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If you're traveling or out in the field, that doesn't mean you can't be productive with your RAW processing. You can get started on your phone or tablet and then be able to seamlessly continue working on your files as soon as you get back home. There are multiple ways to do this and Ted Forbes shows us a very...

 

 

Wildlife and nature photographer Morten Hilmer often gets asked what the best lens is for wildlife photography. It makes sense to say something like a 600mm f/4 lens, right? After all, it's the go-to lens for many professional photographers. However, others opt for the lighter 500mm f/4 and many more still opt for...

 

 

Our CP+ 2018 interview series continues this week with a visit to the booth of electronics and imaging giant Ricoh. The company recently launched its second full-frame digital camera, the Pentax K-1 Mark II, and also launched a upgrade program the likes of which we've never seen in the industry before,...

 

 

Large-format film photographer Christopher Burkett was born in 1951 and has been photographing since 1975. In 1979, he began to pursue photography full-time and since then, he has continued working with film while photographing diverse American landscapes. Today, he almost exclusively photographs using 8 x 10"...

 

 

It's not always easy to get motivated to go out shooting. To help fire you up to capture shots, Chelsea Northrup has published a new video featuring five tricks to help inspire you.

She kicks off with the idea that you should find a muse. It doesn't have to be something complex or innovative, it just has to allow...

 

 

Photography is all about light. No matter what kind of photography you do, light is of central importance. Learning how to recognize, utilize and create good light (and shadows) is a critical skill.

Photographer Sean Tucker has started a new video series on his YouTube channel about good light. If you capture...

 

 

Are you a landscape photographer? If so, you almost certainly have a wide angle lens in your photography kit. Photographer Thomas Heaton says you can go ahead and throw that away. Okay, so he doesn't actually want you to throw away that wide angle optic. However, he does want to show us how you can use long lenses...

 

 

For photographers who carry around a lot of heavy gear in a backpack, which I think is many of us, then you might have first-hand experience with neck and back pain. While modern bags are very well-designed, it's still the case that some users may experience back and neck tension after wearing heavy backpacks for...

 

 

Leigh Diprose from the Fuji Guys recently spoke with motorsport photographer Andrew Hall. Hall has started using the new Fujifilm X-H1 for his motorsports work and Leigh chats with him about that, but also discusses Hall's long career in photography and how he got his start.

Hall has been working in motorsport...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup is back to its regularly weekly schedule, and this week we bring news of a huge raft of firmware upgrades from Fujifilm. Although a couple are already here, the bulk are set to ship in the next six weeks or so. And we also have news of a couple of updates for Sigma's Foveon...

 

 

Jesús Ramirez with the Photoshop Training Channel has a new video to help you make your colors pop using Photoshop. In the video below, he covers five methods and techniques you can use to bring the most out of your color photographs inside of Adobe Photoshop. The techniques vary from incredibly simple to slightly...

 

 

Continuing their popular BackLight series of photo backpacks, MindShift Gear has announced the release of a new 18-liter version of the BackLight rear-panel backpack.

The BackLight backpack has been designed such that photographers can spin it around to their front and access the main compartment of the bag...

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When was the last time you really reveled at the image-making prowess of your cell phone? I mean not with the "this is good for a cell phone" mentality, but really looked at the images produced and thought "wow, this looks like my full size camera." Maybe it...

 

 

In the 61st annual World Press Photo Contest, Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt took home the grand prize for his image Venezuela Crisis, which is seen below. The World Press Photo Foundation also held its 8th annual World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest, with nominated photographers being invited...

 

 

Skylum Software, formerly known as Macphun, has released a large update to their Luminar photo editing software, dubbed Luminar Jupiter.

The award-winning photo editor promises increased performance on both Mac and Windows, with the update offering up to 12x and 5x faster performance respectively. Further, the...

 

 

Fujifilm has introduced the longest medium-format GF lens to date, the Fujinon GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR. The lens is also the second GF lens to incorporate optical image stabilization (OIS), joining the 120mm f/4 Macro lens. When paired with the GFX, the 250mm f/4 delivers a 35mm-equivalent focal length of just...

 

 

Whenever you get a new camera, or even if you have been using the same one for a while, it's very important to understand the limits of your camera, particularly with respect to ISO and dynamic range. There's no hard limit for what counts as the highest ISO you can use while still producing good images because each...

 

 

Supposing that you don't have access to a light meter, it's inevitable that you'll miss some exposures on occasion. If you blow your photo out, it's possible that you can't recover the highlight data. If you underexpose an image, you have a better chance at recovering the important visual information. How can you...

 

 

In an ongoing video series titled One Photograph | Location to Lightroom, Thomas Heaton takes us behind the scenes as he captures and processes a single photograph. He also shares insight into why he composed the scene the way he did, what the photo means to him and how he uses his Lightroom processing skills to...