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You don't need a lot of fancy lights to capture great, well-lit portrait shots. In fact, oftentimes you can utilize natural light and capture excellent results. But what about around sunset when you want to shoot against the late-day sky? Achieving good results when only using natural light is very difficult with...

 

 

Australian filmmaker Keith Loutit received considerable attention for his series of timelapse videos, "Bathtub," which can be seen here. His work focused on using miniaturization to make large-scale objects appear like mere toys.

Now based in Singapore, Loutit created "The Lion City" three years ago. Utilizing a...

 

 

Shenzen Dongzheng Optics (DZoptics) recently announced their first lens, the manual focus Kerlee 35mm f/1.2. This full frame SLR optic will be available for Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K and Sony FE mounts when it releases.

 

 

According to DZoptics,...

 

 

Blake Rudis of f.64 Academy offers an interesting way to reduce noise in Photoshop. Noise reduction in Photoshop is often a step that you want to fine-tune and selectively apply to an image. If you have a detailed image, you don't necessarily want to reduce noise across the entire image but perhaps just to softer,...

 

 

Adventure photographer Chris Burkard has a stunning portfolio of work that covers a wide range of personal and commercial projects. Having taken one of his online workshops through Creative Live, I also know that he is willing to share plenty of tips and tricks for helping other photographers improve their own...

 

 

Another month, and yet another magnificent group of photographs winning awards and prizes in our contest. Unlike some previous months, there's no clear central theme to our award-winning images for May, just photographic excellence and an obvious dedication to the craft by all five photographers we have the...

 

 

Accomplished photographer Lou Jones has been working on a long term project to create a repository of images that show what he believes is the true Africa. His portrayal of Africa often does not align with the imagery of the continent found in western Media.

The panAFRICAproject team has been making images of...

 

 

In a new video photographer Matthew Saville of SLR Lounge asks, "Can UV filters actually ruin your images?" Ultraviolet or UV filters -- sometimes referred to as clear or skylight filters -- are typically used to protect the front element of your lens. It has been an oft-held belief that they reduce overall image...

 

 

Wake up with IR! Here's today's cup of Caffeine Prioirity...

This past January, Hilltop Paper became the exclusive supplier in the United States and Canada of the German-made Sihl Masterclass paper. I have been sent sample packs of this new inkjet media to try out and I've come away impressed. The sample...

 

 

This week's Firmware Friday is one of our biggest roundups in recent memory, and that's almost entirely down to the folks at Fujifilm, who've developed quite a reputation for regularly updating their cameras post-launch. As well as a whopping 18 camera and lens firmware releases from Fuji, we also have news...

 

 

I'm admittedly a sucker for infrared photography and video. Filmmaker Philip Bloom took an infrared-modified Sony RX100 IV with him to Las Vegas and recorded a cool slow-motion video.

With a 665 nanometer filter attached to the modified RX100 IV, Bloom recorded a series of 250 frames per second bursts and...

 

 

If someone tells you that they set up a camera trap in the rainforest to capture a photo of a jaguar, only to come back and find their gear destroyed, what would you guess was the culprit? The jaguar, perhaps, or maybe rain. Well, if you guessed the latter you'd at least be partially right.

After setting up a...

 

 

The full-featured APS-C Nikon D500 has arrived. I was able to put the D500 through its paces and came away impressed. Its notable features include a new autofocus system that includes 153 AF points and the ability to continuously shoot up to 200 RAW frames at 10 frames per second. Paired with a new 20.9-megapixel...

 

 

Waterproof fans listen up: The summer is here in the northern hemisphere, and with it comes the usual sun, fun and water activities. We've finally received a full production Olympus TG-870 sample, and have now run it through an initial lab run and captured our lab test First Shots.

For anyone new to our site,...

 

 

Think Tank has released a purpose-built backpack for carrying a DJI Inspire (or similarly-sized) quadcopter which they are calling the "most well thought-out, comfortable, and protective backpack" available for the Inspire.

Product information states that the Helipak holds a DJI Inspire (with gimbal and rotors...

 

 

Adobe has today updated its core imaging apps, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. Depending upon whether you prefer the perpetually-licensed or subscription variants, Lightroom is now up to versions 6.6 or CC2015.6, and includes a new "Guided Upright" feature and camera support. Adobe Camera Raw 9.6...

 

 

For a while now, there's been a tradition around Pentax DSLR launches. As each new model lands, the Pentaxian faithful have taken a little while to absorb all the details, and then a vigorous debate has kicked off about its video feature set. With the launch of the Pentax K-70 today, perhaps that debate has...

 

 

Are you trying to branch out from still photography, but finding that your videos seem to lack a little something? Or perhaps you've been hesitant to get into video capture in the first place, and aren't really sure where to start. Either way, you might find a just-published short from the folks at B&H Photo...

 

 

Picture this: You've just brought home your brand new Canon 5DS R and you're looking forward to putting its high-resolution power to the test out in the beautiful, but harsh, wilderness. At the back of your mind, though, your camera's minty-fresh newness leads you to baby it, perhaps passing up some photo...