How to Create Volumetric Lighting in After Effects

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to create volumetric lighting in After Effects by looking at how we can practically recreate it or accentuate it here in After Effects. We’ll be following on form our previous lesson on how to add volumetric lighting and move on to how to… Continue reading How to Create Volumetric Lighting in After Effects

New: Publish Your AI Generated Panoramas on 360Cities

We’re pleased to confirm that we are accepting AI generated panoramas. In fact, we already have some interesting examples to share with you: Fantasy Landscape AI by Fabrice Monchâtre Lavander in the Fields AI by Fabrice Monchâtre Digital painting of Sunflowers fields in Provence by Alain AUZERAL Digital painting of Lavander fields in Provence by… Continue reading New: Publish Your AI Generated Panoramas on 360Cities

Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Fine Art Category Winner

The 2022 500px Global Photography Awards serves creatives working with photography and provides them a chance to showcase their skill and be rewarded for it. The second edition of the competition consisted of six categories: Technical, Storytelling, Commercial Content, Documentary, Fine Art, and Landscape. Today on the blog we’re talking with the winner of the… Continue reading Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Fine Art Category Winner

Sony FE 50mm f/1.4 GM review: A well-rounded yet impressive prime lens

The Sony FE 50mm f/1.4 GM is a great all-rounder to keep on your camera. Abby Ferguson We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sony already makes a handful of 50mm lenses for its full-frame mirrorless cameras, including the very impressive FE 50mm… Continue reading Sony FE 50mm f/1.4 GM review: A well-rounded yet impressive prime lens

An AI-generated image won a prestigious photo contest award, but the artist won’t accept the prize

This image isn’t an old-school tintype photograph; it’s AI-generated. Boris Eldagsen The Sony World Photography Awards represent one of the year’s biggest photography contests, with thousands of entries and very desirable prizes. This year, a German artist named Boris Eldagsen won the “Creative” category in the Open Competition with a portrait of two women. It’s… Continue reading An AI-generated image won a prestigious photo contest award, but the artist won’t accept the prize

How to Composite Multiple Videos Using Clean Plates in After Effects

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to composite multiple videos using clean plates in After Effects in order to get the best out of our lighting tools that we have on hand, when creating content on a budget. In a previous tutorial we talked about how we can create… Continue reading How to Composite Multiple Videos Using Clean Plates in After Effects

The DJI Inspire 3 is a pro-level 8K cinema drone

The Inspire 3 is a highly advanced drone for cinematography professionals. DJI DJI is known for pushing boundaries on its drones, and that continues to be the case with its latest release. The new Inspire 3 is the company’s only cinema-grade drone, putting it at the top of DJI’s lineup. It’s packed full of advanced… Continue reading The DJI Inspire 3 is a pro-level 8K cinema drone

11 tips for better black and white street photography

Black and white street photography has a long history, dating back to the 1930s, when Henri Cartier-Bresson roamed the hidden corners of Paris and Walker Evans and Helen Levitt rode the New York City subway. In the following decades, even as color photography began to dominate—first in advertising, then in fine art—pioneering street photographers continued… Continue reading 11 tips for better black and white street photography

How to Add Finishing Effects and Film Grain in Resolve

Learn to colour correct like a pro with our free course DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading for Beginners. You’ll learn how to use each important tool in Resolve, including how to set up your project using scene cut detection, how to get clean skin tones with noise reduction and how to create cinematic looks. In this lesson… Continue reading How to Add Finishing Effects and Film Grain in Resolve