The Canon M5 is the company’s first truly serious attempt at a mirrorless cameras, and they’ve had a number of years to think about just how they were going to approach the market. Targeted at the advanced amateur the Canon M5 is an amazingly small camera with a quite a bit of power inside. With a 24MP Canon developed APS-C sensor at the heart, this camera honestly should have been announced two years ago.
Usually when you think of making a photo book it involves loading up InDesign or Photoshop and spending a few hours on your computer. But Blurb is looking to make the process easier and more enjoyable with their new iOS App which allows for users to create photo books directly from their iPhone or iPad.
Choosing the right image size for the corresponding purpose of how the photograph is used is crucial to optimize image quality. For example, for large printing purposes you may need to provide the highest resolution possible to minimize artifacts and quality degradation in prints. Likewise, for Facebook and Instagram uploads a reduced resolution is acceptable for web viewing only. Alarmy has created a helpful Infographic on A Guide To Image Sizes.
Crazy tip: do you know that your lens can actually focus out past infinity? Lots of photographers don’t know this and instead believe that when you focus your lens out past the furthest area, you’re at infinity. Instead, you’re actually not focusing there. You’re instead focusing really far away. At infinity focus, everything in the scene is truly in focus.
When you look at camera lenses made for photographers, we can all say that they’ve arguably become better and better. Lenses today are sharper than they’ve ever been, more contrasty, able to keep lens flare down, and able to render incredible colors. Part of this came from marketing and everyone who believes they are an expert on the internet involving lab test scores to compete for the favor of many. This ultimately translates into awards and sales.
We’ve been waiting for a very, very long time for Fujifilm Instax Mini Monochrome, and it’s finally here. The film renders an image that is around the same size as 645 film; but one of the problems that it faces is a lack of solid optics and full manual control on a camera. Manufacturers are realizing this more and more though, and so we’re bound to have something soon. We recently purchased four packs of it and ran it through a Mint Camera Instantflex TL70 2.0–which is arguably the best Instax Mini shooting camera on the market. So far it’s proving to be really interesting and far better than the color film. Our review is still underway but here are some of our first impressions.
When you look at headshots, you’ll know that everyone is very aware of the various looks that so many photographers market. But creating your own and putting a stamp of genuine unique creative vision on it is also important to making people see your photos and know that you took them. That’s what Moshe Zusman and Vanessa Joy are trying to teach the next generation of photographers. To do this, Vanessa shared a number of her tips to every headshot photographer to be aware of.
Fabian Oefner has a fascination with iridescence which is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear to change color as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes. Taking advantage of random colors and patterns created from a simple oil spill, Fabian creates fine art photographs.
In order to create professional “studio-like” looking product photographs, typically you will need good lighting source and a light tent. Shotbox is a Kickstarter project that aims to produce a collapsible tabletop light tent that uses LED lights to create a micro-studio environment for product photography, shooting with any camera even with smart devices.
Black and white photography and in general photography is my real passion. If I want to focus on the emotion in my pictures and to bring the idea of the photo to life in a shoot in the first place I do it in black and white pictures.