Flickr’s future uncertain as Verizon seem set to buy Yahoo for $5 billion

John Aldred

It’s not new information that Yahoo has been struggling. It may have been one of the Internet’s original giants, but they just can’t keep up and compete today. Google dominates the search market, Messenger usurped by Facebook, no real mobile platform, and no solid leadership. It’s not looking good. About the only things Yahoo have left that are […]

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44 Free Presets for Photomatix

Richard Harrington

Free Presets?  You Bet! The team at Photofocus has put together a collection of free presets to help you get the most out of HDRsoft’s Photomatix.  These presets are absolutely FREE, you just need to join our mailing list to get them. Please subscribe to our newsletter using the button below. Once you have confirmed your subscription, you will receive…

An easy guide to colouring with LUTs in Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve

John Aldred

Lookup Tables, or LUTs, are simply amazing. LUTs are like presets, but work across all platforms and software, for both video and stills. LUTs can be used for both colour correction, to bring cameras to a standard, and for giving your footage or images a desired “look”. But how do we use them? In this video from Casey Faris, […]

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First reviews of the Gopro killer Xiaoyi Yi 4K camera are in and they are stellar

Udi Tirosh

The Yi 4K action camera has been out for a while now and reviews are starting to reel in. We seen quite a few of them (and we will have one of our own soon), but this one review got us thinking that the YI 4K is indeed a gopro killer. This review from Techmoan has […]

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Photographer of The Day: Alex Singh

Rod Harlan

Category: Wedding Photographer: Alex Singh The framing is what makes this shot. When trying to capture the couple in an embrace on their special day, always look and see if there isn’t some special way you can frame the shot to make it stand out from the ordinary. Here it feels like we’re sneaking a…

9 Lenses with very special bokeh

Nitsan Simantov

I have played with photography a little bit since I was a boy, first with an old Olympus 35mm film point-and-shoot, then with a GameBoy camera and later a pretty terrible mobile phone. At age 18 I got my first DSLR and instantly fell in love with out-o…

The dark art of Matt Barnes

Clinton lofthouse

At the moment the UK has a movement of dark art and conceptual artists growing from a love of movies and Photoshop. Their work is creeping its way on to more commercial mainstream sites like Behance, and starting to make an impact, amongst the more str…

This is how you build a portable charger case to answer all your power needs

Udi Tirosh

If you are shooting on location (and even if not) you must have a ton of batteries to power your production war-horse. The camera takes batteries, the lights take batteries, remotes, phones, monitors. Actually, most devices take more than one battery. And every battery set want their own charger. And every charger want it’s out […]

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Don’t Be Seduced By The Numbers!

Rod Harlan

Editor’s Note: Photofocus is proud to welcome Rod Harlan to our team of authors. Rod will primarily focus his efforts on helping visual creatives find more success. I was conducting a seminar at a very large convention a few years back where I was showing the audience how they could see what Twitter accounts had…