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Couple “saved by selfie” in England’s Peak District National Park

John Aldred

Reaching into five counties, and seeing more than 10 million visitors each year, the Peak District offers some of the most amazing views of the English countryside.  So, with around 27,000 people a day visiting the area it’s no surprise that some will occasionally become lost. After wandering from the footpath to explore areas less […]

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Here is how to composite around the world, get free LUT sets and win a 30% discount

Udi Tirosh

I know how hard it is to find a good set of backplates for your composites. If you don’t travel the world, your options are kinda limited. Well, we got someone to travel the world for you. And she travels with an 80 mega pixels Mamia Cred medium format camera. Rebecca Bathory travels to exotic locations […]

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PSEUDO Film Canister plans to succeed where others failed, bringing digital sensors to 35mm bodies

John Aldred

I’d love nothing more than to be able to slap a digital sensor into my old mechanical film bodies and wander off doing some street photography.  So, I’m trying really really hard to get excited about this one, but the lessons of the past have taught us to not get our hopes up. The PSEUDO Film […]

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Adele stops concert to call out a filming fan, telling her “take your tripod down”

John Aldred

Whenever you use the words “concert” and “photography” in the same sentence, emotions often tend to start flying.  Whether you’re a professional trying to earn a living, being crippled by ridiculous contracts, or a fan who prefers to view through an LCD rather than with your eyes, there’s always some controversy. This time, it’s Adele, stopping a […]

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Judgement day is upon us, Selfie Robots are about to be a thing thanks to ASUS

John Aldred

The future is starting to look like a very scary place, and it’s not due to Skynet, but ASUS, with the announcement of Zenbo, a tiny robot assistant. Introduced at the 2016 Computex Taipei consumer electronics show, ASUS presented a working model which rolled around on the stage, responding to commands. If you only want to waste […]

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Timelapse showing Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on descent

Udi Tirosh

While technically, this clip is described as a sped up video, I am going to let it fall under the timelapse category, because some achievements need to be celebrated. This 30 seconds sped up video timelapse was taken from a camera on top of the first stage booster as it descended back to earth and landed on […]

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Man takes selfie with walrus, pays with his life

Udi Tirosh

As the selfie bar keeps getting higher, we report more and more sad selfie stories, and while some may argue that selfie caused deaths is the new natural selection (or Darwin award candidates), no one should pay with their life for a stupid photo decision. According to the shanghaiist, a man visiting the the Yeshanko Wildlife Zoo in […]

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Content Aware Crop is one of the features coming in a major Photoshop CC Update

John Aldred

In a sneak peek posted on YouTube today, Adobe are showing off one of the new features that’s coming in what they describe as a “Major Update” to the Creative Cloud platform. The video, presented by Stephen Neilson from the Adobe Photoshop team, walks us through the new feature.  Designed to help us fill in […]

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