News entries for December, 2017

 

 

After last week's epic roundup of new firmware and software, things have been rather quieter over the Christmas holiday period. In fact, we've not turned up any new firmware released in the last seven days, and so our roundup this week includes just one item: A new piece of software from Fujifilm which will...

 

 

Sony Artisan Miguel Quiles teamed up with Adorama TV to show how to build a three-light studio lighting setup for portraiture. While you don't need three lights to capture great portraits in a studio, three lights do offer a lot of flexibility and control.

Every time you add a light, it can become more...

 

 

Fstoppers cofounder and photographer Patrick Hall is a huge fan of his 70-200mm lens. In the video below, he uses a Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2 SP lens, which just came out earlier this year.

Hall is a big fan of the 70-200mm lens due to its versatility and that it allows you to control your background via...

 

 

Your subject's hair can be one of the most important aspects of a portrait image. In many cases it is quite literally framing the face. At the same time, hair is very challenging to retouch and enhance. Aaron Nace of Phlearn has some quick tips for us in the video below to help add pop to hair in portraits.

The...

 

 

If you want to freeze action, strobes are a great way to do so. An important aspect to achieving this goal is to shorten your flash's duration. Some strobes include a high-speed or t-mode which will shorten the flash duration. To ensure that your camera's shutter syncs with the short flash, you need to use a high...

 

 

As part of Nikon's 100th anniversary celebration, the company announced a $100,000 scholarship program. The "Nikon Storytellers Scholarship" will award $10,000 academic scholarships to 10 individuals and the application period for the award is now officially open.

Nikon's Director of Marketing, Communications and...

 

 

When we last saw travel photographer Thomas Heaton, he was doing landscape and wildlife photography in Namibia. His latest video takes us to Sossusvlei in Namibia, a location known for its red dunes and white salt pan. It's an absolutely stunning area.

Heaton notes that despite how beautiful the area is, it...

 

 

In addition to being able to greatly reduce distortion, tilt-shift lenses are also excellent for capturing images to stitch together into panoramas. Photographer Adam Karnacz headed into the British Lake District to capture panorama images with Canon's 24mm TS-E Mark II lens.

To create a panorama with a TS-E...

 

 

Photographer Adam Gibbs headed into the British Columbian woodlands to chase some light. Golden Ears Provincial Park, to be more specific. Golden Ears is a second growth forest, which means that it has been regrown following a timber harvest. This affords the area a certain patterned appearance and features many...

 

 

When you have thousands upon thousands of dollars burning a hole in your pocket and you are a passionate wildlife photographer, which goliath in the camera industry should you give your money to, Canon or Nikon?

Tony and Chelsea Northrup pitted Canon's 5DS R against the Nikon D850 and paired each with their...

 

 

Large-format landscape photographer Ben Horne has been sharing videos of his time in Zion for the last month or so. Since the last time we featured one of Horne's videos, he's release a pair of videos, which are shown below.

What makes Horne's work particularly interesting, beyond his great photographic eye, is...

 

 

With 2018 fast approaching and the holiday season in full swing, our Firmware Friday roundup this week is a veritable cornucopia of goodies. We've news of new firmware (and in some cases, software too) for still and video cameras from Canon, Fuji, Hasselblad, Leica, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Sigma and Yi...

 

 

If you haven't quite finished your shopping for the holidays, there is still time to get one last order in before Christmas. Also, it's never too late to treat yourself! Today Adorama is running a few good deals, the best of which is $300 off the very good Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary Lens. At...

 

 

When visiting Zion, Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens did time-lapse photography with the help of some gear from Syrp. To spice up his video, he wanted to rack focus during his time-lapse shooting. How is this accomplished?

Firstly, you will want to disable your camera's autofocus. After this, you will want to...

 

 

Sometimes when you go to brighten up a portrait, you can accidentally ruin your skin tones. With the tips in a new video from Aaron Nace of Phlearn, that problem is a thing of the past.

Since you want to brighten your portrait subject without ruining the skin tones, you'll need to perform two steps, the...

 

 

Christmas is just around the corner and Blake Rudis of f64 Academy has created a new gift guide video of sorts. Rather than tell you all the great photography gear you should hope to receive for Christmas, his video is more anti-gift guide and it lists off the photography gear you don't need for Christmas this...

 

 

Back in October at Photo Plus in New York, a pair of Sony Artisans took to the stage to discuss their work and how they use Sony equipment to capture and share their artistic vision. The videos from the presentations have just been uploaded to Sony Alpha Universe and they're well worth sharing.

The first video...

 

 

As promised, Skylum/Macphun have continued to regularly update their new Luminar 2018 photo editing software. Ahead of 2018's massive digital asset management feature update, Luminar 2018 has received extensive updates to its Mac and Windows versions alongside new camera support.

Both the Mac and Windows versions...

 

 

Suppose you're editing an image in Photoshop and you're making extensive adjustments or working with a selection, it's not unusual to have some white edges or fringing appear in your photograph. How can you get rid of this ugly fringe? Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect has published a new video tutorial which shows us...