Venus Optics has been known for a variety of unique and weirdly cool Laowa lenses. The company is now entering the world of cine lenses and it has announced a 25-100mm t/2.9 and a 12mm t/2.9 lens for EF and PL mounts. Venus Optics will display the lenses at this year’s NAB, which will be their US debut. Laowa OOOM 25-100 t/2.9 Cine Laowa OOOM 25-100 t/2.9 Cine The upcoming zoom lens is named Laowa OOOM 25-100 t/2....

Photographing the Milky Way (and the night skies in general) is exciting and opens up a whole new world. But it’s also pretty tricky if you’re new to it. If you’d like to do it and you don’t know where to start, Steve Kazemir has just the video for you. He goes through all the basics of photographing the Milky Way, both for creating single images and a timelapse. So if you want to start somewhere, start by watching his video below....

If you hadn’t guessed by the title, we’re giving away three brand new Lowepro camera bags and winning is as simple as typing in a number. We filled the new Lowepro PhotoSport BP 24L AW III bag with bubblegum and all you have to do to enter is guess how many of them we managed to fit inside it! There’s a famous experiment where you fill a jar with bubblegum and ask a whole bunch of people how much is in there....

A wedding photographer in Australia is suing a wedding venue and styling company after she slipped on a piece of fabric and broke her knee. She claims that the injury has affected both the personal and business aspects of her life. So, she’s suing the venue and the company for more than $570,000 AUD. The incident occurred in 2017 when photographer Bernadette Draffin was shooting a wedding in Queensland. She reportedly slipped on a sash which should have been tied around a chair....

Cross polarization is a technique that uses two polarizing filters – one on the light source and on e on the camera lens – to get rid of unwanted specular reflections. The following slideshow illustrates the effect at varying degrees, depending on the orientation of the filters with respect to each other. Understanding polarized light Understanding polarized light So let’s have quick look at the science of it: light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, meaning that it consists of waves, oscillating perpendicular to its direction....