Hollyland S New Lark C1 Wireless Mic For Smartphones Lets You Keep Charging Your Phone While It S In Use

We got to see a sneak peek of it at IBC 2022 in Amsterdam last month but now Hollyland has officially announced their new tiny wireless microphone system for iPhones. It’s the Hollyland Lark C1 and it’s essentially an update to the Lark M1 that doesn’t require a headphone jack or adapter cable. It’s available with a Lightning connector for iPhones or a USB-C connector for Android devices. The Lightning version is fully Apple MFi-certified and both versions are fully plug-and-play, automatically detecting when the receiver is plugged into your smartphone....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 544 words · Robert Williams

How Our Attachment To Past Makes Us Overlook New Trends And Talent In Photography

There’s a very succinct analogy by Marshall McLuhan, summing up our society’s focus on the past: “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” McLuhan was referring to technology, but his observation works just as well in the context of modern-day photography: Even as technology reshapes it, we can’t seem to stop looking longingly into the past. The history of photography might be too vivid The history of photography might be too vivid...

February 24, 2023 · 4 min · 847 words · Crystal Rice

How Shoot Stunning And Creative Pinhole Photography In Your Own Back Yard

Pinhole photography is a strange aspect of photography. On the one hand, it’s used to teach people about the bare basic principles of light and photography and building one can be a fun weekend project with the kids. But on the other, it’s also a whole craft and art form in and of itself that can be taken to quite some extreme measures and produce amazing imagery. One such photographer who definitely seems to have mastered pinhole photography as a craft and an art form is fine art and landscape photographer Martin Henson, who in this video takes us on a journey creating a seemingly simple image with a fantastic end result....

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 435 words · Elizabeth Ramos

How To Cheat At High Speed Sync And Shoot In Bright Conditions With Studio Strobes

High speed sync (HSS) has taken off in a big way the last few years. A relatively new technology, high speed sync has largely been limited to speedlights. The lack of power has put many people off using it. Unless you have a bunch of them, you just can’t usually get the shots you want. HSS features have been appearing in many new powerful studio strobes lately, but what about your old ones?...

February 24, 2023 · 3 min · 462 words · Colleen Reed

How To Crop Your Photos For Impact And Creativity

One of the big selling points of high resolution cameras like the Nikon D810 and Canon 5DS are the ability to “crop in post”. Typically when people say this, though, they mean their lenses aren’t long enough and they want to be able to crop into the detail. Or, they’re tracking a moving subject that would be difficult to follow if they were trying to fill the frame. But there’s more to cropping than just closing in on a small part of the image....

February 24, 2023 · 2 min · 366 words · Frances Crawford
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