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    This short video shows how one soft light can make a huge difference in final result
    Jun 8, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    There is a lot of power you can master once you go from available light to even using one strobe. Photographer Manuel Ortiz demonstrates it in…

    Canon’s new 1000mm lens could be half as big and ready in time for the Olympics
    Jun 8, 2016 John Aldred

    Companies put out patents for new stuff all the time, and Canon have filed 4,134 of them, many of which will never actually exist in…

    Bowens Lighting and Calumet Photographic acquired by AURELIUS, bad news for Bowens?
    Jun 7, 2016 John Aldred

    After Calumet’s closure of US based retail stores and filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2014, it was pretty clear they were in trouble.  With Bowens, this news comes…

    How to shoot video with a white seamless background on the cheap
    Jun 7, 2016 John Aldred

    There are countless ways of setting up and lighting a white background for stills or video, but sometimes you just need to get it done…

    How to make “before and after” animated sequences in Photoshop
    Jun 7, 2016 John Aldred

    In a slight departure from the reviews of old and weird lenses typically seen on Mathieu Stern’s YouTube channel, this tutorial shows how to create animated…

    DJI’s new follow focus lets you remotely focus your drone’s camera lens from 3 miles away
    Jun 7, 2016 John Aldred

    Designed for both the land and air, the new DJI Focus remote follow focus system wants to change the way we record our aerial footage. No…

    Getty shows off how many images they have with this amazing facial composite ad
    Jun 7, 2016 John Aldred

    If you ever needed proof that police photo composites could be pretty accurate, this is it. In an advert recently put out by Getty, they…

    This photographer climbed the spire of One World Trade Center to shoot photographs and 360° video
    Jun 6, 2016 John Aldred

    For most sane and rational people, being invited to climb the spire at the top of One World Trade Center to photograph the view would probably…

    This portable LED puts out as much light as a 1.5K tungsten with a Bowens mount strobe sized form factor
    Jun 6, 2016 John Aldred

    LED lighting has come a very long way in just a few short years, and Aputure wants to take on the sun with their new COB…

    NPR Photographer David Gilkey killed in Afghanistan in Taliban ambush
    Jun 6, 2016 John Aldred

    American photojournalist David Gilkey, on assignment for NPR, alongside interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed in Afghanistan on Sunday in a Taliban ambush, according to reports from…