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For those who are anywhere near the microstock photography industry, you may have noticed that there is a lot of shouting going on at the moment about the latest release from Shutterstock. If you have ever looked into th...

In the not too distant past, things weren't all peaches and cream when it came to high ISO performance in affordable cameras. Unless you had bottomless pockets and could afford top of the line cameras, shooting in low li...

In 2018, we shared the story of real estate photographer Whitney Morris, who was shot by a surprised homeowner while taking pictures of her house. Morris sued the homeowner and her real-estate agency and lost by summary ...

Looking at the metadata for a single image can be helpful, but sometimes you need to get a more macro-level view of your work. Enter PhotoStatistica, a new macOS app that parses through the EXIF data of your photos and b...

Matt Huber over at YouTube channel The Garage Learning has put together a fun and creative walkthrough that takes a different approach to splash photography. Instead of manually throwing water onto his subject, he design...

The production quality and commentary makes this surprisingly entertaining!

Want to create an epic ‘dual lighting’ effect for your studio portraits, but don’t have any gels or LEDs to work with? No problem. In this short tutorial, Photoshop master Unmesh Dinda of PIXimperfect will show you...

Chinese smartphone manufacturers Xiaomi and Oppo first showcased new technology that allows for the front camera in smartphones to be installed under, and capture images through the display in the middle of last year. Th...

A newly discovered Apple patent reveals what the “group selfies” could look like in a socially distanced world. The feature is described as a “a synthetic group selfie,” where multiple people submit images or vid...

In the age of physical distancing, taking selfies with friends has become challenging to say the least, due to the worldwide suggestion to keep six feet apart to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. A recently-di...

PhotoStatistica is a new Mac app that examines EXIF data from large sets of photos and turns it into interesting statistics and visualizations that reveal how you go about shooting photos. Created by the UK-based photogr...

In the midst of global protests in support of #BlackLivesMatter, the Poynter Institute caused a ruckus within the photojournalism industry last week with the provocatively titled "Photographers are being called on to sto...

The above statement is true; there are lenses on the market that perform so well that one would think that they should be priced much higher than the lens maker charges for them. When it comes to portrait photography, yo...

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro is a confusing proposition from Apple. We called it a “half update” in our first impressions, and I stand by that. But it’s also an important update that gives photographers and video ed...

As coronavirus lockdowns around the world ground economies to a halt, food banks in various countries have seen a huge surge in demand. UK-based photographer Charlie Clift started volunteering at his local food bank and ...

The Samyang AF 85mm f/1.4 RF is a very fast classic portrait prime lens for Canon EOS R full-frame mirrorless cameras. Competitively priced at £599 / $699, is the Samyang 85mm RF a compelling alternative to Canon's own ...

79% Overall score The Nikon Coolpix P950 is a powerful superzoom compact camera, built around a 24-2000mm equivalent zoom lens. Successor to the wildly popular Coolpix P900, the P950 adds Raw capture, a greatly improved ...

The Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 is a weather-resistant telephoto zoom lens designed to be an affordable, compact, and lightweight alternative to Sony's own 70-200mm f2.8 G Master lens. It joins the Tamron 17-28mm f2.8 & the Tam...

Back in the analog days when everyone shot film, it was common for photographers to slap UV filters onto their lenses to help reduce haze in their images. While some photographers still swear by UV filters today, they're...