While it’s easy to build your own basic light box if you want to photograph objects occasionally, a professional setup is often the way to go if you want professional-looking results. Fortunately, creatives are actively building tools, light boxes included, to make the job easier for their fellow creatives. Among the latest of these is the Photon Light Module System, an advanced mini photo studio that features a fully controlled light system designed especially for photographing objects of different sizes.
For photographers that fly to different locations for assignments on a regular basis, the last thing that any of us would want to do is to have to check the bag that’s carrying all of our expensive camera gear prior to boarding our flights. While you can always use a hard case to transport your equipment, they stick out like a sore thumb to opportunists with sticky fingers amongst a sea of traditional luggage that you may as well just launch a signal flare advertising that you’re carrying a lot of valuables. Enter the Tenba Roadie Air Case Roller 21 which aims to quell our equipment transportation woes. We’ve been putting the Tenba Roadie Air Case Roller 21 to the test for the last few months, head on after the jump to see how it fared.
While best known to many today as an award-winning film and TV actress, Jessica Lange is also a published photographer with three photo books and several exhibits. She’s adding one more to the pile with her latest photo book, Highway 61, published by powerHouse Books. In this fourth publication, she’s set to take us on a road trip down the storied major highway that stretches along the Mississippi River, passing through the American Midwest and South, and plowing through eight states down to New Orleans.
White balance is one of the crucial elements you have to work with to ensure accurate colors in your photos. To be able to do this, you have to know how to use the color temperature scale. Whether you’re just discovering color temperature in photography or looking into getting a better understanding of it, we’re sure this infographic by Digital Camera World will serve as a quick reference for you.
Johannesburg-based Elsa Bleda is among the photographers we keep an eye on for her surreal night strolls around cities glowing in neon. Today, however, we revisit one of her earlier sets, which is just as dreamy and colorful as her other night snaps. Here, she shows us around Cape Town in an atmospheric night stroll, where the mood is both dreamlike and cinematic. If you’re fond of shooting your town at night, we’re sure this is one approach that you might find interesting to try.
There are just some things in this life that go together. Mac and cheese, and peanut butter and jelly come to mind, but there are also non-food items that pair equally as well. When it comes to street photography, having the perfect camera and lens combinations can make, or break the experience for you. In this roundup, we’ll take a quick look at the best camera and lens combinations for several different platforms that will make street photography easy and fun.
Histogram is one of those heavily technical-sounding terms you’ll encounter while learning photography. We actually have a lot of resources on the subject, but if you’re just getting started, this video by Matt Granger will also help you get into a better mindset into understanding what it is, what it tells photographers, and how we can use it as a guide when we shoot.
All eyes have been firmly planted on cameras sales ever since Canon came out and said that they expect the camera market to decline rapidly in the coming years. While recent numbers from CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association) do seem to suggest that Canon might be on to something, the data for May 2019 indicates that in some parts of the world, camera sales are not only holding steady compared to last year, but that camera sales have improved. Join us after the break to take a peek at the numbers.
Do you remember when camera companies told us that Mirrorless was the future and that due to advances in technology we can expect smaller cameras, and smaller, lightweight lenses to go along with them? We remember that, but my how things change. Mirrorless cameras certainly started off small, but now they are roughly the same size as DSLR’s, and the lenses that go along with the cameras are becoming cartoonishly huge. Sigma announced a few new lenses the other day, and honestly, my arms hurt just looking at them. Join us after the as we dive into this issue a little deeper.
Looking for a new camera or perhaps some new lenses? If so you should check out the camera deals we have found because they are red hot! Right now during Sony’s Summer Splash event you can save $1,000 on the incredible Sony a9, you can pick up the Sony a7R III with a vanguard tripod, a Lowepro bag, and a Joby GorillaPod for $2,498 (save $500), and you can snag the a6000 for just $448. The Fujifilm X-T2 is down to a crazy low price of $799, and the Nikon D850 currently has a $300 discount. Need some Lightroom presets? You can save $251 on 4,000 presets thanks to the amazing $29 bundle we’ve found. Join us after the break to see all of the incredible camera deals and more.