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How to Merge 2D Animation Into Live Action Video Using Cartoon Animator and After Effects

Cartoon Animator has a simple way to export your 2D animations using an alpha channel, which allows your animation to have transparency; you can layer this video on top of any sort of background that you can imagine. In this tutorial you will learn how to merge a 2D animated character created using Cartoon Animator… Continue reading How to Merge 2D Animation Into Live Action Video Using Cartoon Animator and After Effects

How to fly with film

Getty Images In this section of our three-part series about traveling with film, we’ll talk about the mode of travel most fraught with peril for film photographers: Flying. Back in the pre-digital days, flying with film was a no-brainer; you could pack your camera gear and buy all the film you needed at your destination… Continue reading How to fly with film

Best telephoto lenses of 2022

Zoom in with precision. Harrison Haines, Pexels A quality telephoto lens is typically one of the first speciality lenses that a photographer adds to their gear bag. A 70-200mm lens is considered a medium-tele length and proves useful for many photographers for its versatility. It can shoot everything from portraits to wildlife and sports.  Technically speaking,… Continue reading Best telephoto lenses of 2022

Richard Gere’s $2 million photo collection is up for auction

Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Bob Dylan, Folk Singer, New York City, 1963. Gelatin silver print, printed 1967. Image/sheet: 19⅞ x 16 in (50.4 x 40.6). Estimate: $60,000-80,000. Richard Avedon / Christie’s Online / The Richard Gere Collection In an online auction, Christie’s is offering over 140 photographs in 139 lots from actor Richard Gere’s incredible photographic… Continue reading Richard Gere’s $2 million photo collection is up for auction

Hubble photographs the most distant star ever found

The Hubble Space Telescope. NASA This story originally appeared on Popular Science. The Hubble Space Telescope has added yet another remarkable discovery to its legacy: It has spotted the farthest star ever found, a star that began to emit light within the first billion years after the big bang. The star is so far away… Continue reading Hubble photographs the most distant star ever found

Is this prototype Leica the world’s most expensive camera?

Leitz Photographica Auction The 40th Leitz Photographica Auction (which also celebrates the auction house’s 20th anniversary) is taking place this June. It’s the biggest opportunity for photographic collectors to drop five-, six-, and seven-figure sums on important, weird, and otherwise wonderful camera gear. At the 39th Leitz Auction, for example, the headline Leica MP Black… Continue reading Is this prototype Leica the world’s most expensive camera?

A Photographer’s Guide to On-Camera Flash and Speedlight Features

Welcome back to our Introduction to Flash Photography series. In this lesson, we’re learning all about the different options that you have when it comes to choosing a speedlight. Here’s what Scott says about his lights of choice: “My current go-to speedlight is a Canon 580EXII. I’ve got three of them and they have been… Continue reading A Photographer’s Guide to On-Camera Flash and Speedlight Features

10 Instagram accounts to follow if you love nature & wildlife photography

Dan Bracaglia Nature photography has been around ever since the dawn of the photographic process. After all, the very first commercially published book of photographs, by one of the earliest inventors of the medium, William Henry Fox Talbot, was called The Pencil of Nature. And while many of the subjects of his photographs (calotypes) were… Continue reading 10 Instagram accounts to follow if you love nature & wildlife photography

How to Use Split View to Compare Before-and-After Versions of a Photo in Lightroom Classic

So you’ve put in your time finessing the edit of a photo. There comes a time where you think you’re finished and in creeps some doubt. Does this edit look natural? Are my colours right? Is that too much clarity? Because photo editing is inherently a subjective skill, only you’ll know the answers to these… Continue reading How to Use Split View to Compare Before-and-After Versions of a Photo in Lightroom Classic