FTC to crack down on social media celebrity advertising posts

John Aldred

Bloomberg are reporting that the American Federal Trade Commission are cracking down on social media advertising. Users now must be very clear about paid product endorsements. Users are actually required to do this already, but few do. Many advertisers also request that the social media users not mention it. It’s understandable why advertisers wouldn’t want the public to know. They […]

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Take Control of Facebook’s Timeline

Vanelli

Fellow Photocus author Rod Harlan suggested to “Mention Others To Get More Traffic” on social media in an article he wrote. That’s great advice. By simply tagging people in a photo or mentioning them in your Facebook post, you open the door for others to see what you wrote. But what if you’re the one…

Here’s Nikon’s NPS cache at the Rio2016 games

John Aldred

After Getty and Canon, it was only a matter of time before we’d see the inside of Nikon’s NPS facilities at the Rio2016 Olympic Games. As with the others, it’s a pretty immense stockpile of gear. Of course, with the number of competitors, events and photographers there, it’s not really a surprise. Also, with the amount […]

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This amazing San Francisco 4K timelapse took three years to complete

John Aldred

In November 2013, filmmaker Matthew Maniego presented us with a great timelapse of San Francisco called Paradise x SF. Since that time, he’s been working on a sequel. It’s finally here, and some of the scenes are just breathtaking. Paradise x SF 2 has a very different feel to its predecessor. The music is calmer, the […]

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Essential Steps to Creating an HDR Photo with Lightroom

Richard Harrington

The way that Lightroom handles HDR images is very different than how tools like Photoshop or even Photomatix handle the HDR images. In fact, it will completely change your workflow inside of Lightroom. So, even if you don’t think of yourself as an HDR photographer, open up your mind a bit, and what you’ll find…

Eye-Fi unbrick their X2 cards to give us what we should have had in the first place

John Aldred

Several weeks ago, you may remember a post about Eye-Fi’s decision to “End of life” a bunch of their products. It’s not uncommon for companies to drop support for their older products, no matter how popular they may be. The problem with their decision, though, was that it would’ve basically bricked all of those products from September […]

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