Around this time in 2021, Meta teamed up with Ray-Ban to announce Snapchat Spectacles-wannabe. Not surprisingly, Meta’s smart glasses weren’t as popular as the company had hoped, especially after privacy concerns started to pop up. Still, it seems that Meta isn’t giving up as easily. During this year’s Meta Connect conference, the company announced new […]
Godox was recently showing off their new LiteFlow reflector system at IBC 2023 in Amsterdam. As DIYP was there, we went along to the Godox stand to check it out for ourselves. It’s an interesting system that’s probably not like any other reflector you’ve used. It has its specific use cases, but it also offers […]
Step aside Photo Pills, there’s a new photography app in town. Cascable’s new app, Photo Scout, claims to change the game for photographers. Instead of constantly checking the weather, this app does the work for you by sending a notification when conditions are just right for a great photo. Photo Scout uses clever technology to […]
As photographers, there are many things we think and worry about, and many aspects that we want to improve. And it’s all perfectly normal, in many cases even desirable. But what happens when we start wasting time on things that are not important for our craft? In his recent video, Scott Choucino lines up 11 […]
The Royal Observatory Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has become an annual staple in the lives of many photographers. We all want to see what new views of the universe we’re going to be presented with. But just as interesting to photographers is the gear used to create it. Fortunately, we’ve got Skies […]
The Shure SM7B (buy here) is probably the most popular microphone on YouTube for things like podcasts and indoor spoken videos to the camera. It’s for good reason, too. It’s a decent microphone at a reasonable price point. But it’s not perfect. The biggest issue is that it’s quiet, often requiring an extra preamp in […]
After almost two years in beta, Adobe has officially released Photoshop on the web. This is a simplified and accessible version of the photo editing software, but apparently, it's not that simplified. Considering that Generative Fill also got out of beta in the meantime, it has become a part of Photoshop for the web, too.
Its not often you get to take a family portrait just before the baby decides to be born. But above all, it is not often that you are photographed with a camera of more than one square meter. We work in a very large format. The camera is called Bertha, and it has a bellows […]
The iconic Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, UK, was found felled earlier today. The tree was known affectionately as “Robin Hood’s Tree” and celebrated as one of the UK’s most photographed trees. Authorities suspect that the tree was deliberately cut down overnight and police have launched an investigation into the incident. The […]
Pattern Recognition Company (PRC) has launched the latest iteration of its photo-management program, Excire Foto 2024. Among other features, it lets AI evaluate your photos and that's the feature we'll talk about the most. But of course, we'll get you acquainted with other features, too, as some of them could be quite useful.
