Author: John Aldred

Sony World Photography Awards 2016 Shortlists Announced, And They Are Awesome!

John Aldred

The shortlists for the world’s biggest photography competition, the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards has been released this week. This year’s competition has broken all records this year, receiving a massive 230,201 entries, up 28% on last year. The Sony World Photography Awards is split into four separate photography competitions for Professional, Open, Youth and […]

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Create Amazing Rainy Composite Images With This Great Photoshop Video Tutorial

John Aldred

One of the problems when trying to create the images we see in our head is that, in the real world, the constituent parts can be very difficult to get together in front of your camera all at the same time. This is where compositing steps in.  Sometimes, you just have no choice, and you may […]

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Make Your Own Beauty Dish From a Metal Mixing Bowl

John Aldred

We’ve featured a few DIY Beauty Dishes in the past, from the very cheap to the super cheap, but few of those builds would blend into a professional studio quite as well as this one. In this video, French photographer, Antony Gomes, and the team at Shootr show us how they built theirs. Starting with an Ikea […]

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University of Missouri Assistant Professor Who Assaulted Photographer Has Been Fired

John Aldred

One would think that with a surname like “Click”, a person might be more sympathetic toward photographers, especially when that person is also Assistant Professor of Mass Media at the University of Missouri. Some of you will remember the story from November last year, of Dr. Melissa Click’s tussle with journalists attempting to interview and photograph students during a protest on the […]

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An Artist Printed the Complete RGB Colorspace Into Books and it Looks Amazing

John Aldred

New York based American artist, Tauba Auerbach has created a three volume set of hardback books, as 8x8x8 inch cubes, in a project entitled the “RGB Colorspace Atlas“. Each volume contains 3632 pages, and represents a look through the colour scheme of each of the three different colour channels; Red, Green and Blue. While it must’ve been a […]

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Twin Rear Cameras On Smartphones Brings Optical Zoom Quality With no Moving Parts

John Aldred

According to Israeli company, Corephotonics, while mobile sensor resolution increases, the effective resolution and image quality of cameras in mobile devices remains relatively low. Although the technology is improving with each new generation of smartphones that gets released, as well as other oddities, things like motion blur, lack of optical zoom, low light performance and focus issues still […]

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Godox Announce Sony TTL, and Mark 2 For V850, V860 and QT600 Studio Strobe

John Aldred

With all the gear announcements lately, it’s easy to miss a relatively small name like Godox, but they’ve just announced some updates to their popular Lithium-ion powered range of flash units, and their QT600 studio strobes. The big news here is that Godox have also added Sony TTL to the Godox X series of 2.4Ghz radio triggers […]

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Sigma Announces the New EF-630 Multifunction Flash

John Aldred

Sigma have just announced a new top dog in their flash line up in the form of the EF-630 Electronic Flash. This unit adds to the previous model, the EF-610, by offering more power, covering a wider zoom range of 24-200mm that taps out at 17mm with the built-in Wide Panel, and automatic zoom when mounted on top […]

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Seven Minutes with Fashion & Street Photographer Huang Jianmin

John Aldred

This short documentary, “Jimmy on the Run”, introduces us to fashion and street photographer Huang Jianmin a.k.a. Jimmy. In it, he talks about his passion for photography, his lifestyle, his past in China, and his struggle with family expectations. Born in village on the outskirts of Taishan, China, and having been raised mostly by his mother since he was […]

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This Is How Your Tripod Was Made

John Aldred

Tripods are, quite literally, a solid foundation upon which you can create your photography, but have you ever wondered how they’re made?  Assuming you’re not using a fancy carbon fiber tripod, it was probably something like this. In this video, the Science Channel takes us through the workflow of the Manfrotto assembly line to demonstrate […]

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