This photographer turns aerial photos into dream-like composites

Dunja Djudjic

Being able to turn your vivid imagination into art is not an easy task. It takes skill, time, and of course – the imagination, of course, above all else. Photographer Darren Wilden is an imaginative artist, passionate about flying a drone and working in Photoshop. He brought his two passions together in a magnificent series of […]

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This digital artist turns animals square for “Minecraft in real life” Anicube project.

John Aldred

Sometimes, you get an idea in your head that you just can’t shake. You just have to go and make it. That’s exactly what happened to Jakarta, Indonesia based digital artist Aditya Aryanto. Aditya is interested in cubes. And he had the urge to turn some animals into cubes to see how it would look. […]

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Photography Marketing: Studio Management And CRM Tools Are Key to Success

Bryan Esler

As photographers, we’re responsible for a lot of things beyond just showing up and photographing. There’s editing, setting up meetings, bookkeeping, scheduling our time…the list is endless. Needless to say, it was long overdue earlier this year when I finally decided to investigate studio management and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. What is a CRM? Simply…

DJI launches VR goggles that give you first-person view from a drone

Dunja Djudjic

VR technology is in the expansion, and now DJI has brought it to Mavic Pro, Phantom 4 and Inspire series of drones. They have launched DJI Goggles, which will bring you the first-person view of the world the from bird perspective. It’s like you can fly where your drone flies and see the world below […]

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX350 Review

Amy Davies

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX350 is a new super-zoom bridge compact camera. A 50x, 24-1200mm lens, 20.4 megapixel CMOS sensor, BIONZ X processor, 1920×1080 50p Full HD video with stereo sound, high-resolution tilting 3-inch screen, manual shooting…

Vivian Maier Estate sues Jeffrey Goldstein for Copyright and Trademark infringement

Dunja Djudjic

A while ago, Vivian Maier Estate entered a complicated legal battle against the owners of the photographer’s work. This time, they are filing a claim against Jeffrey Goldstein, one of the collectors who owns a part of Maier’s collection. The estate is alleging copyright infringement: unauthorized copying, exhibition and print sales of the photographer’s work. […]

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Aputure announces three new lights including a 300Watt monoblock LED

John Aldred

Another show, another round of new gear announcements. This time it’s NAB and Aputure’s turn to show off some new lights and modifiers. There’s the Lightstorm Mini 20C/D which has been shown of in a few videos recently. The Tri-8 is finally coming, and there’s a variable temperature version as well as the daylight one […]

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Lee Varis’ 10-Channel Workflow – Part-3

Lee Varis

Picking up where we left off in part-2… Now for the really fun stuff… make a new empty layer at the top of the layer stack. Then select Image-> Apply Image… from the menu bar at the top… We are going to grab a copy of the b channel from the Lab document and put…