Most people don’t actually know what it means when I say I’m a “travel photographer,” it is usually met with a confused look and followed up by some variation of the question, “do you mean you travel for free?” or “who even pays you to travel?” 
So to sum it up, my clients are various stakeholders in the tourism industry. These could be hotels, adventure experiences, tourism…    
    
Electronics manufacturers in Taiwan including Canon and Foxconn supplier Innolux have been accused of “locking up” migrant workers amidst the COVID-19 outbreak taking place in the country.
The Financial Times reports that according to internal documents and staff…
NVIDIA has announced Canvas, an app that is available as a free beta that it says brings real-time painting tools to anyone with an NVIDIA RTX GPU. It uses artificial intelligence to make rudimentary sketches or doodles into photorealistic scenes. 
Canvas is part of NVIDIA…
Panasonic announces HLG plug-in for Photoshop CC, adds Raw video modes to S-series cameras
June 23, 2021
Panasonic has announced a plug-in that allows true-to-life HDR stills to be edited in Photoshop CC. Its S-series cameras can output high dynamic range images compatible with the Hybrid Log Gamma standard, but until now there’d been no easy way to edit them. The LUMIX HLG Photo plug-in will allow HLG stills from the S1, S1R, S5 and S1H to be opened, edited and saved within Photoshop. The…    
    
As we put the wraps on our final Canon EOS M50 Mark II review, we wanted to share some new samples with you from New York’s nightclubs to New York’s cats. Check out how the EOS M50 Mark II fares at ISO values low and high in our updated sample gallery, and keep…
PostPro's Wand is a Lightroom plug-in that wants to take the guesswork out of culling event photos
June 23, 2021
Surveys reveal that most event photographers spend an inordinate amount of time both editing and culling photos. PostPro created Wand, a plug-in for Adobe’s Lightroom that attempts to solve at least one of those problems. The program, which is now out of beta…
Kolari Vision's new R5 cooling mod doubles 8K recording time and improves recovery time
June 23, 2021
Kolari Vision, a company known for its camera modifications, has unveiled what it claims to be the first commercially-available service for modifying Canon EOS R5 cameras so they can record nearly double the 8K footage and dramatically decrease the wait time needed to recover when the camera does overheat.
The modification uses a custom heatsink that vents the thermal energy from the processor…    
    
A new mother in the UK has started a public campaign to outlaw nonconsensual breastfeeding photos in public places after she says she was photographed by a “creepy” man while nursing her baby.
 The Manchester Evening News reports that 32-year-old Julia Cooper was…
Lenbaby Launches New ‘Pinhole-Style’ Obscura Lens
June 22, 2021
Lensbaby, a company known for making unconventional lenses and unique optics, has announced its latest lens: a three-in-one Pinhole-type optic called The Obscura. 
The Obscura lens is based on the camera obscura, “a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side…
Dibakar Roy, from Kolkata, India, uses the power of remarkable composition thanks to shadows, patterns, subjects, and perspective to take this seemingly ordinary part of everyday life for farmers into the extraordinary.
Farming paddy — which is both the term of a field where rice is grown as well as for rice that is in its husk — is of huge importance in rural India, where agriculture is the…