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We have a pair of landscape-centric videos to share with you today. They both feature beautiful landscape images, but the two photographers headed out into the field with different approaches. On the one hand, Nigel Danson was ecstatic in England to head out into fresh snow. Inspired by the beautiful conditions, he...

 

 

Fujifilm has announced a new waterproof digital camera, the FinePix XP130. This new camera follows up on last year's XP120 and shares many of the same features, including the same sensor and lens. There are some new features in the XP130, so let's take a look.

The XP130 is the first in the rugged XP series to...

 

 

Professional wildlife photographer Morten Hilmer recently headed to Norway with the intention of doing landscape photography. However, despite the amazing landscapes and great light, it became a challenge to decide which type of photography to focus on when musk oxen wandered into the scene. Landscapes or wildlife?...

 

 

We have quite the variety of content in this edition of Shutter Release. We kick things off with an article about turning your photography hobby into a career. Next, we look at the different cameras and lenses which were used to make the films in this year's Sundance 2018 festival. Finally, we look at a video...

 

 

Adobe has announced the release of Photoshop 19.1 for Mac and Windows. The new software update is highlighted by "Select Subject" functionality. There are many more additions, so let's dig into Photoshop 19.1 and see what's new.

The big new feature is Select Subject. The feature is powered by Adobe Sensei and...

Click here to read my Fujifilm X-E3 Field Test Part II

 

 

In my first Field Test for the Fujifilm X-E3, I looked at the camera primarily with respect to its still imaging capabilities. I also looked at its design, autofocus and performance. The X-E3 also has video chops. I put the 4K-equipped camera's video...

 

 

Last week, Hasselblad announced a new version of their medium format camera that is capable of producing 400 megapixel images. Generally the first reaction to this kind of thing is of course, “oh wow, that’s wild!” But for me, it was a resounding, “Why?” Off and on over the course of digital photography, the...

 

 

Photographers Joe Allam and Elly London are in Lima, Peru along with the MINI team for the Dakar Rally. During some of their downtime, they took their Fujifilm cameras around the streets of Peru.

Joe was armed with a Fujifilm X100F, the company's latest fixed lens rangefinder-style camera. Elly used a Fujifilm...

DJI, a brand that’s become synonymous with drones and high tech camera equipment, has just announced their latest: a 4K drone that’s small enough to fit in a jacket pocket. About the size of the DJI Spark but with more high-end features, the newly-announced Mavic Air comes packed with features like QuickShot...

 

 

Nikon has announced that during December 2017, the company took the number one position for market share and revenue for full-frame interchangeable lens digital cameras in the United States. This is thanks in large part to the new Nikon D850 and the older, but still very capable, Nikon D750 DSLRs.

Compared to...

 

 

Landscape and travel photographer Thomas Heaton has been in the American west lately and his latest expedition has taken him to Death Valley.

While in Death Valley shooting video content for Wex Photo Video, Heaton witnessed a cloud inversion. This spectacular weather phenomenon drastically changed the appearance...

 

 

In this edition of Shutter Release, we will look at some great tips for how to take photos of sand dunes, learn how to work with a single light in the studio and watch a pair of professionals edit images. Let's get to it!

Tips for photographing sand dunes - Photography Life

Sand dunes make for excellent...

 

 

Last year, Sony announced the beefed-up A9 full-frame mirrorless camera, which took aim at flagship DSLRs and catered to professional photographers' needs. The A7-series undoubtedly saw use in the professional space, but compared to cameras like the Canon 1D X II and Nikon D5, the A7 models didn't quite have the...

 

 

Photoshop's clone stamp tool is lauded by some as being an incredibly useful tool for editing your images. Others find it to be clunky and difficult to use. Blake Rudis is in the former camp. He's utilized it as part of many of his video tutorials, which can be found here, but had never made a video just about the...

 

 

Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens has five tips for cleaning and maintaining your photo and video gear. It's the new year and the perfect time to perform routine maintenance and create new organizational habits.

It may seem a bit surprising - although it does make a lot of sense - but Morgan's first maintenance...

 

 

It's been a long time, but Shutter Release has returned. There is a lot of interesting photography content out there and we want to share as much of it as possible with you. Today's mix of content includes a neat Lightroom trick for "turning on the lights" in your images, a tutorial for making a reflection in...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is short and to the point. We have news of new firmware from two companies this week, Fujifilm and Panasonic. Fuji has updated its X-Pro2 and X-E3 cameras with new features, while Panasonic has fixed a problem that could rarely cause system errors on the Varicam 35 and HS...

 

 

We know that Nikon is working on a mirrorless camera. The company has been on record as saying as much for a while now. Nikon Rumors has posted a rumor about specifications for the new so-called Nikon "Z mount" mirrorless lens mount and it has a very short flange distance of only 16 millimeters and a diameter of 49...

 

 

Last week we published our field test of the Panasonic GH5S and lauded its high ISO performance which we still stand by when considering how relatively small the sensor of the camera is. However, in that review we compared the results of video from the GH5S to still images from the A7SII via our previous review...