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A couple weeks ago, we covered how to change a gray portrait background to any color you wanted in Photoshop. But what if you want to get a certain color during capture? Photographer and Fstoppers staff writer Jeff Carpenter of Readylight Media has created a tutorial showing how to use colored gels on background...

 

 

We have covered Marc Silber’s videos on numerous occasions, including his interview with Ansel Adams’ son, Michael, and this interview with Chris Burkard.

Marc has interviewed many other professional photographers and has compiled their lessons learned over thousands of hours of interviews along with his own...

 

 

Once you figure out how to achieve the results you desire in Photoshop, it can be easy to ignore rarely-used tools and features of the powerful software. Perhaps there are many tools in Photoshop you simply have never used, either because they are too complicated or it felt unnecessary.

For some users, blend...

 

 

In early March of this year (that's 2017, for those of you reading this in the future), I and a small group of other members of the photo press had the opportunity to tour Sony's massive camera and lens production facility in Chonburi, Thailand. It's an impressive place. The photos and color commentary below tell...

 

 

Chinese-Malaysian photographer CY Wong recently did a promotional shoot for Huawei and their new P10 phone which is coengineered with Leica. You can read our coverage of the first Huawei/Leica collaboration, the P9, here. The P10 puts a focus on its imaging capabilities, with its marketing materials claiming to...

 

 

Our regular Firmware Friday roundup is a little unusual this week, as it includes not just official firmware from the manufacturers themselves, but also news of a couple of third-party firmware hacks. (As always with these unofficial updates, you run the risk of bricking your camera and turning it into a...

Click here to read our Panasonic GH5 Field Test Part II

 

 

The GH5, as the GH4 and GH3 before it, is and always was expected to be a video camera. It's a capable photo camera, but the real reason most will seek and eventually purchase the Panasonic flagship is for its lauded video capability. To see how the GH5...

 

 

Last autumn, Adobe announced Sensei, which is a framework of intelligent services designed to enhance digital experiences. One of the intelligent services that has emerged from Sensei is face aware editing.

The Adobe Research team is exploring what Adobe Sensei and face awareness might mean for the future of...

 

 

If someone told you that Canon was getting into the drone business, you might reasonably expect that they would be trying to tap into the massive consumer market. But no, Canon’s first drone is a search and rescue drone designed around the company’s impressive ME20F-SH camera, which can record video at up to ISO...

 

 

In the spring of 2015, Zeiss introduced the new Batis line of lenses for Sony’s FE mount. This line, another instance of collaborating with Sony, are full-frame autofocus lenses, the first such lenses Zeiss has made for Sony E-mount cameras. They are also unique in that they don’t include a mechanical focus...

 

 

Thanks to a series of dubious business decisions, for photographers, 500px is no longer the household name it once was. From their failed attempts at a mobile app, to this weird thing, to their extremely unpopular moves in China, 500px has been doing their best to monetize their service in ways that have not...

Click here to read our Fuji GFX Field Test

 

 

When Fujifilm announced the Fuji GFX, landscape photographers were excited by the prospect of a mirrorless camera that could deliver medium-format image quality in a camera body no bigger than a full-frame DSLR camera. I have been working with the Fuji GFX and GF...

 

 

Rounding out our interview series from the CP+ 2017 tradeshow in Yokohama, Japan, Imaging Resource founder and publisher Dave Etchells recently met with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki to discuss the company's impressive lens lineup.

Topics covered in our Sigma interview include the challenges the company faced in...

Click to read our Canon SX730 HS Preview

 

 

Canon released the PowerShot SX720 HS last year, a highly pocketable camera that paired a 24-960mm-equivalent lens with a 20.3-megapixel sensor. Canon has announced its successor, the PowerShot SX730 HS, which shares many features with its predecessor but adds a few new...

 

 

Shutterbug and photographer Jordan Matter have started a new collaborative video series in which Matter, a New York Times best-selling author and photographer, will share tips and tricks for fellow photographers. The series is cleverly titled “Tips that Matter.” The first video in the new series has been released...

 

 

MacOS photo editor Picktorial launched in early 2016 before being updated to version 2 that summer. The affordable and powerful RAW editor has now reached a new milestone, version 3. For owners of the first two versions, the new update is totally free, by the way.

What’s new with Picktorial version 3? The major...

 

 

We have all seen software and filters that can make your photographs look more like paintings, but what about going in the opposite direction? Researchers at UC Berkley have developed an AI which does image-to-image translation. They can transfer paintings into what looks like a photograph and vice versa. The team...

 

 

Cameras have the ability to capture scenes exactly as they are, but they are also powerful tools in the hands of creative individuals, allowing viewers to be transported into new worlds. Photographers Vatsal Kataria and Mitchel Wu both use small toys and props and clever angles to bring miniature worlds to life in...

 

 

Back in February, Surface Magazine looked at how legendary Germany camera manufacturer Leica makes their cameras by going behind the scenes with the new Leica M10.

As you can see in the video below, Leica’s German headquarters looks like a cross between a museum of past Leica cameras and a futuristic laboratory....