Easy but powerful colour correction and grading using colour wheels

John Aldred

Colour wheels are fairly common to video editing applications. Lately, they seem to have started popping up in still image editing applications, too through the use of various plugins. With the line between photography and video becoming somewhat blurred over the last few years, it’s really not much of a surprise. Photographers are making the […]

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Manually fixing distortion in Photoshop is easier than you think

John Aldred

When you’re photographing interiors or tall buildings, perspective distortion is often inevitable. There’s ways around it with tilt shift lenses or large format film cameras, but for most of us that’s not an option. These days, Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop and other tools provide a number of fancy automated ways to help correct for […]

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Photomatix OneShot Makes Photos POP!

Kevin Ames

There are hundreds of filters and presets available for making photographs into “something else” in Photoshop, Lightroom or with other software packages. One of my favorites comes from from HDRsoft the maker of the outstanding HDR converter Photomatix Pro. Allow me to introduce you to Photomaitx OneShot. HDR effects for single images Traditionally, High Dynamic…

Fujifilm GFX videos offer insight into what we can expect from their medium format mirrorless camera

John Aldred

Fuji’s GFX 50S medium format camera got a lot of attention when it was announced at Photokina in September. But, it was also still shrouded in quite a lot of mystery. They wouldn’t let us have a look at it outside of its glass cabinet, and certainly not test it out. Even the official GFX […]

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Photographer of the Day: Vanelli

Nick Minore

Category: Sports Photograph: Florida Tech Lacrosse by Vanelli Editor’s note: Nick Minore has done a great job as the curator of the Sports category for the Photofocus Photographer of the Day feature. Thanks for the great work Nick! Do you know Vanelli? An all-star martial artist turned photographer, Vanelli’s been living and breathing sports for the past…

Mining company loses 9 surveillance drones – because of eagles

Dunja Djudjic

Earlier this year, we were quite surprised (to say the least) by the information that Dutch police were training eagles to take down drones. And what’s more, it seems that the weird approach against UAVs worked. But it appears eagles in Australia require no training to do it. Because they started seeing surveillance drones as […]

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Friends invited photographer out for shooting – but they brought guns instead of cameras

Dunja Djudjic

I really, really hate guns. If someone invited me out for some shooting, I would think he wants me to go taking photos with him. And this is exactly what happened to astrophotographer Marc Leatham. Some friends invited him to a bonfire shoot at Four Peaks Wilderness in Arizona. It was only when they got […]

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How to use coloured gels with studio strobes and softboxes

John Aldred

Using coloured gels with speedlights has become pretty common. Many people who shoot with speedlights have given it a go at least a couple of times. But speedlights are quite easy to gel. All you need is a small strip of gel which you then gaffer tape over the front of the head. Studio strobes, […]

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