There is nothing more devastating for a portrait photographer than when a client doesn’t like your photos. You train for years, buy the best equipment possible, and come to your session with 100% dedication to providing the best possible experience… and then you get that feedback.
As pro headshot photographers, this doesn’t happen often (maybe one out of 100 shoots), on the rare…
The Best Time of Day to Take Outdoor Portrait Photos
February 14, 2022
When is the best time of day to shoot portrait photos outdoors? Should we shoot only during the golden hours and avoid midday altogether, or is it better to use the brightest daylight hours to take our portraits with a few simple light modifiers? In this guide, we explore…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space, piercing the thick clouds that obscure the planet.
Reveals Continents, Plains, and Plateaus
NASA reports that in two recent flybys by the Parker Solar Probe, it…
Sigma 20mm F2 DG DN sample gallery
February 12, 2022
Earlier this week Sigma announced its new 20mm F2 DG DN lens for E-mount and L-mount cameras, the widest in the company’s all-metal ‘I series’ of compact prime lenses. Check out our sample gallery to see how its image quality stacks up.
Want to learn more about this lens? Watch our hands-on review from DPReview TV.
View our Sigma 20mm F2 DG DN sample gallery
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Using a 12-Year-Old Bachelorette-Themed Disposable Camera
February 12, 2022
In a new video from Fotodiox, photographer Sean Anderson, he shows the results from using a long expired disposable film camera with pre-exposed, bachelorette-party-themed messages imprinted on the roll.
Anderson, who is known for making several interesting DIY…
Canon USA successfully stops a new method of importing counterfeit goods into the US
February 11, 2022
Canon U.S.A., Inc., and Canon Inc. of Japan have announced that they have ‘successfully reached an agreement with one of China’s leading logistics and fulfillment companies in a dispute over the warehousing and shipping of counterfeit ‘Canon’ camera…
Canon Has Discontinued All But Nine EF Prime Lenses: Report
February 11, 2022
Canon has been quietly discontinuing many lenses in its EF catalog over the last year, and a new report alleges the practice has gotten particularly aggressive in the last month.
Rapidly Shrinking EF Lens Support
Japanese photographer Kimio Tanaka tweeted a photo that shows Canon’s lens lineup in Japan on January 8 compared to February 10, reported by Digicame-Info, and the prime lenses…
Study Reveals the Most Complained About Cameras in the World
February 11, 2022
Electronics Hub has published a study that looked at the most complained about tech products in the world. Its determined that the top two most complained about cameras were GoPros.
The Top 10 Most Complained About Cameras in the World
Electronics Hub recommends…
Photographer Captures ‘Space Photos’ in Parking Lot Gasoline Puddles
February 11, 2022
Finnish photographer Juha Tanhua has been shooting an unusual series of “space photos.” While the work may look like astrophotography images of stars, galaxies, and nebulae, they were actually captured with a camera pointed down, not up. Tanhua created the images by…
3 Steps to Creating a Dramatic B&W Infrared Photo in Photoshop
February 10, 2022
Like most photographers, I love black-and-white infrared images. There is a purity and intensity to a well-crafted monochrome image, and there are many software options out there to help convert an image to black-and-white.
In my experience, the best way to convert an infrared image to monochrome is a method that gives me the most control over how each color is translated. Filters that…
