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Renowned street photographer Bruce Gilden is dipping his toes in the world of fashion. The Magnum shooter has launched a new limited edition T-shirt.

The white 100% cotton American Apparel... more

As a professional photographer Im always looking for ways to showcase my work and convey a feeling. Recently Ive been working hard on a photography showreel to highlight my portfolio. Id like to share with you some of the lessons I learned, and explain how you too can create a showreel of your own.

Why a photography showreel can be a great addition to your portfolio

Whats great about showing your photos in a video is that viewers will know how long watching the... more

Cameras are often pitted each other in the area of image quality, but long exposure sensor noise generally isn’t something that you can easily compare online. So photographer Brendan... more

Lighting and accessories manufacturer Phottix has launched a new light modifier for studio heads and hotshoe guns that can be used as a beauty dish as well as an octa softbox. The Spartan is collapsible, uses flexible rods for its assembly and comes in 20" and 28" sizes. The central metal diffuser of the beauty dish configuration can be removed and users just have to attach the front diffuser panel to switch it to a softbox. A set of clasps along the rod housings allow a second diffuser to... more

Samsung has announced that it intends to produce the first removable versions of a new format of memory cards designed, it says, to replace the microSD card in portable electronic devices such as cameras, drones and phones.

The Universal Flash Storage cards are as small as microSD cards but boast enhanced read/write speeds, with the company claiming that... more

If you ever find a lost GoPro, there’s a decent chance you’ll find footage of the camera’s last moments with its owner on the memory card as long as it hasn’t been destroyed. That’s exactly what one fisherman just found in England.

Francis Darracott and his family were fishing from a pier at a lake in Hamworthy, Poole, when their fishing rod unexpectedly pulled up a GoPro camera with the first cast of the night.

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If you’re just starting out in photography and your goal is to eventually make a living from your photos, one of the big obstacles you’ll need to overcome is being bogged down by insecurities. Business and marketing guru Vernon of... more

I’m a hobbyist bird photographer and I recently went birding in the Himalayan foothills in India, to a town called Sattal. For the trip, I rented a Canon 7D Mark II, 300mm f/2.8 II, and 2X TC III teleconverter. My own equipment is a 7D and 100-400L, both of the first generation.

I was a little apprehensive about the trip as I had never used a lens longer than 400mm before, and also because the 7D II’s autofocus has a bad reputation on the Internet... more

The inspiration suddenly came to me while I was having a shower. Ive always been highly interested in fashion shooting, but since the bar to entry of a great fashion photo is so fixated on the clothing, why not make them out of paper?

Considering my financial status at the moment, it seemed like a pretty legit idea… and thus was born my... more

Fujifilm made much of the speedier performance in the brand new Fuji X-T2. Burst mode (with the attached booster grip) is 11fps, EVF blackout had allegedly been improved “to the extreme,” and AF-C had also seen substantial improvement. But how does the speedier new camera compare to a DSLR when shooting fast action?

That’s what... more

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