Following up on the Velvet 56, Lensbaby has announced a new Velvet 85mm f/1.8 lens. The Velvet range are known for their manual focus lenses which produce lustrous soft skin tones. The new Velvet 85 promises the same, with crisp shots that would look at home on a film set, and a “buttery” smooth bokeh... more
Instagram has started testing a new feature called 'favorites' that enables users to share photos with only certain people. Only a small number of users have access to the feature at this time, according to The Verge, though it may roll out to everyone in the future. 'Favorites' is a response to users who want more control over who they share content with, but without having to set... more
When photographing wildlife, especially dangerous creatures, it’s important to stay a smart and safe distance away. One photographer over in Florida didn’t, and as the 2-minute video above shows, he almost found himself in the jaws of an angry alligator.
Lensbaby has announced the Velvet 85 F1.8 lens for interchangeable lens cameras. The lens is available in Canon, Nikon, Sony E, Sony A, Pentax K, Samsung NX, Fuji X and Micro 4/3 mounts and focuses manually. Like the Velvet 56mm, it is designed to offer an atmospheric, soft rendering at wide apertures.
Despite cranking out CF, SD, and XQD cards in increasing speeds and capacities over the past year, Lexar will not survive 2017.
In a bombshell announcement made through a short post on the company blog, Lexar parent company Micron has announced that they will shutter the Lexar retail brand. The entire portfolio will be discontinued, including memory cards,... more
When I first started taking photos, I knew the importance of finding what “good” really looked like. I knew that there were a million people out there that claimed to be more successful than they were, and that my taste wasn’t refined enough and that I wasn’t experienced enough to know the difference between them and those that were truly great.
I found people at the top of the industry and read every article they wrote and watched every video or... more
The iPhone Photography Awards are now in their 10th year, and this year they received thousands of entries submitted by photographers from over 140 different countries.
The IPPAwardsisthe longest running iPhone photography contest in the world. Established in 2007, the competition has been acknowledging creative phone photography since before the days of Instagram.
This year’s Grand Prize winner is Sebastian Tomada, from New York, USA. His image sits at the top of... more
Sony's sensor division has announced a new 1-inch type sensor with an effective pixel count of 20.48MP. The new CMOS sensor is backside-illuminated and offers an all-pixel global reset function which should drastically reduce rolling shutter effect when panning. The chip can also record DCI 4K (4096 x 2160) video at up to 60 frames per second and output 12-bit full-... more
