Heres a simple way to create a digital watermark using your signature that you can use as a Photoshop brush. This 5-minute video from Colin Smith of photoshopCAFE shows you the steps... more
ShareGrid, a peer-to-peer gear rental service, has published the results of its Ultimate Anamorphic Lens Test, which evaluated 42 'vintage' anamorphic lenses representing lens families from 13 companies. Using ShareGrid's 'quad player' interface, it's possible to compare video test results from up to four lenses simultaneously, and the... more
Right now, a conflict photographer named Eduardo Martins is supposedly driving around in a van somewhere in the Australian outback. And you probably won’t see any new work from him anytime soon: he’s in hiding after pulling off one of the craziest cons in the history of photojournalism.
Photos of Martins from his social media accounts.
Martins is a blond and handsome 32-year-old documentary photographer from Brazil who’s also an avid surfer in his free time. He... more
Here’s a different perspective of the Great American Eclipse by photographer Stephane Vetter. It’s a “little planet” photo that beautifully combines the solar... more
This is an interesting exercise / study on photography and post processing.
I took both of these photos from exactly the same spot (slightly different focal length 16mm vs 17mm), in the middle of the winter, at the same time of the day, but two years... more
The Olympus OM-D E-M10 III made its debut last week, introducing 4K video capture to Olympus' entry-level OM-D series. And there's more good news: you can use a combination of 5-axis mechanical and digital image stabilization while shooting 4K. This makes for some seriously stable footage on the fly, as demonstrated by the sample reel above all shot handheld. Check out the footage, and keep your eyes peeled for our full review very soon.
Photographer Dustin Dolby of workphlo is back with another of his straightforward, easy-to-follow lighting tutorials. This time, he's showing us how to shoot (and post-process) a professional-looking splash photography shota very popular ad styleusing just the affordable speedlights in his home studio.
As usual, his setup is extremely affordable. To start, he places the empty glass-and-lime combo onto a sheet of... more
Here in Marlborough, New Zealand, I've been able to indulge two of my passions: night sky photography and mountain biking. But my time in this part of the world is almost up, and lately I've been wondering how I can combine these. So a couple of weeks ago I did a bit of location scoping around the outlying hills. I jogged to the top of the mountain bike park, and ended up at a spot that... more
Venus Optics, a Chinese lens manufacturer established in 2013, has released several interesting manual focus lenses, but perhaps none as intriguing as the... more
