Photoshop Genius Turns Snaps into Movie Posters

Think your Photoshop skills are up to scratch?  You might want to think again when you see some of the work by Reddit user Your_Post_As_A_Movie. Taking some rather ordinary images, as well as some exceptionally good ones, he creates amazing posters that wouldn’t look out of place on the walls of your local movie theatre. Some of […]

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World’s Fastest microSDXC UHS-II Card Released by SanDisk – Up tu 275MB/s

As some of the devices we use as photographers start to get smaller and less obtrusive, so do their storage formats.  While their physical size is getting smaller, however, the data they’re collecting and recording becomes more demanding. Going from basic stills to 720p, then to 1080p, and now with 4K starting to become standard […]

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Local Landmark Shipwreck in California Burnt Out for Instagram Photo

Perched on a sand bank in Tomales Bay, CA, the ship nicknamed the “S.S. Point Reyes” has sat for a great number of years, left to rot and decay naturally.  The exact number of years it’s been there is something of a local secret, adding to the mystery of the wreck, which has been a significant […]

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Samsung Enters the 360 Degree Camera Market With the Samsung Gear 360. Mark Zukerberg Supports

Looking more like a giant eyeball than a camera, Samsung have today entered into the 360 degree arena with the announcement of the Samsung Gear 360 camera. Two lenses seems to be becoming the standard when it comes to 360 degree cameras, as opposed to bolting half a dozen cameras on a rig, and Samsung’s new camera conforms […]

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Tamron Announces New 85mm f/1.8, 90mm f/2.8 Macro and DIY Firmware Updates

The lens leaks and announcements are coming through thick and fast at the moment, aren’t they? You might’ve noticed Tamron’s teaser image floating around lately suggesting that some new lenses might be coming, but now Tamron officially joins Sigma, Sony, Samyang, SLR Magic, Canon, and others launching new glass in 2016 with the announcement of two new lenses. Tamron SP […]

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World Press Photo Winner Withdrawn by Associated Press

Daniel Ochoa de Olza‘s emotional series of 8 images that received third place in the People, Stories category of the World Press Photo contest  (see the winners here) has been withdrawn by Associated Press, stating that the submission of the set was made in error. The photographs in question were never distributed by the AP – our […]

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Three Photography Greats and a Goldfish Take-on the Same Challenge in the GPP2016 Shootout

Since first seeing JoeyL tape a polaroid to a projector screen in 2010, the annual Gulf Photo Plus Shootout has become the one photography event that I look most forward to each year. The formula is a simple, yet very effective one.  Take three wildly talented photographers, set them a challenge, and then get one or two more photographers to heckle […]

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See How Photographer Tim Heaton Creates Amazing Winter Landscapes of Glencoe, Scotland

Covering an array of mountains with names he refuses to even attempt to pronounce, landscape & travel photographer Thomas Heaton takes us on a whirlwind tour of Glencoe to photograph some amazing winter landscapes. In this video documenting his two-and-a-bit-day visit, Thomas talks to us throughout his journey, explaining what he looks for in a landscape and how he […]

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This Is Why Canon Pro Lenses Are White

At virtually every major sporting event across the planet, we see groups of photographers huddled together on the sidelines, their allegiance often only visible by the colour of the lenses attached to their cameras, but why are Canon’s telephoto lenses white? Canon’s official position is that large lenses contain large elements and that are more susceptible to heat […]

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Adobe Leaks Themselves with Lightroom Mobile 2.0 for Android. Still not available

An interesting teaser from the Adobe Blogs popped up on my news feed briefly last night, stating that Lightroom 2.0 for Android had now been released. Listing several cool new features, I thought this was worth a look, only to discover that the actual post on Adobe’s website did not exist, nor did any reference to it in the Adobe […]

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