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The Macro Room YouTube channel is quickly becoming a PetaPixel favorite. It started with... more

This foreground bokeh look is actually a setup I played around with a few times many years ago. I thought it would be a good, fun setup to share, as you can get some interesting results whilst playing around the much-loved bokeh.

Bokeh is something that us as photographers love but I’m not entirely sure why. We may love it so much because we capture something that isn’t actually there, we can’t see it with our eyes and so I think it holds a... more

Introduction

The Sony RX100 V is the company's newest addition to its lineup of premium compact cameras. As with the previous two versions, it has a 1"-type sensor, 24-70mm equivalent F1.8-2.8 lens but gains 24fps burst shooting in both JPEG and Raw with full autofocus and autoexposure(!), oversampled 4K video recording, and plenty more. In short, the RX100 V has an incredible amount of technology stuffed into an easily pocketable package - but despite major increases in performance, we find... more

Our friend Roger Cicala over at LensRentals recently put the highly-praised... more

Adobe announced an update to Photoshop CC today that brings a collection of new features and enhancements... more

Reuters and Adobe have teamed up to beef up the content available through Adobe’s stock content service. The world’s largest international multimedia news provider is making its editorial content and 60+ million asset archive accessible through Adobe Stock.

Adobe customers will soon be able to view and license the entire Reuters photo collection (and more) from directly within Adobe Stock. In addition to royalty-free commercial photos, the... more

 Adobe Stock brings Reuters images like this one straight into Creative Cloud.

Adobe is teaming up with Reuters in an effort to strengthen its Stock app offerings. The move will bring Reuters entire video and still editorial collection into Adobe Stock, where users can license content directly within Creative Cloud. The company also announces a name for its... more

Olympus has taken wraps off availability and pricing details for its flagship OM-D E-M1 II. Announced at Photokina, the E-M1 II will cost $2000 body-only and is set to ship at the end of December. The E-M1 II's predecessor was introduced just over three years ago and started at $1400 body-only.

That $600 premium buys some notable advancements including a faster processor, 20.4MP sensor with 121 phase-detection AF points and a stabilization system claiming an unearthly 6.5 stops of... more

From waterfalls to the Northern Lights, Iceland is full of natural beauty. And, in October, lots and lots of rain. We've put together a sample gallery of photos taken over four days with Olympus' new OM-D E-M1 Mark II on a company-sponsored trip.

View our Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II Iceland gallery

If there's one thing I learned about the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, it's that it can handle mother nature with the best of them. At an Olympus-sponsored press event in Iceland, the camera got pelted with rain, sleet, snow and hail, all of which occurred over a 20 minute period on more than one occasion. Despite both the camera and the photographer getting soaked, the Mark II... more

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