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When the light doesn’t cooperate, sometimes a great view doesn’t make for a great image
As a photographer who primarily shoots landscapes, I am often faced with beautiful views when out in the field but those excellent vistas do not always make for great images. It can be confusing for non-photographers to see me standing around in a lovely park and not capture any photos, but as seasoned...
How do you balance noise and sharpness when processing high ISO images?
When you are shooting high ISO images, it can often be difficult to balance noise reduction and sharpening during your RAW processing. Adobe Camera Raw offers numerous tools to help you reduce noise and increase sharpness, but how do you use them both together? Blake Rudis of f64 Academy has a new tutorial showing...
Wildlife Dream: Nikon announces new 180-400mm f/4E zoom lens with built-in 1.4x teleconverter
Wildlife and sports photographers with Nikon DSLRs have a new zoom option and it's a pricey one with a lot of advanced technology packed in to its surprisingly compact form factor. Nikon has announced the new AF-S Nikkor 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR super-telephoto zoom lens. The full-frame lens has a built-in...
Introducing Copilot: LaCie co-brands with DJI to release a mobile hard drive solution for actual adventurers
For quite a long time I and many photographers and videographers I know have been clamoring, nay begging, for a mobile backup solution that wouldn't require a computer to operate. When you’re really out there in the bush and trying to create content, especially with a drone, the last thing you want to do is rely on...
The new king of low-light? Video-centric Panasonic GH5S arrives, gets its first real-world field test
Big news, low-light and video fans: The movie-centric Panasonic GH5S just landed, it looks like it could be a contender for the low-light throne and we've already posted our first real-world field test!
The GH5S looks a whole heck of a lot like the GH5 which precedes it, but look closer and you'll see major...
Rokinon releases first autofocus lens for Canon EF mount with new 14mm f/2.8 ultra-wide prime
The fifth autofocus lens in Rokinon's lens lineup is their first for Canon EF-mount. The 14mm f/2.8 AF lens has been designed from the ground up for full-frame Canon EOS DSLR cameras and is weather-sealed. The lens offers an angle of view of 116.6 degrees on a full-frame camera and its autofocus system has been...
Finding local landscape inspiration and defining your landscape photography style
If you hop on Instagram or browse the websites of many famous landscape photographers, you'll find stunning images of sweeping vistas and stunning landscapes. For many of us, we don't live near most of these most popular locations. I'm fortunate that I live near Acadia National Park in Maine, but for most...
Bad Karma: Unable to dethrone DJI, GoPro unceremoniously exits the drone business
It wasn't long ago when it felt like GoPro was the king of the mountain. In the case of their action cameras, I mean that quite literally. The brand itself became nearly synonymous with action cameras, much like people used to refer to nearly all MP3 players as "iPods." Now it is becoming increasingly likely that...
Advanced portrait editing in Photoshop
Photographer Sean Tucker breaks down his entire portrait processing workflow in Photoshop, including retouching skin, dodge and burn, color toning, sharpening, contrast and more.
The tutorial video below does assume a somewhat advanced level of knowledge with Photoshop as Tucker does move rather quickly through...
Tips and tricks for taking control of your Lightroom catalog
As you capture more and more photos, your photo library can become very bloated. If you use Adobe Lightroom, as many of us do, there are a lot of great tools within the software to help keep your photos organized. Photographer Nigel Danson has been featured here on Imaging Resource multiple times for his landscape...
How to edit photos captured in harsh light to recover the most data possible
If you shoot events outside, you'll often have to contend with images captured in bright daylight sun. How do you deal with harsh light? Nathaniel Dodson of tutvid has tips for how to maximizing your dynamic range and edit your photos captured in bright light.
It can be difficult to save shadow and highlight...
DJI announces two new compact gimbals: OSMO Mobile 2 & Ronin-S
DJI is rolling into CES with the announcement of two compact stabilizers, both of which will appeal to the mobile videographer who likes to create without being weighed down with too much equipment. The first is the Osmo Mobile 2, which is a handheld smartphone camera stabilizer, redesigned to support portrait...
Water Torture: Nikon D850 vs Sony A7RIII, Canon 5D Mk IV & Olympus E-M1 II
As we describe in the article announcing our overall winner for the best camera of 2017, it was a difficult choice between the Nikon D850 and Sony A7R III. Both are exceptionally strong cameras, with features that will appeal to different groups of photographers. Given how tough the decision was, we felt that...
Camera of the Year 2017: Best Overall!

After another year in the test lab and out in the field, it's finally time to crown our grand champion Best Overall Camera for 2017, so without further ado, we present our choice for the absolute cream of the crop, with a venerable and stately powerhouse:
Camera of the Year, Best Overall - Nikon D850
...Best Prime Lenses of 2017
It is a proven, scientific fact that the longer one shoots, the more one craves lenses. Camera bodies are important, no doubt about it, but lenses can last a lifetime and separate your imagery from the crowd. They are as important to a photographer as a high-end microphone is to a seasoned audio engineer, and...
Best Zoom Lenses of 2017

From wide-angle to supertelephoto, zoom lenses are all about versatility. Whether you're calmly composing a serene landscape or trying to tackle that tricky wildlife subject, there's likely a zoom lens out there for you. Zoom lenses come in all shapes and sizes, and budget limits large and small.
This year, we saw a variety of new and...
10 Photoshop tricks in under 7 minutes
There is a lot you can do in Photoshop and that means there are near-infinite resources and tutorials to learn more about the powerful photo editing software. If you want the most bang for your buck, so to speak, then tutvid's new tutorial, seen below, is perfect for you.
Nathaniel Dodson runs through 10...
Sony announces 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 APS-C lens, reaffirming commitment to smaller sensor
Sony has announced their 46th lens for E-Mount, the 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS. This kind of "do it all" lens is most commonly found as a kit-like option for new photographers and allows them to try a wide range of focal lengths as they learn the craft. Sony's announcement reaffirms their commitment to APS-C sensors...
Nikon D5 and 600mm f/4 telephoto track and photograph musk oxen in brutally cold Norway
Nature photographer Morten Hilmer recently headed to Norway to track and photograph musk oxen. These beautiful animals make an excellent subject and Hilmer is a very passionate photographer. You really have to be passionate to withstand nearly zero-degree (Fahrenheit) temperatures and cold winds.
In the pair of...
Sharpening portraits in Photoshop using the High Pass Filter
PiXimperfect's Unmesh Dinda has a new tutorial showing us how to sharpen portraits in Photoshop. To ensure that we are all on the same page, Dinda spends the first six or so minutes of the video discussing what sharpness is and how you can quantify the sharpness of a digital image.
Following this, we can look at...