Photoshoot and Beyond
This is the first in a series I am writing about what makes a good photograph. The answer to the question is complicated – it is nothing – everything – who knows? Good is in the eye of the beholder. Since I am writing this post, Ill mention something that in my mind helps create…
(The impact of the iPhone on Photography) Apple most likely has recently sold its billionth iPhone. That’s quite a business accomplishment. The iPhone is easily one of the bestselling tech products of all time. To put it in perspective, Apple also makes the bestselling tablet and music player and the Mac is among the top…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a guest post from Mark Morrow who is a Virginia-based photographer and video producer specializing in a variety of commercial portraiture, architecture and fine art landscape projects. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to effectively obscure a moving object in video clips and stills by way of frame-by-frame…
If you have a GoPro or similar rugged action camera, an iPhone or an iPad and you want to move content onto or off these devices quickly using physical media, Lexar has a product you’ll love. The microS Reader uses a Lightning connector which allows users to do all sorts of things like manage files…
Photos by Levi Sim and Robert Vanelli Last week in Las Vegas, I joined up with the Photofocus team to attend Photoshop World. It’s become a tradition of late for our readers, authors, vendors and sponsors to get together with us at a few social events surrounding Photoshop World. This year we again held our…
Warning – rant ahead! I have seen a recent surge in people claiming you don’t need plug-ins or filters or presets or “HDR” software if you just take time to learn how to do it yourself in Photoshop or Lightroom. You can learn to create HDR by blending or you can learn how to soften…
(NOTE: This post is best viewed on a laptop or desktop computer. We’re experimenting with the plugin that allows these images to display and performance on a mobile device has yet to be optimized. Thank you.) If you’ve been paying attention at all during the last five years, you’ve seen the expansion (and popularity) of digital video,…
There seems to be a major photo conference, seminar, trade show, etc. every month these days and there are lots of opportunities to spend your photo workshop dollars on training. As a veteran of these events, as an attendee, a vendor and a speaker, I’ve pretty much seen it all. As you might expect, some…
Thanks to Fuji and Lensbaby, we recently ran a contest that offers a brand new Fuji X-T10 and Lensbaby Velvet 56 to one of our lucky readers. The prize drawing was held and Andy Coates (@agitatedlight) from New York, New York was our winner. When we asked Andy how it felt to win Andy said,…
For those of you new to photography, a prime lens is simply a photographic lens whose focal length is fixed, as opposed to a zoom lens. Prime lenses are available in all lengths and varieties and offer some advantages in performance when compared to their zoom-lens brethren. Prime lenses are designed for a specific purpose.…