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Advertisements Essentially what you’re doing with the Shadows/Highlights adjustment is lightening the dark areas and darkening the light areas. It’s kind of heading in the direction of a fake HDR look and can very easily be taken a bit too far (in my opinion), but when used tastefully can give your images a little extra punch of detail. It’s obviously not a technique to be used on every photo. Sometimes you want very dark dramatic shadows and blown out highlights, but quite often for my work it’s just the thing I need to elevate an image past the look of a typical snapshot....

Lighting isn’t something that many of us take into consideration for our social media. Sure, if we’re posting photographs of our clients to social media, they’re already lit anyway, but if we’re shooting images or videos that are just for social media, it’s usually ignored. Because, well, it’s just social media, right? Well, there’s a lot you can do in terms of lighting for social media that’s fairly simple to achieve....

Hello, my name is Tom Waitzman. I made a simple and cheap camera obscura using two cardboard boxes, and I’d like to share the build with you. Two boxes. Tall one is 10″ tall and 5.5″ wide. Small box is 6″ tall and 5″ wide. They are both open on the bottom. Small box has tracing paper taped to one end. Tall box has a 20mm concave lens from an old magnifying glass taped in the middle of a square of cardboard....

Insta360 has seen a lot of success in the 360° camera market over the last few years and they’ve arguably become the leader in pocketable 360° cameras thanks to devices like the Insta360 ONE X2 (review here) and the Insta360 ONE RS (review here). Today, though, Insta360 has announced that they’re going big with the new Insta360 ONE RS 1-Inch 360 Edition. Co-engineered with Leica the new 1-Inch 360 mod lets you shoot 360° footage at up to 6K resolution using, as the name suggests, a pair of giant 1″ sensors....

Are you annoyed by those people who stand in front of you at concerts and you get to watch everything through their smartphone screens? It seems they annoy the performers, too. Looks like Jack White has really had enough of this, and he’s taking phone ban to a new level. From now on, the audience at his concerts will not have the access to their beloved smartphones while the show lasts....