It’s been rumoured for a long time, but now DJI has officially announced its new Ronin 4D 4-axis cinema camera. It combines the new full-frame Zenmuse X9 gimbal camera with a 4-axis stabilisation system, LiDAR focusing with video transmission and control in a single device. DJI says the system is designed for high-end productions to make them more efficient. It’s available in both an 8K model and a 6K model capable of shooting both h....

DJI has announced successors to its popular Ronin S and Ronin SC gimbals, along with a slight rebrand. They’re dropping the “onin” and simply calling them the RS 2 and the RSC 2. The new gimbals are smaller and lighter than their predecessors but can handle higher loads. DJI says that the RS 2 and RSC 2 are “redesigned and reimagined” to cater to all types of filmmakers. The new gimbals feature a “newly optimized” Titan Stabilisation system to drive the motors, touchscreen and OLED displays, and feature a new “Time Tunnel” mode, which combines 360° rolls with hyperlapse (sounds kinda trippy)....

So, you got yourself a brand new camera. Congratulations! I’m sure you’re anxious to go out and shoot with it, but there are some things you should do first, in order to make the best out of your new toy. Caleb Pike of DSLR Video Shooter gives you a list of ten things he does before shooting with a new camera, and they’ll help you make all future shoots successful and more efficient....

​I love Instagram. But I worry that it’s driving my fellow photographers crazy. I’ve seen so many photographers do so many wacky things in search of Instafame that I’ve given the madness a name. I call it… Instagram Derangement Syndrome. Instagram Derangement Syndrome is graded on a spectrum of 0% to 100%. The higher the percentage, the more deranged you are. To determine where you are on this spectrum, I’ve put together a convenient little quiz for you....

The total solar eclipse from July this year gave us some spectacular photos and videos. The year is coming to its end, but if you want to shoot a solar eclipse, you’ll have another chance before 2019 is over. On 26 December, a total solar eclipse will be visible in India, Singapore, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and some parts of Australia. But this so-called “ring of fire” eclipse is somewhat different than the one we saw earlier this year....

It would be nice if your photographs could do all the talking for you, but occasionally you need to use words. The about page on your website and your Instagram profile are just some of the places photographers need to have a bio. A good bio provides photographers with a powerful way to showcase their professional experience and convey their personalities to potential clients. One of the consulting services we offer at Wonderful Machine is writing a photographer bio....

When Josh Hug went to California’s Pacifica Beach to do some drone filming, little did he know that he would save a life. As he got his drone up in the air, he noticed someone lying on the beach, apparently unconscious. He left his controller and rushed to help, but his drone kept filming and the whole situation was caught on camera. Josh Hug is a professor at UC Berkeley....

While artists use drones to capture epic photos and videos, there are people who, sadly, misuse these gadgets for criminal actions. But it was drone footage that recently put two drug dealers behind the bars. They accidentally filmed themselves while packing drugs. When they tried to smuggle them over the prison wall, the drone crashed and the footage of the dealers ended up in the police’s hands. As Daily Record writes, Paul Reilly and Michael Martin were caught in the video while packing £3,000 (~$4,000) worth of drugs inside Kinder Eggs....

English pop star Dua Lipa was recently sued for sharing a photo of herself on Instagram. Like many other celebrities before her, she shared a paparazzi photo without permission or at least credits. In return, the photographer’s agency sued her, seeking $150,000 in damages. According to the BBC, Lipa posted the photo to her Instagram account on 7 February 2019. The photo reportedly shows her standing in line at the airport while wearing an oversized hat....

The Federal Aviation Administration has just released its 20-year forecast predicting what may happen in the world of aviation between now and 2039. It covers a number of topics from international and domestic travel to commercial aircraft and UAVs. Of particular note is that the commercial drone market appears to be expanding rapidly. In fact, they expect it to triple in size by 2023. They also say that consumer drone demand has “slowed considerably” and that they expect it to continue doing so....

Facebook is constantly looking to improve their image recognition features, and your photos are, of course, a part of these efforts. But, it’s not only the photos you post on Facebook: your Instagram images are included as well, and it seems they’re rather helpful, too. As the company explained at F8, they use public Instagram photos annotated with hashtags. Then, Facebook uses the acquired data to train their own image recognition models....

Facebook has introduced a new research project that’s impressive and scary at the same time. TextStyleBrush uses AI to recreate your handwriting based on a photo of it, as hinted in its very name. And all it needs is a single word and a single photo of it. TextStyleBrush reminded me of that app by Google Arts & Culture that transfers style from a painting onto your photo. It pretty much does the same thing, only it copies the handwriting style instead of the painting style....

We’ve all seen or been involved in different kinds of scams. Reddit user snarko7 draws our attention to a collaboration offer targeted at photographers that may be one of them. Although it will cost you only $14 if you fall for it, there’s a lesson behind it. It will help you if anything similar happens to you, with more money involved. This person says a camera bag company reached out to them with a collaboration proposal....

Leica’s 3rd generation M10 Monochrom (model 6376) is an impressive little beast. I don’t know if it’s $8K+ impressive, but it’s pretty good. Announced just a couple of months ago, they’re not in the hands of many yet, but the folks at Leica Rumours discovered the FCC filing for the camera which shows off some of its internal electronics, including that full-frame 40-megapixel sensor. Although the application was granted in January, Leica filed a confidentiality request with the FCC in order to keep the information and these images under wraps until the camera started shipping to prevent the competition from getting a sneak peek at what was coming....

Advertisements Capture the Atlas editor Dan Zafra curates these photos throughout the year. He shared with us the Milky Way Collection 2020 in June, and the Northern Lights Collection is always published in December. This way, it coincides with the Northern Lights season and the end of the year, so it brings some magic to you during both the holiday and the Aurora season. “The Northern Lights season ranges from September to April in the Northern Hemisphere and from March to September in the Southern Hemisphere,” Dan explains....

There hasn’t been a lot of information about the Fujifilm GFX 100S yet, but some photos have been discovered on Instagram. They were actually posted to Instagram back in October 2018 by gao3366, but nobody seems to have noticed them until they were sent to Fuji Rumors. The four images were posted as a single Instagram post, so you’ll have to flick through them in the embed, but they show the GFX 100S from the front, top, rear and side views, being held in a hand to give you a sense of overall scale....

V- Flats, screens, flags, boards, whatever you want to call them. They can be really inexpensive but have a huge value in portrait photography in the studio. I bought these polystyrene sheets from a local DIY shop costing around £40 for the pair. I used shelving brackets on the base to help give some level of sturdiness and make sure they are free standing. Not the best solution for the base, but, in two years they’ve never fallen, never broken and have worked a treat....

Face swapping apps have been quite popular and can create quite fun results. But for the sake of your creative project, you may want to turn it up a notch and make it look more realistic. For this, you will need more advanced programs, but don’t worry, it’s not as complicated as it sounds. In this video from Adorama, Pye Jirsa will show you how to swap faces in three simple steps using Lightroom and Photoshop....

This is part four of five in a series. Check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Now that you’ve completed your editing, you’re ready to share it with the world. But how? Well, the answer lies within this tutorial. It should be noted that edits to your image are not saved directly to the image file. Instead, the editing data is recorded in darktable’s database and an XMP file if the preference default settings are left unchanged....

Unlike some previous French presidents, Emmanuel Macron demanded privacy while on vacation. However, this didn’t prevent a paparazzi photographer to stalk him around Marseillee. He even entered the president’s private property to take the photos, which was the last drop. After this, Macron reported him to the authorities, and he has filed a legal complaint. The president declined to reveal where he will spend the vacation. However, there was a word that he was staying in Marseille in a private villa, in a gated community....