Adobe Best Overall Adobe Premiere Check Price This powerful program ties neatly into the Adobe infrastructure Most User-Friendly Final Cut Pro Check Price Apple’s own pro video editing software offers powerful features with a streamlined interface. Best Free iMovie Check Price This free software has surprisingly powerful features. Whether you are a seasoned video editor… Continue reading Best video editing software for Macs in 2022
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Carla Coulson’s floral portraits capture the beauty—and fragility—of being a young woman
L-R: “On My Way,” “Great Future Ahead,” and “See Me”. Carla Coulson “I’m obsessed with romantic flowers,” says Carla Coulson, an Australian-born photographer who splits her time between Paris and Greece. On the day I interviewed her, she was sitting in her home in Greece, surrounded by prints she made of the Italian coast, on… Continue reading Carla Coulson’s floral portraits capture the beauty—and fragility—of being a young woman
Pixy is a tiny, $230 selfie drone built for Snapchat
The Pixy drone retails for $230 and fits in the palm of your hand. Snap Inc. Drone debutantes, rejoice! At the 2022 Snap Partner Summit, Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel announced the launch of Pixy, a user-friendly, yellow pocket drone built specifically for use with the Snapchat app. Dubbed the “friendly flying camera” and touted… Continue reading Pixy is a tiny, $230 selfie drone built for Snapchat
How to Add Free Animations to Live-action Video in 30 Minutes With After Effects
Create your own animations with this quick tutorial: you’ll learn how to combine free characters from Reallusion with live-action stock video from Envato Elements using Adobe After Effects. We’ll show step-by-step how to download and add the free 2D cartoon animations to a live action video, in about 30 minutes start to finish. To celebrate… Continue reading How to Add Free Animations to Live-action Video in 30 Minutes With After Effects
Shimoda Explore v2 review – a versatile camera backpack for nearly any adventure
The Shimoda Design Explore v2 backpacks come in three sizes, 25-, 30-, and 35-liters. Mason Marsh In my 40 years as a photographer, I’ve owned dozens of camera bags. Lugging camera gear has always been an exercise of compromises, but with the new Explore v2 camera backpacks from Shimoda Designs, those compromises are few. And… Continue reading Shimoda Explore v2 review – a versatile camera backpack for nearly any adventure
These winning food photos will make you hungry
“On ice.” Winner of the Wine Photographer of the Year-Produce category. Suzanne Becker Bronk One thing that unites us all is food. It’s a key element not only to survival but to tradition, celebration, and community. This year’s winners of the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year awards showcase the customs and stories woven… Continue reading These winning food photos will make you hungry
Best photo editing software for macs in 2022
Stan Horaczek Best overall Adobe Lightroom Check Price Adobe’s raw workflow software has become a standard for photographers. Best for raw photos Capture One Pro 22 Check Price Pull every last bit of image quality out of your raw files. Best for beginners Photoshop Elements Check Price Photo editing software will help you improve your… Continue reading Best photo editing software for macs in 2022
How to Export Smaller Files and Better Quality Video from Premiere Pro Using HEVC/H.265
In this lesson on from David Bode’s free course, Ultimate Premiere Pro FAQ, you will learn how to export your projects using the successor to H.264: H.265. H.265, or High Efficiency Video Coding, is 25 to 50% more efficient. This means you can have the same size of a file and you’re going to get… Continue reading How to Export Smaller Files and Better Quality Video from Premiere Pro Using HEVC/H.265
How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light
If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. Photons have an electromagnetic field that fluctuates as it moves through space. In this lesson, you’ll find out why that matters to photographers. Noticing Polarised Reflections Polarised light refers to the… Continue reading How to Use Polarised Reflections: a Photographer’s Guide to Light
Noticing Absorption and Reflection: a Photographer’s Guide to Light
If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our free course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson, you’ll learn about light absorption and reflection. Noticing Absorption and Reflection A white object appears white because it reflects almost all of the light that strikes… Continue reading Noticing Absorption and Reflection: a Photographer’s Guide to Light