Watch This Before You Buy Your First Camera

Buying your first camera is a big step, so if you’ve decided to take it: congrats! There is a lot of information you’ll stumble upon and it sure can be overwhelming if you’re new to photography. But this video from Jeff Rojas will give you some guidelines and ultimately help you to make up your mind about your very first camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L02nKl36DsQ&ab_channel=JeffRojas As a professional photographer, Jeff has been getting a lot of questions from people looking into buying their first camera....

March 10, 2023 · 3 min · 574 words · Jane Wilson

What Bears Do In The Woods Part Ii

It’s been a busy week for bear news here at DIYP. Following closely behind the bear filming selfie’s on a lost Gopro, we bring to you some slightly more conventional (though no less impressive) footage of a grizzly bear doing his thing in the Yukon wilderness, shot in SloMo no less. David Troup caught on camera a gigantic male grizzly bear in the Yukon Territory in Canada. First the video shows him rubbing his back against a tree....

March 10, 2023 · 2 min · 344 words · Robert Cox

Wikipedia Wants Your Photos Of Monuments And Gives You A 500 Prize

Wikipedia has recently launched a pretty interesting contest. Wiki Loves Monuments invites you to take photos of historic sites and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. In return, you can get a $500 prize if you win, and there are consolation prizes for nine other photographers, too. Wiki Loves Monuments is directed towards photographers from all over the world. Its goal is to document and preserve historic sites, both on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects....

March 10, 2023 · 2 min · 334 words · Sharon Hall

Would You Volunteer 100 Plus Hours Of Your Photographic Services

Would you volunteer 100 plus hours of your photographic services? According to Colorado-based photographer David Hayden, it might be worth considering. You often see photographers in online forums being shot down in flames whenever anyone mentions working for free, for some reason, it’s a topic that never fails to raise hackles. But David told DIYP about how an unpaid photography gig has reaped multiple rewards and turned out far better than he ever imagined....

March 10, 2023 · 4 min · 734 words · Cheryl Davis

You Can Remove The Ir Cut Filter On Sigma Foveon Cameras It S Fun

While Sigma is known as a lens company, most people don’t know they also make cameras. That was until the Sigma released the “fp“. The world’s smallest full-frame camera that can shoot 4k DNG raw hit the market. Sigma has been making cameras for many years though. Not only they use a unique Foveon sensor, but most of their cameras also feature a user-removable IR-cut filter. Now, shooting Infrared isn’t new – People have been doing it for years!...

March 10, 2023 · 4 min · 831 words · Joseph Obrien
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