If you’re a photographer who frequently carries lots of gear, and needs it easily accessible to you during a shoot, it’s time to start thinking like Batman! That doesn’t mean donning a cape and mask, but rather making use of a utility belt that allows you to attach various accessories to it, for easy access. Luckily, you need not look any further than the... more
Sony has announced plans at the WPPI2016 trade fair in Last Vegas to release a “wireless lighting control system to meet the growing demands of professional Sony photographers”. The FA-WRC1M wireless radio commander and the FA-WRR1 wireless radio receiver will be the pair of units that make up this new system. In a press release, [...]
Drones are becoming more affordable with each new generation, but not for one second does that mean theyre cheap. And thats precisely what makes watching this DJI Inspire get taken out by a jet ski so painful. Its just one of the many accidents weve seen and one of many to come, but this one [...]
Weve had enough of this monkey business regarding who owns what photos when a primate presses the shutter. Its time for a much more fun news piece on monkeys and photography. Specifically, were talking about Chloe, a 46-year-old chimpanzee at the Oregon Zoo who became a filmmaker for the day when she was given a [...]
It’s official – Registration for the 2016 Photoshop World Conference in Las Vegasis now open! Whoo Hoo!!!
Lots of cool new things this year – lots of new instructors, new workshops, new networking events, new parties (we’re even working on a Pub Crawl for this year), and a whole lot more! (lots of fun stuff we’ve yet to announce – we’re brewing up a doozy this year!).
As change becomes less and less relevant with credit cards and digital payment systems, its become less likely than ever that you carry around change. How is this relevant to photography? Because every so often there comes a time when you need to attach or remove a quick release system and dont have a penny [...]
36 years ago, Profoto released a lighting accessory they called the Softlight Reflector. Today, we call this creation a beauty dish, thanks to its unique design that softens light in the perfect manner for portraits. Today, Profoto has announced a new and improved version, the OCF Beauty Dish. And this time, its collapsable, making it [...]
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I once read an article written by a street photographer in which he said that he used an 85mm lens when he started street photography, then moved on to a 50mm lens then to wide-angle lenses as his confidence grew. I think this is a natural progression that many... more
What are you willing to endure to capture the shot of a lifetime? Well, if youre anything like photographer Joshua Holko, its just another day in the office when you are stuck in a foxhole shooting in subzero temperature for ten days. To promote his upcoming Arctic Fox Project, Holko shared a behind the scenes [...]
We’ve all had that feeling of being in a beautiful or dramatic landscape, wanting to capture it, and then found it was missing just a little something once we got it home and saw the images bigon the computer screen. German architectural photographer, Andreas Levershas also felt that on occasion and decided to do something [...]
