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In late October, Marco Grob photographed the actors from the new Star Wars film, Star Wars The Force Awakens for TIME Magazine.

Grob photographed the main The Force Awakens actors, including veterans Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill from the original Star Wars trilogy and newcomers Daisy Ridley and...

 

 

Didn't find what you were looking for on Black Friday or Cyber Monday? In that case, B&H has your back and continues on with more holiday deals with a new 13-day-long promotion each with a selection of one-day-only deals. Today is the start of their 13 days of deals, with bunch of lens and flash deals. From...

 

 

Available in a wide variety of paper and sizes, Red River Paper offers affordable greeting card options that make great prints, perfect for the holiday season.

Red River Paper sent me a greeting card sample kit to test out, and their paper impressed me a lot. Available in 7" x 10", 6.25" x 9", 5.5" x 8.5", 6" x...

 

 

The New York-based Seeing With Photography Collective brings together both visually impaired and sighted photographers, who collaborate to create beautiful, unique works of photographic art. In addition to holding numerous exhibitions around the world, it also published a book titled Shooting Blind: Photographs by...

 

 

Jim Hamel has written an article for Digital Photography School that provides 6 Tips for Using ISO Effectively With Your Camera. 

With ISO being called the third corner of the exposure triangle, Hamel wonders if it really was that integral in the film days, because after all, changing your ISO meant literally...

 

 

Travel photographer Kav Dadfar has written a guide about his travel photography workflow, covering his complete workflow from when he arrives at a destination.

In his On the Road section of the guide, Kav discusses his first steps when arriving somewhere. He unpacks his camera equipment, looks at his shot list...

 

 

Wake up with IR! Here's today's dose of Caffeine Priority...

We're pleased to bring you our first guest posting in this column by our reader Stephen Barlow from the UK! If you've yet to read our part I "Who needs a telescope" post and would like to start there, please do. For everyone else, please read on!

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Little by little Olympus adds to their impressive "Zuiko Pro" line of high-end lenses, this time around with an ultra-wide and bright 7-14mm f/2.8 Zuiko Pro lens. Announced as a development project all the way back in February 2014, the 7-14mm lens just now made its way into customers hands this past summer. And,...

 

 

Tyler Sichelski of Lonely Speck has created a helpful video tutorial for removing coma aberration from night sky images in Photoshop.

Comatic, or coma, aberration is when point light sources become distorted and take on a comet-like shape. Coma aberration is most common at the edge of the frame at and near a...

 

 

Photojournalist Don McCullin, whose career has spanned over 50 years and has seen him receive numerous honors, said in an interview with The Guardian that digital photography cannot be trusted and that photography is being ruined by the art world.

"…Digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience,...

 

 

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For just a little over $500 you can acquire a Canon Rebel T5 and a Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM lens, and for the price this really is some firepower. The Rebel line is what you'd have to call "tried and true," having been around for many years and steadily...

 

 

By IR Reader Karen Celella

As photographers, we are on a quest to capture the moments. But sometimes the moment captures us! This happened to me in Iceland. It was near the end of the trip and after many cloudy nights and some rainy days our hope for seeing the aurora was fading.

Then as usual, each time I woke...

 

 

New Zealand-based photographer Mark Gee has created an excellent tutorial on how to set up a motion star timelapse using the Syrp Genie. Gee also uses a Syrp Magic Carpet slider. While he discusses setting up his Syrp gear, much of his tutorial offers tips that apply to astrophotography in general.

Using a Canon...

 

 

Portrait, commercial, and event photographer Olly Stabler has written an article for Digital Photography School, 8 Creative Ways to Make Money with Your Photography. Stabler has great tips on how to branch out and increase your sources of revenue as a photographer.

Stabler's first tip is to shoot microstock....

 

 

Transcend Information has recently released new microSD cards to its industrial-grade line of Wide Temperature memory cards.

The Wide Temperature lineup of memory cards are designed for use in demanding conditions and are rated to work effectively from -40 to 85 degrees Celsius. The microSD cards are SD...

We hope everyone enjoyed a nice Turkey Day, and if you perhaps didn't quite find what you were looking for on Black Friday, Cyber Monday is just around the corner here. As with Black Friday, we're compiling our favorite Cyber Monday camera deals of 2015. Get started with our favorite deals and savings below, but be sure to check this page...

 

 

In an article, Eight reasons digital photographers should try film, photographer Stephen Dowling discusses the advantages that film has over digital photography. He is clear, however, that this article is not about fueling the fire that rages between film and digital devotees. Dowling's article serves to show those...

 

 

Commlite has introduced a Nikon F-mount to Sony E-mount autofocus adapter. Available on eBay for $329 USD, it's set to begin shipping in mid-December. The adapter is quite small, weighing in at only 250 grams and it even has a 1/4" hole for tripod support.

This new adapter is compatible with Sony's NEX-5N/5R/5T,...

 

 

British camera operator/editor Cal Thomson has made a video tutorial on how to shoot and edit day-to-night time-lapse videos.

Thomson uses a DSLR, but the editing techniques that Thomson covers in the video will apply to time-lapse videos shot with most any camera. You'll also need a tripod and an intervalometer....