Yesterday, we kicked off our 2019 gift guide with cameras. Today it’s time for the lenses. We had a think about some of our new favourites we’ve tried this year, some of the very cool new ones that have been released as well as a couple of classics that just always remain popular and useful. The Laowa 100mm f/2.8 Macro is a lens that immediately impressed us here at DIYP, and you can see our review here....
Voiceovers are an acquired skill. If you’ve never done them before, they’re not that easy to just jump into and do. Your first few aren’t going to be great, but you’ll get better at them the more you do. The more you do, the more tips and tricks you’ll pick up, too. Kevin, the Basic Filmmaker has picked up more than a couple of tricks over the years to help him with voiceovers....
Do you have to get closer to your subject? Or should you get further away? If you go by Robert Capa’s famous quote, you already have the answer: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” I do agree that getting closer often improves your street photos. If you don’t care about the scenery at all, it’s a pretty great rule of thumb. However, if you love a bit more context, then a bit more distance truly improves the shot....
Dag Ole Nordhaug is a Norwegian landscape photographer who shoots outstanding grand landscape images. He is also considered a very talented forest photographer. Dag Ole skillfully combines mood, visual interest, and life to forest scenes. Many years of exploring the woodlands around his hometown of Trondheim, Norway, has honed his skills and provided him with plenty of experience. Shooting intimate landscapes, forests included calls for thinking outside the box. Though the resulting images are well worth the effort, and you may learn a thing or two about composition....
Jedi mind tricks are not just for Jedi. They’re for you too. Us portrait photographers face a difficult mission. We must form instant connections with our subjects. Have you ever photographed someone with whom you just can’t click? I have, and it sucks. To avoid awkward suckiness , I recommend using some of these handy Jedi mind tricks. So What Is a Jedi Mind Trick? According to StarWars.com: An experienced Jedi can use the Force to implant a suggestion in the minds of those they encounter, encouraging them to comply with the Jedi’s wishes....
Christmas is only 11 days away, and some of us might have not actually managed to make it out to buy presents yet. Perhaps you didn’t want to deal with the rush of people in the city centre. Were the prices not as low as you’d have liked online? Or maybe you’re just worried that the busy season is going to cause shipping delays that mean the presents don’t arrive in time....
Mysterious. Curious. Magical. These are some of the ways to describe a silhouette. Silhouettes are different from other forms of photography in that they give you very little in terms of detail. Instead, the silhouette taps into your mind and makes you wonder what the image is all about. There might be people, buildings, or other objects that are a part of the silhouette. It is up to you to decide what story is being told and that is part of its magic....
The wedding day should be a day to remember, and photos and videos of the event are there to preserve the happy memories. However, some memories aren’t full of love and joy, such as the moment when this couple nearly escaped being hit by a huge tree branch. Luckily, no one got hurt, and Freddy Hernandez of F&J Productions found some humor in the situations. He managed to shoot the dangerous moment, and he even included it in the wedding video....
A wedding day is one of the most important days of your life and picking a photographer who will preserve your memories is not an easy task. Unfortunately, we often hear about photographers who not only do a terrible job, but they also turn out to be scammers. A dozen women from Charlotte, NC accused a local photographer Eben Patten for “stealing their money and their memories.” They all had to wait for months to get their photos, some of them threatened to file a lawsuit, and the others even took the case to court....
YI camera (which we love) just rocked the boat, shifting from a GoPro wanna be to a technology leader. Yesterday the company showed off their new YI 4K+ which is capable not only of shooting 4K (everyone does that now), but shooting 4K at 60 frames per second. Now this is a first. And it’s not just a first in the race vs. GoPro, it’s a first in the industry....
Camera stabilisation has come a long way over the last few years, but one thing you just can’t get around is the weight. The more motors and electronics you have to add, the heavier it gets, and if you’re using a DSLR or bigger camera with a large lens, forget about it. Netherlands based Filmmaker and YouTuber Chung Dha has come up with an ingenious way to help alleviate some of the weight of his Feiyu Tech MG stabilizer, and prevent his arms from becoming tired on long shoots....
The Nikon Z50 looks like a pretty neat camera. Positioning itself as an entry-level mirrorless camera sitting somewhere between the capability of the D5x00 and D7x00 series DSLRs. Its design seems to have involved a couple of questionable decisions. The folks at Amateur Photographer got to speak to Rob Rob Harman, Senior Commercial Planning Manager at Nikon UK to find out more about those decisions. The answers to some of the questions are quite telling when it comes to Nikon’s approach, and some of the decisions are purely from a business standpoint....
Not all heroes wear capes, goes the saying. And this heartwarming story just goes to show that there are still many, many good generous people out there in the world who want to give back and make a difference. Music and celebrity photographer Raven B. Varona answered the plea to help out a New York City school that couldn’t afford to go ahead with their annual school photos because of a lack of funds....
The U.S. Government has blocked almost all transactions and services between U.S. companies, entities, and individuals in Venezuela. As a result, all Adobe Creative Clouds accounts in this country have been deactivated. What’s more – it seems that the affected users won’t get a refund, either. Executive Order 13884, issued by the U.S. Government, severely limits U.S. companies who do business in Venezuela. In order to remain compliant with this it, Adobe had to suspend the accounts of their users in this country....
Ahead of Adobe MAX 2021, Adobe is announcing a bunch of new stuff across the CC ecosystem. One of the most interesting ones for sure is that you’ll soon be able to use Photoshop and Illustrators through your browser, too. The company decided to make this step considering how many of us has been forced into working remotely over the last two years. Therefore, you’ll soon have a few options that let you collaborate with your fellow creatives, no matter where you are....
Adobe has been using its AI-powered Sensei technology to introduce various upgrades to its apps. In the most recent upgrade, Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic, and Lightroom CC became able to enhance details in your images and give you up to 30% higher resolution on raw files. The new feature is called Enhance Details and it uses machine learning to provide “state-of-the-art quality” for your images. Adobe explains that it approaches demosaicing in a new way, so it provides better resolving fine details and fixing issues like false colors and zippering....
Adobe have just announced that Lightroom CC 2015.6, Lightroom 6.6 and Adobe Camera Raw 9.6 are now available adding a whole slew of lens support, a few new cameras and some very welcome updates and fixes. The big feature is the new Guided Upright tool, available in both Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. In these videos, let Julieanne Kost tell you what they’re all about and how they work....
The previously announced speed boost of Lightroom Classic is here. Today, Adobe has released the latest update of Lightroom Classic, version 7.2. It mainly focuses on performance, but also makes it easier to organize your files. The latest update makes Lightroom Classic faster, which was one of the main concerns of its users. However, it seems not everyone will experience the speed boost, at least not yet. It all depends on your computer’s hardware....
Advertisements JP: Hey Alexandre! Can you take us through the process here, how did you go about setting this up? What was your lighting placements like etc? AW: The process was really simple, but took more effort on the preparations before shooting actually, like cleaning the forks, spoon, egg and surface, placing all the elements where I wanted them to be and just set the lights after. Cleaning saves a lot of time in post production....
The release of the Fuji X-Pro3 this morning came as a bit of a surprise to me; not what was unveiled, but the general reception to it. So many comments (yes, I know you’re not supposed to read the comments) of ridicule and annoyance were not what I was expecting. And as I read them (which I promise not to do again) I noticed an underlying theme that was a bit worrying....
