A photographer has shared a neat trick that gives photos a soft-focus look: placing ripped pantyhose over the lens.
Ashley Tracy, from Columbus, Ohio, revealed how she places torn nylon stockings on her lens to produce a glowing effect on her photos in a viral TikTok video that has amassed over 1.8 million views.
@ashley.tracy One of my favorite things! Have you tried this during…
If you want to become a better photographer, learn more, get and stay inspired, meet others who share your passion, and make new friends, well, nothing beats a camera club (also known as a photography club). Joining a club might even help lead you to a new career. I know it…
Viltrox is releasing a limited edition set of matte white or shiny red Fujifilm X-mount f/1.4 prime lenses with focal lengths of 23mm, 33mm, and 56mm. The company plans to only produce 500 total units of each color.
The lenses are painted in a matte white or shiny…
A drone managed to stay aloft while it recorded the colossal damage caused by a tornado that devastated a Kansas neighborhood last Friday.
The twister struck Andover, Kansas, a suburb of Wichita, in the evening on April 29th. Sirens alerted citizens of the danger that afternoon, but drone operator and tornado chaser Reed Timmer — in footage spotted by DroneDJ — interpreted the call as an…
Dell's reveals its new XPS 13 Plus notebook with 12th-gen Intel chips, 4K+ resolution and more
May 2, 2022
Dell first announced the XPS 13 Plus notebook back at CES in January. Dell’s new notebook is now available to order, starting at a palatable price of $1,299. The XPS 13 Plus is a sleek, powerful notebook that promises to combine style and performance. The redesigned…
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has been collecting and archiving photos and negatives that he has found in the Chernobyl exclusion area for the last six years. He has rescued around 15,000 artifacts, which include films, photos, postcards, and letters, but with the…
Prime vs Zoom Lenses: A Beginner’s Guide
May 1, 2022
In your photography adventure, you will most likely buy both a prime lens and a zoom lens at some point. If you are a beginning photographer looking to upgrade to a new lens, you are probably facing the decision of whether to choose a prime or a zoom. Which type should you get and what’s the difference?
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The Pros and Cons of Zoom Lenses
Pro: Versatility
Pro: A Lighter…
The most common method to teach photographic composition to novices is the “rule of thirds” — in short, divide the screen into equal thirds vertically and horizontally, and then place your point of interest on any of the cross points for a maximally pleasing image.
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I know that the idea of proxy recordings and how to create them in editing software such as Adobe Premiere and Divinci Resolve has been talked about a hundred times, but did you know you can generate them in-camera for even more time savings?
There’s a feature…
DXOMark ranked the new Leica M11 rangefinder and scored it a 100, which makes it one of the top five full-frame sensors currently available. It joins the Nikon Z7 II and D850, Panasonic S1R, and Sony A7R III as the other 100-point cameras.
DXOMark Image Labs is a private French engineering company located near Paris. The company says it specializes in measuring cameras, audio, display…
