Sad news coming out of Japan for fans of high-end Nikon point and shoot cameras. Today, Nikon announced the cancellation of the release of their DL series premium compact cameras. The entire line, Nikon DL18-50 f/1.8-2.8, DL24-85 f/1.8-2.8, and DL24-500 f/2.8-5.6, has officially been canceled after issues with the cameras’ image processor were discovered.
The ability to shape light is a necessity for the success of any photographer. For photographers and videographers looking for soft, even light without bulk and the ability to work unplugged, Fotodiox has announced two new FlapJack LED edge lights – the Studio XL and the 1.5×1.5. Each of the edge lights offer manual and DMX control over brightness levels and color temperature. Both the FlapJack Studio XL and the FlapJack 1.5×1.5 offer the same even lighting, ability to work in the studio or on-location, and without sacrificing the slim profile of previous models; now in two new sizes.
This is one of the first steps that we’re going to teach in our Food Photography workshop later on this month. It involves lighting your food in a different way and is just the first step involved with making your food photos look great. More importantly though, this is a piece of information that you’re going to learn and that will help you make better lighting decisions every time.
To bring portraiture work to another level, often photographer would explore interesting and specific themes to work with, playing with creative ideas and inspirations usually drawn from cultural references. Joe Giacomet has created a stunning series of portraits parodying the Vladimir Tretchikoff ‘s famous painting titled ‘Chinese Girl’.
Hey everyone, We’ve got 10 days left to get our Kickstarter fully funded and we’re almost there! But we can use more support. Just a reminder: our zine is going to be all about analog photography. It’s going to feature 100 pages of photos and short interviews profiling a number of photographers on why they …
There are a lot of keyboard options designed to work very well with Photoshop and Lightroom and today, Phase One has announced a partnership with LogicKeyboard to deliver the Capture One Pro Keyboard for the mac. The special keyboard is designed to give photo editors better and quicker access to their shortcuts through color coded layouts.
For a while now, I’ve become more and more frustrated with the things that Adobe has been doing with Lightroom. Like the Apple users amongst the creative world, it’s just not cutting it for us anymore. So I’ve made a video on how I’m working with Capture One Pro 10 these days to show everyone else how you can get into it.
In addition to their new 70-200mm F/2.8 G2 lens Tamron also announced a brand new 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5, an ultrawide lens designed specifically for crop sensor cameras. It has a ton of major improvements over the old version of this lens, and it looks to be a great addition to the Tamron lineup.
Photographers that use the Fujifilm X series system professionally (or are interested in doing so) will be amazed to know that there are a number of fantastic lenses available to use for the system. Of course, despite the fact that the company’s system hasn’t been around for as long a period of time as some others they’ve been able to do quite a bit in a short amount of time. The Fujifilm X series system has a lens for nearly every single type of photographer–and the system is just going to continue to grow.
For anyone that really loved Fujifilm FP-3000B instant peel apart film, you’re in luck. For the first time in a while, the film has dropped in price quite significantly. On Amazon, it’s currently at $17.27–and if you really love using the film it would be a fantastic idea to try to snatch some up immediately …