Shiny skin can sometimes be a problem for portraits, especially if you don’t have a makeup artist. Camera LCDs are so small that you might not notice the shine while shooting. When the shoot’s all over and you’re looking at the images on the computer monitor, what can you do? There are a million different [...]
Interviews are one of the most common video subjects that most people will shoot. Even if it’s not a regular thing for you, an interview is pretty mucha certainty at some point. They’re pretty easy to shoot, but there are pitfalls that can catch you out if you’ve not done it before. In this video [...]
Yup, that’s right, after a super brief beta period of only a few days, Prisma is now available for Android. The wildly popular iOS app has over 10.6 milliondownloads since its launch a short time ago. Prisma shows no signs of slowing down with over 1.55 million daily active users and over 400 million photos [...]
Let’s face it, the attached camera was pretty much the only decent feature of Google Glass. It’s also a feature that raised quite a few privacy concerns. The new Blincam, which allows its wearer to shoot a photograph simply by winking, also faces those same privacy issues.It also apresents a newer, slightly creepier, one. It’s [...]
It’s not new information that Yahoo hasbeen struggling. It may have been one of the Internet’s original giants, but they just can’t keep up and compete today. Google dominates the search market,Messengerusurped by Facebook, no real mobile platform, and no solid leadership. It’s not looking good. About the only things Yahoo have left that are [...]
Lookup Tables, or LUTs, are simply amazing. LUTs arelikepresets, but work across all platforms and software,for both video and stills. LUTs can beused for both colour correction, to bring cameras to a standard, and for giving your footage or images a desired “look”. But how do we use them? In this video from Casey Faris, [...]
The Yi 4K action camera has been out for a while now and reviews are starting to reel in. We seen quite a few of them (and we will have one of our own soon), but this one review got us thinking that the YI 4K is indeed a gopro killer. This review fromTechmoan has [...]
I have played with photography a little bit since I was a boy, first with an old Olympus 35mm film point-and-shoot, then with a GameBoy camera and later a pretty terrible mobile phone. At age 18 I got my first DSLR and instantly fell in love with out-of-focus backgrounds, and now almost 10 years later [...]
Engagement portrait sessions can be awkward especially for couples who are expected to display their affection publicly and worse, in front of the camera. Often they feel uneasy and don’t know what to do, let alone how to pose. Left to their own devices, especially if they feel they are not naturals in front of the camera, the probability is that they won’t love their photos at the end of the session. They will look back at the session with regret.
