Category: gear

Make it or break it: Lensrental shares its annual gear repair rate report

Gannon Burgett

As they do every year, LensRentals has released their annual repair rate report. Within the detailed analysis are the numbers showing what photo gear comes in most often for replacement within a 24 month lifespan in the rental rotation. Unfortunately, the numbers aren’t as straightforward as you might’ve hoped. Rather than relying on percentages of gear […]

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Win A Drobo – Organize Your Photo Library

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In case you missed it… we’re super excited to release our brand new eBook all about getting organized in Lightroom.  Thanks to the fine folks at Drobo, it’s free until February 14, 2016. To help you put the techniques into practice, we’re giving away a free Drobo unit so you can back up your images. […]

Official photos of Fujifilm’s upcoming X-Pro2 have leaked

Gannon Burgett

Fujfilm fans, prepare your wallets. Images of Fujifilm’s upcoming X-Pro2 have been leaked, giving us our first real glimpse of the successor to Fujifilm’s genre-defining X-Pro1 mirrorless camera. From the images, it appears little has changed. The form factor keeps the retro-esque rangefinder aesthetic. The only real change is the relocation of a few buttons, […]

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Shooting Personal Projects

Kubeisy

A great way to challenge yourself and enhance your skills is to shoot some personal projects. Here is an opportunity to stretch your imagination. Building sets, buying props, coordinating wardrobe, scouting locations and casting talent are all part of the process of shooting your personal projects. When you apply all these things, your ideas will […]

Meet Arturo, an adorable R2D2 drone ready to take to the skies

Gannon Burgett

This holiday season, drones and Star Wars are some of the most talked about items to be had. Thus, it’s only natural that we see the two come together for a little holiday celebration. Meet Arturo, the self-proclaimed ’world’s first actual flying R2D2 drone.’ Created by aerial cinematographer Don Melara in partnership with aerial photography […]

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Photofocus Podcast December 25, 2015 — Chris Hershman and Bryan O’Neil Hughes

Richard Harrington

This week we catch up with a photographer and a Lightroom expert.  First Pamela Berry talks with photographer and music video producer Chris Horseman.  Then Robert Vanelli talks with Bryan O’Neil Highes from Adobe about his photography, Lightroom, and Lightroom Mobile. Get the show here  or get it on iTunes — Don’t forget to post a review on iTunes. Chris […]

This little contraption will help you wrangle up all your photography cables and cords

Gannon Burgett

With as many wireless photography products as there are on the market you’d think you wouldn’t have to deal with cables. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. In fact, it almost seems as though more cords have accumulated since every wireless gadget needs to be charged. Earlier today though, I stumbled across a […]

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