Photographer of the Day: Tomas Salinka

Category: Children Photograph: “Best friends” by Tomas Salinka The park location was a good choice for the shot. It sets the mood, telling a story of a little girl having a playdate with her “Best Friend”. Originally shared with the Photofocus Flickr community right here. To learn how your work can be featured on the Photofocus,…

Get the Most Dynamic Range from a Single Raw File

Do you like dynamic range?  Let’s put it this way, are you a fan of the Shadows and Highlights sliders?  Getting great tonal definition is a big part of making an excellent photo. Pushing the Limits with HDR Most people have mixed thoughts about HDR.  Some resist because of the extra steps of shooting bracketed…

Canon 1D X Mark II Firmware 1.0.2 Update Fixes SanDisk CFast Card Problems

Canon has issued a firmware update for the 1D X Mark II that addresses the recently-published image corruption problem with certain SanDisk CFast 2.0 cards. The firmware update specifically provides the following improvements: Incorporates countermeasures for a phenomenon in which the bottom part of still images recorded to SanDisk CFast cards become corrupted. Enhances communication […]

How to Color Tone Using Gradient Maps in Photoshop

In this new video from Plearn, Aaron Nace walks us through how to color tone images using a gradient map inside Photoshop. It’s kind of like an Instagram filter but with much more control that the pre-baked options you get from a smartphone app. It’s a pretty cool effect. Check out the video above. Copyright/DMCA […]

Fuji X-T2 and EF-X500 Flash Unveiled

Fuji officially revealed the X-T2 this week, alongside a new EF-X500 flash. The new X-T2 serves as a replacement to the popular X-T1 and upgrades from a 16MP X-Trans II sensor to a 24MP X-Trans III sensor. Additionally, the X-T2 gets internal 4K video recording with a new F-Log Gamma option. Fuji X-T2 Key Features […]

Use this simple new tool to help figure out your Instagram hashtags

These days, you can’t really expect any kind of decent exposure for your work on Instagram if you don’t use hashtags. It’s just become the nature of the beast. But where do you begin to determine what hashtags to use? Well, Reddit user Nick Smith has come up with a tool to at least get you started, suggesting hashtags based […]

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Samsung’s tiny new Universal Flash Cards are five times faster than microSD

The current CompactFlash and SD Card standards have been around with us for a good while now.  CompactFlash has already had its dominance challenged in the new battle between XQD and CFast, but SD has thus far been relatively unscathed. Samsung looks set to take SD head on with their new removable Universal Flash Card format, […]

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