Photography

People watching the weather report on KFVS News in Missouri got a surprise last week when meteorologist Lisa Michaels floated into the frame on a cloud. She had come up with the perfect Halloween costume for the green screen and TV cameras. Lisa’s special effects cumulus cloud costume consisted of a fluffy cloud wrapped around her waist and a skirt the color of the green screen to make her legs…

Samyang has announced the second-generation version of its 50mm f/1.4 for Sony E-mount. The company says that after five years of development, it believes that it has created “a new standard for standard lenses.” The Samyang AF 50mm F1.4 FE II, as it is officially called, makes updates to the original model that the company launched five years ago. Samyang says this new model is the lightest…

OM Digital has launched its first product since shedding the Olympus name: the M.Zuiko Digital ED 20mm f/1.4 Pro lens. Designed for the Micro Four Thirds (M43) system, OM Digital promises it delivers beautiful bokeh, resolution, and performance. The 20mm f/1.4, the first lens to feature the newly announced OM System brand logo, has an equivalent aperture of 40mm on a full-frame 35mm camera.

Photographer Michael Shainblum chose to capture photos with only his 16-35mm f/4 lens and shares how he composes his seascape images with such a wide angle and how he crops them for a polished finished photo. Landscape photography that encompasses bodies of water can give photographers a wide range of opportunities in just one area. Photographers can choose to shoot detail up-close, such as rock…