For some of us, film photography is something we fondly remember from the past. For others, it’s something intriguing yet to be discovered. Either way, film photography is something you definitely should try even in the digital era. If you’re new to it, this is a video to help you get started. COOPH teamed up with Joe Greer to bring you seven tips that you help you start shooting film....

BBC videographer Gordon Buchanan is on a mission of observing and filming a family of polar bears for one of his latest project. So, he came as close to the animals as possible – but one of the bears decided to get even closer. In this video shared by BBC Earth, you can see the scary moment when the polar bear tried to break into the box protecting Buchanan while he was filming....

Every once in a while, I stumble upon a light painting photo that takes my breath away. This time, it’s a photo by a Finnish photographer and light painting artist Hannu Huhtamo. He light-painted swans on the lake’s surface, ending up with an unusual and mesmerizing image. And it all takes a whole new level once you watch the behind-the-scenes video of him while painting with light! Hannu shot this wonderful image with an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III paired with M....

It’s kind of tough as a mama to admit it, but occasionally your kids can behave a bit like little punks. And bear cubs are no exception. This little cub was caught on trail cam testing out his mother’s patience. When she put him back in his place he took out his frustration on the camera. Twice. The second time succeeding in knocking it over. The scientists monitoring the footage even went so far as to call the cub “a little twerp”....

It’s not really a secret that we’re big fans of 3D printing here at DIYP. Whether it’s printing out handy gear that we’ll use all the time, functional workhorse tools, or making the cameras themselves, 3D printing is just a lot of fun and it’s worked the way into the lives of the DIYP team in a big way. And speaking of big, big’s where we’re going this time. We’ve covered how to 3D print lithophanes on here before....

Buying your very first DSLR is a thrilling event, but it’s not an easy task. The choice is huge and it may be overwhelming and confusing when you start looking at all those cameras. In this video, Kai Wong compares two options from Nikon you can get for under $400 along with lenses. One is new and the other is used, and Kai looks into the pros and cons of both....

Advertisements The winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were revealed yesterday at a ceremony at the Natural History Museum, London. There were 19 category winners selected from over 48,000 entries from 100 countries, so I believe that the judges had had a very tough choice ahead of them. Yongqing Bao from the Chinese province of Qinghai has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 title for his image titled The Moment....

Yes, this actually happened. A 28-year-old woman from Miami Beach trespassed a high school. She pretended to be a school girl looking for a registration office to pass through the security and then caused multiple incidents that eventually led to her arrest. And why? So she could gain more Instagram followers among the students. The incident happened on Monday when Audrey Nicole Francisquini entered American Senior High School. According to Local 10, the security confronted her, but she said she was a student looking for a registration office, so they let her through....

Yongnuo has been coming pretty thick and fast with lenses over the last couple of years. Sure, they’re generally copies of somebody else’s lens, but they’re cheap and, for the most part, seem to perform fairly well considering the price. Announced last month, the Yongnuo 50mm f/1.4, though, looks to be of their own design. The first review of the new lens has now been posted to YouTube by Christopher Frost, and it appears to be pretty favourable....

Z Cam has announced the new E2-M4 cinema camera. It’s a Micro Four Thirds unit with 13 stops of dynamic range (16 with WDR enabled) that shoots 10-Bit 4K DCI at up to 120 frames per second in ProRes 422 and 1080p at up to 240 frames per second. Like Z Cam’s other cinema cameras, it’s essentially an aluminium alloy cube with a hole in the front for your lens, a handful of buttons, and connection points spread all around....

Bumping the Milvus family of lenses up to 11, Zeiss have announced the Zeiss Milvis 1.4/25. As the name suggests, a 25mm f/1.4 wide angle lens. The wide angle and super fast aperture makes it ideally suited to both location portrait as well as astrophotography. Not to mention landscape and architectural photography. Designed for full frame DSLRs, the manual focus lens is available for both Nikon and Canon. It features a weather resistant construction with internal seals to fight against dust and moisture....

Zhiyun has announced their newest 3-axis smartphone gimbal, the Zhiyun Smooth 5S. It offers some nice improvements over the Smooth 5, including a built-in LED light on the mounting arm, superior anti-shake performance and new motors to help with more extreme shots and camera angles. It offers up to 25 hours of use and when it does go flat, takes only two hours to charge back up from flat to full over a USB-PD fast charging connection....

ZY Optics has announced the newest in their T1 lens in their cinema lens lineup. The Mitakon 50mm T1.0 MFT Cine joins the 17mm, 25mm and 35mm T1.0 lenses announced last year to complete their Micro Four Thirds cine lens lineup. As with the other lenses in the range, the 50mm T1.0 is very low budget, coming in at only $399 and now you can buy a bundle containing all four lenses which includes a free protective case....

I believe there are few people who haven’t seen the “Disaster Girl” in one of a million memes circling around the internet. The adorable girl is now 21 (yes, we’re old) and she found a way to make money from the viral photo of her. She sold it as an NFT and earned almost half a million dollars. It was 2005 and Zoe Roth was only four years old when her dad Dave took the famous photo of her....

We all strive for the highest quality of footage when we’re filming. But let’s face it, bad audio will sink your video faster than you can say ‘iceberg ahead’. With that in mind, there are many many options of microphones for recording stellar audio, all suited to different needs. DIYP caught up with Colberg Ambassador Karim Yatrib to learn more about Synco‘s so-new-it-isn’t-released-yet G3 Wireless microphones. The G2 is a very reliable microphone and has developed a wide fanbase....

Angelina Jolie recently joined forces with National geographic to draw attention to bee conservation and support women beekeepers. For this occasion, the famous actress and humanitarian posed with her face and torso covered in bees and without a protective suit. NatGeo shared a video of Jolie as she was being photographed, and it’s amazing how calm she was. In fact, she was so calm that none of the bees stung her....

Instagram is full of photoshopped photos of people who desperately try to fit the imposed beauty standards. I can’t say I follow them, but it doesn’t change the fact that they exist. An Instagram page Goddess Women photoshops celebrities to fit today’s beauty standards, showing the absurdity of it all. I’m not sure whether the artist is ironic or serious with these enhancements. But whichever is the case, he or she does a pretty decent retouching job....

The rule of thirds in photography. I know… I’m going back to basics but since I just published an article on the importance of Leading Lines in Photography, I thought it to be a good idea to go back to the beginning and explain crucial bits of photography which I hadn’t covered until now. A note on rules: I have always held the belief that rules, however useful at times, are meant to be broken....

After some guessing and speculations, Canon has now officially launched Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM lens. According to the test shots and videos, it makes really great images, and it’s quite versatile. Along with the macro, they have also released a new compact camera, Canon PowerShot SX730 HS. It’s the follow-up to the SX720, and another light and compact travel camera. So let us tell you more about both of them....

So, I have to start this post by saying that I was wrong. I really didn’t expect the Canon EOS R3 to come with a $6K price tag at all. I figured it would be closer to something like the Sony A9 II’s $4.5K, but nope. Canon has now officially announced their latest EOS R3 mirrorless camera and it is indeed $5,999. When you look at the specs, though, it sure makes sense....