Vignetting: sometimes you love it and sometimes you hate it. Sometimes it creeps into your photographs unintentionally and sometimes you decide that a vignette will help to draw focus to your subject and it’s exactly what your image needs. Vignetting describes the darkening that can appear at the corners of a photo. It is sometimes […]
Canon has been showing off a new camera at Photonext 2023 in Yokohama, Japan. The camera has no name or model number yet, and Pronews reports it to be a concept prototype. The concept, though, is intriguing coming from a company like Canon. Intriguing because it’s a concept that’s been released before and didn’t really […]
More scammers and blackmailers are creating deepfakes from people’s social media photos, the FBI warn. In a disturbing trend, criminals are using people’s images to put them into compromising videos and on porn sites in order to extort money from them. The extortionists (sometimes called sextortionists) then threaten their victims with leaking the images and […]
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to shoot stills behind the scenes for movies and TV shows? Well, the streaming giant, Netflix, has opened up applications to join its first-ever Unit Photography Bootcamp. It’s a three-day course on unit stills photography, running in July. The bad news, however, is that it’s only open to […]
Artist and activist Stuart Semple started a new project with a plan to take on “corporate overlords” Adobe. As a response to “renting” Adobe software, he has created Abode, a new software suite for creators. It’s yours to keep forever once you buy it, but there’s a potential problem: everything looks a lot like Adobe, […]
Instagram’s algorithms are actively promoting child sex abuse rings, studies have reported. Networks of paedophiles are using the network to commission and share illegal content, as well as grooming new victims. The Wall Street Journal and academics at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted a joint investigation into the issue. The […]
The term “cinematic” means lots of different things to different people. There are a lot of people out there who believe it’s anything shot on full-frame with a shallow depth of field. Some think it’s anything shot with a super-wide 2.35:1 aspect ratio. These ideas are all a bit simplistic, though. They’re also usually wrong. […]
To capture these images, we had firebreathers and pyrotechnicians breathe fire on and around the Perpetual Plastic Machine. But first, some background. I started this project to raise awareness for the simple fact that Because plastic waste in the ocean is universally condemned, the plastic industry tries to redirect everyones energy toward waste management. But […]
Pinhole photography is photography at its most fundamental. Based on the camera obscure that came before it, the principle is essentially the same. The only real difference here is that there’s something to capture the image. In this case, the digital sensor of your mirrorless camera or DSLR. In this video, Sean from Fotodiox walks […]
