DSLR Video Weekly: Why Is DSLR Video So Popular?

This is article #1 in the DSLR Video Weekly series.  If you’d like the whole thing in one shot, check out the book Creating DSLR Video: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Whether you stumbled across the video options in your DSLR camera or specifically selected your camera with video shooting in mind, I welcome you to the…

Inspiration, imitation, and landscape photography; is it OK or Unethical?

Whose image is it anyway? When does inspiration or imitation of a landscape photo cross the line or go too far? Recently a few things came up that makes me ask if or when does the idea of copying someone else’s photo go too far, or is it just a form of flattery derived from […]

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Fujifilm UK brings out topless model at GFX 50S event sparking tirade of Twitter outrage

Having models at camera demo events isn’t all that strange. It doesn’t happen at most of them, but it’s not unusual. Especially with cameras marketed towards fashion and portraits. Somebody at Fujifilm UK, however, decided that just bringing out a model wasn’t good enough for the Fujifilm GFX 50S, though. Oh no, she had to be […]

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Lightening Dark Skin with Luminosity Blending – part-1

When you intent to print photos, its often a good idea to lighten skin tones a bit.  Dark skin tone can often pose a problem in print. Skin can get a muddy, plugged up look even with a high quality inkjet print. The trick is how to lighten it in a natural way that doesn’t…

New UHS-III SD Card spec offers blazing transfer speeds up to 624MB/sec

Just as Sony hits the “world’s fastest” mark with their new SF-G Series UHS-II cards, the SD Association comes along and moves the goalposts. Well, this card is almost at the theoretical 312MB/sec limit of the UHS-II specification. The SD Card Association have now announced the new UHS-III specification, which doubles this limit to 624MB/sec. […]

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How I sprayed powder on people for a McDonalds campaign

Thursday, September 29, 2016, it is 10:00 am and I have a meeting at Boulogne in the office of the White Dog agency. Everything starts with a good coffee and an announcement… “We are going to realize the new McPlace internal communication campaign for McDonalds”. While the day before I was still eating a Royal […]

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Could the price of a drone be set to rise in the US?

Have a guess for me would you? Guess how many unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, there are in the US? Go on. Toss out a number. Got a figure in mind? Fabulous! Well, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) latest figures, released at CES in January, there are over 670,000 UAS on its […]

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Photographer of the day: Juan Maria Rodriguez

Category: Street. Photograph: “Man in blu” by Juan Maria Rodriguez (username “Juan Maria Rodriguez” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image:  Shadow play offers a creative way in street photography. Shadow size can exaggerate some objects or people or let things from different layers appear to interact with each…