In the span of just over one week, DJI and GoPro each unveiled a foldable and ultra-portable personal camera drone. With so much hype surrounding these two products, we’ve decided to do a comparison of features and specs to see how the Mavic Pro and... more
The anticipation and excitement of Photokina makes it a lot like the camera nerd's Christmas. And not unlike Christmas, you don't always get exactly what you want. Sure, we got plenty of shiny toys like the Fujifilm GFX 50S, and things we weren't expecting like the YI M1, but a few things on our wish lists didn't turn up.... more
In the Autumn of 2015, I decided to try and capture the beauty of autumn leaves in a different way. My idea was to highlight the leaves from beneath to emphasize the lines and the color of decaying parts.
For more accurate sharpness, I taped the leaves onto a white sheet of paper to make them more flat, and set them on a glass tabletop.
I used 2 speedlites for this process, one under the glass and the... more
If you’re using a smartphone to capture light painting photos, the phone is usually IN the photo as a light source. But the new Pablo app lets you actually use your iPhone as the camera, capturing light trails that... more
When photographer Ben Money got back in to film photography a couple of years ago, he decided to set up a dedicated darkroom station for himself at home. But because he didn’t have a... more
In the Robot Skies, a “drone love story” that takes place in the midst of a drone-policed London dystopia, has a very appropriate claim to fame. The narrative fiction film is the world’s first to be captured entirely by autonomous, pre-programmed drones.
Kano, a maker of DIY educational tools, is seeking crowdfunding for a trio of DIY project kits, one of which is its new educational Camera Kit. The Camera Kit enables anyone to build a simple camera and then program it with various functions using drag-and-drop code, the goal being to impart an overall knowledge of how cameras and their related software work.
The camera is assembled from pre-made parts using an included instructional... more
Sometimes, when you show an image to somebody, you hear, “Oh man! How lucky you were to catch that light there!.” And yes, there is always a bit of “luck,” but there are also a lot of small details that help you to be better prepared for a photo.
People often ask me how I get a shot, where, which camera, etc. So I decided to write an article to explain a little more about how I’m able to get an image like the one above,... more
Strapping thousands of dollars of camera gear to your body and navigating large crowds of intoxicated fans can present unique risks to professional music photographers. Never is that risk greater than at music festivals.
Weather instantly changes and causes mandatory evacuations. Photographers get robbed and, in extreme cases, personal assaults can come from the most unlikely placethe stage.
The hyper-focus necessary to capture moments of live events for... more
