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If you’re not sure how to properly sharpen your images in Photoshop, this tutorial from the Photoshop Training Channel is a godsend--a deep dive into the most common sharpening techniques complete with an explanation o...

On April 26th, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its long-awaited first dive in between Saturn’s rings, bringing it closer to the planet than ever before. And if you were on the spacecraft looking at Saturn’s north po...

I recently had a few prints made from some medium format negatives. The prints are for a specific purpose so I wanted them to be of the highest quality possible, this meant taking them to a local specialist where the fil...

Photographer Manu Cabanero has been working on the Splash Wars series for a really long time now. Inspired by the fantastic work of Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz, Manu combined his love of the Star Wars franchise to create mil...

Here’s an interesting effect you can create entirely in-camera: photograph a backlit keyboard in the dark using a long exposure while moving your camera around. A Corsair Vengeance K95 keyboard, which has backlit keys....

I've never entered a photo contest. In part because I have a fear of not winning and confronting my own mediocrity. But mostly because I have never viewed photography as sport. Of course, artistic competition exists in a...

Is it copyright infringement if someone embeds your tweeted photo into a news article? One UK photographer says “yes,” and he’s taking news company Sky News to court over it in a case photographers should be watchi...

Photographer Genna Martin on assignment for Seattle PI. Columbia Journalism Review recentlysurveyed a group of photojournalists on their favoritepublications to work with based on several criteria, including arguably the...

Brazilian photographer Charles Oliveira recently put the Mitakon Speedmaster 85mm f/1.2 lens through its paces using his Nikon D600. Announced back in 2015, this is a Chinese lens that offers 85mm f/1.2 at a relatively a...

CROZ, a small DIY camera that first appeared on Kickstarter in October 2016, is now available for purchase. This camera is shipped as a do-it-yourself kit that requires buyers to assemble the device. The resulting camera...

We hate to break it to you, but your dream client probably won’t accidentally stumble on your Instagram account and reach out to breathlessly offer you work. If you want to book your dream clients, it’ll take work. T...

For over a year, workers at the B&H photo warehouses have been protesting for better treatment and for the creation of a Union. In fact, the issue has become so large that it's now been a class action lawsuit put into pl...

The Columbia Journalism Review recently surveyed 30 veteran freelance photojournalists to find out what publications treat photographers best, and how much they pay. What they found is revealing, maybe even encouraging, ...

Where to begin? Magnum Photos and LensCulture are running a photo competition. One of those where you give them lots of money and in return if you're one of the lucky ones they give you “exposure”. Let's just cut to ...

You guys: people are starting to finally realize that they suck at Instagram enough to warrant needing to bring a photographer with them and ALSO HIRE THOSE PHOTOGRAPHERS!!! This is one of the latest new trends in photog...

MIT’s 1-trillion-frame-per-second camera is now outdated. Researchers in Sweden have created a new world’s fastest camera that shoots a staggering 5 trillion frames per second. This camera, called FRAME (Frequency Re...

If you’re posting your images online with any sort of regularity, they’re probably being stolen from time to time--it’s an unfortunate reality of the digital age. And so, photographer Anthony Morganti decided to cr...

Here’s a 4-minute video by the folks over at Macro Room that looks like it was made using computer imagery, but it was actually shot using a tank of water, colored ink, and various objects. “This time we dived into t...

Venus Optics has always been the maker of some very good manual focus lenses that have character, and the Venus Optics Laowa 7.5mm f2 for Micro Four Thirds seems to be offering just the same quality. The company is touti...

Photographer Michael Scott Phillips is one that uses film and who genuinely considers himself an artist. You see, he's an oil painter. Painting plays a role in his photography and vice versa. His influences are many: Mar...

ISO 80 | 1/200 sec | F4.4 Photo by Jeff Keller Panasonic's latest update to its consumer superzoom line, the FZ80, comes with a crazy 20-1200mm F2.8-5.9 zoom lens, 4K video capture and Panasonic's usual suite of 4K photo...

As photographers, not only are we always needing more storage to hold our digital images, but we are needing better ways to backup that data within our various workflows. One of the best ways to do this is with a NAS (Ne...