Wedding Photographers. You may know one or you may be one. Regardless of your status, there is one thing about wedding photographers that’s a given; they potentially have a lot of different gear that they need to take with them to a shoot, from cameras and lenses to lighting and other accessories. This requires a solid bag, or bags, to accommodate and protect such a large kit while at the same time remaining easy to transport and access.
Image processors are constantly being updated to take advantage of the latest cameras, fine tune their processing engines, and fixing issues that we all run into from time to time. Skylum today unveiled an update to both the MacOS and Windows version of their Luminar 2018 software, both of which are now onto version 1.3.0. Though this could be confusing for some because support for various features is different on MacOS and Windows.
Because there’s now more to the distinction between 35mm and medium format than the frame size and shape, it’s worth knowing their differences given today’s technologies and applications. With the help of photographer and technical expert Karl Taylor, Hasselblad has created a series of comparison videos that put both formats to the test, and show the advantages of medium format in an unbiased manner.
Tune in tonight: Get into the mind of how dance photographer Kien Quan creates his images Based in New York City, Kien Quan is a commercial/lifestyle photographer specializing in capturing dance and movement. With over 10 years of experience in dance, he seeks to “elevate the imagery of the art form through visual storytelling.” We …
One of the biggest and best tips that I could possibly give any photographer about modern digital photography has to do with metering a scene. First off, if you’re using a form of evaluative metering then you should often use the light meter as a gauge and not try to always get the little blinker in the middle of the exposure indicator. You personally may want an image to be brighter, so learn how your camera handles more overexposed photos.
Attention, Leica fans and collectors! If you’re still looking for the next gorgeous Leica to adorn your shelves, here’s your chance to grab not one, not two, but four limited edition models. Our latest ebay find is a set of these rare Leica cameras made in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution in China. You’ll most likely find this set interesting if you’re into collecting anniversary edition Leica cameras.
For a number of years, I’ve shot a whole lot in aperture priority on my cameras. It’s simple; it means that I can just sit there and shoot while just controlling the depth of field and let the camera figure everything else out on its own. This translates to my love of glorious bokeh and the algorithms are so good that every camera can do it and take identical images that folks can then say theirs is better or someone else’s is worse. It’s essential for those days that you want to dress up a bit nicer and pretend that you’re a modern Bresson because of course that’s all that he would use today. He’d just say “F8 and be there!” which would mean less bokeh and more of the scene itself.
A laptop, not unlike a camera, is a major investment for a photographer in 2018 and if you are one of the many who are possibly looking to upgrade their laptop this year then you are going to want to have a look at this post. Towards the end of 2017, there were some major advancements made to the Intel processors that are used in most modern laptops, these changes saw improvements of up to 40% over comparable laptops sporting the processors being used in laptops throughout 2017. This sort of improvement is not your average year over year performance improvement, this one was major, and something you need to pay attention to.
I think that lots of photographers wouldn’t mind software that could fix the image noise in their photos and also bring back more details automatically. But arguably they’d probably want to do it themselves and fine tune it to their exact needs and wants. After all, a little bit of image grain in a photo can add character to the scene. In a recent announcement from NVIDIA, the company teamed up with Aalto University and MIT to create algorithms that are designed to fix the grain in your images.
Sometimes it is nice to just take out your phone and capture an image in the moment, but sometimes it would be really great to have more control over the image that you are capturing. This is especially true for photographers who shoot with dedicated cameras because we know what we want to capture, and auto-exposure/exposure compensation just doesn’t cut it. This is where having a quality camera app on your phone can be a great thing, but finding an app that has all of the features that you may want can be a challenge. There are a lot of options out there, each one with their own take on various features, and today Moment is launching their Moment Pro Camera App with what they are calling a DSLR-like shooting experience.