Cameras

Lens Case Duo: Protective Lens Cases for Both Bags and Waists

Lens Case Duo: Protective Lens Cases for Both Bags and Waists

Think Tank Photo has launched its new Lens Case Duo series of protective lens cases. The quick-access, dual-opening padded cases are designed to protect your lenses both in camera bags and on a belt. Each of the six cases features a zippered lid on top as well as a zippered opened on the side. The […]

How to Shoot the ‘Natural Glow Look’: A Beauty Lighting Setup

How to Shoot the ‘Natural Glow Look’: A Beauty Lighting Setup

For the last few beauty shoots I’ve done, I was asked to emulate the “Natural Glow Look”. This is a pretty common look in photography today! We see it in campaigns of big makeup companies such as L’oreal, Estee Lauder, Revlon, and L’OREAL, ESTEE LAUDER, REVLON, & Neutrogena, just to name a few. The first […]

Why Dedicated Cameras Will Always Be (Optically) Better than Smartphones

Why Dedicated Cameras Will Always Be (Optically) Better than Smartphones

It’s September, which means another generation of Apple iPhones. This year, the iPhone XS (pronounced “ten ess”) adds a slightly larger sensor plus significantly more computing power via the A12 Bionic Chip to enhance the phone’s image signal processing. But despite the ability to perform 5 trillion operations a second, the iPhone still can’t do […]

Apple Unveils the iPhone XR, a Budget Phone with One-Camera Portrait Mode

Apple Unveils the iPhone XR, a Budget Phone with One-Camera Portrait Mode

In addition to the new XS and XS MAX, Apple has also announced the new iPhone XR, the latest budget iPhone that still packs a mean punch. Instead of an OLED display, the phone uses a 6.1-inch Liquid Retina LCD display that Apple calls the “most advanced LCD in a smartphone.” It’s purportedly the most […]

Nikon Z7 Field Report: Too Many Good Things to Not Like It

Nikon Z7 Field Report: Too Many Good Things to Not Like It

Earlier this year I got a phone call from Japan asking whether I would be interested in working on yet another important global introduction campaign for a new Nikon product. As I very much enjoyed creating the Hercules Rising night time-lapse for the introduction of the Nikon D850, I said yes. My wife Daniella and […]

Sneak Peek: This is Content-Aware Fill on Steroids

Sneak Peek: This is Content-Aware Fill on Steroids

Adobe Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill is a powerful way to remove portions of photos, but its results can fall short and it doesn’t have tools for customizing the results. But that’s about to change: it will soon receive a huge upgrade with its own workspace and tools, and the 2-minute video above is a Sneak Peek […]

Plumber’s Tape is a Cheap Way to White Balance Photos

Plumber’s Tape is a Cheap Way to White Balance Photos

Want a cheap and easy way to white balance photos without having to buy a color checker or special cards? Here’s a neat hack: you can actually use ordinary white plumber’s tape — the kind you use to seal pipe threads. LibRaw, the software company behind FastRawViewer, shares that all you’ll need is some Teflon/PTFE […]

Fold Yourself This Paper Nikon Z7 and Nikkor Z 24-70mm

Fold Yourself This Paper Nikon Z7 and Nikkor Z 24-70mm

Can’t wait to get your hands on the new Nikon Z Series full frame mirrorless camera? If you’d like to get a feel for the camera’s size first, you can now fold yourself a paper version of the Nikon Z7 and Z 24-70mm lens. The printable designs were posted by Boonlert Rojanaboworn over in the […]

Time-Blended Composite Photos of Moscow

Time-Blended Composite Photos of Moscow

For the past three years, Russian photographer Vadim Sherbakov has been capturing time-blended composite photos in his home city of Moscow. To create the photos, Sherbakov visits the locations and stays for 1-3 hours as the light changes. With his camera fixed in the exact same place, Sherbakov captures a large number of photos that […]