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Ted Forbes of The Art of Photography is back again. This time he’s here to address an important question every photographer will come across at one point in their career; ‘How Do I Say No?’

Long after contracts have been signed and a price agreed upon, there are times when clients try to demand more than initially agreed upon. It’s at those...

Imagine a camera that could never overexpose an photograph. Now stop imagining and get ready, because a team of researchers at MIT believe they have developed a new technology that will ensure an image is never over-exposed.

In a paper presented earlier this year at the International Conference on Computational Photography, the MIT Media Lab...

 

 

Reviewer Eamon Hickey's been spending some quality time with Fujifilm's latest entry-level X-series camera, the updated X-A2. He's brought back his Part I installment of his detailed X-A2 Field Test, and so far, he seems quite smitten with the compact ILC. 

In his Part I report, Eamon walks us through his...

 

 

When the Nikon P600 was unveiled in early 2014, it sported the farthest-reaching available zoom length at that time for a fixed lens camera at 1440mm (in 35mm terms). It also ended up taking top honors in our Best Superzoom of 2014 competition. So when Nikon announced the P900 in early 2015, promising a whopping...

No matter how you’re lighting your photographs, there are certain traits, or principles, of light that will ultimately determine the aesthetic of your photograph.

In photography, there are three main principles: instensity/quantity of light, direction of light, and quality of light.

In the below video, a segment from a CreativeLive...

If you’re looking for a cute and clever way of remotely triggering your smartphone’s camera, gadget-maker Gizumon has two little Bluetooth devices just for you.

The first one is a Bluetooth remote shutter shaped like a 135 film canister. The second is another Bluetooth remote trigger designed to look like a classic twins-lens reflex camera,...

It might not be what you purchased your $2,000 70–200mm f/2.8 lens for, but in an emergency situation did you know can use your telephoto lens as a means to start a fire?

In The Modern Man’s Guide to Life, the authors note that in a pinch you could use your lens as a magnifying glass of sorts to focus sunlight onto a pile of tinder in hopes...

If you’ve been in the market for Canon gear, particularly printers, B&H is offering a number of bundles and special offers in honor of Photoshop World 2015.

Now through midnight on Sunday, August 16th, you can pick up a number of DSLR and printer bundles, with rebates, saving upwards of $1750. One of the most impressive deals is a Canon...

 

 

Firmware Friday is back once more, and this week it's an action-packed roundup. No less than seven different cameras have received new firmware since our last update, and there's a third-party lens model for Micro Four Thirds cameras on the list with new firmware as well. Let's dive right in!

We'll start...

Earlier this year, we shared with you PixBuf, an online platform that helps you simplify the process of sharing your images across multiple social networks, most notably Facebook, Flickr, 500px and Twitter.

Towards the end of the article we mentioned PixBuf would soon be releasing a built-in analytics tool to help you get an overview of how...

It’s official, at least according to the FAA; drones are becoming more of a problem than ever before, endangering roughly three times as many aircraft this year than the year before.

According to a new report released by the FAA, pilots have reported over 650 close encounters with drones through August 9th of this year, a massive increase...

 

 

After Mike Tomkins had spent some time with the new Sony A7R II out in the real world, we received our review sample of the A7R II earlier today and sent it straight down into our lab for testing. We've now published our standard First Shots set of lab test images from this higher-resolution, higher-ISO-shooting...

 

 

After posting up a big selection of real-world gallery photos, I've finally been able to write up my daytime experience shooting with the new 50.6-megapixel Canon 5DS R. In Part I of my Canon 5DS R Field Test, I primarily focused on the design and ergonomics -- spoiler alert, it's basically a 5D Mark III in basic...

In its ongoing mission to push the limits of storage capacity, Samsung has announced it’s developed the PM1633a, a 15.36TB SSD said to be the world’s highest-capacity solid state drive.

Samsung says the secret to cramming so much capacity in such a small package is its new 256Gbit (32GB) NAND flash die, which is twice the capacity of most...

What do you do when you have a $7,500 budget, a passion for photography, a love for gold, and a desire for a custom-designed pendant of your favorite camera setup?

Well, if you’re Jay, owner of 1st Impression Studio, you reach out to Ben Baller and James Her of IF & Co., a family-operated jewelry studio based out of Los Angeles to create a...

For owners of APS-C cameras who want a lot of bang (and range) for their buck, Tamron has announced the release of its brand new 18–200mm F/3.5–6.3 Di II VC lens.

A successor to Tamron’s AF 18–200mm F/3.5–6.3 XR Di II LD Aspherical lens, this new lens improves upon its older sibling by adding Vibration Compensation along with better...

 

 

Last week, I was in the delightfully quirky city of Portland, Oregon on a shoot with Sony's latest 4K-capable cameras, the Sony A7R II and Sony RX10 II. I'm back in the office now, and having had a chance to filter through the thousands of images and videos I shot on the trip, I've added even more stills from both...

Drones are becoming less expensive and more accessible than ever. But sometimes it’s worth it to just outsource the work to someone else who already has the time, equipment and knowledge.

To help ease the processing of hiring a third party a new service called Drone Base is setting up a peer-to-peer network where pilots can hire themselves...

Photography lighting companies Elinchrom, Phottix and Sekonic have announced they are teaming up to launch the ‘most revolutionary lighting control system ever’.

Each of these companies have their own domain they dabble in, but the hope is that through this alliance photographers will more easily be able to create a unified workflow, even...