A woman in India recently fell to her death while trying to take a selfie by a waterfall. The woman was reportedly taking a selfie on the edge and lost her balance, after which the strong water current swept her away. The tragedy occurred at Kaliyadev waterfall near the town of Ichhawar, India. The police stated that Rubina Khan (43) went to the waterfall for a picnic with her family....
It seems like there is no end to the creation of useful post-production panels being invented by Pratik Naik and his Infinite Tools team. It could be called Infinite Ideas no less! The latest addition to the suite of tools available for photographers and retouchers is their Infinite Guide Plugin, which is aimed towards people relatively new to retouching. Pratik says that the idea came about from teaching retouching workshops, and a large portion of the workshop was spent teaching settings in order to learn how to retouch....
In addition to removing fake accounts, Instagram is now also removing fake likes, comments and follows on it users’ profiles. From now on, the app will remove any inauthentic activity from accounts use third-party apps to artificially grow their audience. With the help of machine learning tools, Instagram will identify accounts that use third-party services and it will remove the activity coming from them. The reason behind this is that these third-party apps violate Instagram’s Community Guidelines and Terms of Use....
Instagram has released another feature aimed at dealing with nasty comments and trolls. Instead of deleting comments one by one, you can now do it in bulks and get rid of the trolling and nasty comments much faster. The company announced the new feature as a part of their latest Community Standards Enforcement report. From now on, if you want to delete multiple comments (up to 25) at once, here are the steps to follow:...
Earlier this year, Instagram released Subscriptions, an option that looks a lot like Patreon or YouTube’s “Join” feature. Now it’s expanding it even further allowing creators to share posts only with those who are ready to pay up for the content. Subscriptions used to cover only Stories and live streams, but you can now post photos or Reels only for the chosen ones. You can even send messages only to your subscribers who pay to see your content....
Now, we’re not suggesting Interfit just ripped off the design of Alien Bees’ Digibee lights. But you have to admit, the resemblance is just uncanny. Not to mention the fact that the specs are also pretty close. As is the name. In fact, the only real difference appears to be the Interfit “Honey Badger” has a Bowens mount on the front. The Alien Bees lights have such a distinct design that it’s hard to imagine this is a coincidence....
With the recent announcement of the new DJI Mavic 3, one of the big selling points was that new dual-camera system. The main camera is a 20-megapixel 4/3 CMOS sensor with a variable f/2.8-11 aperture and a 24mm equivalent focal length. The secondary camera is a 12-megapixel 1/2″ CMOS sensor with a 162mm equivalent lens and a fixed f/4.4 aperture. DJI combines these two cameras allowing for a hybrid zoom system....
Overheating wasn’t much of an issue for cameras at one point. Sure, long exposures might build up some noise on CCD sensors. It did a bit with my D100 bodies for anything 4 seconds or longer. But it wasn’t a consistent problem when shooting stills. Then cameras got video, which leaves our sensors exposed and on for much longer periods of time. To the point where some cameras now are notorious for overheating....
Stacking raw files isn’t anything new. We’ve been able to do it in Photoshop for years. But doing it in Photoshop requires some legwork. If you’ve got moving subjects in your shots, you need to mask things out, which can take a lot of time depending on the shot. Kandao’s new Raw+ software, however, figures it out automatically. There are multiple reasons why you might want to stack images. The two most common are to increase the range of focus in your final shot (macro & landscape stacking) and to reduce noise (where you stack multiple shots of the exact same scene)....
Despite the recent difficulties, Kodak has launched a new product. Kodak Mini Shot is a new 10MP instant camera from this company, and it’s a crossover between a point-and-shoot, instant and toy camera. It allows you to print the images instantly, but also to post them to your Instagram feed as you take them. The Kodak Mini Shot lets you produce credit-card-sized prints using the 4Pass Printing Technology. It takes 50 seconds to print one photo, and you can choose between two types of paper: 2....
A little more than 10 years ago I had a realization that would one day change my life forever. During an evening stroll in the local woods with my camera in hand, I became aware of just how much I love photography and what it means to me; it was at that moment I knew it would be a part of me for a long time to come. There weren’t many online resources when I began investing time in learning how to better utilize my camera equipment....
Most of you have probably heard of the name Laowa by now. They were a rather unknown brand up until recently when they made name for themselves in the landscape photography world with the Laowa 12mm f/2.8 wide angle lens that was well received. Laowa (Venus Optics) is a Chinese brand known for their innovative lenses. Laowa is showing support to the Sony E-mount with releasing their 15mm f/2 that was specifically designed for the E-mount making it possible to make it smaller and lighter than the lenses they make for DSLR mounts....
Venus Optics has launched the Laowa 17mm f/4 Zero-D GFX lens, a wide-angle lens for Fujifilm GFX camera system. Announced way back in spring last year, the world’s widest rectilinear lens is finally available for orders. Laowa 17mm f/4 Zero-D GFX is a 13.5mm equivalent ultra-wide-angle prime, offering the 113°ultra-wide angle of view. The new lens is the fourth member of the Laowa’s “Zero-D” product line-up. The “Zero-D” stands for “zero distortion,” as the company promises a close-to-zero optical distortion rate....
If you’ve been making films or videos for any length of time, you quickly figure out how important it is to plan in advance. But for things like run & gun style documentary shooting or vlogs, that can be difficult. Even if you have a rough idea of what the day may entail, you never really know for sure until it happens. You’re often just shooting what you see, then trying to figure out how to tell the story in the edit....
It looks like Leica cameras are seeing another price increase. After already raising the prices earlier this year, some Leica gear has now become even more expensive. As folks at Leica Rumors noticed, the prices of two cameras went up. The Leica Q2 went up by $200 and now costs $5,695. The Leica SL2 went up by $300 and its price is now $6,895. Both of these cameras were already made more expensive in April when Leica increased prices by 2-5%....
It was early in 2014, long enough after the introduction of the Leica M (also known as the ‘Typ 240’, or ‘M10’) when I finally bit the bullet and decided to sell my trusty Leica M-E for this newest, rather different digital rangefinder camera from the German niche camera maker. I always vowed I’d write a thorough review on it, much like I’d done for the Bessaflex TM. I do always feel, however, that a truly great review puts a product through its paces....
Being a freelancer has plenty of perks, but there are inevitable downsides to making freelance photography your only source of income. Photographer Jeff Rojas has been a full-time freelancer for the past five years, and he has learned a lot in the process. In this video, he shares the lessons he’s learned and gives some tips to anyone thinking about switching to freelance work.Advertisements 1. Be persistent Freelancing is not easy: it can be stressful, inconsistent and uncertain....
It was only two weeks ago that Adobe introduced the latest Lightroom update. However, there was one thing they didn’t mention and that many of you may find important. Apparently, Lightroom can now support for Sony ARQ files without you having to convert them to DNG first. Marc Alhadeff of Sony Alpha Blog noticed the update and spread the word. The release notes of Lightroom mentioned Sony A7III support, but there was no word about ARQ files of A7RIII....
The GNARBOX (pronounced narbox) solved a major issue for many: How to work in the field with no laptop. A decent laptop that supports backing up, exporting short bits for social media, handle RAW files and similar tasks, cannot be a weak small laptop. But many times, you don’t actually need a laptop, you just want to backup some files, or post a short shot to social media, and a laptop is too much to carry for that....
It’s getting close to an official announcement now, just a couple of days left to go. As expected, though, pretty much all of the important details of DJI’s upcoming Mavic 3 Classic drone have leaked. We’re also seeing a whole bunch more leaked photos, too. The leaks come via Roland Quandt of Winfuture, and there’s a lot! As expected, it’s pretty much the same as the regular DJI Mavic 3, except with a single camera on the gimbal rather than two....
