Advertisements “Hey guys getting into video, should I get the Canon 7D markii or an Arri Alexa?” Gidremuze316 wrote. One might even think that he is serious, but the comment below kinda gave him away. “I’m looking for something with the best low light thanks,” he added. While he’s probably trolling, the Redditors in the comments on this post are trolling even more. The replies are hilarious, and here are some that made me laugh most:...

If you want your bokeh to be a little more elaborate you have to be pretty darn good with an exacto knife. So crude shapes are fine, but what if you wanted to do something more delicate, like writing a word. I mean, even Dr. Shepherd can only get that precise with an exacto knife. (lady readers in the audience?). Videographers Jimmy Wong and Laurasaurus Rex (Lore), came up with a prety clever way to create delicate bokeh shapes....

Last week, photogenic and protected salt flats in Death Valley National Park were damaged. A van driver left drove off a half mile off Badwater Road, leaving tracks in the salt flats. After doing this, he or she just left the vehicle there and left the site. And unfortunately, the tracks are not the only damage caused by this recklessness. https://www.facebook.com/DeathValleyNP/posts/1499375760086701:0 Two days later, the National Park Service towed out the van using a tracked vehicle....

Venus Optics keeps expanding its family of lenses. A week after launching the L-mount version of its four lenses, the company is adding Canon RF and Nikon Z option to two more. The 65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO is now available for Nikon Z, whereas Canon R shooters will be able to get the 11mm f/4.5 FF RL lens. Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x Ultra-Macro APO The Laowa 65mm f/2....

When I first heard the phrase “dual cameras” used in relation to mobile phones, 3D is what first came to my mind. How disappointed I was to find out that it was nothing to do with recording videos or shooting stills in 3D. Now, Weeview want to fix that, having announced the Eye-Plug 3D Camera at Computex. The Eye-Plug gives your smartphone’s camera software an extra lens and sensor so it can see two viewpoints at once....

There has been a steady flow of photos and footage from Hawaii’s Mt. Kilauea since it erupted a few days ago, but this time-lapse video is probably one of the most intense we’ve seen so far. Taken by WXChasing, it shows slow-moving lava slowly devouring a Ford Mustang parked on the side of the street. https://www.facebook.com/wxchasing/videos/638667819798185/ Among the most active volcanoes in the world, Kilauea has been erupting continuously for more than thirty years with its lava normally flowing underwater straight into the sea....

100 years from now, no one is going to care who I am. I know this. I don’t mean that in a bad way and I don’t say it in the hopes someone will contradict me and shower me with praise; this is not said as Compliment Bait. No, I say it because it’s true. 100 years from now, no one is going to care who I was. The same probably goes for you, too....

We have heard quite a bit about the Godox AD600 and just had to take it for a test. We accompanied photographer Tom Saimon in a sports apparel shoot to see how the strobe performs in a harsh outdoors environment. Overall, we were very impressed, both with performance and especially performance compared to price point. More sports photos and the full review after the jump. I kinda lied, I said review, but this would be more of a life experience of using the Godox* AD600 in a real shooting scenario....

Westcott has announced its newest flash trigger, the FJ-X3. There are two version of the trigger, the FJ-X3 M for Nikon, Canon, Sony (with an adapter), Fuji, Panasonic and Olympus and the FJ-X3 S specifically for Sony – because Sony likes to be special and different when it comes to their hotshoe. The FJ-X3 comes with a new removable lithium-ion battery, allowing photographers to swap out and charge as needed without the hassle and cost of single-use AA batteries....

I often see people asking what colour they should paint their new studio, or what backdrop should they get. My advice, if you only have to pick one, is to get white. Always. White is the most versatile background you could use for portraits. My reasoning is simple. You can turn white into any colour you choose. In this video, Malaysian photographer Andrew Boey with the assistance of his model, Demi, shows us how to send a white backdrop to complete blackness....

Submitting your work to competitions can feel daunting. You submit your work to scrutiny and for anyone who is emotionally invested in their photos, they make themselves vulnerable too. However, if you can summon the courage to submit your photos to competitions, you might find that the benefits extend beyond just the possibility of bagging yourself some swag. 1. Competitions turn you into your own best critic If you want to be in with a chance of winning a competition then you need to enter your best shot....

Do megapixels really matter? Well, of course they do, but they don’t take the first place when it comes to the importance. According to photographer Manny Ortiz, a good dynamic range is what you should look for in a camera. In his latest video, he shares why both are important – but also why dynamic range matters more. You’ll see plenty of blog posts and articles stating that megapixels don’t matter....

Along with normal how-to articles and essays, I’ve always liked reading and writing very technical, nitty-gritty articles about photography — sometimes, articles on topics that rarely come up while actually taking pictures. In fact, I usually don’t even use my own sharpest aperture charts in the field, as useful as they are, since I don’t like carrying around charts. So, then, does all that technical stuff matter? Is it even worth talking about in the first place?...

There is nobody more important to photograph than our loved ones. Why travel to photograph? Why is it that we always try to photograph the exotic? For example, it is more interesting to photograph a villager in some African tribe, than to photograph our partner. It is more interesting to photograph a Parisian couple at a cafe drinking espressos, rather than to photograph our mother or father. It is more interesting to photograph an epic sunset, rather than photograph our children, our friends, or ourselves....

Do you baby your gear and protect it from any possible harm? Or you go out there and shoot even in the harshest conditions? Some people worry about the gear so much that they don’t even put it to use when there’s a bit of rain. It’s understandable up to some point, but it has some downsides for your photography. If you belong to this group, you may find this video from Thomas Heaton enlightening....

Nikon has announced that applications for its Storytellers Scholarship are now open. Established in 2017 to celebrate Nikon’s 100th anniversary, this is the second time that the company is offering academic scholarships. Nikon aims to “supporting the education of young content creators,” so it will award $10,000 to ten eligible students in the USA or Canada. One of the conditions you need to meet is that you are pursuing a degree in visual arts, fine arts, journalism, film, photography, and multimedia/content creation....

Firmware version 3.00 has just been released for Fujifilm GFX100. The latest firmware update adds the Pixel Shift Multi-Shot function to the camera, which combines 16 RAW images and allows you to take gigantic 400 MP images. This feature was announced back in February during the X Summit in London. The latest firmware update also adds Pixel Shift Combiner, a software application that combines the 16 RAW images created by the Pixel Shift Multi-Shot function to create a single 400MP photo....

Would you ever pay to access certain content on Instagram? Well, soon you might. According to recent discoveries Alessandro Paluzzi made, Instagram is testing a “fan club” feature that will only give you access to some Stories if you pay to see them. Alessandro tweeted his findings, writing that Instagram is working on stories for fan clubs. “Exclusive stories visible only to fan club [member’s] eyes,” he writes, adding that it will not be possible to take screenshots of these exclusive stories....

There’s a famous saying that “good artists borrow, great artists steal”, attributed to Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso or even T. S. Eliot, depending on who you ask. Obviously, we’re not talking about taking somebody else’s work and claiming as your own, but taking on elements of others concepts and ideas, being inspired by it and incorporating it into your own artistic philosophy and methodology. There’s a wonderful video called Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson that touches on this topic, too (and perhaps takes it a step further), but this video from photographer Chris Sale talks about it specifically as it applies to him and his landscape photography and how it can apply to you, too....

A recent post on Google products forum announces that YouTube Video Editor and Photo slideshows will be discontinued in September. Apparently, there were a limited number of users of these features. So, Google has decided to cancel them completely so they can focus on “building new tools and improving on other existing features.” When it comes to the features that will be canceled, the first one is raw video clip editing, and the second one is the Photo slideshow tool....