In the years since photographers started transitioning from film to digital in the early 2000s, many companies promised conversion kits. Devices you could put inside a film camera to turn it into digital cameras. None of them ever really materialised. But thanks to devices like the Raspberry Pi, DIY analogue to digital conversions have become […]
After a few years of struggles, stock photo website EyeEm has reportedly filed for bankruptcy. We could have guessed things were going downhill for the company when it stopped paying photographers last year. But now EyeEm is reportedly insolvent, so you might not even receive your payments at all. [Related reading: EyeEm stops paying photographers, […]
Storage units have come a long way, and the methods we use for storing our images have evolved greatly over the past few decades. This is why we chose to dedicate one DIYP quiz to storage space! Some of you remember how we stored our early digital images before gigantic external hard drives and cloud […]
There’s no denying just how incredibly powerful Adobe Lightroom has become in the last year. Lightroom’s AI tools and clever single-click masking can take your images to a whole new level. In this excellent tutorial, Glyn Dewis shows you how to add your own background light to a portrait. Super useful if you only had […]
I don’t know many photographers these days who aren’t comfortable using post-processing software such as Photoshop or Lightroom. Many of these programmes are beginning to introduce AI features, with Adobe launching its own text-to-image generator Firefly this last month. I can see the allure of using AI to fix skin retouching issues or make masking […]
As children, many, if not most of us, were afraid of the dark. In fact, I’m still not quite comfortable with it. But sometimes, the greatest things are born from our greatest fears – and photographer Daniel Sackheim shows it in his latest project Unseen. As a child, you think about what might be lurking […]
While NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope showed us some previously unknown details of the Southern Ring Nebula, Hubble is still alive and kicking, and the photos it takes are still magnificent. Paired with great processing, they truly show the beauty and marvel of the universe, and NASA’s recent Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the […]
It’s great to be able to work in epic locations and make your photographs or videos look cinematic. For most of us, however, the reality is usually a little more underwhelming. When budgets are small, it’s quite common to end up shooting in less-than-perfect locations. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t lift those drab […]
Japan and Australia researchers have set a record for the “deepest fish” ever filmed. In other words, they found a fish at the greatest sea depth ever – more than 8km (5.1 miles) – and it’s the deepest a fish has ever been caught on camera. [Related reading: A new species of deep-sea crown jellyfish […]
