Many photographers often like to pick between flash or natural light. For some reason, they avoid mixing the two. It actually goes to the extent that some photographers will declare themselves as either a natural light or an artificial light photographer. It almost seems like these two are separate worlds that have little in common. Yet, how different is a flash from natural light after all? Isn’t light just light no matter the source?...
Photographers join photo-sharing sites for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it’s as simple as a need for recognition and the occasional pat-on-the-back. In fact I suspect that’s the reason most people join these sites in the first place; a little bit of recognition is worth big dollars in the feel-good bank. Sometimes they join those sites to promote their work for financial reasons, either to sell prints or services. In the post-Instagram era I suspect that many people join in the hopes of growing a sizeable enough audience to attract sponsors, and trips and cheap booze....
Until just a few short years ago, pretty much the only serious player in the game when it photo editing was Photoshop. Sure, there was always GIMP, but it hasn’t ever really been a serious contender (sorry, but it’s true). But in those last few years, we’ve seen quite a few potential hopefuls come up and really eat a chunk of Adobe’s share. One of the biggest names amongst them has been Affinity Photo, which offers many similar features to Photoshop, but also has a few unique tricks up its sleeve....
Every time you spot your mistake and try to fix it, your knowledge and skill improve. However, there are some mistakes you might be repeatedly making without being aware of it. Mark Denney talks about them in his latest video, highlighting the five biggest mistakes you might be making when editing landscape images. It’s important to note that photo editing is subjective. However, there are some things that won’t do your photos any justice no matter the style you’re going for....
We often joke that people complain a lot about certain camera manufacturers or the cameras themselves. Whether it’s overheating issues, terrible autofocus or a host of other things that don’t quite live up to the marketing hype, complaints are common. But what are the most complained about cameras out there on the market today? Well, the folks at Electronics Hub decided to find out. In a recent study, Electronics Hub studied thousands upon thousands of tweets that mention popular tech products and gave each of them a score based on how many complaints they had received....
AI just gets weirder and weirder. And creepier. Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI have published new research which builds on OpenAI’s GPT-3 machine learning tech to generate images from scratch based just on the captions of photos. It’s kind of the reverse of what Facebook does when you upload a photo to the platform and it generates captions. Here, you feed it captions and it generates the photo....
Photographers usually prefer being behind the camera than in front of it. As a matter of fact, some of them hate being photographed. Well, if you’re one of them, I’ve just found your spirit animals. These owls were caught on camera and they hated it so much that they weren’t afraid to express it in every possible way. Hawk Conservancy shared the video on Twitter, and it quickly got pretty popular....
Advertisements Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London. This year’s competition attracted almost 50,000 entries from all over the globe, from professionals and amateurs alike. Dr. Tim Littlewood, Executive Director of Science at the Natural History Museum and member of the judging panel, says: The overall winners will be announced on 13 October 2020. Due to the circumstances, the awards ceremony will look a lot different than usual....
It’s the holiday season and it seems like Christmas lights are everywhere you look. Photographer Mathieu Stern has taken advantage of this and he’s turned those lights into some crazy bokeh. In his latest video, he uses three cheap vintage lenses and turns the Christmas lights into rich, sparkly, “bokehlicious” backdrop. So if you’re planning some holiday-themed portraits, maybe you can look for these lenses at flea markets or eBay....
Watching aerial footage of Earth and its beautiful landscapes is hypnotizing and wonderful. Talented German photographer and filmmaker Roman De Giuli (previously) recreated this feeling, but without leaving the studio. In his latest short film, cleverly named Satellike, he imitates the rivers meandering through canyons and other regions. It looks like satellite footage; only it was made using ink and dried pigments. Roman created Satellike as a part of a job he did for Taipei’s National Palace Museum....
Despite the name, the Meta Three 360° camera has nothing to do with the recently rebranded parent company of Facebook. They’re actually a UK-based company developing 360° cameras and live streaming solutions. The “Three” part of the name is because it’s their third their camera. There’s also a Meta One and the Meta Two, which cost a relatively low £21,000 (~$25,400) and £16,000 (~$19,350) respectively… Plus tax, of course. I say “relatively low” because the Meta Three costs an insane £35,000 + VAT – or a little over $42,000 + tax for our American readers....
It’s difficult to compete with timelapses like this. NASA gets a viewpoint from which the vast majority of the world will never be able to shoot. While we may not be able to shoot it ourselves, though, thankfully NASA do make much of their content available for free. For us to use, for our own projects. And they just recently made their entire library public. This timelapse film, edited by SmugMug Films was posted to Nikon Europe’s YouTube channel to help celebrate their 100th Anniversary....
We’ve seen quite a few terrifying encounters of photographers and wild animals. In this video from Gabe and Garrett, an underwater photographer came face to face with a Great White shark when it breached the cage he was in. The incident was caught in a video, and it will give you chills for sure! Gabe and Garrett is a channel which generally posts adventures of two young boys. However, this video was posted by their dad after his trip to Guadalupe Island, Mexico....
Well, if this isn’t one of the weirdest but coolest camera modifications I’ve seen, I’m not sure what is. Canadian company, Back-Bone Gear has been performing camera modifications to GoPros and Sony RX0 cameras for a while now. They offer a range of modifications as well as kits you can implement yourself. Their latest release is the elegant monster you see above, the Ribcage RXo II. It’s essentially a Sony RX0 II converted to accept Micro Four Thirds or C-Mount lenses, and boy does it look like it’d be fun to play with....
AI is definitely a buzzword at the moment, some days, it feels like I can’t move without hearing about it. Most of those discussions are scare-mongering and a little bit threatening for the creative industries. But what if, for once, we took a different stance? Instead of looking at what AI imaging tools could destroy, what if we looked at what they could create instead? That’s exactly what Creative Director Rob Brooks did recently....
I’ve been following the “digital film” saga for years. There’s been at least 4 failed attempts to get one working, and one hoax. Nikon even filed a patent for one of their own at one point. But besides those early digital film hybrid cameras, none have ever really made it. At one time I thought this was an amazing idea that was bound to happen at some point. Now, I’ve pretty much given up on that ever happening....
Taking photos of food before the meal has gone so far there’s even a restaurant giving you a kit for taking better photos. But if you just don’t understand this trend, a recent video from Kevin Freshwater will make you happy. Kevin destroys the Instagram food photos for his friends a split second before they take the snap. I couldn’t stop laughing at their reactions, and I must admit – this is something I’d gladly do sometimes....
The only thing that really stopped the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K from becoming the vlogging camera of choice is the lack of flippy up or flippy out articulating LCD. In order to be able to see yourself, you’d need to use an external monitor, which increases the weight, making it somewhat impractical. Sure, the Pocket 4K was never intended to be a vlogging camera, but that hasn’t stopped Power_cheung over on Filmmaker....
A freelance videographer by the name of Dave Cooper is suing Adobe for the deletion of around 100,000 digital video clips totalling around 500 hours. After upgrading to Premiere Pro 2017 v11.1.0 in April of last year, he claims that a bug caused the deletion of video clips that cost him around $250,000 to create. He says that the bug exists in the “clean cache” feature which deletes temporary files and backups created during the editing process....
Metering is one of those strange aspects of photography. It’s actually a rather straightforward principle, but it seems complex to new camera users due to unfamiliar terminology like “spot”, “evaluative” and “incident”. But it’s pretty easy to get to grips with. In this video, photographer Saurav Sinha, goes over the basic metering modes that are common to pretty much all cameras. Those are spot, centre weighted and matrix or evaluative metering....
