Caldwell Photographic and Metabones have announced the Speed Booster Ultra for Micro Four Thirds: an updated design that uses more sophisticated glass and has been optimized for use with the relatively thick Micro Four Thirds filter stack. The latest Canon version also gains AF-S autofocus when used with Panasonic cameras: an improvement available via firmware update for existing users. ... more
At some early point in my 4-year stint as a film student at the University of Miami, in Florida, an advisor explained Id have to dual-major in a field outside the school of communications. This seemed a perfectly reasonable request of the school to make; after all, the advisor said, as communication students we needed something to communicate about.
The requirement was largely the reason, at some point during my sophomore year, I decided to double-major in Fine Art Photography.... more
It looks like the idea of sharing front- and rear-camera photos at the same time isn’t lucrative enough to be big business. After raising a whopping $4 million from investors, the unusual photo-sharing app Frontback is now announcing that it will be shutting down on August 15th, 2015.
Any object can be seen as something else given the right perspective. In this instance, fairly common items have been used to create the effect of lava.
Scroll through to see if you can guess the items used. The final photograph shows how these were created.
Here’s how the photos were made:
Yes, thats right. Its a seashell held up to light.
I produced these photographs over an evening after seeing how a... more
Photographer Clint Rivers recently spotted what may be the happiest little baby orca in all the ocean. The Victoria, British Columbia-based wildlife photographer was on a boat in the Salish Sea when they came across a pod of killer whales and a 6-month-old orca leaping over and over out of the water.... more
My day job has me using the new Panasonic GH4 for video. While Panasonic did include a 4K photo mode that can be used in a similar way with specific advantages (thats another blog post), I wanted to test shooting for stills in regular 4K video mode. The main reason for this was to also have the actual video clip to use for other things if I wanted.
With the advent of consumer drones, governments are in the process of creating laws and regulations to keep both operators and bystanders safe. While some countries, such as the United States, havent made much headway, others have already established clear and concise rules for drone flying. The UKs new... more
It seems that when the Internet’s most followed photographer designs a camera bag, the world of photography listens. Travel photographer Trey Ratcliff has teamed up with... more
