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Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is going to be an especially long one, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because we didn't get time to pull together a roundup last week, so we're actually catching up on two weeks' news. But even bigger is that we've just discovered a glitch in our update checking which...

 

 

For even the most casual of sports fans, it is likely not difficult to imagine a defining sports image. Perhaps it's a portrait of a legendary athlete or a defining moment in a championship game. For many of us, sports occupy an important place in our lives and memorable sports images help create a tangible...

 

 

Travel photographer and educator Thomas Heaton has started a new video series on his YouTube channel, A Photographer's View. In the new series, Heaton is going to try reviewing a location from a photographer's perspective.

In the first episode, Heaton is reviewing Landmannalaugar in Iceland. The locations will be...

 

 

Do you want to buy a film camera? You have a lot of options from many different manufacturers and in a new video from The Slanted Lens, we get to see some of those options.

One of their featured options is the Hasselblad 500CM. The mechanical medium-format film camera costs between $1,000 to $1,500. It's not a...

 

 

In 2010, cinematographer and filmmaker Ivo Nörenberg approached Canon with a challenge. He wanted them to make a long telephoto zoom lens which was capable of high-quality 4K video footage in the Super 35mm format. Ivo works on wildlife documentaries and a long zoom lens would be very well-suited to wildlife...

 

 

After announcing the PEN E-PL9 back in February without any information on a North American release, the company has now announced that the E-PL9 will be arriving in North America sooner than you might have imagined.

The compact and lightweight interchangeable lens Micro Four Thirds camera is available in North...

 

 

When working with a studio light or strobe, you will almost always want to modify the light as it comes from the source. There are many ways to modify light, including through softboxes, umbrellas, bouncing it off reflectors and much more.

In the video below, we see Patrick Hall of Fstoppers using a Profoto B1...

 

 

HP has been really ramping up and focusing their PC efforts at creative professionals in the last couple years, and today's announcement continues that trend. Called the ZBook STudio x360, this convertible laptop has the supposed power to tackle "large files" and run multiple applications without lag or delay and...

 

 

If you've ever tried to photograph birds, you know how challenge it can be. It's not only challenging for your camera to acquire focus on such small, fast-moving subjects, but it can be very difficult to even get close enough to your subject to have a chance at a nice image. A very long lens is basically a...

Click here to read Part I of my Fujifilm X-H1 Field Test

 

 

The Fujifilm X-H1 is the newest flagship X Series camera. While there may be some familiar features, such as the 24MP X-Trans CMOS III and X-Processor Pro image processor, there is also a lot that is new, including a more rugged design, new electronic...

 

 

Have you ever seen a photo mosaic and wished you could easily create the same effect? Well, now you can thanks to the new video tutorial from Aaron Nace of Phlearn. In the video below, Nace shows us how to create a photo mosaic using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.

If you'd like to follow along, you can...

 

 

In case you missed it, yesterday Adobe released a large update to their Lightroom ecosystem, including the addition of new "Profiles." The profiles, which include what used to be known as "camera profiles," essentially act as a unified preset system.

The video below from Anthony Morganti does a good job...

 

 

Unmesh Dinda of PiXimperfect wants to help you create sharper photographs. It's been common to sharpen images in Photoshop using high pass layers, but Dinda argues that these are destructive and don't create the best results. Instead, he wants to show us how to smart objects and smart filters within Photoshop to...

 

 

You'll often photographers discuss the benefits of exposing to the right. This is exposing your RAW images such that you push the histogram as far to the right without losing highlight detail as possible. The benefits of this method include getting better image quality and less visible noise. However, what about...

 

 

Jesús Ramirez with the Photoshop Training Channel has created a new video tutorial all about compositing images in Photoshop. It can be quite tricky to create composites, but a little-known trick featured in the video below should help you work faster and more efficiently.

The trick involves "pass through" and...

 

 

Photographer and educator Adam Gibbs often invites us along as he photographs in and around his home base of Vancouver, British Columbia, but in his latest video, we join him in his office as he processes a six-shot panorama.

Not only do we get to learn more about a panorama created from six vertical images --...

 

 

Adobe has released a series of updates to their suite of Lightroom software and Adobe Camera Raw. Let's take the updates one at a time, starting with perhaps the biggest change, the new "Profiles."

Camera Profiles, which have been in Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw, are no more, they've been replaced with...

 

 

Photographer Nigel Danson is currently in Iceland for a landscape photography trip. Unsurprisingly, he has been capturing some very nice images of the picturesque island nation.

He will be vlogging his trip and in the first episode, seen below, Danson has been joined by landscape photographer Mads Peter Iversen....

 

 

One of the big advantages of shooting RAW images is that you can easily change the white balance of your images without any issue during post-processing. In many cases, this may mean trying to make the white balance as accurate as possible. At other times, it may mean that you adjust the white balance in a creative...