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Brooklyn-based music and portrait photographer Ebru Yildiz recently did a video interview with Feature Shoot in which she discusses what it takes to become a successful music photographer.

Yildiz has been published in a wide variety of magazines and websites, including Pitchfork, NPR, The New York Times, and Spin...

 

 

Leica has announced today the Leica M (Typ 262) digital rangefinder camera, which they're calling 'M in its purest form.'

The Typ 262 is either a streamlined and focused version of the Leica Typ 240 or a lesser version depending on who you ask. The Typ 262 does not have the video, live view, or full menu system...

 

 

By IR Reader Kay Brewer

The Peter Iredale sailing vessel ran ashore October 1906, on the Oregon coast. It was abandoned near Fort Stevens. It had sailed from Santa Cruz, Mexico, bound for Portland, Oregon with 1,000 tons of ballast and a crew of 27, including two stowaways.

The voyage was pretty routine until...

 

 

Photographer, retoucher, and staff writer Dani Diamond at Fstoppers has written a complete guide to retouching portraits in Photoshop for free. You can't beat free! 

The article includes five years of Dani's research for tutorials. He has waded through the vast ocean of articles, guides, and tutorials to bring us...

 

 

Panasonic practically created the ultra-compact interchangeable lens camera segment, a pocket ILC in other words, with the GM1 back in 2013. They followed it up with a more enthusiast-friendly GM5. Now they take many of the design aesthetics and compact size down to their entry-level mirrroless camera with the...

 

 

"Win, lose, or draw, right or wrong, the decision belongs to you…at the shutter, when I click that shutter…there's finality there. If I'm one second late or five seconds late, that's on me," says Joe McNally in an excellent talk he gave at PIX2015 sponsored by Nikon.

During the talk, the professional photographer...

 

 

Canon announced today that they have produced their 80 millionth Electro Optical System (EOS) interchangeable-lens camera. Beyond being an acronym, EOS is also the name of the Greek goddess of the dawn. A new dawn was upon the camera industry when in March of 1987, Canon introduced their first EOS-series camera. 

 

 

Chris Burkard has released a two-part gear review video series. The first part has Chris doing a very thorough discussion of all the essential gear you will need for your standard outdoor photography trip. The second part is more focused on miscellaneous gear that isn't necessarily related to photography, such as...

 

 

Do you crave high resolution in a compact yet full frame camera? How about one that can actually vary the low-pass filter electronically? The full frame, fixed lens Sony RX1R II and its 42.4mp resolution has just touched down in our test lab, and our senior lab technician has barely spoken a word since.

Indeed,...

 

 

For many of us, photography is simply something that we enjoy doing, but for Fernando Krasovitzky, photography saved his life. 

During the December of 2009, Fernando's wife was diagnosed with cancer. After a difficult four-year fight, she passed away in April of 2013. After 10 years together, she was gone and...

 

 

Adapt Network has 7 tips for great outdoor photography that will help take your outdoor photography to the next level and ensure that you take images that capture nature the way you remember seeing it.

Firstly, composition is key. Neville Elder, a guest writer at Adapt, says to not "point and shoot." Although you...

 

 

You may recall seeing this video on our site a couple of weeks ago. Mathieu Stern, the French photographer behind that cool video, is back with the next installment in his Weird Lens Challenge series.

This new episode has Stern taking the Russian-made Jupiter-9 85mm f/2 lens attached to Stern's Sony A7 II via an...

 

 

In what has to qualify as one of the most cryptic press announcements we've seen in recent memory, Nikon just announced the "development" of the D5 DSLR, along with a new SB-5000 flagship Speedlight, and a new Wireless Transmitter, the WT-6.

Here's the whole text of the release, apart from an introductory...

 

 

For those of you who were upset with Adobe for simplifying their import interface in Lightroom 6.2, Adobe has released a new update today that brings back the old import interface.

While the new import dialog looked really nice and had a simple, clean appearance, users had been reporting many performance issues...

 

 

Though it took awhile to get our hands on the new Panasonic GX8, we've now had a chance to send it up to our intrepid reviewer Jeremy Gray for an in-depth Field Test. Sporting a similar, yet beefier, rangefinder-style body design as its GX7 predecessor, the GX8 offers a number of technical upgrades, from a higher...

 

 

StyleMyPic has made a video demonstrating how to capture professional-looking portraits using just an iPhone 6s (although the video applies to most recent smartphones, as many of them have cameras of similar-quality to the iPhone 6s).

Using only a tripod and four compact fluorescent (CFL) 65 watt bulbs inside of...

 

 

Portrait photographers know how challenging it can be to get sharp portraits. You have to consider a lot of aspects of an image in addition to sharpness, but some of these considerations are actually related to sharpness. Dzvonko Petrovski wrote an article, The 8 Immutable Laws of Sharp Portrait Photographs, that...

 

 

Light Stalking published an article earlier this year about photo projects. Author Dzvonko Petrovski says that "photo stories and photo projects are extremely helpful in acquiring experience and credibility for yourself as a photographer."

Photo stories and photo projects are interchangeable as terms, but what...

 

 

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

It's fall here in the northern hemisphere, and at our house that means lots of outdoor fires. Kids love them, and adults become kids around them, so I try and get one going as often as the weather allows on the weekends.

The perfect time for me is...