NewsPhotography

I Hate Google Photos, But I Fear I Won’t Be Able to Live Without It

I called the Google Photos photo sharing and management app the Turkey of the Year in my 2020 USA TODAY round-up of the apps and gadgets that screwed over consumers last year. Reason: Google Photos was free for all, but starting June 1st, it switches to a paid model after five years of bait and switch. Get people to put as many of their photos up there, and once they’re locked into a system…
Read more
NewsPhotography

How I Shot This Lunar Eclipse Sequence In Camera, On Film

G’day from Australia, my name is Jason De Freitas (@jase.film on Instagram), and I’m a photographer mostly known for my analog astrophotography. In this article, I’ll describe the process and decisions I went through to take this lunar eclipse multi-exposure sequence…
NewsPhotography

The Photographer Who Fought Nazis with Her Camera

Faye Schulman was a Jewish partisan photographer who courageously fought against Nazis with both a gun and a camera. She was the only photographer to document resistance efforts in Eastern Europe during World War II. Faigel “Faye” Lazebnik Schulman was born on November 28th, 1919, in the Eastern Poland city of Lenin (a town that’s in modern-day Western Belarus). Faye’s brother Moishe was a…
Read more
NewsPhotography

The Best Software for Recovering Deleted Photos in 2021

Industry professionals recommend that photographers backup files locally on an external hard drive as well as with a cloud service. Even the best of us don’t always do this, which means we may delete files we never meant to, or we may lose them if something happens to our devices. For some people, even backing up files is a lost cause. Natural disasters, faulty devices, and even common…
Read more
NewsPhotography

The Best Adobe Photoshop Alternatives in 2021

Although Adobe Photoshop has become known as the industry’s leading post-processing software with its powerful non-destructive editing tools, it is by far not the only option available out there. Photoshop has been around for just over 30 years — first released in 1990…
NewsPhotography

These Photos from Space Make Earth Look like Water World

Photo Credit: Thomas Pesquet / ESA European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet recently published a set of images from the International Space Station of Earth that show only water and clouds, which makes the planet look very different than it is normally seen. Thomas Gautier Pesquet is a French aerospace engineer and took part in the European Space Agency’s Expedition 50 and 51. He…
Read more