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A glacial river in Greenland

Getting your settings right is important when shooting from the air. Due to low light and strong vibration, many images from this shoot turned out blurry.

In the previous article in this series, I talked about the equipment one might use for aerial photography. So what about technique, and especially camera settings? What should you... more

Yongnuo has announces its full-frame 85mm F1.8 lens, for Canon and (eventually) Nikon mounts. This budget-friendly lens, which closely resembles Canon's 85mm F1.8, first surfaced a couple of months ago. It features 9 elements in 6 groups, as well as a 0.85m minimum focusing distance, a 58mm filter diameter, and an overall weight of about 460g/16oz. It's offered Canon EF mount now, with reports pointing to a Nikon version coming soon.

Yongnuo announced the launch on... more

Want to learn how to blend 3 bracketed exposures of the same scene to create a single photo with greater dynamic range? Here’s a great 17-minute video tutorial by travel photographer and educator Jimmy McIntyre... more

As I write this post, I have just finished slogging through a tedious and time consuming photo edit that could have been 100% avoided. Here’s the story of what happened.

A couple weeks ago I bought a new studio monolight. I was really excited, and I couldn’t wait to step up my portraiture game. At that same time a friend of a friend reached out looking for headshots.

Whammy! Here we go.

The preliminary talks moved quickly. Date, price, aesthetic all get... more

After Bill Gates sold Corbis Images to Visual China Group (VCG) back in January 2016, the citizen journalism photo agency Demotix (which Corbis bought in 2012) suddenly went dark. Now, after over a year has passed since the Corbis sale, some Demotix contributors have finally received an email from VCG… with few happy answers.

Back in late... more

The Leica M Monochrom is special in the Leica lineup due to the fact that it lacks a color filter, which improves image quality and restricts the camera to shooting black and white. If you’d like a monochrome-only camera but don’t want to shell out $7,450 for... more

Given 2017 is the tenth anniversary of the iPhone, many expect Apple to come up with a few special features for this year's generation of its smartphones. A high-end model with 5.8" edge-to-edge OLED display is widely rumored and according to a note from J.P. Morgan analyst Rod Hall, this top-of-the-line device could do away with the Touch ID fingerprint reader and introduce 3D-facial recognition with a front-facing laser scanner as a security feature to Apple smartphones.  

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[Advertisement for Sarony's Photographic Studies] by Napoleon Sarony (American (born Canada), Quebec 18211896 New York) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has added 375,000 images to the public domain, each showing a scan of copyright-free artwork in the museum's collection. Every image has a Creative Commons 'CC0' license, meaning... more

For his latest project, titled “Reflection of Me,” photographer Isaac Alvarez shot portraits of dogs and their owners, and then combined the dog heads with the owner bodies.

“I wanted to do... more

Need to add some fake blood to your photo shoot? Instead of going the digital route, you can easily whip up some realistic fake blood using recipes developed for Hollywood movies. The 2-minute video above is a quick look at some of the fake blood recipes that were used over the past decades.

One of the most famous fake blood recipes was concocted by legendary Hollywood makeup artist Dick Smith, who worked on movies such as The Godfather and The Exorcist. Here... more

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