Andy Warhol was an often controversial and divisive figure in the art world. But whether you love him, hate him, or are indifferent, his work is certainly interesting, even if only for the response it elicits. Personally, I find his photography particularly intriguing. The Cantor Arts Centre and Stanford Libraries today have announced that they’ve put a massive selection of Warhol’s photographs online and made them publicly available to view....

There are times when your gear absolutely needs an upgrade. But there are those other times when you think upgrading will make you a better photographer or a happier person – but it won’t. In this video, Rafael Ludwig discusses why we should “get off the hedonic treadmill” and stop upgrading our gear all the time, and how new gear won’t make us any happier or any better at photography....

Regardless of what you think b-roll is or how you might use it in your productions, b-roll has become a hot topic lately. It’s something that just about anybody who shoots video needs to incorporate if they want their work to stand out. And while exactly what b-roll is and how it should be used are discussions for another day, how you shoot it is relevant to all potential definitions....

In the last couple of years, photojournalists have been laid off from large media companies. Along with this, did the quality of photos drop? A recent study has confirmed what many of us think is reasonable: laying off professional photojournalists leads to a loss in the quality of images. And it’s not only the loss of technical quality but so much more. The research was conducted by Tara Mortensen of the University of South Carolina and Peter Gade of the University of Oklahoma....

It seems Coronavirus has taken another one. The SXSW Festival has just announced that they are canceling the convention. SXSW is a major event hosting everything from tech, to music, to films. The Austin based festival officially canceled their annual event for the first time in 34 years, as they shared on Twitter. Some conventions have issued statements that they are going forward. NAB, The Photography Show and Photokina have all said that they intend to continue with the shows as planned....

Headless Synology NAS Cloud Backup If you’re storing all of your creative industry business data to a Synology NAS, you probably already backup locally to an external drive (or a series of external drives). However, in the event of a local disaster at your home or office (fire, flood, theft) you still need an offsite cloud backup. Most creative professionals have data backup requirements that far exceed consumer-level users (and most businesses as well)....

“Maximum power, maximum colour”. That’s what Prolycht is saying about its new flagship light. Launched just today, DIYP caught up Mitch Gross from Prolycht to find out more about the brilliant Orion 675 FS. The Prolycht Orion 675 FS LED full spectrum spotlight is built inside a single unit. It’s designed specifically for Film and TV professionals, and is frankly, a bit of a game changer. This light is really powerful, and we witnessed it lighting up the vast IBC Show ceiling with ease....

After a rumor going around earlier this year, a new Tamron lens for Sony E-mount is now here. Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD has finally been officially announced, and it’s available for preorders. The Tamron 17-28mm f/2.8 Di III RXD is designed for full frame Sony mirrorless cameras. Of course, you can use it with APS-C models too and get the 25.5-42mm equivalent focal length. This is the company’s second zoom for the Sony E-mount, and it will be a nice addition to the very popular 28-75mm f/2....

Tamron has introduced a new and improved version of their 15-30mm f/2.8 lens. The SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 promises a lot of improvements over its predecessor. Some of them include better overall image quality, as well as faster and more accurate AR and improved VC (vibration compensation). So, let’s jump in and see more details of the latest Tamron’s lens and what it has to offer....

The Fast & Furious franchise is notorious for using CG in their movies. Even though they have very highly trained stunt drivers, and even gave the actors some rather intensive driving lessons, some things are just easier and safer when done with CG. But they also do a surprising amount of effects practically, when possible. One sequence that seemed fairly obvious as CG in the imaginatively titled fifth instalment of the series, Fast Five, sees our heroes dragging a 9,000lb vault containing $100 million through the streets of Rio De Janeiro (although it was actually filmed in Puerto Rico)....

Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little [online form] from the copyright office will change your life. This is how the longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs are protected. The first step is, of course, creating the imagery itself....

Dou you remember your first phone with camera? When you look at those photos now, you realize how bad quality those camera actually was. Still, it’s fun to look back on cameras and phones, compare them and realize how much they have advanced. Actress Nina Dobrev goes through the history of phone cameras and the evolution of selfies from 2003 to 2017. Nokia 3200 This phone was released in 2003....

If you are like everyone else stuck at home, trying to live stream, you probably know about live switching. A switcher is a box that lets you control multiple cameras; The live part enables you to push the stream into Facebook or Youtube. Black magic has a basic ATEM mini for four cameras for $300. Now Feelworld has the LIVEPRO L1 – a four-camera switcher with a frigging LCD for the same price....

The Flashpoint StreakLight 360 is known by many names. Godox, for example, sells it as the Witstro AD360II. But there is a solid reason to buy that strobe under the Flashpoint brand, and that is that it has the best instruction set ever made for a strobe. (Thanks Chris-Burger for sending those over) Forget about Chinese machine-translated texts, this one is 100% original and it will get you LOLing at lest a few times if you read it through....

There have been rumours for a while, but now GoPro has officially announced the new GoPro Hero8 Black. Don’t get too excited, though, not much has changed in the camera itself since its predecessor. It does see a bump in max bitrate, though, going from the Hero7’s 78Mbps to 100Mbps for 4K footage. There’s also a new GoPro MAX 360° camera, follow up to the not-terribly-popular GoPro Fusion. When it comes to the technical differences, there are a few, but not many....

It’s been a while since I last had need of a smartphone gimbal. Ever since I switched to larger gimbals and DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, gimbals for smartphones weren’t high up on my list of priorities anymore. Recently, however, I’ve found myself in possession of several, including the Hohem iSteady X 3-axis smartphone gimbal. So, in this review, we’re going to kick things off with that. First impressions The Hohem iSteady X comes packaged with a mini tripod, a Type-C USB cable for charging, a wrist strap, a user manual and a small pouch to keep it in when you’re not using it....

The pace at which some technologies are developing today is just amazing. One area that’s seen particularly rapid progress over the last few years is 360° cameras. But I’ve often felt that the technology still wasn’t quite there – at least when it came to the 360° cameras that fit in our pockets. The YI 360 VR was close (at the time), but I always thought they could offer just a bit more....

Those old folding film cameras are great. I’ve used a bunch of them over the years, and love when I get the chance to take my Agfa Isolette out the door to shoot off a few rolls. But that folding camera form factor seems to be making something of a comeback, but with a bit of an update. The Jollylook Auto is styled on those old folding cameras but uses Fuji Instax “Instant film”, has a variable aperture, and even has a built-in flash....

Well, the rumors were true: the Fujifilm XF 50mm f/1 R WR has just been officially announced. It’s the fastest Fujifilm’s lens, and it’s been rumored and announced for quite a while now. So, let’s dive in and finally see in more detail what it has to offer. The Fujifilm XF 50mm f/1 R WR is designed for APS-C X-mount mirrorless cameras, giving you 76mm equivalent focal length. Apparently, its most prominent feature is the super-wide maximum aperture of f/1....

Profoto has updated the Profoto Camera app with a completely new design that they say was rebuilt from the ground up. Designed to allow you to shoot photos on your smartphone using Profoto lights. Available for iOS and a limited number of Android devices, it offers a lot of new features over the previous basic manual camera app, including ProfotoRAW, a new AirX Smart-TTL algorithm, more accurate white and colour balance, faster response time and more....