Developing your eye for how natural light can shape your composition comes with time. Contemporary landscape photographer Kyle McDougall has put together five excellent nuggets of knowledge to take with you the next time you’re out shooting. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Andy Day)

Being a successful professional photographer takes the confluence of a wide variety of skills, and it is easy to make some mistakes along the way. It helps to know what you might be facing before you get started. This excellent video essay discusses some things a professional wishes he knew before he got started. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

An f/2.8 ultra-wide angle zoom lens can be useful for a wide variety of scenarios ranging from events work to astrophotography and landscapes. For Nikon mirrorless shooters, there is the NIKKOR Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S, and this great video review takes a look at the kind of performance and image quality you can expect from it in practice. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

The post dPS Weekly Photography Challenge : Books appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Sime. A source of learning and inspiration, books are a part of all (ok, most?) of our lives, some of them even have pages! (yes, that was a side-eyed shot at people who only use e-readers haha) I personally love a great photography book, but I digress… This week your challenge is to make an interesting photograph with a book! I’ve share a few examples below (They’re from Unsplash, this week with home-school here in Melbourne, I’ve had little time to pick up the camera, sadly!) You can set a scene with a book, use it’s pages to guide your viewer into your...

This week, it’s been reported from several news outlets that OnlyFans, the popular premium subscription service known mostly for explicit content will be banning explicit content from October 1, 2021 forward. Why would they do this? What are they planning for the future? Could OnlyFans now become a better option for artists and photographers? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Brad Wendes)

Nikkei recent published a synopsis of Techno System Research's Market Share Survey for 2020, a detailed paywalled survey of camera shipment data from major manufacturers. The headline is a 5.0% drop for Nikon, decreasing its total market share. This isn't great news for Nikon, but is it all it seems? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Mike Smith)

Landscape photography often takes a wide variety of accessories to produce a finished image, and it is easy to forget them or get bogged down by the cost of it all. This awesome video tutorial will show you a range of hacks and useful techniques to make it easier to take photos and explore your creativity a bit more. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Photo By Jeff Harshaw Today’s Photo Of The Day is “River Wide, Mountains High” by Jeff Harshaw. Location: Mammoth Lakes, California. “When I went out this afternoon, I had an objective in mind, get the upper Owens River and the Sherwin range of the Sierra Nevada mountains together in my frame,” says Harshaw. “There was a spring storm coming through, so I thought I might get a really great sunset with the sun illuminating the mountains, the river to the south of me while the clouds were to the west and east of the sun. Luck favors the prepared, they say, and sometimes the plans you make when you set out with your camera come to fruition. On this one occasion,...

Adobe is pushing out an update to Photoshop today that includes some improvements to its Sky Replacement feature, and they are adding some features to the iPad version of Photoshop. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Mel Martin)

The post The ZV-E10, Sony’s First Interchangeable-Lens Vlog Camera, Will Ship on the 24th appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Jaymes Dempsey. Next week, Sony will release its distinctive new vlogging camera, the ZV-E10, which features a compact build, APS-C image quality, and interchangeable lenses. Sony’s new camera is “designed from the ground up for vlogging and vloggers,” and aims to provide content creators with a blend of beginner-friendliness, top-notch video, and compactness for a uniquely effective shooting experience.  While Sony already offers a vlogging camera, the ZV-1, the ZV-E10 aims to keep the best of the former model while improving upon it in a number of ways. Most notably, the ZV-1 is a fixed-lens camera, while...

Imagine unwittingly spending $15 at a garage sale on an old camera body and a couple of lenses and later discovering that you’ve bought some Leica gear that’s worth more than seven thousand dollars. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Andy Day)

Show Us Your Best Photos of People In Nature We've done plenty of landscape and portrait photography critiques over the years but this time we are combining them. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Lee Morris)

This is another of those ‘most asked’ questions, and when people ask it, their images are in fact missing, and they are in fact, freaking out (and I don’t blame them). Today I thought I’d share five big reasons this happens so you’ll have a checklist to go back to if this ever happens to you. Here are five big reasons: You Renamed The Folder If on your computer you change the name of a folder of images, Lightroom keeps looking for the folder with the old name, so your images all appear as “missing.” To avoid this: change the name of the folder inside Lightroom’s Folders panel — that way, Lightroom knows the new name. You Moved The Folder To...

Every photographer needs a good mid-range lens. Most go for a 50mm, but you should consider this 65mm from Sigma, as it has a small size and weight and astounding image quality for a low price. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by James Madison)

Released back in October 2018, the Sony FE 24mm f/1.4 GM has proven a solid choice for those requiring a fast, wide-angle prime. Christopher Frost puts it through his usual rigorous testing to see how it holds up. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Andy Day)

So many tips and tricks for photography are either ineffective, highly niche, or flat-out untrue. Nevertheless, there are still some brilliant tricks that can improve your workflow, and here are eight of them. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Robert K Baggs)

With COVID-19 basically celebrating its 1.5-year reign of terror with new strain variants, how have you been holding up? How have all the restrictions kept you from pursuing the craft? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Nicco Valenzuela)

As a photojournalist, I often have subconscious blocks against excessive editing that seep even into other genres of photography. That’s why I often try my hand at toy photography when I want to flex my editing muscles. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Wasim Ahmad)

There’s more to focusing than half-pressing the shutter release. Focus is one of the three most important technical variables in photography; it can make or break a photograph. Here are ten things, some basic, some more advanced, to help you shoot better photos. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Ivor Rackham)

We recently learned that Apple might be analyzing the images we upload to the iCloud servers. Now the fact is, that they have implemented a checking mechanism, but in this video, Apple’s Software Chief, Craig Federighi, explains what is happening to your images when you use iCloud Libraries. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Wouter du Toit)