Cameras

RAW vs. JPEG: An Ultimate Guide

RAW vs. JPEG: An Ultimate Guide

I did not plan on writing a dedicated article on RAW vs JPEG. Why? I thought this ship had sailed long ago and the time of heated debates over which format is better was well into the past. But, what I realized in teaching photography is that this topic is still confusing and unclear for […]

Shooting with ACROS Film Simulation in the Fujifilm X-Pro2

Shooting with ACROS Film Simulation in the Fujifilm X-Pro2

I hear a lot of photographers slamming others for not shooting RAW. So I decided to go against that for a month and shoot JPEG only using Fujifilm’s ACROS Film Simulation and share my results. Interestingly, I’ve found that I’m actually enjoying taking photographs more. I shoot almost exclusively with a Fuji X-Pro2. With it […]

Souvid Datta Admits to Doctoring and Appropriating Photos

Souvid Datta Admits to Doctoring and Appropriating Photos

Yesterday, we revealed that award-winning photographer Souvid Datta had published a photo back in 2014 in which a woman had been copied-and-pasted from a 1978 photo by renowned documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark. Datta today admitted that he had indeed doctored that photo, as well as “appropriating” other photographers’ work as his own. While Datta […]

Walkthrough: How to Edit a Landscape Photo in Lightroom and Photoshop

Walkthrough: How to Edit a Landscape Photo in Lightroom and Photoshop

Lots of photo editing tutorials these days focus on one specific technique or edit—how to sharpen, or how to use the HSL tool, for example. But if you’re just starting out and you need a complete photo editing walkthrough, this tutorial will take you through a landscape photo edit from start to finish. The tutorial […]

How to Build Your Own Flash Trigger with an Arduino

How to Build Your Own Flash Trigger with an Arduino

I recently needed a way to trigger a flash from an Electron app, but there wasn’t anything out there that suited my needs… so I built my own. At first I thought there would be a flash with a simple bluetooth interface, and there is. Unfortunately, none of these flashes have a public API, and […]

How to Sharpen in Photoshop: An In-Depth Tutorial

How to Sharpen in Photoshop: An In-Depth Tutorial

If you’re not sure how to properly sharpen your images in Photoshop, this tutorial from the Photoshop Training Channel is a godsend—a deep dive into the most common sharpening techniques complete with an explanation of which ones are better and why. Ramirez begins by covering High Pass sharpening: one of the most common methods, but […]

This Photographer Turns Abandoned Spaces Into Dark Fairy Tales

This Photographer Turns Abandoned Spaces Into Dark Fairy Tales

Photographing abandoned spaces has exploded in popularity in recent years. For photographer Karen Jerzyk, however, finding those spaces is only the first step. She transforms each one into what she describes as a “dark fairy tale” scene. Jerzyk began shooting portraits in 2009 after spending years doing music and concert photography. Not having any funds […]

Advice: Stop Worrying About Breaking Your Gear and Just Shoot

Advice: Stop Worrying About Breaking Your Gear and Just Shoot

UK-based landscape photographer and beloved vlogger Thomas Heaton has an important message for fellow photogs: never let worrying about your gear keep you from going out and shooting. Heaton’s most recent inspirational soliloquy was inspired by a recent trip to the beach to shoot during some truly horrible weather. He says he considered not going […]

This Photo Contains the Moon, Jupiter, and Jupiter’s Moons

This Photo Contains the Moon, Jupiter, and Jupiter’s Moons

On April 10th, 2017, there was a special meeting in the night sky: the Moon was seen close to Jupiter and Jupiter’s four largest moons, known as the Galilean moons. Photographer Göran Strand went out and captured the beautiful photo above of the entire group in a single frame. “It’s a very beautiful sight in […]