If you’ve been shooting the popular BMPCC4K you know that that BRAW is a great codec. It is very light on the computer on one hand, and preserve a lot of information on the other hand. It was natively supported in DaVinci Resolve, but you had to to get a $25 third-party plugin to run it in Premiere. Today Black Magic released an official FREE plugin that supports both Premiere and Avid....
The Nikon Z5 was recently announced, and it seems like a pretty impressive entry-level mirrorless camera. If you’d like to get one, you can also use the chance and get rid of your old camera. Nikon is now offering a deal that lets you trade in any working camera for a brand new Z5. This isn’t the first time Nikon has had an offer like this. In fact, there are a few more deals available at the moment which let you trade in an old camera for a Nikon Z50, Z6, and Z7....
Although facial recognition technology uses artificial intelligence, it’s not always very intelligent. The Government’s facial detection system recently rejected a perfectly appropriate passport photo of a young black man because it thought his mouth was open. I believe most of us have submitted an image to have our passport made. You know how it goes: you’re supposed to have a plain expression, looking straight at the camera with your mouth closed and without a smile....
Ever since the GoPro Hero7 leaked online, the emphasis was on the new and improved stabilization. Then, the company promised “hypersmooth” and “gimbal-like stabilization” when the camera was announced. To show off the capabilities of the new Hero 7, GoPro strapped the camera to an eagle and let it fly over a soccer field. And apparently, they weren’t joking when they said that “shaky video is dead.” In the minute-long video, you can see for yourself how the improved stabilization in the Hero 7 works....
With the gift-giving season upon us, a lot of people are bound to be getting new drones in the not-too-distant future. Many of these drones will be received by people who’ve never flown a drone before. Quite a few of them may not still have a working drone by the end of the day. So it’s good to get yourself a little educated first, before you kill your shiny new, potentially expensive, toy....
The bedroom is one of the most personal spaces in a house, hotel or any other kind of building. It’s a place where my imagination can go wild. When I stand in an abandoned bedroom I’d like to think ‘what happened here?’. People used to sleep here, been intimate with each other, had discussions and laughter etc. Sometimes even personal belongings have been left behind as you can see in the pictures, for whatever reason....
We’ve had cameras and lenses so far in our 2019 seasonal gift guides, so this time we’re turning towards lighting. Whether you shoot photography or video, you need it. And when the natural light isn’t giving you what you need, you need flash or good continuous lights. There is a wide range of flash and continuous lighting available these days, and here are some of our favourites. The Godox AD400 Pro instantly became my favourite new strobe after taking it for its first day out....
GorillaPod is a handy tool for photographers, and pretty popular among the vloggers. But, you can use it in many different ways when shooting video. It can help you mock a slider, a camera rig and even a drone (sort of). Jordy Vandeput of Cinecom.net shares five tricks you can pull off using just the GorillaPod. Although they’re mainly aimed at filming, photographers can use some of them as well....
Another one to not hang about, 500px are also jumping onto iOS10’s new raw shooting capabilities. Not only do they want you to shoot and edit with raw on your iPhone, but they want you to sell from it, too. It’s an interesting app, and one I’m curious to see how well it will take off. The new raw capabilities of iOS10 are great. Are enough people going to be shooting to sell with their iPhones, though?...
So, you’re into photography, and you’d like to start shooting videos, too. You already know your DSLR or mirrorless camera as a photographer, and it is certainly a good start. But there are plenty of new things to pay attention to, as well as the old ones that you’ll need to do differently. In this video, Mango Street teamed up with White in Revery to give you six important tips if you plan to start filmmaking....
As a professional photographer, entering a photo contest can be a big decision. Entries often cost money (which you could be using on new gear or workshops) and it’s important to also consider things like the submission rights for the contest, jury makeup and prizes before moving forward. Once you’ve found a contest you want to pursue, the next question to answer is how you can stand out from the hundreds, if not thousands, of other entries....
Photojournalists covering wars are exposed to life-threatening situations every day. Sadly, many of them have lost limbs and even lives while doing their job. This fantastic video from CBS Sunday Morning gives you a look into the lives and legacy of war photographers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWfyqRdpHc The video reflects on life, work and legacy of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who lost their lives in 2011 while covering a war in Libya....
Lightning is one of those that subjects many of us have tried to photograph at some point or another if we live in an area where it happens. It’s one of those topics that seems almost too well documented. There’s a million different methods and techniques to try and figuring out which one works the best can only be discovered by actually giving it a go. Professor Ningyu Liu at the Florida Institute of Technology’s Geospace Physics Laboratory has taken things a little further by capturing a recent lightning storm at 7,000 frames per second, showing the majestic beauty of lightning as it steers towards the earth....
We have heard of many accidents that occurred because of a selfie. Sadly, another one happened on Wednesday when an Israeli hiker was found dead in Yosemite National Park. Reportedly, the young man fell to his death while trying to take a photo of himself. Times of Israel writes that the 18-year-old Tomer Frankfurter was on a two-month trip to the U.S. According to the boy’s mother, the authorities told her that he tried to take a selfie in Yosemite National Park....
When a country or region is associated with war and conflicts, it’s difficult to change the public opinion. But a young photographer Magomed Shapiev is fighting a different battle from those fought in his homeland. he comes from the Dagestan region in Russia. This part of the country has been a scene of outbreaks and conflicts since the 1990s. But thanks to Magomed’s amazing photos, he is emphasizing the stunning beauty of this region rather than its political situation....
Today, Adobe quietly launched an update to its Photoshop Mix and Fix iOS apps. Along with the updates come a collection of new features and tools to help streamline mobile photography workflows.Advertisements One of the biggest issues with a mobile workflow is the lack of usable storage. To help combat this, Adobe has updated both its Fix and Mix apps so the apps will intelligently manage the amount of space projects take up on a device....
Earlier this month, the news that Premiere Pro was blowing speakers in MacBook Pro computers, to the tune of a $600 Apple repair (what?!?) escaped the Adobe forums and became common knowledge. The bug would cause users to suddenly hear loud or distorted audio, often while working on a video’s audio tracks. But this wasn’t just a “reload Premiere Pro and it’s fine again” problem. It caused permanent damage. Adobe was aware of the problem and the initial solution was to simply disable the microphone input in Premiere Pro....
Advertisements Why does this work? Well from my understanding this works based on the ideology of imitating the atmosphere in real life where pollution, particles, water etc etc all get in the way over a long distance and create this “fading out” effect. So what if you don’t shoot landscapes? How does this appeal to those of us in the portrait or conceptual / fine art / composite world? Let’s take a quick look at this picture:...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Russia attacked Ukraine in February. What does it have to do with Skylum and Luminar NEO, you may wonder? Well, Skylum is a Ukraine-based company. And in spite of everything, they’ve managed to update the recently announced Luminar NEO and add some awesome new features. The new Luminar NEO 1.0.2 update is available now, and Skylum notes that their team has worked extra hard to deliver it to their users....
PurplePort, a website connecting photographers to models, has decided to ban machine-generated images. While sites like Flickr are embracing the new technologies, PurplePort considers them “deceitful” and as something that “doesn’t help the community.” It doesn’t matter which service or machine learning algorithms you use to create your images: Midjourney, DALL-E, Craiyon, Stable Diffusion, or anything else. If you upload them on PurplePort, they will be removed. The site notes that they’re banned “until further notice,” and they even invite the community to report such images....
