Photographer of the Day: Don Komarechka

Category: Nature Photographer: Don Komarechka Title: Macro photography requires a particular eye and technical discipline. Komarechka demonstrates both in this image, but that alone is not why I picked. Wildlife photography tends to focus on subjects to which the viewer can easily relate. Insects and arachnids are not defined as relatable by most folks. So,…

Announcing Plotagraph – A Whole New Way Of Creating Dynamic Images

(NOTE: This post is best viewed on a laptop or desktop computer. We’re experimenting with the plugin that allows these images to display and performance on a mobile device has yet to be optimized. Thank you.) If you’ve been paying attention at all during the last five years, you’ve seen the expansion (and popularity) of digital video,…

Video showing haunting before and after photos of war-torn Syria

The war in Syria has claimed more than 130,000 lives. On top of the lives lost, over two million Syrian citizens had to evacuate into bordering states and about two million others were dislocated within Syria. Aside the sad reality of the of the people of Syria, it is also suffering from vast bombardment. The results of which are maybe best […]

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DJI and Hasselblad team up to laugh at your puny drone camera with this medium format monster

What do you get when you cross Hasselblad’s A5D aerial camera with a DJI Matrice 600? The photo above is what you get, and it’s an absolute monster of a flying camera. DJI bought a “strategic minority stake” in Hasselblad last year, which seems to now be bearing fruit with their first joint product, and […]

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Build an easy DIY overhead camera rig with Open Source Hardware

Whether hardware or software, Open Source is a wonderful thing. Open Source doesn’t always mean free, though, especially when it comes to hardware. While not necessarily cheap, the DIY solution presented in this video from Bent-Tronics does fall in line with other such overhead camera projects. The simple fact of the matter is that it’s not […]

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How to use Photoshop’s new Content-Aware Crop Tool

Adobe added a content-aware fill option to the crop tool making it a one step process to crop and fill in blank canvas space around an image. It doesn’t sound too exciting at first until you use it. The content-aware function has been upgraded and is ‘up to 3X faster with even better results! Here’s…

Yi 4K vs GoPro Hero4 Black first impressions

Yesterday, we mentioned that the Yi 4K action camera was now available in the USA and it seems that the pre-orders have already started arriving into the hands of waiting users. One such early recipient is filmmaker Deejay Scharton, founder of DSLR Film Noob, who has put together a quick first impressions video, side-by-side with the […]

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