the height of the Window Vista era -- sure, the product works, but at what level of financial cost and frustration?
Sony is warning investors that the Coronavirus outbreak in China could have a major impact on its image sensor business, saying that production of both image sensor and electronics "could be affected enormously" if the virus continues to progress.
The first time I was hired to photograph on set at a music video was decades ago. The client was a record label and they didn’t give me any detailed instructions. I was just starting out and it didn’t even occur to me to ask just what I was supposed to take pictures of.