Got a cool idea for a moody and misty outdoor shoot but keep putting it off because you haven’t found the perfect foggy location yet or can’t get your timing right for those foggy days? Here’s a cheap and easy trick from Shutterstock Tutorials that will let you get those dreamy foggy shots whenever you need to, in your outdoor location of choice!
While testing out the Rokinon 50mm f1.4 AF for the Sony a7r III and the Fujifilm X-H1, I was shooting with f1.4 lenses on both cameras. When exposing scenes at ISO 6400 and shooting wide open at f1.4 with similar metering, I came across something that I found was pretty crazy. To verify it, I showed it to a buddy of mine who works for a pretty famous camera store. When he saw it himself, he was pretty shocked. I knew for years that full frame sensors tend to absorb more light per pixel and have better color overall–but I’ve never had a visual difference otherwise until recently.
There are lots of reasons to make portraits outdoors. First and foremost, you avoid the expense and space requirements of setting up a studio. And since most studios are equipped with artificial lighting and modifiers, there’s a lot of gear to buy, too. Outdoors, however, you’re given the gift of one of the most powerful and beautiful light sources around: the sun. And with the simplest tools—a white card as a reflector, for instance—you can learn to manipulate sunlight to gain studio-style lighting control outdoors.
It’s time once again for us to indulge your GAS tendencies and grow your collection with another ebay find! Today, we tip you with an analog beauty that is without a doubt one of the most popular and coveted rangefinder cameras of all time. If you’ve long had the gorgeous Fujifilm TX-1 on your wishlist, now is your chance to grab one if you’re prepared to shell out close to $3,000 for it. If you’ve had your eye on this piece for a while, you most likely know why it’s going for that much!
Shooting family portraits, either for yourself or for paid clients, is a common task for photographers to be enlisted into doing. But if you are new to family portraits, or to photography in general, maybe you are finding yourself wondering about what sort of kit you should have if you want to be doing more family portraits. Maybe you usually specialize in sports photography or landscape photography and your cousin Jane asked you to take care of the family reunion portraits this year.
Landscape photography is an interesting niche of photography, an excellent one for the hobbyist photographers of the world. There is little money in landscape photography, so you don’t have people getting into the field chasing dreams of making it big or getting rich. You have a different sort of individual, a photographer interested in the art of the medium, the beauty of our world, and with documenting the natural beauty around us that so many of us take for granted. But it is also a niche where many people are ignorant of what you need to capture those amazing images that you see in those travel magazines.
If you were hoping to see a Canon full frame mirrorless system announced at Photokina this year then these latest reports coming out of the rumor mill may upset you. According to the latest reporting, in this case, via Mirrorless Rumors, it seems that the mirrorless camera that Canon plans on announcing at Photokina this year will be none other than a replacement for their current mirrorless flagship, the EOS M5.
Ready to score another amazing vintage beauty? Our latest ebay find may just be the stuff you’re looking for. It’s a rare Leica M4 version that was born from the partnership of Leica and Zeiss once upon a time. If you were interested in the rare military-issued M4-M from early this year, you’ll surely find this yet another fascinating piece. But, as with any other Leica, this beauty is definitely worth a fortune!
Today we are highlighting 10 of our favorite deals currently available right now over on Photowhoa. If you add up all the savings on these 10 deals right now you would be saving yourself over $7300 on these products vs if you just went out an purchased them elsewhere. There is a deal for everyone too, so make sure and check out the links below for the deals that catch your attention.
We’ve definitely gone a long way in terms of camera specs and image quality, but it’s still interesting to look back at what the cameras of yester-years and decades past can do. Some of them, we’ll actually find still make pretty good results, even by today’s standards. Case in point is the 15-year-old Olympus Camedia C-5060, as shown to us in this quick test run video!