News entries for October, 2018

 

 

There are a lot of components to a good portrait, including lighting setup, lens selection and much more. One of the most important components is the subject. If you are working with a professional model, they may be very good at posing and won’t need much direction. However, if you are working with someone less...

 

 

The brush tool in Adobe Photoshop is very powerful. Aaron Nace of Phlearn is showing just how powerful it is by retouching a portrait from start to finish using only the brush tool.

Below, Nace uses the brush tool in Photoshop to perform blemish removal, skin retouching, dodging, burning and color correction....

 

 

When shooting with a wide-angle lens, what you gain in field of view, you often lose in background blur. However, photographer Ryan Brenizer popularized a panoramic stitching technique which allowed you to produce a final image with a wide field of view and a shallow depth of field, a very distinct look. You can...

 

 

“The best built mirrorless full-frame camera we’ve taken apart.” This is how Lensrentals describes the Nikon Z7 in their newly-published teardown. These are very strong words and speak to the level of engineering-level precision which has gone into the design and construction of Nikon’s new flagship full-frame...

 

 

When shooting portrait outdoors, it’s critical to find a nice background. What makes a background an ideal choice? Photographer David Bergman offers some tips for finding the best background in the latest episode of Two Minute Tips.

Bergman states that the best backgrounds are ones which are not distracting and...

 

 

Photographer Sean Tucker recently switched from shooting with Canon DSLR and Fujifilm X Series cameras to Sony mirrorless cameras. He discussed the switch in a prior video, but primarily he wanted to downsize his kit and felt that Sony mirrorless cameras were closer to a true hybrid camera and that he would be able...

 

 

If you shoot a lot of landscape images, it can be easy to be drawn in by the idea that certain lenses are landscape lenses and other lenses, particularly telephoto lenses, should only be used for other types of photography. However, there are many occasions when a telephoto lens is the ideal choice for a landscape...

Click here to see our Panasonic LX100 II First Shots

 

 

These days, the premium compact camera market is dominated by cameras with 1-inch-type sensors. For small, pocketable digi-cams, these are still really large sensors compared to what we used to see in more entry-level compact cameras. Panasonic, too, offers...

Click here to read my Nikon P1000 Field Test

 

 

In my Nikon P1000 Field Test, I wanted to test the camera primarily as a nature walk camera. With its 24-3000mm-eq. built-in lens, the P1000 can capture a landscape one minute and zoom in to capture a shot of a small bird the next. It’s an incredible amount of...

 

 

Photographer Thomas Heaton was recently in Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park for a landscape photography conference. As one of the photographers invited to give presentations, Heaton was also there to lead groups during shooting expeditions. One of these expeditions was to the famous Mesa Arch in...

 

 

Photographer and educator John Greengo created a class for CreativeLive all about the fundamentals of photography. This in-depth class is designed for beginners and will teach you a lot about not only photography, but also how cameras work and what you can do to get the most out of your gear. CreativeLive shared a...

 

 

I've been reviewing cameras and lenses for you for about six years, and Imaging Resource has been offering you reviews for more than 20 years. And in all of that time there has likely never been a more interesting time in the camera industry!

Of course, given the myriad of exciting camera offerings lately, both...

 

 

It’s a wild weekend here with a couple of professional wildlife photographers. We have two videos to share with you today, one from wildlife and nature photographer Morten Hilmer and another from Sony Artisan Colby Brown.

First up is Hilmer, whose latest video is focused on how he became a photographer in general...

 

 

After a short hiatus, Firmware Friday returns this week with an absolutely massive roundup. We've a lot to discuss, so we're going to skip the preamble and keep things really brief this time around. If you're a Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Panasonic, Ricoh / Pentax, Sigma or Sony shooter, you'll want to stick around....

 

 

About a week ago, we shared a video from photographer Attilio Ruffo in which he shared some basic adjustments he makes to every landscape image in Adobe Lightroom. The video kicked off a mini-series to help beginners get up to speed with the basics of using Lightroom to edit their raw images. It can be a daunting...

 

 

It has been a long time since the last edition of Thrifty Thursday here at Imaging Resource, but as we enter the holiday season, there will be a lot of great deals to feature. Today, we have numerous Canon and Nikon DSLR deals to share plus deals on lenses and various mirrorless camera systems, including a $400...

 

 

While generally speaking, cameras do a really good job of capturing accurate skin tones, there are a lot of variables that can throw off your results a bit and you may find yourself hoping to color correct skin in software such as Adobe Photoshop. In the video tutorial below, Aaron Nace from Phlearn shows us how we...

 

 

French photographer Mathieu Stern has been featured here on Imaging Resource many times for his proclivity for adapting rare and unusual lenses to his Sony mirrorless cameras. Today’s adapted “lens” may be the strangest one he’s ever used, ice.

For the last two years, Stern has had the idea in his head to use ice...

 

 

In the video below, we join photographer Adam Gibbs and six other photographers on a trek through Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies. Gibbs and others worked their way to Tonquin Valley for some landscape photography and the scenery and resulting images are spectacular.

While leading the workshop, Gibbs...