I’m Colin Smith from PhotoshopCAFE.com. In this 4-minute video and article, I’ll share a new Photoshop technique I came up with that gives you separate control over strength, color, and luminosity in LUTS. I call this the Split LUT technique.
We all love LUTs (lookup tables). They are a quick and portable way to apply color and tonal presets across platforms and different applications. We…
Man Busted Getting Into Water with Grizzlies for Photos
August 21, 2021
Here’s a good example of how NOT to photograph grizzly bears out in the wild. This video shows a man who was caught on camera wading into Brooks River in Alaska and getting too close to feeding grizzly bears in order to snap some smartphone selfies and photos.
A common…
The UK’s Largest News Agency Just Switched to Sony Cameras
August 21, 2021
The largest and national news agency of the United Kingdom and Ireland is switching from DSLR cameras to Sony mirrorless cameras.
Sony scored a big win for its camera business this week by striking a deal with PA (formerly known as the Press Association) to have its…
The Chinese lens filter brand Haida has announced its new NanoPro Soft Diffusion Filters. The lens filters are designed specifically for capturing soft photos of the starry night sky.
“All the time, the romantic and changing starry sky attracts every photographer deeply,” Haida writes. “In Summer, photographers capture every stunning moment of the starry sky by various photographic…
Moon Over Zabriskie Point, or: Seeing Photos in a New Light
August 20, 2021
In 1991, near the end of some book projects that took me on some lengthy photographic journeys through the American West by car for two years, I came up with the idea of creating posters of some of my black and white images for a few of our western National Parks.
My idea…
Nikon Z fc added to studio test scene
August 20, 2021
Nikon recently announced the Z fc, its newest APS-C offering with a design reminiscent of the company’s film cameras like the FM2. While we’re working on our full review, we thought we’d present our studio test scene results here for your perusal. Below is…
The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo today unveiled a number of new technologies for smartphone photography, including an 85-200mm continuous optical zoom, a next-gen RGBW sensor, a 5-axis OIS, and a next-gen under-screen camera.
Here’s a look at the new innovative technologies Oppo showed off today during its online “Future Imaging Technology Launch Event”:
85-200mm Continuous…
Racial bias is well documented in photography—consider, for example, photographers’ inability to capture and expose darker skin tones with film. Within the emulsion of film, the chemicals that recapitulate light, is inherent social bias. There’s a distinct prejudice…
Leica M10 Monochrom vs Kodak Tri-X 400: B&W Digital vs Film
August 19, 2021
The Leica M10 Monochrom is a $9,000 digital camera dedicated to black-and-white photography, but how does it compare to a $10 roll of Kodak Tri-X 400 black-and-white film? That’s what the folks at Camera West TV decided to find out.
In the 10.5-minute video above…
Atomos brings EOS R5 8K ProRes RAW to its NinjaV+
August 19, 2021
Atomos has announced a firmware update for its Ninja V+ monitor/recorder enabling 8K output from the Canon EOS R5 to be encoded as ProRes RAW.
The upgrade allows the camera’s Raw video stream to be recorded for extended periods (typically up to the capacity of the Ninja V+’s media or the battery life of the camera), in an industry-standard format that reduces the need for import…
