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Here’s a handy trick that may be useful for beginning photographers: did you know that you can bend your reflector to change the quality of the light on your subject?

Held in the concave position, the light becomes more concentrated this option results in a very sculptured look, giving the image an editorial feel.

Held in the convex position — this option delivers a soft window light effect, giving a gentle and friendly ambiance... more

Lighting brand Phottix has announced a new LED panel for videographers and stills photographers called the Kali600. Larger than the companys hotshoe Nuada series, the Kali600 is designed for location and studio work and to be mounted on a stand.

The panel has 600 LEDs and can produce light across a range of 3200-5600K while offering a maximum brightness of 3000Lux. With a pair of battery plates the panel can be run from two optional Sony NP-type batteries or directly via the mains... more

If you are a landscape photographer trying to get your work out there, you have surely heard about that one big imaging platform called Instagram. So you made yourself a profile and started sharing all the gorgeous work that you worked hard for and suddenly you wonder: why is nobody liking my images and why do I have 50 followers while others have thousands and just keep growing?

There isn’t just one single reason for this — it’s actually many, and I’ll... more

Apple can claim to consumers that the iPhone X captures “studio-quality portraits.” That’s what the UK’s advertising regulator has concluded after it received complaints that Apple’s marketing was misleading.

Earlier this year, Apple launched a new ad campaign for the iPhone X that offered a behind-the-scenes look at how the company created a phone that “takes studio-quality portraits without the studio”:

The video... more

An interesting new patent application from Canon details a series of potential lens designs with an adjustable soft-focus feature.

Japanese patent application number 2018-97240 lays out the groundwork and schematics for four different full-frame camera lens designs that feature a dual-focus system: a 58mm F1.4, a 35m F1.8, a 105mm F2 and a... more

Instagram has quietly launched a new app called “Instagram Lite” for Android on the Google Play App Store. It’s a lightweight app that... more

National Geographic has announced the winning photos of its popular Travel Photographer of the Year 2018 photo contest. The grand prize was awarded to Japanese photographer Reiko Takahashi, who captured an underwater photo of a humpback whale calf’s tail.

The winning photo, titled “Mermaid,” was selected from over 13,000 entries received this year. Here’s the description provided by the photographer:

I was fortunate to have encountered a humpback... more

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The Canon T7/2000D is about as affordable as DSLRs come the 24MP camera goes for 470 with a kit lens in Europe and $500 in the US (from Canon directly only at the moment). We've been out shooting it with both the 18-55mm F4-5.6 IS STM and the compact 24mm F2.8 STM for good measure take a look.

It seems that there really is no limit to human ingenuity - at least at the lower end of the scale. Evidence: the Potato Camera.

The folks at Corridor Crew have published a new project video showcasing the creation of a sorta-interchangeable lens camera features a large potato as the camera body, hollowed-out to accommodate a custom 3D-printed film chamber. The lens is essentially smashed into the front of the potato with the addition of... more

The SD Association has just announced the latest specifications for the widely used Secure Digital (SD) memory card... more

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