Photography News

So, you've decided to focus on portrait photography and want to start putting together a gear setup that will let you achieve the best results. Choosing the right lens is a big part of working with portraiture, so if you...

In light (pun intended) of the new changes that Adobe is announcing today at Adobe Max, we got the chance to play with the new Adobe Lightroom Classic CC to put it through its paces. For a while now, photographers have b...

The Manfrotto Element Big Tripod is one of a new range of smart traveller tripods, featuring a compact and sturdy construction, three leg-angle positions, twist lock mechanism, and an aluminium ball head. Read our review...

In all the fanfare of the launch of its more cloud integrated, edit-anywhere Lightroom CC software, Adobe has made a lot of noise about ease-of-use and faster speeds, but it also quietly made reference to the death of th...

What a dreamy bedtime instrument

Do what makes you happy :)

The use of slit-scan photography is actually quite old. It is often called line-scan, photo finish, or streak photography. Slit-scan photography has a rich and colorful history rooted in chemical analog photography. This...

A quick and fun lesson in physics :)

As far as I am aware, Yongnuo's latest entry in its ultra-cheap prime lens lineup is the first F-mount 40mm pancake lens that features autofocus. I was excited to hear the announcement back in September as I've always be...

Pholio is a new device that’s aiming to take on Google Photos with a hard drive for your photos that’s searchable by using keywords. The difference here is that Pholio keeps your data secure, and searchable while rem...

Godox has launched a Nikon version of the XPro-C 2.4GHz wireless flash trigger it announced for Canon last month. The new model--aptly titled the XPro-N--is equipped to control Godox's X1 system, and is currently listed ...

Zeiss has just announced the Milvus 25mm f/1.4 lens, adding the 11th lens to the Milvus family of full frame DSLR lenses. It’s the fourth Milvus lens to have fixed aperture of f/1.4, joining the 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm. T...

Getting someone to smile naturally on camera can sometimes be a difficult task. Here’s a 2-minute video by photographer Mathieu Stern in which he shares 7 techniques for getting your subject to grin from ear to ear in ...

Chinese manufacturer Detu has launched the F4 Plus: a professional grade 8K panoramic VR camera that can capture 360° stills, videos and broadcast livestream footage at a whopping 8K resolution. In other words, at 7680 ...

Adobe has just announced its October 2017 update of Photoshop CC, which comes with a number of new features and improvements to the photo editing program. Big ones in this release include a brand new Curvature Pen Tool a...

The all-new Lightroom CC (and newly-renamed Lightroom Classic CC) might be hogging the spotlight at Adobe MAX 2017, but Adobe didn't forget to throw some love Photoshop's way. In addition to the standard performance enha...

The prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is now in its 53rd year, and this year’s edition saw nearly 50,000 entries from 92 different countries. You’ve already seen a snapshot of some of the fina...

Hopefully a couple of these give you pause

During the 1960s to the 1980s, photographers who wanted to check their lighting or churn out images for very quick reportage had a secret weapon: the Speed Magny. This interesting contraption allowed them to produce Pola...

The Phottix Juno is a powerful yet easy-to-use manual hot shoe flash featuring a built-in Phottix Ares II Transceiver. Other highlights include a zooming flash head with a focal length coverage of 20-200mm, a guide numbe...

If you've got NSFW (read: nude) pictures of any kind on your smartphone storage, chances are you don't want them to be seen by just anyone. And while there are apps that allow you to move private images into protected lo...

Zeiss has added a new wide-angle lens to its Milvus line of full-frame, manual focus lenses for Nikon and Canon DSLRs. The new Milvus 25mm F1.4 is now the fourth widest lens in the family--which ranges from 15mm to 135mm...