Photoshop is full of tricks and shortcuts. If you ask me, this is one of its beauties, as there’s always something new to discover that will help you speed up your workflow. In this video, Nathaniel Dodson of Tutvid gives you 25 handy Photoshop tips and tricks in only 20 minutes. They’ll help your editing become faster and more efficient, and these are the tricks every photographer should know. Are you familiar with all of these?...
So you’ve got the knowledge and skill, you know your gear and the direction in which you want to go with your photography. Now it’s time to attract clients. You will inevitably do some shoots you won’t be too excited about, and that’s okay. But you should make an effort to attract clients you really want to work with. After all, doing the kind of shoots you like is what will make you really love your job and enjoy it to the max....
The first two Dogwood Photography 52 Week Challenges were an amazing success, with tens of thousands of photographers participating from around the world. We enter the third year of the challenge with the Community Challenge! This challenge has been created by photographers who participated in past year’s challenges to push themselves, and you, even further in your photographic journey. The Community Challenge is a great follow on to the other two challenges, but is also suitable to be completed as a stand-alone challenge....
I know it’s extremely trendy right now to say that ‘one light is all you need’, and although in certain situations this is true, a of the time extra lights will likely look better, or at the very least make your life easier. Now before you rush to the comments section to proclaim the purity and simplicity of a black and white headshot being lit by a single light as being the very essence of great photography, I’ll just add that I agree....
With the number of extra gadgets and doohickies built into our cameras these days, battery life is diminishing. Larger sensors, faster processors, more memory, built in WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS all drain our batteries faster than they used to. Keeping spare batteries on you is always a good idea when you’re out with your camera. Even with spare batteries, though, a long day or vacation without electricity can easily drain them all....
According to a report by Reuters, a stake in Leica is up for sale. Buyout group Blackstone is in talks with potential buyers, and Zeiss is one of the potential buyers. 45% percent stake in Leica is up for sale, and judging from the report, there are already several acquirers interested. Reuters relies on the sources coming from the “people close to the matter.” They claim that the investor has teamed up with an investment bank....
For the longest time, I wasn’t a huge fan of digital black and white conversions. I stuck with film. Ilford FP4+ to be precise. It wasn’t a “purist” thing. I just felt that digital black and whites didn’t look as good as what I could get right out of the developing tank. Software, and specifically Adobe’s RAW processing engine, has come a long way since then, though. Now, digital black and whites are quite commonplace....
Adobe has announced that their Creative Cloud suite of apps is now available for Chromebooks. What they did was modify their existing Android apps, so they are now compatible with selected Chromebooks. Considering these devices are mainly used in schools, this could be a step forward in education, and the best thing is – these apps will be available free of charge for students and teachers. Adobe has announced six apps for Chromebook users in their first round of Creative Cloud Apps, and these are:...
In summer 2017, Adobe promised they would speed up Lightroom’s performance. Judging from the latest reports, they will soon fulfill the promise they gave to their users. The company is soon planning to launch an update that will boost Lightroom Classic’s performance. According to a statement Adobe gave DPReview, the upcoming Lightroom Classic 7.2 release will “address key performance issues.” They say they have “optimized CPU and memory usage so that performance will scale better across multiple cores on computers with at least 12 GB of RAM....
It’s been almost two years since it was first reported that Facebook plans to merge Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram DMs. And now, some users have noticed that the latest Instagram update shows them a Messenger logo, so the big merger is apparently being rolled out. A few editors at The Verge noticed that there’s now an update screen popping up in Instagram’s mobile app, reading that there is there’s now “a new way to message on Instagram....
So many of us baby our gear. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Despite the fact that the odd scratch here and there isn’t going to affect the performance of my kit, I’m still going to try to take the best care of it that I can. But sometimes accidents happen. And an accident is what happened to Christopher Hamberger when he dropped his $1,200 Nikon 35mm f/1.4 Ai-S lens and shattered the rear element....
Apple has faced harsh criticism after announcing that it will scan iCloud and iPhones for photos of child sexual abuse. The company has now responded to it and clarified that it will only scan the photos that have already been flagged internationally. One of the features allows Apple to scan stored iCloud images in search of known CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) images. If any of them are found, Apple will report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)....
Advertisements Feustel posted the photo on Twitter saying: Apart from Feustel’s image, NASA also has another photo from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite showing new fissures on the island. Taken on May 6th, the image highlights in yellow the hotspots where newly formed fissures and lava flows have appeared. Although Kilauea looks awe-inspiring from afar, the danger that it poses to humans is very real....
It must be a strange feeling being up in space and witnessing potentially catastrophic events back down on planet earth. The sensations of both awe and impotence simultaneously could be enough to wreak havoc on your mental health. So spare a thought for the astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) this week who have released stunning footage of Hurricane Ian seen from above. Hurricane Ian is currently heading towards the Florida coast....
A few couples from Central Florida are accusing an award-winning photographer of not delivering what they paid for. The couples found him through TheKnot.com, a popular website for wedding planning, where he received three “Best of Wedding” awards. However, despite the website’s recommendations, the photographer reportedly left the couples without their precious memories. Katie Keith is one of the brides who claim to have paid almost $3,000 to Nick Seago, the owner of SNi Photography....
If you decided against Tony’s advice and want to go ahead and get a drone anyway, then be warned that flying them isn’t always as easy as flashy commercials may have you believe. You want to shoot decent footage and you also want to not kill them. Both of those things require some care. In this video, Matti Haapoja offers 5 tips to “get good” with your drone. 1. Buy a cheap toy drone one to learn with Yes, a toy drone....
Oh, look. It’s another established company jumping on the Kickstarter train to try to launch a new product. This time, it’s Benro, with their new Aureole, a “modular 3-in-1 drop-in filter adapter system”. Essentially, though, it’s just another Canon EF lens to whatever camera mount adapter with filters you can slot in between the two – a bit like Canon’s own EF to RF drop-in filter adapter. Except, this one comes in options to let you mount those EF lenses to Canon RF, Sony E, Micro Four Thirds, Nikon Z, Leica L, Fuji X and Fuji GFX cameras....
Photography is one of few industries where perception of skill feels quite so inextricably linked with equipment. For a lot of people, the start of their interest in photography is tied directly to the gear they buy: working out just enough about how aperture works to want to invest in a fast 50, getting enough of a handle of artificial light to crave a speed light or two, the eventual step into full-frame....
I went to university in a beautiful little town called Falmouth, Cornwall, in the very south western tip of the UK. It’s 6 hours away from London, so not exactly near to the “fashion capital.” However, it’s surrounded by incredible landscapes: rolling hills, cliffs, rivers pouring out into the sea… it’s quite magical. So when I finished my degree, and everyone began to move up to London to find work, I knew I didn’t want that....
Rumours of an APS-C RF mount camera from Canon have been around ever since the Canon EOS R was first announced in September 2018. There’s been a bit of back and forth from Canon about this, stating that they had no plans to kill off their APS-C EOS M lineup in favour of APS-C RF, but they didn’t rule it out completely. We haven’t heard any more in the last couple of months since it was reported that such a camera was “definitely” on the way in October, but now Canon Rumors is reporting that a new APS-C RF mount camera, potentially a more pro-level “EOS R7” (not an official moniker), similar to the old EOS 7D DSLR line is indeed out in the wild being tested right now....
