Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has announced a list of the best photo gear items of 2019. It contains top 40 products from the photo industry, including cameras, lenses, and all kinds of accessories. TIPA was founded in 1991 and it’s composed of many member publications in the photo and imaging field, published both in print and online. According to TIPA, these publications “cover the full range of the industry, including consumer, professional, business-to-business, and fine art photography and imaging....

There are plenty of tips out there for posing women who aren’t models. However, tips for posing male non-models are still not that common, so we always love when we find some useful ones. Well, this video from Adorama has quite a few of them. Pye Jirsa teams up with Derek Pratt to share ten male posing tips in about ten minutes. Other than having fun watching Derek goof around, you’ll learn some great tricks for turning your model from Forest Gump to Jason Statham....

This year’s contest received more than 19,000 entries from 38 countries. The overall winner is Jasper Doest from the Netherlands for his photo A monkey’s mask. The photo was taken in a traditional Japanese sake house north of Tokyo. “After dinner, the tavern’s guest can watch Japanese macaques performing tricks with various props on a makeshift stage,” the artist explains. “In the old days, the Japanese macaque or snow monkey was a sacred religious symbol, known to mediate between gods and humans....

Well, this is a strange one, but given how things have been going the last few years, maybe not so much. The D.C. Circuit Court has ruled that First Amendment rights no longer apply to filmmaking, sort of. At least, not in National Parks and not if you intend to make even a single penny out of the resulting footage – even if just posting to your own social media. In 2018, independent filmmaker Gordon Price filmed some scenes in Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia, for his film, Crawford Road....

Bit depth is a topic that always comes up whenever a new camera is announced. But what does it all actually mean? And why is it important? Given that most monitors can’t even display 14-bit images and jpg files are 8-bit anyway, is it even important at all? In this video, Matt Granger explores the topic, explains what it means, and why it’s relevant for your images (and video). A bit is essentially a 1 or a 0....