News entries for June, 2019

 

 

When searching for a bit more reach with your telephoto lens, many sports and wildlife photographers opt to use a teleconverter. What is a teleconverter, what does it do and how does it work? In his latest video, wildlife and nature photographer Steve Perry answers these questions and much more.

A teleconverter...

 

 

If you make extensive edits to a raw image in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom, you may introduce halos and glowing edges. These distracting issues arise most often when making heavy changes to shadows and highlights in an image, such as when you are trying to recover details from a scene which had more dynamic range...

 

 

This weekend, we have a trio of portrait retouching tutorial videos to share with you. In the videos below, you will learn how to smooth skin in Photoshop and how to process a portrait from start to finish using only Adobe Lightroom.

The first two videos are focused on skin smoothing in Photoshop. The first is...

 

 

It's Friday, the weekend is almost upon us, and it's time once more for our regular roundup of all the latest updates in this week's Firmware Friday column. And this week, it's a relatively short list, with just one camera, one mount adapter and several pieces of software receiving tweeks in the past seven...

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Tamron has announced the launch and price of its new Sony E-mount wide-angle zoom lens, the 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD. The lens is a large aperture, ultra-wide-angle lens for full-frame Sony mirrorless cameras and features a compact and lightweight design.

Click here to read my Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S Field Test

 

 

When the Nikon Z6 and Z7 came out last year, they launched alongside the 24-70mm f/4 S kit lens. While this lens is capable and versatile, enthusiast and pro users were left wanting. A 24-70mm f/2.8 lens has long been a staple of a professional kit and a...

 

 

This coming July, Sigma will be hosting five unique hands-on workshops across the United States where photographers of all levels will be able to attend presentations and try out Sigma's latest and most popular lenses.

The workshop series kicks off in Amherst, MA at the New England Camera Club Conference and at...

 

 

Audio is probably the last thing that burgeoning filmmakers think about, and it's usually the last thing they master. Proper audio makes a huge difference in how a video's story is told, and even though environmental sound like cars, rivers and wind can play a big role in a story, the first thing that has to...

 

 

Psychologists and retail experts alike will tell you about a phenomenon known as "extremeness aversion". In a nutshell, if consumers are offered a choice of three outwardly-similar products, they'll tend to opt for the middle-priced of the three. The lower and higher-priced offerings will sell in smaller...

 

 

When Phase One released the IQ4 digital backs last year, one of the big new features of the digital backs was the Infinity Platform. Essentially, what this new platform offers is continued updates, innovation and regular improvements to IQ4 digital backs. Today, Phase One has announced its first IQ4 Infinity...

 

 

As Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect says in a new video, "As of recording this video, there is no easy way to cut out hair from a busy background." Fortunately, while challenging, it's not impossible and there are numerous techniques and tools you can use inside Adobe Photoshop to cut out hair from a complex background...

 

 

When shooting portraits in bright sunlight, there are numerous ways you can make the light less harsh on your subject. You may like the overall light in the scene, but perhaps the light on your subject's face doesn't work well. In the video below, photographer Sean Tucker uses his Godox AD200 strobe to control the...

Click here to read our Sony A6400 Field Test Part II

 

 

The Sony A6400 got a lot of coverage when it first came out, but that was more due to Sony's PR and marketing blitz than to anything about the A6400 itself. Though it was the first camera to receive Sony's new "real-time tracking" autofocus, it not only...

 

 

Leica Camera has announced the newest member of their iconic Leica M family, the Leica M-E (Typ 240). The new M-E is aimed at newcomers to the M series while building upon the established formula of the existing Leica M Typ 240, which was released in 2012.

There are many similarities between the M-E and the M,...

 

 

After a couple of smaller roundups, our regular Firmware Friday series returns this week with a much longer list of updates shipped by imaging companies in the past seven days. In all, we're aware of updates for four cameras and an impressive 15 lenses. Among the camera updates there's one which is a major,...

 

 

There are many different aspects of a potential photographic composition, but one of the strongest ones, and most common if you shoot near still water, is symmetry. In the video below, Danish photographer Mads Peter Iversen discusses different ways to use symmetry in landscape photographs along with various example...

 

 

If you try to blur the background of a portrait in Photoshop, you may find that you get strange halos and oddities around the edges of your subject. Fortunately, there are techniques you can use to reduce the halos around edges and be able to cleanly add artificial depth of field to your images. In the video below,...

 

 

Capture One has released a pair of new Styles packs as part of their "Latitude" series. The new packs, "Pacific" and "Infinite Peaks" have been developed by commercial photographer John Schnell and Fujifilm X-Photographer Bryan Minear. The photographers have signature looks which have been seen in work for clients...

 

 

Two years ago, professional photographer Nigel Danson decided to quit his stable desk job to become a full-time photographer. This meant giving up something known and safe for something unknown and risky, but it also meant changing photography's place in Danson's life from being an enjoyable hobby to his profession...