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Photographer and educator Elaine Torres has recently been working with the DIGIBEE 800 light by Paul C Buff. With the light, Torres shows us her go-to lighting setup when doing creative portraits. In total, for her lighting she uses a DIGIBEE 800, ALIENBEE 800, 22-inch silver beauty dish and 8.5-inch high output...

Click here to read our Fuji 50mm f/2 Lens Review

 

 

The compact Fuji XF 50mm f/2 WR lens is a nifty little portrait prime for the X Series system. For one thing, it fills a noticeable gap in Fuji's lens lineup: the affordable 50mm (75mm eq.) prime lens. They have zooms that hit this focal length, of course, as...

 

 

When it comes to photographing our four-legged friends, there are a lot of challenges. Unlike shooting a portrait of a person, a dog may be much less cooperative, for example. However, like a person, you often want to photograph a dog in a way that accentuates their character. Photographer Anne Geier is an expert...

 

 

The 70-200mm zoom lens is an all-time classic. It's a highly versatile zoom that's ideal for sports and wildlife subjects as well as portraiture and even landscapes. In Canon's camp, their L-series 70-200mm lenses have proven extremely popular with a wide range of enthusiast- and professional-level photographers.

 

 

DxO has been creating imaging solutions for the past 15 years and despite some recent financial issues and the tumultuous release of the DxO One camera, the reorganized company is now free to turn its focus back to its bread and butter, its photo software. With the release of DxO PhotoLab last year, the company...

 

 

Alongside DxO PhotoLab 1.2, DxO has announced the first release of the newly-branded Nik Collection. After acquiring Nik Collection from Google in 2017, DxO's new plugin suite comes many years after the last update to the popular photo editing software and will finally give users a fully-functional, modern Nik...

Click here to see our Sony RX100 VI Gallery

 

 

Earlier today, Sony debuted the latest generation of their super-popular and super-powerful RX100 series, the Sony RX100 VI. We got hands-on with the camera earlier in the day, but we've now had a chance to shoot with it a bit and prepared a quick sample gallery for...

Update (1pm ET): We've published our Sony RX100 VI Hands-On Preview. 

 

 

Good morning, everyone! We're live in New York City, at Sony's press conference. We'll be live-streaming the event, so check out the embedded video below. We'll also be live-updating this page with product information as we receive it if you...

 

 

For Nikon shooters, there's little as exciting as a new batch of Nikon instant lens rebates. The latest group of discounted lenses comprises seven lenses, six of which are DX lenses. There are some very nice optics on the list, so don't miss your chance to save up to $200 on the featured lenses below. Further, the...

 

 

We have shared behind-the-scenes videos from photographer Irene Rudnyk on multiple occasions and this time, we join her for an outdoors golden hour photoshoot.

While she dabbles with film, this time Rudnyk is using her trusty Canon 5D Mark III with a Canon 85mm f/1.2L prime. Rudnyk's preferred lighting style when...

 

 

In Adorama's On the Road video series, we join photographers Alex Stead and Ryan Field in the Arctic Circle. Specifically, they're in Norway.

We start with Stead and Field visiting a reindeer farm, where Stead shares some pointers on animal photography, including getting to eye level with your subject and trying...

 

 

Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens recently did a very cool photoshoot with the band ArcAttack. ArcAttack utilizes tesla coils in their musical act, giving their shows a distinct and exciting look. To photograph them, their tesla coils also introduce lighting and color challenges.

To help keep things consistent,...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup for this week brings with it good news for Fuji fans who've been patiently waiting on updates for several models since the version 4.0 release for the Fuji X-T2 had to be withdrawn some weeks back. It also offers up news of several major firmware releases from Panasonic, and of new...

 

 

Larger sensors produce images with shallower depth of field, right? Fstoppers states that there's more to it than that. In important ways, depth of field depends on much more than sensor size and maximum aperture, situations such as focal length and focus distance matter as well.

In the video below, Lee Morris of...

 

 

Earlier this month, Aaron of Phlearn held a live Q&A session on YouTube with his co-host Shiree which clocks in at over two hours long. If you click the video below to watch it on YouTube, you can see the description for time stamps. The video is focused on retouching and sharpening images, which is a very broad...

 

 

If you're a professional portrait photographer, you'll likely end up doing corporate headshots at one point or another, perhaps it'll even become your specialty. Corporate headshots come with their own distinct challenges. Your subjects are not always people who enjoy or even want their photos taken, for example,...

Click here to read our Olympus 45mm f/1.2 Pro Lens Review

 

 

First we reviewed the 25mm f/1.2 Pro, then the 17mm f/1.2 Pro, and now we're finishing the f/1.2 trio with our Olympus 45mm f/1.2 Pro lens review! With this trinity of fast primes, Olympus offers serious photographers top-notch image quality, smooth...

 

 

Sony Artisan of Imagery Chris Orwig has another new video for the Sony Alpha Universe YouTube channel, this time focusing on editing portraits in Adobe Lightroom. In the video below, Orwig shows us how to edit a portrait shot from start to finish within Lightroom Classic CC's Develop module.

The shot Orwig edits...

 

 

Along with producing regular behind-the-scenes video content, photographer Adam Gibbs has also been producing videos as part of an ongoing Landscape and Light series. In the video below, we see the third Landscape and Light video, this time covering the very important topic of recognizing great light.

It's one...