If you’re used to natural lighting, photographing in a studio for the first time can be overwhelming. If you don’t have a place to play and experiment with artificial lighting, shooting in a studio for the first time is quite intimidating. But hold on, don’t be afraid. Take a deep breath, relax, and watch this video from Kayleigh June. In the video, she gives you five excellent tips that will make your first studio visit a way more pleasant, relaxed, and enjoyable experience....

Other than admiring the work of great photographers, I also love learning their “secrets.” And in this video from B&H, photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice shares five of her own. If you’re looking to improve the storytelling in your images and make them more striking and interesting, Deanne shares some of the habits that you should develop to get there. Serendipity: Look around you and capture the moments that you didn’t expect to happen and didn’t imagine them ahead of time....

A few days after announcing the new GFX 50S II medium format mirrorless camera, Fujifilm may be discontinuing another one. According to recent reports, Fujifilm GFX 50R is soon to get off the shelves – for good. The GFX 50R was Fujifilm’s first “affordable medium format.” It was launched in 2018 with a price tag of $4,499, and the price hasn’t changed to this day. It’s not exactly pocket change, but it’s still considered affordable for a 50MP digital medium format camera....

Advertisements Overall winner of the 2020 competition is Peter Lindel from Dortmund, Germany. His photo of a European hare earned him the overall first place, but also the first place in the Mammals category. Lindel is a photographer by passion, emphasizing on African, but also local fauna. In the statement, Lindel explained just how much time and effort it took to take the winning image: Lindel explained that the European hare was once a common inhabitant of open country all over Germany, but now has become a rare sight: For this year’s competition, 307 GDT members from 11 countries submitted a total of 5046 images to seven categories: For the first time ever, the jury didn’t vote during the annual general meeting....

First teased in October at the P&I Shanghai International Wedding Photographic Equipment Exhibition, the Godox M600D presents what appears to be Godox stepping up to the plate to take on the likes of Aputure and Nanlite. Well now, it’s been announced. Sort of. Information still seems to be a little patchy, but European Godox distributor, Disnet has just posted a teaser video for it to YouTube. At 600W, it’s going to be a pretty beasty light and even last month we could see that it used an external control unit and isn’t the all-in-one system of other Godox lights like the FV200 and SL200....

You already know how important it is to back up your files, and cloud storage should be a part of your backup system. If you’re a student or alumni, I’ve got great news for you: you can get unlimited Google Drive storage, for free. I know it sounds too good to be true, but it’s real. Educational institutions don’t pay for the Google Drive storage anymore thanks to Google for Education....

GoPro Hero 6 is officially here. The company has launched the new action camera, which looks a lot like its predecessor, GoPro Hero 5. However, it’s the inside that changed, and the new model brings some improvements. The processor is new, and the features like frame rates, image stabilization and image quality are improved in comparison to the Hero 5. The biggest novelty is the optimized GP1 processor. Thanks to it, just like the rumors suggested, GoPro Hero 6 shoots 4K at 60fps....

GoPro Plus subscription service offers additional benefits to its users. Starting from 30 January 2019, all subscribers will have unlimited cloud storage space for videos and photos, instead of the 35-hour limit they had so far. The updated GoPro Plus service now allows unlimited cloud backup for videos. Storage space for photos was already unlimited, so this remains unchanged. The service is designed specifically for Wi-Fi-equipped cameras such as Hero5, Hero6 and Hero 7....

It’s not even unusual anymore to see people risking their lives and health for Insta-worthy photos. But in the light of a recent tragedy, when a teenage boy got killed by a train, it’s saddening and alarming to see people still taking photos on train tracks. The place that got under the spotlight lately is Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi, Vietnam. Tourists have swarmed the bridge lately, many of them taking photos on train tracks....

If you’ve ever wondered which of the US states is home to the most photographers, your question has now been answered. Stock photo website 123RF recently conducted a study revealing that it’s Hawaii. While it may sound surprising, this state has the most photographers per 100,000 people, which makes it the US state with the most photographers per capita. 123RF analyzed the data from the U.S. Census Bureau. According to the data, Hawaii has 1,759 photography businesses or 123....

If you are a photographer, you can use nothing but your skills to make a difference and make this world a better place. Isn’t that wonderful? If you’d like to give back to the community by using your photography, it may be a bit confusing at first. You may not know where to start. But Denae & Andrew will help you get started. In this video, they share 11 ideas for doing charity with photography....

Dollar stores are fun to visit: you can find all sorts of junk there you’d never known even existed. But as we’ve seen before, some of these items can come in handy if you’re a photographer looking for props, storage solutions, or DIY studio gear. Chrystopher Rhodes of YCImaging has some ideas on how to use dollar store items to create funky in-camera effects. Whether you shoot stills or video, you’ll find some inspiration in the video below, showing you what you can pull off with a few cheap knick-knacks from a dollar store....

When it comes to product photography, there are a lot of brands out there who keep a very consistent look and feel to their promotional material. Whether it’s a truck or a toaster, you can immediately tell by the way it’s lit and shot that it belongs to a certain brand. One such brand is Apple. And while many of their product photos and videos are actually CG, the guys at Syrp have broken down Apple’s techniques to show you how you can shoot it for real....

Looking to make people laugh by combining humor and art, commercial photographer and digital artist Andreas Varro created the ‘Condom Challenge’ photography project. While the condom challenge, the internet’s latest craze, mostly makes people look stupid online, Andreas used it to create these awesome photos. According to Wikipedia the condom challenge dates back as far as 2006, but it’s been making its rounds again for the past month or so....

Have you ever obsessed over instagraming (or “gramming”*) your coffee rather that spend quality time with the person you are having that coffee with? I know I have. I know I have asked my buddies to use their phones as kicker lights; I know I have used menus as reflectors and I sure as heck know that I used random objects around me to “frame” that perfect dish. I did not, however, bring Arri lights, get a set coordinator, a producer and a yahoo....

Hurricane Matthew was the deadliest hurricane in over a decade, killing at least 500 to possibly over a 1,000 people during its run. It also caused billions of dollars worth of damage to property. That devastation included Hope Mills, North Carolina which saw severe flooding. In the aftermath, filmmaker ImSoFIRST took out his drone to survey the area. After getting back home, he posted a still frame to Instagram and Twitter....

Today I get to tell you the story of my latest camera creation, a digital Polaroid camera that combines a receipt printer with a Raspberry Pi. To build it I took an old Polaroid Minute Maker camera, stripped out its guts, and replaced the innards with a digital camera, an e-ink display, a receipt printer, and an SNES controller to operate the camera. If you like this project, don’t forget to follow me (@ade3) on Instagram....

I recently built this DIY 180 orbit rig from available camera accessories. To make shots like this. You might think why not just use a turntable, well I don’t like the look of only the product spinning while the background is static. While moving the camera around the subject gives a much more dynamic look in its entirety. With this setup, I can even orbit around tiny objects using a macro lens....

Water droplets give you plenty of methods for being creative in photography. There are many interesting images where drops of water (or sometimes glycerin) are subjects, or a means for creating unique photos. Photographer Mithun Das shared with us a creative photo he took through a droplet. It shows a silhouette of a couple hugging in the sunset, and he named it “Love in a Drop.” But there’s a catch – it’s not real water, a real sunset, and definitely not a real couple....

When it comes to editing, it really helps to have a guiding template. It helps the creative process. Many call this a creative vision. That said, I would never advocate or introduce rules for landscape photography. My photography’s core motivation is the freedom to express myself in whatever artistic fashion I find fulfilling. It should be the same for you. For me, though, I have always found it helpful to have some guidelines that outline the direction I am heading....