One thing is clear for those who have bought or are looking to buy the new 2016 Macbook Pro, adapters and hubs are going to be your new best friend – at least until manufacturers catch up and start releasing more USC-C/Thunderbolt-3 compatible products. One such hub that will likely be most interesting to potential Macbook Pro owners is the newly announced HyperDrive USB-C Hub.
One of the biggest points that photographers noticed regarding the latest line of Macbook Pro’s that Apple announced last week was the exclusion of an SD card slot. For most people this is a negative because it means no easily expandable storage for the Macbook Pro, but for Photographers, this is incredibly irritating because it means more fuss to get images from your camera to your computer.
In photography, lighting is crucial to either make or break the shot. Life Lite is a new Kickstarter Project that aims to create a portable sized LED light that can be wirelessly controlled by a smartphone via a Bluetooth enabled App.
Adobe has some new updates and feature improvements coming down the pipe for Photoshop that was announced officially this morning. Among them, one of the biggest is no doubt the improvement to face-aware liquefy that now allows post-producers to modify the eyes of their subject independently of one another, a nice improvement over the previous build which limited users to modifying both eyes at the same time.
Why is it that we think that buying a new camera will help us become more creative with our photography? Why do we think that buying more lenses and gear will help us break out of our “photographer’s block”? Why is it that whenever we buy a new camera, lens, or tripod — we suddenly revert back to baseline enthusiasm after 2 weeks?
Voltaic, creators of the original solar backpack, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for their all-new Array and Offgrid Solar Backpacks. Each unit includes a high performance solar panel along with battery pack to store power until required. Users can recharge the the included battery from either solar power or a wall outlet with included charging cables.
When Olympus announced their latest flagship Micro Four-Thirds camera at Photokina, the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II (EM1 Mk. II), we got a chance to do a quick overview of what the newest flagship had to offer. Overall we were pleased with what the specs promised to both the high-level enthusiasts and to the professional photographer as well, but just how well did it deliver in the real world? After spending four days with the camera, here’s what we found.
Camera, just like breakfast, are better with pancakes, and so the theme of this post today is pancake lenses. Specifically, some of our favorites that we have reviewed over the years. Pancake lenses are a great way to keep your kit small and nimble for things like street photography or travel photography. Lets get into it.
Manny Ortiz recently did an excellent video which effectively demonstrates the difference between the results he can get from shooting a portrait using only available light in comparison to s simple setup of a wireless flash.
This month is dedicated to black and white landscape photography.