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Video: Great tips for saving money when building a landscape photography kit

 
 

Photography is an expensive hobby. Even if you exclusively buy entry-level equipment, the costs can add up quickly. Mads Peter Iversen's new video provides many tips to help landscape photographers save money. While the video is aimed at landscape photographers, some of Iversen's tips apply to other photographic...

Video: World’s blackest photo backdrop absorbs 99.9% of light

 
 

Photographer Mathieu Stern often shows off the strange and wonderful in the world of photography. In his latest video, he's put aside his 'weird lenses' and lenses made from ice to showcase an extremely black, like really black, backdrop. If you think you've seen a black background, it'll seem bright after seeing...

Video: Wildflower photography with Adam Gibbs

 
 

Spring is here, which means it's wildflower season. Photographer Adam Gibbs headed out to Mt. Tzouhalem in British Columbia, Canada, to photograph the local flora. In the last video from Gibbs that we featured, Gibbs talked about his professional experience photographing gardens, so he's a seasoned expert when it...

The best photo editing software available in 2022

 
 

Modern digital cameras are fantastic at capturing the tones, color and detail of any subject or scene. However, if you shoot RAW – which you absolutely should – there's so much more flexibility and nuance to your image files than you can see on the back of your camera. But when you first open a RAW file, it can...

Video: The power of diagonal lines in your landscape photos

 
 

What's the most powerful tool in your photo composition toolkit? According to photographer Nigel Danson, it's diagonal lines. Before discussing why diagonal lines are so important, it's worth considering what makes a landscape composition good. What are the ingredients of a compelling landscape image? Danson...

Video: How to create ‘flash’ in natural-light portraits using Adobe Lightroom

 
 

When capturing natural light portraits, there are numerous ways you can add a bit of light to your subject to help them stand out. An 'in the camera' approach is to use a reflector to bounce light onto your subject. Another way is to use software to create 'flash' with photo editing techniques. With Adobe...

Video: Essential photo gear for travel landscape photography

 
 

Over at the B&H Event Space, photographer Mahesh Thapa delivered a presentation aimed at the traveling landscape photographer, 'Essential Gear for Travel Landscape Photography.' That said, the talk should interest any landscape photographer, as there's a lot of overlap between landscape and 'travel' landscape...

Nigel Danson and James Popsys face off in a 100mm vs. 400mm landscape photography challenge

 
 

Photographers James Popsys and Nigel Danson are back with another new lens faceoff video. In January, they spent a day shooting only at 70mm. However, in an earlier video, they shot at different focal lengths, with one shooting at 24mm and other at 200mm. Channeling that asymmetric competitive spirit, Popsys and...

Video: Peter Hurley shows how to capture great headshots without expensive gear

 
 

Here at Imaging Resource, we get to test out a lot of amazing cameras and lenses, so we know all-too-well how easy it is to become afflicted with what's known among photographers as GAS, or Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Jokes aside, it can feel like you need to get a new camera, lens or other expensive gear to capture...

ON1 Resize AI is available now and promises to supercharge your photo enlargements with AI

 
 

In mid-March, ON1 announced ON1 Resize AI. The new app, the successor to ON1 Resize and Genuine Fractals, promises to be 'the next generation' of photo enlargement software. ON1 has announced that Resize AI is now available for purchase and download. Plus, there's a free 14-day trial to give the software a shot...

H&Y announces magnetic modular Revoring Swift system, promising versatility, flexibility and speed

 
 

H&Y Filters has announced the launch of the world's first magnetic modular filter system, the Revoring Swift. The Swift is the follow-up to the H&Y Revoring, which launched on Kickstarter two years ago. Like the original Revoring, the Revoring Swift is also starting on Kickstarter, where the project has already...

Video: 8 great Lightroom photo editing tips for beginners

 
 

Photographer James Popsys has some great photo editing tips for beginners in his latest video. The first topic is cropping. It's certainly a basic photo editing skill, but don't let that fool you. It requires a careful, thoughtful approach. Cropping an image can completely transform an image. While we hope to nail...

Video: Composition tips for outdoor photographers

 
 

We often feature vlogs from the field with nature and landscape photographer Adam Gibbs. However, this week, we're staying inside the office with Gibbs as he discusses a wide variety of his impressive photographs, highlighting different composition tips and discussing light.

Before sharing Gibbs' video, it's...

Sony 24-70mm F2.8 GM II announced: Read our review of Sony’s newest G Master zoom lens

Click here to read our Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II Hands-on Review

 
 

Sony has announced a new and improved version of its popular F2.8 standard zoom, the FE 24-70mm F2.8 G Master Mark II. The 24-70mm F2.8 GM II offers many of the same improvements we saw last year in the 'Mark II' version of the Sony 70-200mm F2.8,...

Polaroid announces black and red colorways for compact Go instant camera, plus new filters and film

 
 

Just over a year ago, Polaroid announced the Polaroid Go, the world's smallest analog instant camera. Measuring 3.3 x 2.4 x 4.1 inches (W x H x D), the Polaroid Go is a much smaller alternative to the Polaroid Now instant camera, which has a more classic Polaroid shape and size. Today, Polaroid has announced a pair...

2022 People & Portraits Photo Contest open for entries! Send us your best portraits for a chance to win great prizes!

Submit your photos here

 
 

Fancy yourself a portrait photographer? Have you mastered posing and sculpting the light to showcase emotion and tell someone's story with a single frame? If so, we invite you to enter your best portrait and people photographs in our just-opened 2022 People & Portraits Photo Contest.

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Sony FE PZ 16-35mm F4 G Hands-on Review: A unique wide-angle zoom designed for hybrid creators

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Sony FE PZ 16-35mm F4 G Hands-on Review

 
 

A few weeks back, Sony unveiled yet another 16-35mm full-frame mirrorless zoom lens, the FE PZ 16-35mm F4 G lens. With two other full-frame 16-35mm lenses already in the E-mount lineup, one might ask, why a third one? What sets this new lens apart...

Kickstarter: Benro Aureole 3-in-1 filter adapter system uses drop-in filters & adapts DSLR lenses to your mirrorless camera

 
 

Benro, maker of numerous photography accessories, including popular tripods, has launched the world's first detachable multi-functional filter mount adapter system on Kickstarter. The Benro Aureole is a 3-in-1 mount adapter system that lets users easily adapt filters in between a lens and the camera sensor....

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded the best video ever of a solar eclipse from Mars

 
 

Heading to Mars may seem like a strange way to celebrate Earth Day, but a new video from NASA's Perseverance rover is as good a reason as any to visit the Red Planet virtually. The Perseverance rover recently sent back footage of one of a solar eclipse featuring one of Mars's two moons, Phobos.

While the larger...

Video: The garden is a great place to do macro flash photography

 
 

For those in the northern hemisphere, spring has sprung, and gardens are beginning to come alive. This means that not only is there a lot more color around, but it also means that a whole new world of photographic subjects is upon us, including beautiful flowers and fascinating insects.

Over at Adorama,...