It's not often someone "reimagines" an established bit of kit, but that's what the folks over at Photo Rock Bar have done. This strange looking weight for tripods, light stands and boom arms is meant to replace ye old sand bag with something more convenient and versatile.
Photographer Joey L. is known for pushing himself to capture stunning imagery. From his documentary work on the frontlines of the fight against ISIS, to A-list celebrity and commercial work, he never shies away from a physical or creative challenge. His most recent commercial shoot was both.
Meyer Optik Gorlitz is working its way back from the dead. After the company's very public failure—including the embarrassing admission that the $3,000 "Nocturnus" was just a modified $850 Chinese lens—the brand and its new owner, OPC Optics, is preparing to re-release "optimized" and "redesigned" versions of several lenses this year.
Back in the Sony SLT days, the company included an incredibly useful feature into the a99 Mark II called the Custom Focus Limiter. It allowed you to limit your autofocus to any distance range you wanted, and by golly, we wish it were still a thing.
Why do photographers need to market themselves? In a phrase: so that you don't starve to death. No, but seriously. Otherwise, you risk ending up like Vincent van Gogh who (in the words of Steven Pressfield) “produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.”
With the release of the 61MP a7R IV, Sony officially raised the resolution bar, eclipsing Canon's 50MP 5DS and 5DS R DSLRs. But according to a new report, Canon may soon reclaim that crown and re-enter the "spec wars" in a big way.
After teasing releasing teasers for the YN200 pocket flash and YN560-TX radio transmitter last month, Yongnuo officially revealed the Godox AD200 clone and the TTL and HSS compatible transmitter this week, hoping to reclaim a bit of the budget gear market that Godox has all but taken over.
JPEGmini has announced a new plug-in that brings its widely used JPEG file size shrinking technology to Capture One Pro 12.
The quality of a camera's shutter sound probably isn't high on the list of what any photographer considers when looking to buy a new body, but Lensrentals has just published a tongue-in-cheek review/comparison of shutter sounds anyway.
There is a persistent scam going around that is so pervasive that you might think everyone has heard about it and is immune to it. Yet, I often enough see this come up as a question in a Facebook group when a photographer is unsure if an inquiry is a scam. Most often they are. This is how these advance-fee scams work and how photographers are scammed.
Lensbaby has launched new Canon RF and Nikon Z mount versions of a number of its popular creative effect lenses.
Check out this photo. Although it may look like a color picture upon first glance (and even more so if you squint or view it from a distance), it's actually a black-and-white photo with thin color grid lines overlaid on it to trick your brain into filling in the missing color.
Nikon has announced the new NIKKOR Z 85mm f/1.8 S, a fast prime portrait lens for its full-frame Z Series mirrorless cameras.
Scientists have revealed a new futuristic robotic contact lens that's essentially an advanced zoom lens for the human eye. It can be zoomed and controlled by blinking and looking around.
I’m an experienced concert photographer. From the largest stadiums to the smallest, dirtiest night clubs, I’ve photographed thousands of bands and seen it all. I’m damned confident in my ability to anticipate the shot and be in the right place at the right time. Or, at least I was until last Saturday night.
On July 27th, I was out taking photos and filming the moonrise behind a tower called Arctura here in Östersund, Sweden.
Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a new bill designed to ban the "addictive" tricks used by social networking services to hook users and increase the amount of time they spend on their platforms.
After the Apollo 11 mission that successfully landed the first humans on the Moon back in July 1969, a NASA photographer unexpectedly became the first non-astronaut to touch Moon dust with his bare hands.
Dear Entitled, I came across a screenshot of your “I have started a photography business” post in a “Classifieds” Facebook group.
Studio lighting can get hot -- so hot, in fact, that some can double a stove. Here's a humorous 14-minute video in which photographer Sweet Lou tests how well different ARRI fresnel lights fry eggs and bake cookies.
Landscape photographer and LUMIX Ambassador James Popsys has put together a video breaking down five of the most overused photography techniques in landscape photography. From long exposures of water, to sky replacement, he explains why he feels that each of these are either used badly, too often, or both.
A young fan of the popular Netflix show Stranger Things earned a bit of Internet fame (or is it infamy?) this weekend when they asked a question about that strange "red room" in the show where Jonathan goes "to 'refine' his photos or something." In other words: a darkroom.
Legendary photographer Edward Weston was one of the most influential photographers in American history, and in this short video, we get to go back in time, visit his home, and watch him process one of his negatives from start to finish.
Four years ago, I set what seemed like an impossible goal: to make a functional Apollo 11 camera by the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It was a crazy idea, especially with how inexperienced I was with nearly every process that would be required to do so.
NVIDIA has just released the latest version of its Studio Driver, and creatives who use the company's GPUS should take note. According to NVIDIA, the new driver, "delivers the best performance and reliability for creative applications via extensive testing of creator workflows" by adding support for 10-bit color for creatives who use programs like Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.
RED CEO Jarred Land took to the reduser.net forum this past weekend to drop a major teaser about the company's next cinema camera—a small form-factor camera called the Komodo that is "not larger than 4 inches in any dimension" and may feature Canon's RF mount.
Recently, I worked one of the most frustrating shoots I have ever had to endure. In my day job, I work with amateur prospective models doing test shoots. Most of the people I work with have never modeled and have rarely even stepped into a photography studio before. Despite this, the people I work with tend to understand the relationship and the unspoken code.
Think your Photoshop is slow? Check out what it was like to use Adobe Photoshop version 0.63 Beta. Here's a humorous 13-minute video (warning: there's strong language) in which Krazy Ken of Computer Clan tries editing some photos inside the Photoshop that existed back in October 1988.
A strange-looking recently-discovered deep-sea squid species called the Asperoteuthis mangoldae squid has been captured on camera for the first time ever. The footage and the scientists' reactions are in the 2.5-minute video above.
Have you ever wondered why the images you created a few years ago look very different from the pictures you are taking now? Chances are you became a better photographer. You trained your eye and you got better at post-processing. But I am not talking about the craft. I am talking about the art behind photography. The art that feeds off your emotions.
Professional photographer Amy Haehl of Coffee Creek Studio recently put some of her newborn portraits through FaceApp to create a hilarious (if mildly unsettling) series of images titled "If Babies Had Teeth."
Michaël Tirat, a wet plate photographer based in Bordeaux, France, has created something pretty special. In an attempt to make his photography services more portable, he's created a mobile darkroom on a tricycle that enables him to capture wet plates photography all over the city.
Canon released their Q2 2019 financial results earlier this week, showing that recent predictions of a steep decline in profit were on the money (so to speak). But despite reporting significant declines in both Net Sales and Unit Sales of their cameras, the company remains optimistic about its prospects in the mirrorless camera market.
Did you ever dive into an I Spy book as a kid? These photo books were filled with incredibly detailed images that showed tens, sometimes hundreds of objects in a single shot, and challenged children to find specific items within those pictures. And each illustration was captured using real objects by photographer Walter Wick.
Fujifilm has published a "notice" (read: service advisory) informing users of its new 100MP mirrorless medium format GFX 100 that they may have a faulty shutter button. Fortunately, Fuji claims only "a very small percentage" of cameras are affected, and they'll fix those cameras for free.
Years ago, VP of Technology at Edelman Jordan Guthmann interviewed for a job at Amazon, and had his picture taken while he was there. He didn't end up getting the job... which is why it's kind of funny that, until yesterday, Amazon was using a photo of him on their talent acquisition website. Oops...
Sony recently published the spec sheets for six of its full-frame sensors, including a quad-bayer version of the 61MP chip found inside the Sony a7R IV. Given the ubiquity of Sony's BSI-CMOS sensors, it's possible we'll see tweaked versions of these sensors in some next generation full-frame cameras.
Capitalizing on the increasing popularity of the ASMR video movement, Jared Polin of Fro Knows Photo has created a high-quality, binaural ASMR video for all the photographers out there who really enjoy the sounds of the trade.
Amazon sparked a frenzy and made headlines last week after an apparent pricing glitch allowed customers to buy extremely expensive cameras and lenses, including one worth $13,000, for just $94.48 each. Today we have a closer look at how one photographer made out like a bandit.
Earlier this week, supermodel Gigi Hadid's lawyers successfully got a copyright case against her dismissed despite the fact that most people thought this was a clear cut case of infringement. The important question for photographers now is: how did her lawyers manage to pull this off?
Belle Ame is an ongoing series by award-winning macro photographer Matt Doogue featuring macro double exposure photos of insects created in-camera.
Perhaps one of the more difficult aspects of landscape photography is determining how to properly expose your scene under less-than-ideal lighting conditions. These types of situations are a common occurrence with outdoor photography as it’s often a struggle trying to properly expose an image consisting of a bright sky and a dark foreground in a single image.
Sony has just unveiled the RX100 Mark VII, and the latest iteration of their popular, powerful point-and-shoot camera is a veritable speed demon. Thanks to a new sensor, the RX100 VII can shoot at 20fps with no blackout and full AF/AE, can perform 90fps bursts with AF/AE locked, and promises Sony a9 level autofocus performance.
The winners of the 12th annual iPhone Photography Awards have just been announced this morning, showing yet again that you can capture some pretty impressive imagery using just the device in your pocket.
If you're looking for a quick laugh, Marc Newton over at The School of Photography put together a short video describing "the 4 worst types of photographers that you probably know or will definitely meet at some point."
Photographer Taylor Jackson has started a new series on his YouTube channel called Photography Challenge, where he will (you guessed it) take on a different challenge every episode. And this week, he's been challenged to turn a $3 frozen TV dinner into professional food photography worthy of a 5-star restaurant.
In my never-ending search for that “special” photographic look that sets me apart from the competition, I recently discovered that overexposing film increases the grain and adds a vintage pictorial look to my images. So I wanted to explore that look further. To that end, I wanted to find out if this film grain can be copied in the digital world using Adobe Lightroom.
In an industry that’s overcrowded with photographers trying to get a piece of the client pie, commercial photography has an irresistible allure, especially to those new to the industry. Social media fails to show the full picture of what goes on behind the scenes, and photographers rarely talk about the many downfalls of being a commercial photographer.
VESA has announced the first major update to the DisplayPort Audio/Video standard since 2016, and it's a doozy. DisplayPort 2.0 triples the bandwidth of the standard to a mind-blowing 77.37Gbps, which will allow support for up one 16K signal at 60Hz, two 8K signals at 120Hz, or three 10K signals at 60Hz, all at 30 bits per pixel.
What's up, photography fans? It's Martin here from All About Street Photography, and today I want to talk about the story behind the famous photo Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall) by French photographer Robert Doisneau.