News entries for March, 2018

 

 

As part of their third season of Shooting Stories That Sell, SLR Lounge has released a free video showing off ten steps to retouch your images for print.

While it's nice to view and share images on the web, there's something truly special about a print, so you want to ensure that you're doing everything necessary...

 

 

In the latest video from Advancing Your Photography, you can learn how to create and use Rembrandt lighting. The video features filmmaker Fletcher Murray and he starts the video off with great advice about ensuring simplicity with your lighting setup. He states that many beginners often excessively light their...

 

 

Irish photographer Michael Meade is a commercial photographer and videographer without a singular genre focus. In fact, Meade shoots landscape, travel, wedding, music and dance photography. That's quite the variety! As part of their Spotlight series, Adorama has turned their focus toward Meade to show off his work...

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Well, here's something we don't typically review on IR: smartphones. When I bought the iPhone 8 Plus last fall, I decided to do an extensive Field Test more or less as an excuse to thoroughly try out the camera. I came out rather impressed with the quality, all...

 

 

Blend modes in Photoshop can be complicated. However, that doesn't mean you should avoid them. They are very powerful when used correctly and fortunately there are many tutorials and resources to help us make the most of the different blend modes within Photoshop.

One such tutorial comes from Blake Rudis of f64...

 

 

Travel photographer Joe Allam is in Tokyo with the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens to capture some street photography.

Allam starts during the daytime and stays out until nighttime, making good use of the very fast f/1.4 aperture of his Sigma prime lens, which he had attached to a Canon 7D Mark II. The vlog itself was...

 

 

You may recall hearing in the past about Canon's 120-megapixel APS-H sensor. The company is back with another video showing off the impressive technology. The Canon 120MXS is an ultra-high resolution CMOS sensor with 13,280 x 9,184 effective pixels, which is approximately 60 times the resolution of Full HD.

The...

 

 

Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens has a brand-new video focused on time lapse shooting. In the video below, Morgan covers the best camera settings for time lapses, including both shooting and processing.

Morgan works with a Canon 5D Mark III with Tamron zoom lenses and uses a MIOPS Mobile. You can use whichever...

 

 

If you use an interchangeable lens camera, there's a very good chance that you have had to deal with spots on your images before. Even with built-in sensor cleaning technology, it's not uncommon for little specks of dust to wind up on your sensor and sometimes they can be very tricky to spot, pardon the pun, on...

 

 

While natural light often provides some of the best light for your portrait images, it is not always possible to use natural light. When you want complete control of light, you need to use artificial light, and it's possible through the use of a fairly simple strobe setup to realistically recreate the look of...

 

 

Think Tank Photo has launched a brand-new series of photo shoulder bags, the new StoryTeller series. The StoryTeller bags comprise a trio of bags, each sharing the same overall design and many features, but offering different carrying capacities. The bags feature a flip-top lid for quick access to your gear and...

 

 

Travel photographer Thomas Heaton is traveling in his camper van around North Wales. He's on the third day of his trip and he stopped in to Harlech Beach along the Snowdonia coast.

The beach is a very open and features a lot of empty space. How does Heaton go about photographing empty space? Calm simple spaces...

 

 

Billy and Francis, the Fuji Guys, have a new video focused on capturing video with your Fujifilm camera. The duo goes through simple setups with onboard mics to far more advanced rigs. The video itself was shot on the new Fujifilm X-H1 in 4K.

The first setup is the Fujifilm X-T20 -- which offers 4K recording --...

 

 

In his recent film reveal video, photographer Ben Horne showed that he had flipped some of his film images before creating his final output.

He was looking at one of his images he accidentally put the image down on his film viewer flipped and he found that he liked the photograph better in this orientation....

 

 

A photography website is a very important way to share your work online, but it is also a great way to present your overall brand. If you're a professional photographer, it's critical to have a website where you can show off your best work and share important information about your services.

Not only will you be...

 

 

In a recent photo shoot, photographer Irene Rudnyk used a Busch Pressman Large Format Field Camera. This unique film camera proved to be quite interesting to work with. In a new video, Rudnyk shares behind the scenes footage from that film shoot and also shows off fairy lights, natural lighting and using a...

 

 

When trying to choose a first camera or perhaps just your next one, should the camera your favorite photographer uses factor into your decision? This is the topic of the latest video from Tony & Chelsea Northrup.

Suppose your favorite photographer shoots with Canon gear, should you then shoot with Canon gear?...

 

 

As part of an ongoing video series about their software, Luminar, Skylum Software has released a new tutorial about mastering exposure and digital relighting in their flagship photo editing software.

In the video below, we are joined by portrait photographer Laura Tillinghast as she edits an edit to turn it from...

 

 

Photographer Dave Morrow's ongoing Landscape Photography Journals has thus far been primarily focused on going behind the scenes as Morrow backpacks and photographs out in beautiful nature. His latest video changes it up a bit as he answers questions he's been receiving about how he makes money as a full-time...