Professional retoucher “spills the beans” on how swimsuit campaigns are really edited

Udi Tirosh

We know that those models that we are seeing on cover shoots have been shooed to death. We shared a few of those before/after over the years (see here, here and here for just a few). So we know that extreme retouching exists, and we also know that it’s an issue that bogs both models […]

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Teens shoot real-time, 4K drone footage of their boat being stolen, police recovers the vehicle

Udi Tirosh

One of the greatest impacts of “drones” coming into our lives is the impact it has on photojournalism. Drones can go places that photographers just can’t go by foot. Here is a story that illustrates this perfectly (though its only relation to photography is the drone involved). According to ABC, a couple of teenagers – Chris […]

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This 24 square meter contact print is the largest ever

Udi Tirosh

Looking at a print 24 square meters large up close is impressive, but having it made from a contact print elevates it to quite a different level. Contact print is a way of printing photographs in which the negative (or positive) is pressed against a the photo paper and then exposed. This creates a photo at […]

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Reader Photos Roundup: July 24, 2016

Eric Reagan

It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group. Check out the rest of the photos below. Clicking on the photos will take you to its Flickr page where you can read more about the shot, […]

Photographer of the day: Tommy Le

Marco Larousse

Category: Street. Photograph: “Early Morning Walk” by Tommy Le (username “Tommy Le” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image:  This image was captured by Tommy Le in Vietnam. Tommy captured his main subject by framing it into a very minimalistic scene. The man is spaced perfectly on the left…

Easier Masking with Photoshop’s New Select & Mask Taskspace

Levi Sim

Photoshop has a new update (CC2015.5) and it includes a remarkable new selection tool interface called the Select and Mask Taskspace. Selections and masks allow you to isolate your subject from the rest of a photo and are a fun way to create composites or make adjustments to only that portion of the picture. But,…

Photographing New England Patriots Gronk

Vanelli

I caught up with my Photojournalist friend, Rick Friedman, at the New England Camera Council Conference. Rich showed me images he took of Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots for Sports Illustrated. Rick is best known for photographing Presidential races—he started in the 70’s photographing Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford—but he’s also a talented…

DSLR Underwater Camera Housing Options for Portrait Photography and Video

JP Danko

It’s mid-summer and I have been doing a lot of underwater portrait photography lately…which has started me thinking that it might finally be time to upgrade my current DSLR underwater camera housing. I have been working with an inexpensive EWA Marine underwater DSLR camera housing for years (read my review here) – I love the […]

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