Advertisements RSB’s Photographer of the Year is Tilaxan Tharmapalan. he took the winning photo in Sri Lanka, and it shows a herd of elephants searching for food on a garbage dump near a wildlife sanctuary. “Although authorities have recently banned dumping rubbish near these protected sites,” RSB writes, “elephants had been known to fall ill and die from rummaging and eating the waste.” In addition to the Photographer of the Year category, RSB has one more category....

No matter if you use the latest full-frame camera or a smartphone, the composition is one of the most important elements of a good photo. This video from Advancing Your Photography channel is like chatting with photography masters about this topic. Photographers Chris Burkard, Bob Holmes, Chase Jarvis and Marc Silber talk about composition and give you plenty of wise tips they use in their work. The video begins with a composition planning tip from Chase Jarvis....

What lengths would you go to for your pet? One woman went the extra mile (or twenty) to ensure her kitty was healthy by creating her own AI program to monitor her fur baby’s poop schedule. The software engineer spent almost 2 years on the project and estimates that she took around 50,000 photos for the machine to learn from. The engineer who goes by the name Estefannie explained in a video exactly how she went about the operation....

Apple first introduced the Night Mode with the iPhone 11 two years ago. It would automatically turn on every time you’d open a camera to shoot in low light. Apparently, many users hated the automatic enabling of the feature, so Apple now finally allows you to turn it off permanently. The Night Mode sure is a useful feature if you want to improve your shot in low light. However, sometimes you want to make them low-key on purpose, and this is when the feature is more of a nuisance than assistance....

NASA’s Perseverance rover made its successful landing on Mars yesterday. It even sent the first photo! And speaking of photos, NASA has launched a really fun tool to let you play pretend you visited Mars and took a selfie. Because what’s a (space) travel without a selfie, right? “We can’t take you to Mars (yet!) but we can bring the Red Planet to you,” NASA writes. So, you can visit Mars Photo Booth and insert your pretty face into a few different scenes....

Unsplash has in a short time become a major player in the photo-sharing industry. 174,000 photographers have uploaded images to the site. The platform this month boasts 5,000 views and 27 downloads per second. (PER SECOND!) People download images for blogs, classes, and other purposes, but also for commercial use. There is a big debate in the industry asking if Unsplash is good or bad, but it is not what I want to talk about today....

Is there even such thing as too many lenses? Well, I’m afraid so. If you suffer from the so-called Gear Acquisition Syndrome, at some point some of your many lenses will serve for nothing but collecting dust. But how do you know the time to sell them has definitely come? How can you be sure you’re never gonna use them? Let Michael The Maven help you to answer these questions....

If you’re looking for new ways and places to sell your prints, you might actually want to go to an old place, one you may have forgotten. Yup, I’m talking about Flickr, which could soon allow photographers to sell their prints directly to their customers. That’s right, Flickr has launched a printing service that’s different that the one we’ve already seen (and tested). From now on, users will be able to order prints not only of their own photos, but also buy them from other photographers on the platform....

The world of fashion can be quirky sometimes, to say the least. We’ve seen models wearing bizarre creations many times, and Zac and Jamie of The Zac and Jay Show wondered: could they plant a fake model and make photographers at London Fashion Week think that he was real? It turned out that it was pretty easy to do it; all they needed was one day and some imagination for creating a ridiculous outfit....

Zion National Pak has introduced updated rules for photographers and their faithful companions – tripods. From now on, if you are shooting as a part of a photography workshop, you won’t be allowed to use a tripod on any trail within the park. As FStoppers writes, in the previous years, groups of photographers were allowed to use tripods on some of the National Park’s trails. But starting in 2018, tripods are banned from all trails....

Earlier this month, we reported Zion National Park’s decisions to ban tripods from all trails for photography workshops. This caused reactions and even some confusion among photographers. But, Zion National Park has now responded to their concerns. Some trails will allow tripods for photography workshops after all. As FStoppers writes, some workshop operators had seen the change in their contracts with Zion. The others contacted Zion’s concessions management concerning the tripod limitations....

If you’re making money from Instagram and Facebook content, here’s some good news. Meta has announced that it won’t take a cut of your revenue for another year. In the latest attempt to get you off TikTok, Meta says that creators will get to keep all of their earnings until 2024. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s decision in a Facebook post yesterday. He says that it’s all about “more ways for creators to make money on Facebook and Instagram....

Vintage lenses have their quirks, but they also have a certain charm. Many of them are well-built and tack sharp, yet very affordable. Photographer Mathieu Stern is a great fan of vintage glass, so he decided to do a little test. He compared a vintage manual 50mm f/1.2 lens he paid $80 with a modern AF 50mm f/1.2 lens that costs almost $1,500. Are they comparable at all? Let’s take a look....

The good folks at COOPH are back again, and this time they’ve got together with street photographer Thomas Leuthard to offer some creative and practical tips to help improve your street photography. This 4 minute video packs a lot of information into a short space of time and I’m sure many will be able to pick up at least one new trick here, even if you’re been doing street photography for a while....

Photographers are no strangers to the outdoors. A good number of us tend to take our cameras when we go out to nature, even if it’s not our niche. When I pack my photography bag for nature, I don’t always consider all the things I might need. This is why we made the list of all things you should take with you on your next photo hike. Amazingly, we were about to fit 32 different items into the new Lowpro Photosport 24L AW3....

Most photographers take pictures to make a living or to enjoy the moment. No matter what your reason is why you are into photography, it should not affect your ability to capture breathtaking photos. If you are doing photography without passion, your pictures may not have strong emotion to portray to your audience. Thus, your photos may just look shallow to others. A picture, no matter how simple or creative it may look like, you should always find a good meaning behind it....

Fujifilm’s X Summit in London happened yesterday, which kicked off with some talk about their GFX medium format mirrorless camera system. After talking about some new and upcoming lenses, like the recently announced GF 45-100mm f/4, Fujifilm announced that they’re planning to introduce a 400-megapixel “pixel shift” mode to the Fujifilm GFX 100. After the new GF 45-100mm f/4, Fujifilm Senior Manager, Shin Udono, officially added two new prime lenses to the GF lens roadmap; The GF 80mm f/1....

If you can look beyond the painfully obvious click bait nature of the title for a moment, I promise you that the following 5 things need to become a mandatory part of your pre-upload checklist. Remember you only get one chance to impress with your shots and I know we all get very excited to share an image as soon as we’ve taken it, but just take a few moments to check these 5 things are done before you do so and I promise you’ll thank yourself later....

If you take a look at the screens below, you’ss see that there is now a new option for 5K 3×1 24FPS recording. 5K, stands for 5K footage, 3×1 stands for 3 pixels binning and 24 is the FPS, not bad for a sub $150 camera. looking further into the screens we can see that the recording is done at 10 bit, and at an “anamorphic” ratio of 2.35:1....

I love wide angle lenses. They’re a lot of fun to experiment with and can present you with some very unique views. But when shooting with them, there are some things you need to keep in mind. There are times when they shine, and there are also times where you almost certainly wouldn’t want to use one. In this video, photographer Pierre Lambert offers up 7 things you need to understand when using them....