Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Knowing what to shoot and learning how to tella story inyour videoscan bea challenge. It’s something you pick up with over time with experience, but where do you begin? Rob Nelson’s latest video onRob & Jonas’ Filmmaking Tipshelpsget you startedwith some solid story telling advice. While the primary subject is video footage, the same principles [...]

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Canon just patented a40-800mm lens. Isn’t this just incredible. In old point and shoot terms the box would have been marked X20. You have to admit it’s impressive. I mean, the only thing that comes close to that is my old 14-400modem. Oh,itis full frame too. It’s not that there were not huge zooms ranges [...]

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Today we came across this great little video of a photographer that we’ve admired for some time (and who has even written a post for us here at dPS). It was produced by SmugMug and features Dave Powell of the Shoot Tokyo photo blog.

In it Dave shares a little of how he got into photography, why he loves doing it in Tokyo, but also gives a glimpse into how he sets up his shots.

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Paul C. Buff have today announced theirfirst new flash units since the Einstein six years agowith the launch ofthe DigiBee DB800 andDB400studio strobes. Essentially, they’re digital AlienBees, but smaller, and with a few cool new features. Photographer Nino Batista got his hands on the first two off the production line and put together this video [...]

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As my nation (USA) celebrates 100 years of the National Park Service, renewed interest in our untouched landscapes is growing, and that’s a great thing. Even with the selfie-crazed tourists crowding our parks and national monuments, it’s a positive point that more of us are getting out into the great outdoors and connecting with this land of ours.

A side benefit of this movement is a renewed interest in nature and the outdoors in general. Even 58 national parks in the U.S... more

Launched for iOS around five weeks ago, Prisma seems to have taken the world by storm. At least, it has if the images scrolling through my Facebook feed have been anything to go by. According to their website “Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists”. District 7 Media have taken [...]

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I will say, right off the bat, the photographyitself is pretty amazing, but this video recently released by Canon is eerily similar to a D500 & SB-5000 promo video Nikon put outwith Keith Ladzinski back in April. Canon’s “The Shot”, with Krystle Wrighttakes some speedlights and mounts them on drones in order to be able [...]

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Jagged peaks, precipitous drops, deep and sweeping valleys: mountainous landscapes are unquestionably some of the most photogenic places on the planet. It shows too – take a look at any photo magazine or website, and you are likely to find not just one or two, but dozens of images of mountains.

Mountains are a landscape torn apart by the steady pressure of plate tectonics and erosion, and in that drama is the potential for spectacular photography. Why then are so many... more

Not long ago, we showed you an amazing 12K timelapse from Joe Capra shot on the Phase One XF IQ3 100MP camera. Why shoot in 12K if there’s no platform which supports it and no devices capable of playing back that resolution? For more creative zoom options in post. The final timelapse video was output [...]

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At some point or another, most of us that shoot video have to create a clip sliding past, or moving around some kind of static object. Perhapssomething small, like a pair of rings for wedding shooters, or it could be something as large as a car. In this video from DSLR Video Shooter,Caleb Pike walks [...]

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