Best lenses for bird photography in 2022

Stan Horaczek Best Canon Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens Check Price Best Nikon Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED Check Price Best Sony Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS Check Price Documenting the avian species can be tricky but the proper lenses for bird photography make it much more attainable. Without… Continue reading Best lenses for bird photography in 2022

How to Use Proxies for Faster Editing in Premiere Pro

In this lesson from David Bode’s FREE Ultimate Premiere FAQ course, you will learn how to create and use proxies in Premiere Pro for a faster editing experience. What Is a Proxy? A proxy is a duplicate of a project’s source footage that is smaller and lower-resolution than the high-resolution original. Video proxies are created… Continue reading How to Use Proxies for Faster Editing in Premiere Pro

A guide to get your creative juices flowing

Julia Margaret Cameron taught herself how to use a sliding-box camera. Edward Steichen famously photographed the same cup and saucer more than a thousand times. For fifteen years, Edward Weston wrote in a diary—about his personal life and creative struggles. More recently, Stephen Shore challenged himself to share a daily iPhone photo on social media.… Continue reading A guide to get your creative juices flowing

1 million lucky creators will beta test AI image generator DALL-E

Using DALL-E, the prompt “An astronaut playing basketball with cats in space in a watercolor style” will return an image like this. DALL-E Text-to-image synthesizers have the power to make anyone into an artist, no art skills required. All you need is a little imagination and the power of artificial intelligence to create something spectacular… Continue reading 1 million lucky creators will beta test AI image generator DALL-E

Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN Contemporary: Beautifully Crafted

The seventh of Sigma’s I series of prime lenses, the Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN Contemporary follows the same exquisite design language. Does it also inherit the excellent performance of the others in this series? K Madhavan Pillai puts it to the test. The Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN | C, available for the Sony… Continue reading Sigma 20mm f/2 DG DN Contemporary: Beautifully Crafted

Meike’s new 10mm f/2 is a fast, wide-angle prime for crop-sensor cameras

Meike Hong Kong’s homegrown lens brand Meike has been on an absolute tear this year, releasing new lenses at a truly astounding rate. Last month alone, the company launched five new lense—including an incredibly affordable 85mm f/1.8—and in the first half of the year, it has already announced a total of nine lenses and two… Continue reading Meike’s new 10mm f/2 is a fast, wide-angle prime for crop-sensor cameras

NFT trends: Digital architecture

A pink chair overlooking a vast blue glacier. A view of an ice floe under a blazing golden sky. A bathtub in the middle of a picturesque wetland. These places might not exist in the “real world,” but last year, they were brought to life by the influential artist Alexis Christodoulou. A collection of nine… Continue reading NFT trends: Digital architecture

10 Tips for Stunning Street Market Photography (+ Examples)

The post 10 Tips for Stunning Street Market Photography (+ Examples) appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Karthika Gupta. There are very few places in the world that provide the same kind of visual stimulation and human interaction as street markets – but how can you create amazing street market photography?… Continue reading 10 Tips for Stunning Street Market Photography (+ Examples)

The James Webb Space Telescope stores everything on a tiny 68GB SSD

Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez As photographers, we know a thing or two about storage. After all, those precious RAW files can take up quite a bit of space. So, naturally, many of us seek out memory cards with ample enough capacity to accommodate them all. But, shockingly,… Continue reading The James Webb Space Telescope stores everything on a tiny 68GB SSD

The new Xiaomi x Leica smartphone has the world’s largest camera sensor

The ascendant Chinese smartphone maker partnered with Sony for the new chip and worked with Leica to engineer the lens. Xiaomi Meet the new Xiaomi 12S Ultra, a flagship smartphone Xiaomi co-developed with Leica. It pairs a brand-new and (by smartphone standards) absolutely huge, stabilized 50-megapixel, one-inch image sensor with a Leica Summicron 23mm f/1.9… Continue reading The new Xiaomi x Leica smartphone has the world’s largest camera sensor