Several major text-to-image generators have been launched so far, such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or DALL-E. As you probably know, billions of photos, paintings, and illustrations are used to train these programs so they could render your text into an image with better accuracy. Have you ever wondered if your photos were used for this purpose? If you have, there’s now a way to check it. Have I Been Trained is a website that lets you search through a whopping 5....

Flexible LED lights have a number of uses and benefits. They are lightweight, provide good light, and, well – they’re flexible. One negative side is that they can cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, so not everyone can afford them. Caleb Pike from DSLR Video Shooter presents you with four flexible LED light panels that you can buy with a small budget. They are from two manufacturers and made in different sizes, and each of them costs less than $200....

The Rode Wireless GO II has become ubiquitous amongst YouTubers and filmmakers alike. Despite the massive amount of competitors on the market now, it still seems to be the most prevalent. But there’s one big complaint that many people have about the Wireless GO II. Unlike almost all of the competing microphone systems, Rode’s doesn’t come with a case to store all the bits in. There are, of course, some third-party options out there, but Thingiverse user motoriley decided to develop his own solution....

It’s one of those basic things that we probably over-use when we are starting out, and as we get better we rely on less and less. But let’s face it, cropping is an integral part of the photography process, whether you’re cropping in-camera or after the fact. Here are three reminders of how to crop responsibly from Chelsea Nicole Photography. None of these points is exactly going to change your entire outlook on cropping, but they do serve as a handy reminder, particularly for those of us finding ourselves shooting a lot and potentially getting stuck in a rut....

In the past months, I was obsessed with some photos of Karl Taylor showing a blade of light on a model’s face, and I wanted to give it a go on my own. I had one problem, though. Typically, you make these shots using expensive strobe attachments, which allow studio strobe to control light in an exact manner. My problem was that I didn’t have any of those modifiers (or strobes), so I decided to replicate this type of photo with a projector made for speedlights – a device called Light Blaster from Spiffy Gear....