Creating portraits outdoors in harsh sunlight is a pain. It’s why people tell you to not go out and do it during a bright sunnyday, and to wait until golden hour. Personally, I love it, although I’m often doing it with flash or reflectors but it can be done without those, too. In his latest [...]
Right now is the best time in the history of photography to get into ultra wide-angle lenses. In the last few years, lens designers have given us quality that is far better than ever – in fact, far better than we ever thought possible. Yet you may have been... more
If you’ve ever tried doing a facebook live session you know that using your phone’s onboard microphone really sucks. Here is how we solved this problem with a $15 cablefrom rode. Of course, we do assume that you have a microphone capable of producing great sound (we are usingRode’s Filmmaket kit). So it is not [...]
The Yi 4K Action camera from Yi Technologywas launched in China back in May. If buyers in other countries wanted it, they’d have to order from thereand deal with often fairly long shipping times. Now, the Yi 4K has been officially launched in the USA and isavailable on Amazon. Normally, Chinese action cams don’t tend [...]
It’s Day 6 of our 7 Day Mid Year Sale, and for the next 24 hours you can grab a copy of The Complete Photography Tutorial Ebook by Richard Schneider at 61% off.
Richards guide normally sells for US$99. But hes made it available to the dPS community for just US$39, today only.
At over 250 pages, this may be the most in-depth ebook on how to capture amazing photography... more
It’s that word again. Exposure. It doesn’t keep a roof over your head, it doesn’t pay the bills or put food on your table. But can you capitalise on it and turn exposure into income or provide any other real benefit? New York based fashion and portrait photographer Jeff Rojas believes so, and in this [...]
I remember seeing a poster on the wall of my fourth grade elementary school class that said, “What’s right isn’t always popular, and what’s popular isn’t always right.” The quote is attributed to Albert Einstein, and while he was most likely speaking with regard to issues of ethics, justice, and social equality, he might as well have been referencing the current state of image editing... more
Once limited to the realms of Hollywood, motion tracking has become easily easily accessible today. Adobe After Effects comes with three trackers. There’s the original2D tracker that AEhas had for a long timeandalso the 3D camera tracker introduced in CS6, which analyses your footage to recreateyour camera’s movement. After Effects, however, also comes bundled with [...]
The company that brought us such amazing sequences as Jean Claude-Van Damme’s “Epic Split” and Super Bowl 2014’s Jaguar – Rendevous commercial seem like the perfect people to need a vehicle like this. As one didn’t already exist, they built their own. London based,The Mill recently announced the Blackbird, a vehiclethat can transform in length [...]
Looking at Fukushima not easy. The place has been evacuated on 2011 after 4 of its nuclear reactors melted down.Tohuku earthquake raised a 13 tsunami meter wave that was just 3 meters too high forthe 10 meter wave gate that the power station had in place. The meltdownreached a level 7 on the International nuclear [...]
