This is how you light up a climbers on a cliff with speedlights attached to drones

John Aldred

So what do you do when you need to position lights off to the side of a cliff and you left your 300ft tall light stands at home?  You mount them to a drone, of course, which is exactly what National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski did recently while taking the new Nikon D500 and SB-5000 flash […]

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Travel Portraits – How to Take People Pictures Like the Pros

Patrick Niddrie

You’re hitting the road and your camera is at the top of the old checklist. Your goal is to make photographs that will be memorable and bring back the feelings of being there. So how can you do that? Of course you’ll need a good photo of the Eiffel Tower or Taj Mahal. But photos […]

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GoPro shares jump as company hires former Apple designer Daniel Coster

John Aldred

Having become an early hit with extreme sports participants when they first launched, GoPro decided to go public in 2014 with shares initially priced at $24.  In the subsequence months, that value soared, more than tripling in value at one point, peaking at $86. After and seeing a massive drop in sales during the final quarter […]

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You can now put a parachute on your drone

John Aldred

While drones are no doubt getting smarter and smarter with each new generation, the unexpected can happen.  Motors can burn out, you can lose control, there’s accidental or intentional interference to worry about, but whatever the reason, stories of drones falling out of the sky and crashing to earth or spinning wildly out of control and hitting the […]

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What you need to know about realistic photo compositing and image manipulation – a primer

Aad Sommeling

Creating realistic photo composites or photo manipulation isn’t as hard as it looks. The steps you have to take to create a good composite are actually all pretty logical. I will try to explain the steps and common mistakes many people make in the following article. [editor’s note: we are huge fans of Aad Sommeling. […]

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Signs Of Light shows the awesome photos you can create with just a light and a tube

Udi Tirosh

If you thought that you need big guns and a huge budget to create inspiring art, think again. Photographer and dancer duo Kim Henry & Eric Paré (previously), show that you can create absolutely stunning art using cheap equipment and a lot of dedication. We shared Eric’s tube guard light painting technique before, but we had […]

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Leica SL Firmware Update 2.0 Adds Faster AF & Shutter Speeds

Eric Reagan

Leica has issued a firmware update for the Leica SL full frame mirrorless camera. The firmware update 2.0 adds several new features and enhancements including: Faster focusing, higher precision and optimized subject tracking 529 single AF points can now be used New direct exposure compensation Images in DNG format can now be magnified for better […]