When we step back and take a look at the bigger picture, it’s easier to see any situation more clearly. It’s similar to aerial photography: when you go up there and see the bigger picture from above, you’ll see so much that’s impossible to see from the ground. With his work, German photographer Tom Hegen is the perfect example of this. He focuses on aerial photography that documents the traces we leave on the earth’s surface....

Jason Lee is one of those actors who’s equally good behind the camera as he is in front of it. Aside from being a talented actor and skillful skater, he’s also into photography and he’s darn good at it. In this video, Tatiana Hopper introduces you to the work of this multi-talented man. Born in 1970 in California, Lee was growing up surrounded by skateboard culture. So it’s probably no wonder that he was a pro skater from the late 1980s until around the mid-1990s....

Shooting “bullet time” usually requires expensive gear. But if you’re on a really low budget, you can fake this effect without spending a dime. All you need is the camera you already have, and a little help from the people you’re filming. Philippines-based filmmaker Kris Gids has shared this short video demonstrating how you can shoot “bullet time” without a camera that captures super slow-motion. Simply ask the people you’re filming to slow down their movement or freeze completely as you’re shooting and moving around them....

The human eye is incapable of seeing infrared light, so Infrared photography is truly a way to show your audience something they can never see with their own eyes. This guide serves as an introduction to getting started with digital infrared photography. Prerequisites Before you get too excited, there is a bit of a barrier to entry to digital infrared photography. First, you have to decide which method you’d like to pursue....

Sometimes it’s good to get out and flex the old photography muscles by shooting a little differently to how you normally would. It keeps the soul young and the stops the boredom from creeping in. This is exactly what I did a few weeks back when I had a client shoot come in, who wanted natural light, Dark beauty themed images. I myself love flash, I pretty much always use a flash whether shooting composite or location, but I wanted to take this small challenge on....

Another show, another round of new gear announcements. This time it’s NAB and Aputure’s turn to show off some new lights and modifiers. There’s the Lightstorm Mini 20C/D which has been shown of in a few videos recently. The Tri-8 is finally coming, and there’s a variable temperature version as well as the daylight one we showed you from Photokina. And there’s a new big 300 Watt S-Fit LED. As well as lights, there’s modifiers....

For those developing their own DIY cameras, the various modules that pop up on the market can be a lot of fun to experiment with. And one of the biggest names in camera modules for experimenting with is Arducam. Only a couple of months after releasing their 64-megapixel camera module for the Raspberry Pi, they’ve now announced a new 108-megapixel camera module and this one runs on USB 3.0. The new 108-megapixel camera development kit is designed primarily for use with IoT and Machine Vision applications, hence the USB 3....

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has recently been very busy onboard the International Space Station. Not only has he just done his first space walk, but he’s been using his downtime to head to the cupola viewing dome with his camera. And his images are just stunning. Take this one of Florida’s Key West. It could almost be an abstract painting. And then there’s the aerial view of the aptly named ‘Eye of the Sahara’....

NASA’s Apollo missions have left us with some iconic images and videos. One of these videos shows astronaut John Young as he was testing out the electrically powered lunar rover during the Apollo 16 mission. Denis Shiryaev took this video and gave it the same treatment as he did to a few other iconic videos. He upscaled it to 4K and colorized it, giving us an immersive, awe-inspiring experience....

“A good tripod keeps everything on top of it safe, it’s cheaper for me to rent the tripod for free and have no broken cameras returned than to save some pennies on the tripod and fix a camera every few rentals.” Sachtler has always been well renowned for being an industry-standard in high-end video productions. It has definitely been able to fill the void between your average John Doe tripod, and the Oconnor 1030 we all dream of....

It’s been a bit of a journey since the last major release of DaVinci Resolve. Resolve 16 came out almost two years ago, at NAB in April 2019. Finally, last November, Blackmagic announced that Resolve 17 was being released as a public beta, letting us get our grubby little mitts on the newest version to have a play and see what we could break. Today, Blackmagic has announced that DaVinci Resolve 17 is now out of beta and sees its first final release....

If you’ve had a go at shooting video for any length of time with any camera that has a DSLR or mirrorless-like form factor, you soon realise that you need some form of cage. You need to attach handles, lights, microphones, external batteries and all kinds of doohickies. Sure, you have a cold shoe on many cameras, but you can only attach one thing to that. When it comes to the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, there isn’t even a cold shoe....

Seeing lenses taken apart and dismantled for the first time, or anything mechanically or electronically complex just fascinates me. I don’t know what it is about it, because it’s unlikely I’ll ever need to take one apart myself, and it serves no real educational or practical benefit. But I just find it interesting to see what makes this stuff tick. One I’ve been particularly seeing inside is the new Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2....

If you’re new to studio photography, here’s something you could find immensely helpful. Broncolor has a wonderful learning section to help you learn dozens of different lighting setups for all kinds of studio and outdoor shots. Portraits, product photos, sports, still life and more – there are image examples with explanations of all the settings. Even if you’ve been into studio photography for a while, you can get inspired and learn something new....

Canon Asia has “pre-announced” that there is to be an upcoming v1.2.0 firmware for the Canon EOS R mirrorless camera. I’m not sure what a “pre-announcement” is. An announcement to say there’ll be an announcement? Isn’t that still just an announcement? Anyhoo (yes, it’s a word), there’s a new firmware coming. And it’s coming at some point around the middle of April. It offers improved Eye-Detection Autofocus supporting Servo AF when shooting still images and provides fixes for several EOS R bugs....

I guess Eye-AF is the future. Following Sony’s and Nikon’s Eye-AF releases, Canon could not afford to be left behind. So, Canon is releasing their own firmware for the Canon EOS-R which mainly includes a new eye-AF functionality. While Canon HK published the news about two weeks ago, the actual update became available via Canon Canada only now. Canon says that There are also some other features and fixes included in this 1....

A video accidentally posted to YouTube by SunStudiosAustralia, who seemingly have managed to get their hands on the new Canon EOS R5, has revealed a few more details about the upcoming camera. The video was spotted by the folks at Canon Watch before being quickly taken down – although not before screenshots were made. The screenshots show that the EOS R5 will feature zebra stripes, an almost essential tool for filmmakers that’s becoming more popular with photographers, too....

There’s been a lot of talk about Canon’s new EOS R5 and EOS R6 cameras overheating since their announcement and people took a closer look at the documentation. But it seems that Canon might be doing something to address it. Canon Rumors reports that Canon is planning to release several new EF to RF adapters this year and a Canon patent discovered by the folks at Canon News suggests that one of them might have an active cooling solution to address the overheating concerns in their new mirrorless cameras....

A Canon patent has been discovered by the folks at Canon News showing what appears to be a camera with a “translucent mirror” reminiscent of Sony’s SLT cameras. But that appears to be where the similarity ends, as the Canon implements a whole second image sensor, which appears to help overcome dynamic range issues with existing cameras. The purpose of the translucent mirror is essentially the same as with Sony cameras....

In the days of DSLRs, even when your camera was on a tripod, it was possible to get a little motion blur in your shots due to what we called “mirror slap”. In these mirrorless days, mirror slap isn’t really a thing anymore, but there is a chance that the vibrations from the shutter can cause the tiniest of motion blur. With lower resolution cameras, it’s not much of an issue, but with cameras getting higher and higher resolution with each new generation, it may become one....