Photography News

Here’s a 4-minute video that discusses why it’s important to show your work as a photographer and put it out there for the world to see rather than wait until it’s “perfect” before presenting your art.

“If you somehow think it’s virtuous to hide in your basement and make your art until it gets all nice and perfect before you put it out, let me tell you why that is absolutely wrong,” says photographer... more

If you often work with very large layered files in Photoshop, you may have found that saving those files can take a while. Here’s some good news: if you’re short on time but rich on storage space, you can change a setting to make those PSD files save up to 20x faster.

The reason has to do with how Photoshop compresses files. When you’re saving those large files, Photoshop does image compression on them when saving to save you disk space... more

Here’s a short and humorous sketch that pokes fun at how hard it can be to satisfy the wishes of clients as a portrait photographer.

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Readers' Showcase: Steven James Martin

Oranges on sale at Kalaw train station, Burma (Myanmar), January 2014. Photo by Steven James Martin

DPR reader Steven James Martin took up photography while living in Asia. Originally from the UK, Martin suddenly found himself within easy traveling distance of locations some photographers can only dream of visiting, like Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar. His colorful portfolio reflects a love of travel  see... more

My name is Ross Harvey, and I’m an international destination wedding photographer based in the UK. I just back from two weeks shooting street photography in Cuba, and it was a wonderful experience that I’d like to share with you.

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The DJI Inspire 1 Raw Edition quadcopter with Micro Four Thirds Zenmuse X5R camera will begin shipping on March 28, the company has announced. Additionally, DJI plans to start shipping the standalone Zenmuse X5R camera on March 31 for those who want to buy it separately. The Zenmuse X5R features interchangeable lenses, remote-controlled aperture and focus and records 4K video.

According to DJI, the Zenmuse X5R is the smallest lossless 4K camera designed for use with drones. Videos are... more

The ongoing refugee crisis has been the focus of many photographers’ works in recent times. German photographer Kevin McElvaney show the story from a different perspective: through the eyes of the migrants themselves.

In December 2015, McElvaney gave single-use... more

Memory manufacturer Lexar has announced a micro SDXC card with a capacity of 200GB and read speeds of up to 95MB per second. The company says the card is aimed at action cam users as well as owners of tablets and smartphones, and is suitable for both HD and 4K video recording. Lexar claims the 200GB capacity can hold over 15 hours of HD video footage, and that the UHS-1 card has a transfer speed rating of 633x.

The card comes packaged with a USB 3.0 card reader, a copy of the... more

Photographer Adam Nawrot wanted to chase light full time, so he bought an old NYPD surveillance van for $2,500 and turned it into his mobile home and editing studio.

Remodeling the interior, doing electrical work, and adding solar panels brought the total cost to around $6,000... more

Your display profile may be wrong. How is that for a bold statement! But it may very well be true, even if you do it regularly on schedule. Display calibration and profiling is a must for all digital photographers.

There is no escaping that if you want to produce accurate representation of your work not only on your monitor but on the Internet, in competitions, on your friends monitors, mobile devices, and so on. Clearly, you cannot control the quality of the... more

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