Three Things You Should Know Before You Start Photography

So, you’re into photography, you want to get your first camera and get serious about it. There is plenty to learn and it’s an incredible, creative journey. And before you start, Pierre T. Lambert shares three things he wishes he knew before starting photography. These may help you make right decisions when choosing which gear to buy, but also help you take better shots. 1. Lenses are more important than your camera body 1....

April 23, 2023 · 3 min · 443 words · Manuel Lawson

Tourists Kill Seal Pup In Quest For Perfect Selfie

Would you kill an innocent animal just to get your perfect selfie with it? That’s where we are at apparently in the humanity stakes. Tourists accidentally killed a seal pup after throwing it into the ocean and then dragging it out again for a selfie with it. The incident occurred last summer on Great Blasket Island in County Kerry, Ireland. Holiday home caretakers on the island Claire de Haas and Brock Montgomery brought the incident to light....

April 23, 2023 · 2 min · 367 words · Elizabeth Lawrence

Tutorial How To Create And Use Different Colored Lights For Composites

Advertisements In my first compositing tips post I talked a bit about how lighting is everything. This still applies, and always will. When choosing what background to use for a composite, pretty much nothing is more important than finding (or shooting) an image that compliments the lighting of your subject. The. Lighting. Must. Match. Last time we talked about paying attention to what direction the light is coming from, but we didn’t go into any detail about the color of the light....

April 23, 2023 · 11 min · 2198 words · Elizabeth Williams

Vivo S New Ifea Concept Smartphone Has A Removable Pop Up Selfie Camera

I know not everybody’s a fan of the pop-up selfie cam – mechanical moving parts n’ all – but I think they’re fantastic. They free up that screen space, they aren’t hindered by having to try to look through the display, and there’s no risk of scratching them when your phone’s just rolling around in your pocket. Chinese smartphone manufacturer VIVO, though, has taken the pop-up selfie cam to a whole new level with their new IFEA concept camera – which has won a Red Dot Award for the design....

April 23, 2023 · 2 min · 422 words · Adam Roth

What I Learned During Quarantine Shooting Watches With The Hasselblad X1D Ii And Godox V1 Flash

Putting it mildly, we are living in interesting times. Longstanding habits, including getting out into the world, have been broken for most of us. And while most of the world is now emerging from months of personal isolation, here in the United States it looks as if we might have to get used to enforced loneliness again fairly soon. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t stay busy and even learn a thing or two....

April 23, 2023 · 9 min · 1863 words · Louis Johnson
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