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Here’s a fun little experiment to try one night this week. Take that box of crackers (biscuits if you’re formal), polish off the last few hangers-on, and then use that box to create some interesting DIY lighting effects with your off-camera flash.

The idea isn’t a new one; fashioning a snoot from a household object has definitely (link is external) been... more (link is external)

Chuck Kennedy is a former White House Photographer and worked as Assistant Director of the White House Photo Office during the Obama Administration.

How is it to work as an assistant director and official White House photographer on the day to day?

My title was Assistant Director of the White House Photo Office, from February 2009 to January 2017.

On a typical day, Id get in about 8:30 in the morning and check again the days schedule of events for the... more (link is external)

Credit where credit is due: this is a creative workaround. If you need a way to stabilize your footage, but you don’t have any kind of gimbal or steadicam to work with, why not just shoot the thing by hand-holding your drone?

That must have been the thinking behind this video by a small Brazil-based production house called... more (link is external)

In February, photographer Alex John Beck (link is external) travelled to refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan to capture a powerful portrait project. In a series of diptychs, he pairs refugee or family of refugees with their most... more (link is external)

Panasonic is likely to significantly scale-back its camera business, according to a report by Japan's largest business newspaper (link is external). The Nikkei Asian Review says the move is one of the proposals of a report prepared by the company's business planning department.

Like all large electronics makers, Panasonic has found it hard to make profit in an industry with... more (link is external)

8K has arrived. Dell’s “world’s first” 8K monitor that wowed so many people back in January (link is external) when it was announced is officially on salea 31.5-inch monster of a monitor that offers a level of resolution you will drool (and your graphics card will groan) over.

The so-called... more (link is external)

Google's now independent X research division, which calls itself 'the moonshot factory,' has been publishing a collection of stories about the group's graduated projects and where they stand today. The latest article in the so-called Graduate Series offers a closer look at Gcam, the software behind the class-leading cameras in Google's Pixel devices. 

The blog post outlines how the Gcam team was... more (link is external)

I always say the Universe’s favorite hiding place for the most awesome stuff is right behind fear. Isn’t that a little unfair? Why doesn’t the Universe put the great stuff right before the fear, so everyone can enjoy pure bliss?

Although there are a million laws in the Universe, you only need to know one for your photography right now: it expands. Always. But what does that have to do with fear, being dumb and your photos? Let me explain.

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Students Gifton Okoronkwo and Kast Goudarzi have taken the wraps off a new website called Wesaturate (link is external), an online learning destination that will offer free Raw images for photographers to download. The intention for the website is to provide these images as learning tools, enabling anyone to practice Raw editing even if they don't have the time or gear to go out and shoot their... more (link is external)

One of the biggest challenges a new camera system faces, no matter how innovative, is lens choice. But if that’s the reason you’re on the fence about Fuji’s new mirrorless medium format GFX (link is external), listen up, because Cambo has an adapter for you.

The Cambo CA-GFX is an adapter that will let you attach Canon EF lenses to your fancy new GFX,... more (link is external)

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