News entries for May, 2018

Click here to read our Olympus 45mm f/1.2 Pro Lens Review

 

 

First we reviewed the 25mm f/1.2 Pro, then the 17mm f/1.2 Pro, and now we're finishing the f/1.2 trio with our Olympus 45mm f/1.2 Pro lens review! With this trinity of fast primes, Olympus offers serious photographers top-notch image quality, smooth...

 

 

Sony Artisan of Imagery Chris Orwig has another new video for the Sony Alpha Universe YouTube channel, this time focusing on editing portraits in Adobe Lightroom. In the video below, Orwig shows us how to edit a portrait shot from start to finish within Lightroom Classic CC's Develop module.

The shot Orwig edits...

 

 

Along with producing regular behind-the-scenes video content, photographer Adam Gibbs has also been producing videos as part of an ongoing Landscape and Light series. In the video below, we see the third Landscape and Light video, this time covering the very important topic of recognizing great light.

It's one...

 

 

In 2009, Really Right Stuff launched their first carbon fiber tripod and after many different sizes and versions of their popular product, the company has announced their new Mark 2 tripods, a big step forward for their carbon fiber camera support in many ways.

The Mark 2 tripod line is the result of years of...

 

 

A holy grail timelapse is when you make a timelapse which goes from day to night or vice versa. As you can imagine, this situation poses unique challenges, particularly with respect to exposure and color balance shifting over time as the lighting conditions change.

In the video below, David Bergman shows us how...

 

 

Photographer Manny Ortiz wants to help you choose the right portrait lens for your work. In the video below, he compares Sony and Zeiss 35mm, 55mm and 85mm prime lenses along with a 70-200mm f/2.8 telephoto zoom. Of these four lenses, which is best?

Of course, what counts as best depends on many things. To help...

 

 

Arthur Bleich with Red River Paper has written a fascinating article detailing one of photographer Jack Delano's most interesting and important photo assignments. American photographer Jack Delano was born as Jacob Ovcharov in 1914 in the Russian Empire. At age 83, he died as Jack Delano in Puerto Rico and between...

Click here to read our Canon 6D Mark II Video Features & Analysis

 

 

At or around the $2,000 level can get you one heck of camera these days, usually offering loads of performance and top-notch quality for both still photographers and videographers, alike. Canon's long-anticipated 6D Mark II arrived some five...

 

 

Firmware Friday has arrived once more, and this week we bring news from Nikon, Olympus, Ricoh / Pentax, Panasonic, Sigma and Sony. The majority of the changes made by all of these companies are bug fixes this time around, but a few tweaked features can be found amongst the mix, as well.

Without any further...

 

 

Large-format nature photographer Ben Horne regularly captures great images. But every so often, things don't go according to plan and he comes home from a trip empty-handed. That doesn't mean that a trip without usable photos doesn't still offer something useful. For Horne, he learned valuable lessons that have...

 

 

If you're interested in trying Capture One software, you may very well be wondering how you can migrate your Lightroom workflow to Capture One. There are numerous aspects to consider when moving from Lightroom to an alternative, such as Capture One, including arranging the workspace to be more familiar, learning...

 

 

After announcing the Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens earlier this year, Sigma has announced when you'll be able to purchase the lens and for how much.

To recap, the new lens, dubbed by Sigma as the "Bokeh Master" is their longest focal length lens with a f/1.4 maximum aperture. In total, it's the ninth f/1.4...

 

 

Photographer and popular YouTuber Jessica Kobeissi is back with another edition of her 4 Photographers Shoot the Same Model video series. In her latest video, she's joined by photographers Sawyer Hartman, Phil Shaw and Mark Singerman.

As always, it's interesting to not only see how differently the various...

 

 

Many of us have heard of the term "portrait prime" to describe a fast lens. Photographers often reach for f/1.4, f/1.8 and f/2 lenses when shooting portraits to capture images with shallow depth of field and dreamy backgrounds. Sony Artisan Miguel Quiles often opts for a stopped down aperture instead, which is an...

 

 

If you've been tempted by the Fuji X-T20 but haven't yet found yourself able to justify its pricetag, then Fujifilm has some intriguing news for you today. The company has just launched its latest model -- the 24.2-megapixel Fuji X-T100 -- and it pairs styling and handling akin to that of its pricier X-T...

 

 

Photographer and educator Daniel Norton has an ongoing video series, OnSet for Adorama and in his latest episode, he shows us how to harness the power of shadows to create dramatic black and white portraits.

Photographers spend a lot of time working with lights and modifiers to remove shadows, but there are times...

 

 

Lee Morris and Patrick Hall of Fstoppers decided to tackle the topic with the aim of showing that lens compression doesn't exist. As we can see in the video below, the background elements certainly -- and dramatically -- change in size relative to the subject, which in this case is Patrick's face. What's going on...

 

 

Panasonic has announced new firmware updates for the GH5, GH5S and the G9 that will be available on May 30, 2018. This announcement comes a bit ahead of the actual release, which is unusual but probably not unwelcome. This update, though not available for download until May 30, is slated to improve AF performance...

 

 

Layer masks are a big reason why Photoshop is a more powerful and versatile photo editing tool than something like Lightroom. However, with great power can sometimes come great complexity. Whereas tools such as gradient filters and sliders are highly intuitive, things like masking is not always as straightforward....