Two tourists arrested for flying drone above Vatican

If there’s one place you shouldn’t be flying drones without permission, it’s over the Vatican. Two Israeli tourists learned this the hard way when local police officers arrested them for flying a drone over Pope Francis’ residence to capture vacation photos of St. Peter’s Square and the Tiber River. According to the Daily Mail, two 33-year-old […]

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Tutorial files for Digital Camera 173

Get start files for the February 2016 issue’s Digital Darkroom tutorials, plus files to accompany the 7 Wonders of Layers ebook included with this issue In Digital Camera 173, on sale from Wednesday 6th January, our Digital Darkroom section helps you develop your image-editing skills, with guides for Lightroom and Photoshop. Where indicated in the… Continue reading

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Portraits with Christmas Guns

Gun ownership is a pretty heated topic these days, but apparently guns and ammunition are popular Christmas gifts among gun supporters. Hearing how many people show up at the firing range the day after Christmas to try out their new weapons, Fstoppers’ Patrick Hall set out to capture portraits of Americans enjoying their Christmas guns. […]

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Winners of the Arizona Highways Photo Contest Announced

Winning Photo by Theresa Dotson Winning Photo by Dan Morgan Winning Photo by Hanumanth Bollineni Congrats to all the winners – Photofocus was proud to be a sponsor of then 30th Anniversary Arizona Highways Photo Workshops photo contest. This Post Sponsored by: Perfectly Clear for Photoshop or Lightroom is all about saving you time so you can focus on […]

Hilarious Condom-Challenge Portraits

Looking to make people laugh by combining humor and art, commercial photographer and digital artist Andreas Varro created the ‘Condom Challenge’ photography project. While the condom challenge, the internet’s latest craze, mostly makes people look stupid online, Andreas used it to create these awesome photos. According to Wikipedia the condom challenge dates back as far […]

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Deal: Panasonic GH4 for $978

ebay (via RedTagCamera) has the Panasonic GH4 for $978.95 (compare at $1297.99) in limited quantity. Check it out here on ebay. Note: This is likely a gray market item. ebay seller RedTagCamera has a positive feedback rating of 99.9% at the time of this post. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography […]

Why Our Industry Is Failing

(And then Missy got all serious, referred to herself in 3rd person, and wrote the following…) When my children were little they would collect things in their pockets. They were little pack racks; the kid version of hoarders. Anything that caught their eye would go into their pocket for safe keeping: a colorful leaf; a […]

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Sony’s Camera and Lens Instant Rebates Expire Jan. 2

The excellent deals on Sony’s cameras and lenses that we’ve seen over the holidays end this weekend on January 2. Notable deals include: Sony A6000 w/ 16-50mm lens for $548 Sony A6000 body for $398 Sony A6000 w/ 16-50mm and 55-210mm lenses for $696 Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS lens for $248 Sony RX100 II […]

This ‘Smashing’ New Year’s video is thirty seconds of camera gear destruction

If you possess a weak stomach, you might want to turn away while you can. What you’re about to see is thirty seconds of devastation, brought to us by B&H in collaboration with video production company Brilliant Champions and OnTime Studios. In the half-minute video, which is an advert to promote Canon’s CarePAK protection plan, which comes free with […]

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