Live Speaker Schedule for Thursday at Photo Plus Expo

We’ve got a great speaker lineup for Thursday at Photo Plus Expo. In addition to our own Vanelli, Richard Harrington, and Levi Sim, we’re honored to have Kristi Sherk, George Redhawk, Troy Plota,and Sascha Scheider joining us, and they’re going to show you how to make photographs that’ll make your work stand out from the crowd. Win A Camera!…

This guide to astrophotography will have you shooting stars in no time

Yesterday we showed you South of Home Photography’s beautiful photographs of the New Zealand winter night sky. If you’re just starting out with astrophotography, it can be difficult to know where to begin. How should you plan? Is your gear up to the challenge? Do you need specialist equipment? What settings should you use? Today we […]

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Nikon Unveils New 70-200mm f/2.8 Lens & 19mm f/4 Tilt-Shift Lens

At PhotoPlus this week, Nikon announced a pair of new professional FX-format lenses: AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR PC NIKKOR 19mm f/4E ED The new 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR lens features an updated optical formula and serves as the successor to the AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II lens. The magnesium alloy […]

Photographer of the Day: Jacob Jackson

Category: Nature Photographer: Jacob Jackson Title: Dark Skies Evocative. At first glance, the frame does not give a clear sense of scale. It make the viewer wonder how big are the waterfalls in the foreground. For this image, that works. The dark palette and low-hanging mist help transform a simple, low, tidal block waterfall into…

This photographer shot his subjects on a real lava field for these incredible images

There’s a whole lot one can do with Photoshop these days to put your subjects into any environment we wish. But, for me, nothing beats the authenticity of shooting on location. It seems Ben Von Wong feels the same way. For his latest project he took his model, Tau, and crew out into the middle of Hawaiian […]

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Amazon’s future doesn’t just include drone deliveries, but drone police assistants

Robocop seems to have shrunk, and grown wings. Amazon’s research into drones is no secret. Well, at least, it’s not any more. So far, though, their public drone persona has been one of expedient delivery. Using drones to more efficiently deliver small packages.  Now, it seems they’ve set their sights much higher, metaphorically speaking. In […]

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