Google Turns Off Automatic Photo Enhancements To Stop You From Feeling Bad About Your Selfies

Along with the Pixel 4a and Pixel 5 announcement, Google is making some changes to its photo editing methods. The company has introduced a design framework that will make photo filters and enhancements automatically disabled. This way your phone won’t make you “more beautiful” by default anymore, and it’s all a part of the efforts to improve your mental health rather than your selfies. Advertisements Two years ago, Apple came under fire for automatically enabling “beauty mode” without the possibility to turn it off....

January 16, 2023 · 3 min · 487 words · Sybil Kinzer

Gopro Hero5 Black Vs Hero5 Session Vs Yi 4K

A lot has been said about the new GoPro Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session cameras since their recent release. The new touchscreen LCD has received a lot of praise, as has the fact that you can finally use it underwater without an external housing. But the resolutions and frame rates haven’t changed since the Hero4 Black. So how does it compare? We posted our own GoPro Hero4 Black vs YI 4K comparison video not too long ago, and the YI 4K pretty much smoked it in almost every aspect....

January 16, 2023 · 5 min · 892 words · Frank Richardson

Gopro Suffers More Bad Karma As Widespread Gps Issue Grounds Drones

I think GoPro just wants to ever forget they even entered the drone market at this point. Most other people have, but occasionally something pops up that reminds us all how badly they failed at it. Now, more bad news as GPS issues ground the Karma while GoPro investigates. You might remember the GoPro Karma from such events as “Help, my drone has fallen out of the sky“, “Back? What do you mean you want it back?...

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 262 words · Albert Hattub

Graduated Nd Filters Or Multiple Exposures What Is The Best Option For A Landscape Photographer

Using a Graduated Neutral Density filter is fairly easy and doesn’t require any advanced techniques in post-production but the easiest option isn’t always the best choice; due to the filter’s transition being horizontal, anything above the distinction will be darkened and anything below will be left alone. This is a good solution when there’s a flat horizon but what do we do when there are mountains projecting above it? What do we do when there are large trees in the image?...

January 16, 2023 · 4 min · 843 words · Carrie Mcgill

Hard Vs Soft Light 5 Portrait Lighting Setups Broken Down To Show You When To Use Each

When shooting portraits, the difference between hard and soft light on your subject makes a massive difference to the final result. There are so many ways we can use both, and when it comes to photographing people, the challenges of hard light can be particularly tricky to work around. But knowing when to use each allows you to make better creative decisions. In this video, John Gress walks us through five different lighting setups using both hard and soft light to see how they come together and how the different quality of the light affects your subject and how it makes the final image look....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 262 words · Shonda Hendricks

Hasselblad Launches New 100Mp Flagship Camera Plus 3 Updated Lenses

Hasselblad has unveiled its brand new flagship camera the X2D 100C. With the camera release comes three completely new lenses that will join the XCD family: the XCD 2,5/38V, XCD 2,5/55V, and the XCD 2,5/90V. The camera is the third medium-format mirrorless camera that the company has produced and follows the success of the 50MP X1D-50c and X1D II 50C. The X2D 100C houses a 100-megapixel back-side illuminated CMOS sensor, delivering up to 15 stops of dynamic range with a 16-bit colour depth....

January 16, 2023 · 3 min · 472 words · Bea Copeland

Heathrow Airport Shut Down Due To Drone Sightings

Only three weeks ago, drone sightings grounded 100,000 passengers on 760 flights on Gatwick airport. And now somebody flew a drone near Heathrow, another major airport in London. Because of this, all departures were temporarily stopped for “precautionary measures.” BBC reports that the Metropolitan Police received reports of a drone sighting near Heathrow at about 17:05 GMT. Their cameraman Martin Roberts confirmed that he spotted what looked like a drone at about 17:45....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 374 words · George Harris

Here Are Four Ideas To Make Your Gimbal Shots More Creative

If you’re using your DSLR or smartphone to shoot videos, you probably use a gimbal for all kinds of shots. In this video, COOPH gives you four fun ideas for using the gimbal in your videos. They will add creativity to your shots and help you tell the story better. 1. The hover cam For this shot, start by fixing a clamp to a pole and then attach your gimbal to it so it hangs from the pole....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 391 words · Peter Green

Here Are The Secret Ingredients To Achieving Your Dreams

If you read the title you are probably thinking what the hell is this douche on about. This sounds like some new age bulls***. Well, welcome aboard the new age bull**** train! I’ve decided I am going to write some smaller personal articles on self-development, mindset, and routines. It’s not always easy working in this industry, and sometimes it’s nice to know we share our struggles, and experiences with thousands of other creatives…....

January 16, 2023 · 6 min · 1252 words · Barbara Daniels

How A Photographer Made Windmills Look Like Dandelions

It’s the first day of spring, so flowers and photos of them are all around. But are you up for some different flowers? How about dandelions made of windmills? Photographer Jamie Seidel took and edited a fantastic photo where he made windmills look like white dandelions. It took 700 photos, so he also created a timelapse video. He has shared the details of this shot with us, and if you’re willing to try, here’s how to do it....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 368 words · Sandra Hoke

How Good Are You With Curves

Curves are somewhat of a panacea when it comes to Photoshop adjustment layers. With curves you can do pretty much anything you can do with the other adjustment layers: contrast, color correction, apply looks… One could argue that you can virtually eliminate all other Photoshop features, as long as keep curves and masks. Of course, you would need to understand curves and one way to understand them is to try and read a curve chart and understand its implications on an image....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 335 words · Anne Mcmillin

How I Used Multiple Composited Exposures To Light These Stained Glass Church Windows

Advertisements First up, was the time of the year. Winter can be fantastic due to the low position of the sun casting long shadows but often it is dull, wet and generally not very nice. I waited almost two weeks to get the ideal weather conditions. Here in Scotland, waiting two weeks for decent weather isn’t unusual! The first thing I decided to do was lower the exposure of the shot....

January 16, 2023 · 3 min · 601 words · Peter Mccoach

How The New Cactus Rq250 Compares To The Popular Godox Ad200

Thinking a little more about Cactus’ announcement of their new Cactus RQ250 wireless strobe, I got to wondering just how it stacks up on paper vs the current Godox AD200 unit. Obviously, it packs a little more power, but with the information that Cactus has released so far, what can we glean from it? If you’re thinking about stepping up from a basic Yongnuo speedlight system or want to start getting out on location with strobes, what’s your best option?...

January 16, 2023 · 6 min · 1130 words · Christine Purcell

How To Build A Diy Device Similar To The Light Blaster

Having seen the Light Blaster image projector, I wanted to know if I could build myself. Kinda out of pure curiosity. I wanted to know, is building a Light Blaster would be a task I can handle. The main idea was to mimic the Light Blaster functionality and create a slide projector that could project 35mm slides with strobe and an old lens. I started this project by making a 3d model with the necessary dimensions to use as a guide for the actual woodwork...

January 16, 2023 · 3 min · 588 words · Felipe Unger

How To Build Your Own Diy Camera Jib For Overhead Shots For Less Than 35

We’ve shown you a few overhead camera rigs before. This one, though, has to be amongst the least expensive DIY solutions I’ve seen. Based around a square metal tube, the construction is about as simple as it gets. The video comes from YouTube user Energy Researcher. He goes through the build step by step, although there’s just really not much to it. Even if you’re not that great at DIY, this should pose no problem....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 402 words · Jo Knight

How To Bulk Process And Edit Headshots On A White Background

Headshots and portraits on a white background are a timeless classic. And most of us who shoot portraits have had to do them at some point. If we haven’t, we likely will sometime in the future. Processing and editing them, though, can often be a pain, especially if you’re shooting a whole bunch of people at once. A group of employees at a company, for example. In this video, Sean Tucker talks about his white background workflow....

January 16, 2023 · 4 min · 732 words · Beulah Cahal

How To Capture This Year S Total Solar Eclipse Over The Usa On Video In A Single Take

Total eclipses aren’t actually as rare as many people think, happening somewhere on earth about every 18 months or so. But to have them appear over a particular part of the planet, or even a specific country, isn’t quite as often. But, there’s is a total solar eclipse happening over the USA in a couple of months. Monday, August 21st, to be precise. For many Americans, this will be a once in a lifetime event....

January 16, 2023 · 4 min · 766 words · Krystle Noe

How To Create An Authentic Star Wars Lightsaber Using Old Camera Components

Here’s a bit of photography-related Star Wars trivia you may have never known. The lightsaber used in the original Star Wars was a modified 3-Cell Graflex Flashgun handle. DIY YouTube effects guru Shanks FX took this piece of trivia and used it to create an informative tutorial video showing how you can make your very own lightsaber using the same methods and materials the Star Wars special effects artists used....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 238 words · Ronald Anderson

How To Easily Convert Your Kit Lens Into A Macro Lens

Are you looking for an affordable but also electronic macro lens? Or maybe you have an old kit lens, that’s just sitting around, collecting dust since your last upgrade? Well, then read on, because in this article I am going to share one cool hack that will allow you too transform almost any kit or standard zoom lens into a capable macro lens! And I am not talking about reversing the lens or mounting it on extension tubes, we’re actually going to convert the lens for good....

January 16, 2023 · 6 min · 1251 words · Paula Jackson

How To Fake That Gelled Split Lighting Look In Photoshop

Using multiple differently coloured gels to light your subject and their environment has become a very popular subject over the last few years – and I’m totally not blaming Jake Hicks – but it’s not always possible to easily do in the studio. Perhaps you don’t have the colours of gel that you need. Or maybe there’s just too much colour spill to effectively get what you’re after. It is possible to simulate the look of using coloured gels in post, though, thanks to Photoshop....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 320 words · Joseph Valenzula