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Photographer Elaine Torres wants to show us five ways to utilize color gels inside of a studio setting. She uses lights with color gels to accomplish five primary tasks during shooting, including using them as a main light, as a mixed main light, to color her background, as props and as a kicker light.

If you...

 

 

As evidenced by the sheer number of awesome photos and videos captured there, Iceland is one of the most picturesque places on earth. The northern island nation has black volcanic ash, towering waterfalls and much more that attracts millions of tourists every year.

Henry Jun Wah Lee of Evosia Studios visited...

 

 

Earlier today, Macphun (soon to be known as Skylum Software) announced Luminar 2018. The powerful photo editing application for Mac and Windows comes with many new features, including a new RAW processing engine.

Professional photographer and educator Serge Ramelli has gone hands-on with the new software and has...

 

 

The full-frame Leica Q (Typ 116) has a 24.2-megapixel full-frame sensor with a built-in fixed focal length Leica Summilux 28mm f/1.7 ASPH lens. The camera typically comes with a black finish, but Leica has just announced a new silver anodized edition of the camera.

The aluminum and magnesium alloy body has a...

 

 

Nature photographer James Shooter has made drones an important part of his photography arsenal. In the video below, which comes to us from NatureTTL, Shooter provides six tips to help photographers capture better drone photos.

Shooter's first tip is to be aware of the weather. Drones don't like the rain. Wind is...

 

 

Macphun, which will soon be known as Skylum Software, has announced Luminar 2018.

The all-in-one RAW editor includes artificial intelligence-powered filters, major speed improvements, a dedicated RAW develop module and in 2018, a new digital asset management platform. The software also includes a new intelligent...

Click here to read my Fujifilm GF 23mm f/4 R LM WR Field Test

 

 

As the widest lens in the Fujifilm GF lens lineup, the Fujinon GF 23mm f/4 R LM WR is an important optic for landscape photographers, in particular. In my hands-on time with the lens, the 18mm-equivalent prime has impressed greatly. Its 99.9-degree...

Click here to read our Canon 6D Mark II Review Conclusion

 

 

The Canon 6D Mark II was a long time coming, and we have just wrapped our review of Canon's latest full-frame DSLR camera. Is the Canon 6D II everything fans have been hoping for?

That depends. As you can see in our Print Quality Analysis, the 6D II...

 

 

In October of 2012, I became the editor for IR's Photo of the Day contest, and one of the first things I noticed was that Canon and Nikon DSLRs dominated the competition as the primary imaging tools for the most successful prize-winning photographers. As mirrorless camera offerings continued to grow in popularity...

 

 

Photographer Thomas Heaton has published a new video, seen below, about perfection. "We have this thing where everything has to be perfect," Heaton says, we are generally obsessed with tack sharp images, perfect exposures, no noise, sharp corners of the frame, perfect color balance, everything has to be perfect,...

 

 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week is all about medium format. All three cameras receiving new firmware in the last seven days are medium-format models from Hasselblad, including the X1D-50c, H6D-50c and H6D-100c. And interestingly, the X1D and H6D-series cameras' new firmware are quite different from each...

 

 

Since 2011, Macphun has been developing software for Mac computers. Their first software, FX Photo Studio Pro, was launched on Mac App Store and the developer continued to make more products, many of which have won awards from Apple themselves.

Earlier this year, Macphun started developing software for Windows as...

 

 

Photo critiques are an important part of the learning process for photographers of all skill levels, from beginners to longtime professionals. No matter who you are, you can always find ways to improve. On his show, "The Grid," Scott Kelby invited his brother Jeff Kelby onto the show to do photo critiques of...

 

 

It seems like we haven't heard a lot about new Pentax K-mount lenses lately, but Ricoh has updated their K-mount lens roadmaps for their general K-mount lineup and also their full-frame lineup.

Pentax APS-C camera owners have a new HD Pentax-DA 11-18mm f/2.8 lens to look forward to in the summer of 2018. On the...

 

 

Instagram isn't just for photos of food and cats thanks in part to accounts like the GettyFlashback page. GettyFlashback is an account dedicated to sharing rare old photos from Getty's massive archive of images. The images come with informative captions, which makes perusing through their past posts an educational...

 

 

Last month, Tamron announced the development of their new 100-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD lens, but did not disclose pricing or availability information at that time. At this year's PhotoPlus Expo, Tamron announced that the "lightest lens in its class" will be available on November 16 for US$799 in full-frame Canon...

 

 

Does it feel like a Hasselblad X1D day here at Imaging Resource? Earlier we shared the video from Hasselblad Chief of Strategy Ming Thein and his X1D experience in Iceland. Now we have news from DxOMark, who have reviewed the X1D sensor. 

As a "cropped" medium format sensor, the sensor found in the X1D-50C (and...

 

 

While we have plenty of sample images from the new Sony A7R III for you to peruse in our Gallery, Sony has also been publishing some very neat videos about the new camera.

Below we have shared a pair of Sony A7R III videos from time lapse professional Drew Geraci and adventure photographer Chris Burkard...

 

 

The Sony A7R III on paper appears to do some seriously impressive stuff. Packing 10 frames per second into a high-resolution 42-megapixel sensor is extremely unique, and add to that a fully revamped autofocusing system and you have yourself a camera that appears to be capable of more than any other camera it could...