2022 has been quite the year for photo gear, with a huge range of impressive camera and lens releases. What has been your favorite? What failed to impress you? This hilarious video discusses the best and worst camera and lenses of the past year. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

I’ve been making a tutorial about the Map Module in Lightroom Classic for the Dutch Photographic community. It can be a lot of work collecting and adding GPS data to your images. Does this information have any use at all, or is it just nice to have? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Nando Harmsen)

That's what one of the internet's most popular photographers and reviewers said about the rumored specs on the Canon EOS R5 II, due for release in 2023. Take a look inside to see why he made such a huge statement. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Iain Stanley)

Today’s Photo of the Day is “Clash of Seasons in the Maroon Wilderness” by Clayton Peoples. Location: Colorado. “The Maroon Bells are purportedly the most photographed mountains in Colorado,” explains Peoples. “Yet, despite the fact that it’s frequently visited/photographed, it takes luck to arrive when fall colors are peaking below the mountains—and even more luck to capture snow on the peaks. I was lucky enough to encounter both on a recent trip to Colorado.” Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos...

As the adage goes, “you have to run before you can walk.” This also applies to photography. Once you’ve learned how to consistently make a good image within your camera, what is the next step? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Ali Choudhry)

The post Landscape Photography for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Barry J Brady. Landscape photography is an amazing activity filled with excitement, beauty, exhilaration, and so much more. And in my view, landscape photography isn’t especially difficult – but it does require dedication, passion, and a bit of knowledge. In this article, I offer my best tips for beginner landscape photography. I explain how to find the best subjects, how to choose the right gear, and how to handle your camera settings in the field; in fact, you can think of this as a mini landscape photography crash course covering all the basics. So if you’re a landscape photography newbie and you...

Since Lightroom and Photoshop introduced their automatic sky selections, changes to the sky in landscape and architecture photos have become very easy. But, how good are those automatic selections? If you edit photos for web representation alone, they are mostly good enough. But if you intend to print your photos, you might want to improve them, which is what I show in this article. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Michael Breitung)

If you are new to working with artificial light, you might look at some of the complex multi-light setups seasoned professionals use and feel a bit overwhelmed or discouraged. However, you can absolutely make creative, compelling, and professional-level portraits with just a single light, and this neat video tutorial will show you one of the more unusual but effective ways of doing so. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

When you are new to photography, you spend most of your time focusing on the image-making process, but as you start to charge for your work, there are important fundamentals of business you must learn as well, one of the most crucial being the contract. This important video discusses why you should really have a contract, even if you think you don't need one. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

After many years of non-pro iPhones, Apple’s new 48-megapixel iPhone 14 Pro was enough to convince me to pull the trigger. I was ready to fall into the embrace of Apple’s AI-assisted ProRAW format. While it has its uses, in its current state it’s still kind of a mixed bag. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Wasim Ahmad)

When it was first released, the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art was one of the most exciting and innovative lenses ever seen, being the only standard zoom with an aperture below f/2. Nonetheless, the lens is almost a decade old now, and in the meantime, sensor resolutions have increased. So, can this famous lens keep up with the demands of a modern camera? This excellent video review takes a look. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Today’s Photo of the Day is “Smoky Mountain Fall” by Max Foster. “Yellow is the dominant color in this autumn photo, and I love how it creates a cathedral-like atmosphere over this river,” says Foster. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Max Foster appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff

In recent years, Tamron has shown that they intend on creating impressively versatile and often innovative zoom lenses that can take the place of several others in a photographer's bag. One such lens is the 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD, which covers everything from normal to supertelephoto focal lengths. This great video review takes a look at the lens and the sort of performance and image quality you can expect from it in practice. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

The post 5 Fun and Festive Holiday Photography Ideas (+ Tips) appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Lara Joy Brynildssen. Holidays in the Northern Hemisphere can be a bleak time of year for photographers. Daylight hours are short, temperatures drop, and the leaves have fallen off the trees. Luckily, in December, cities and suburbs are decorated with a blaze of holiday lights and color – so even if you’d rather spend time indoors, I encourage you to head outside and create some beautiful and colorful holiday images. What types of photos can you capture? While you can always just set off with your camera and explore, I’ve come up with a list of several festive holiday photography...

Rafting the Gates of Lodore section of the Green River through Dinosaur National Monument offers photographers a wide range of geology and dramatic canyon walls to observe. After feeling trapped at home for the past couple of years, I think it is fair to say that most of us nature photographers are going a bit stir crazy looking forward to finally getting out shooting more often again. With this desire to resume travel comes the fact that more and more photographers are visiting the same crowded locations. With overcrowded parks and permit systems becoming more common in places like Glacier and Yosemite National Parks, perhaps it’s time to explore some lesser-visited parks and monuments around the country. The site of one...

Laowa now has a total of six lenses with an aperture of f/0.95, so how useful is it to have this aperture, and what are the results? As a landscape photographer mainly, this maximum aperture is something I had never really considered, although I do understand the usefulness of such an aperture for different types of photography, especially in low light and video. So, how does the lens perform throughout the apertures, and does it have the ability to provide results that are in line with or better than similar lenses in this price range? I tested it to find out. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Gary McIntyre)

Wedding photography is notorious for being a demanding, high-stakes genre, and as such, it is natural that with that comes a fair amount of stress. Nonetheless, that does not mean you can't do certain things to reduce that stress. This excellent video tutorial features an experienced wedding shooter discussing five reasons why you might be overly stressed shooting weddings and what you can do to fix that. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

There are many different techniques for getting consistently sharp images, but I think this one is the best of them all. Take a look to find out why. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Iain Stanley)

The post Weekly Photography Challenge – Abstract appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Sime. We tried the theme ‘Abstract’ once before, but didn’t get a whole lot of photos posted – let’s try it again, this time with vigour! (And a better description of ‘Abstract in Photography’ below!) Go out (or stay in!) and make an abstract photograph! Spill some milk on the floor and photograph the edge of it close up? Make a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects – most of all, have fun! Remember, tag your posts with #dPSWeeklyChallenge and #dPSAbstract22 This is what Wikipedia gives me: “Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental or conceptual photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that...

Photographers have preferences on everything ranging from their favorite camera to their best lens, how they edit their photos, and what photo paper they use to make prints. What if your own preferences aren't aligned with what your potential clients enjoy? We asked dozens of normal people which photo papers and print products they prefer, and the results were not exactly what I had expected. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Patrick Hall)