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Adobe adds impressive new AI technology to its Lightroom ecosystem

 
 

Adobe has announced significant updates to its entire Lightroom ecosystem, including the popular Lightroom on desktop, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera Raw applications.

Many new features rely upon improved...

Leica announces M11 Monochrom, a 60-megapixel camera built for black and white photography

 
 

It's a glorious time for black-and-white photography enthusiasts. Hot on the heels of Ricoh announcing the Pentax K-3 Mark III MonochromeLeica has announced a new monochrome camera, the Leica M11 Monochrom.

The...

When at the mercy of weather and light, flexibility is an important skill for landscape photographers

 
 

Things don't always go according to plan out in the field. For landscape and travel photographer Thomas Heaton, he did everything right. He scouted his location ahead of time, he found the composition he wanted and yet, ultimately, you are at the mercy of the conditions when you're doing outdoor photography.

In...

What lighting techniques should every videographer know?

 
 

Jay P. Morgan with The Slanted Lens has been featured on Imaging Resource numerous times for his excellent videos about portraiture and lighting. However, he is also a videographer and his latest video, seen below, shows us lighting techniques every videographer should know.

Unlike still photography, you need a...

Luminar 2018 available for Mac and Windows, offering improved performance and many new features

 
 

Luminar 2018 is available now. The Lightroom competitor offers a lot of image editing capabilities and thanks to its brand-new Raw engine, the software is better-suited for raw image processing than ever before.

There's a lot of new features including improved intelligent filters, a sun rays filter, dodging and...

How to create and add realistic-looking snow to your photos in Photoshop

 
 

We're entering the holiday season and that means a lot of opportunities for shooting in snowy conditions for readers in cold climates. For the many who live in places where it never snows, what can you do to capture the winter spirit?

Jesús Ramirez of the Photoshop Training Channel has a new video tutorial...

Pentax 645Z sensor reviewed at DxOMark: Three years old and still delivering fantastic performance

 
 

As promised, DxOMark has continued to work on their medium format sensor reviews. Recently, they reviewed the Hasselblad X1D. Next up is the Pentax 645Z.

The Pentax 645Z may be long in the tooth, having been released in June of 2014, but that doesn't mean that the 51-megapixel medium format sensor is outdated....

Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L review: Sleek sling bag keeps things pleasingly minimal

 
 

You'd have to have been living under a rock these past couple of years not to have heard of Peak Design's camera accessories, especially their massively-successful Everyday Backpack -- which racked-up around $6.5 million in Kickstarter funding. Starting a few years ago with small camera carrying devices, such as...

Star trails tips: How to shoot a circular star trail image from start to finish

 
 

Star trails are a very fun, but challenging, discipline of astrophotography. There are a lot of considerations from planning and setting up your equipment to editing your final star trails image. To help you learn the ropes, NatureTTL has created a new tutorial video with photographer Matthew Saville.

In the...

Fashionable film: Stylish Elbaflex Nikon-mount 35mm analog SLR camera hits Kickstarter

 
 

If you have any old Nikon-mount film lenses you'd like to get more use out of, a new Kickstarter campaign from Ihagee may well be of interest. The German and Ukrainian camera specialists have created a new 35mm Nikon-mount analog camera, the Elbaflex.

We've said it before and we'll say it again, film isn't dead....

Wine Country Camera Filter Holder hands-on: Ted Forbes calls it a game changer for landscapes

 
 

While Photoshop has replaced filters for some photographers, landscape photographers still by and large utilize physical filters for a variety of reasons. Polarizers in particular are nearly impossible to replace with software, but also graduated neutral density and solid neutral density filters have a...

See the 8K time-lapse power of the 45.7-megapixel Nikon D850 DSLR

 
 

The new Nikon D850 has turned a lot of heads for its wide array of features. One of the new features is its 8K time-lapse mode. While it doesn't compile an 8K time-lapse in camera like it does a 4K UHD time-lapse, the camera is equipped with interval shooting modes to create epic 8K time-lapse videos.

Nature...

RAW Power for iOS: Powerful RAW processing in the palm of your hand

 
 

You may recall the Mac app, RAW Power, which we reviewed earlier this year. The application was developed by Gentlemen Coders, which was founded by Nik Bhatt, a former Senior Director of Engineering at Apple and the former Chief Technical Officer of the Apple Photo Apps group. Bhatt and his team has announced the...

Thrifty Tuesday: Save big on lighting gear and MacBook Pros at B&H

 
 

B&H has some great deals to get you ready for the upcoming annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday savings. They have "Spotlight Savings" on studio lighting equipment, which allows you to save up to $1,000 on lighting equipment and studio accessories. However, these deals won't last long, so you need to act fast.

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Sony execs reveal mirrorless strategy in PhotoPlus Expo interview


 
 

At the recent PhotoPlus Expo in New York City's Javits Convention Center, IR founder and publisher Dave Etchells was fortunate to have the opportunity to interview the senior executives behind Sony's impressive Alpha camera line. Three key architects of the company's mirrorless strategy took Dave...

Panasonic 200mm f/2.8 First Impressions: Out in the field with the GH5


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Panasonic 200mm f/2.8 DG First Impressions

 
 

The recently announced Panasonic 200mm f/2.8 is all about ample light-gathering power in a sports and wildlife lens tool, while maintaining the more manageable sizes promised by the Micro Four Thirds system. Although differing slightly in...

Nikon D5 takes its first journey into space: First of the 53 D5 cameras Nikon sold to NASA launch into orbit

 
 

Back in August, we shared the news that Nikon had sold 53 Nikon D5 DSLR cameras to NASA. Nikon has announced that the D5 is now making its first mission into space aboard a re-supply mission that launched on November 12.

The 53 D5 cameras Nikon sold to NASA are all unmodified, meaning that the 20.8-megapixel...

Canon G9X II Review Conclusion: Is the compact PowerShot much improved or more of the same?


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The Canon G9X II is a very compact camera with a 20-megapixel 1-inch type sensor and a DIGIC 7 image processor. Sharing the same compact form factor as the original Canon G9X, along with many of the specifications and features, the G9X II nevertheless...

Visualizing landscape photography: The importance of planning your shot and developing your own style

 
 

Landscape photographers have a lot of different tools to help them deliver great images. For photographer Nigel Danson, one of those tools is Adobe Lightroom. In the video below, Danson discusses not only how to create better landscape photographs, but also goes through his Lightroom editing workflow.

An...

Firmware Friday: Canon 6D II, Cinema EOS C200, Pentax K-1 and Fujifilm XP120 all get updates


 
 

Our Firmware Friday roundup this week includes five cameras from three manufacturers, four of them interchangeable-lens types. From Canon, we have the EOS 6D Mark II updated alongside the Cinema EOS C200 and C200B. Pentax, meanwhile, has an update for its flagship K-1 full-frame DSLR. And finally, Fujifilm...

How to create natural-looking light rays in Photoshop

 
 

Some of the coolest nature photographs are those which show light rays filtering through the scene. It's a beautiful phenomenon and one which is very difficult to capture. It's not often that conditions are just right for rays of light to beam down from the heavens. That's why it's great to be able to replicate the...

Canon SL2 Field Test Part II: Good user experience, but how’s the video performance?


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In my first Canon SL2 Field Test, I looked primarily at the camera's body and handling, image quality, autofocus, and its performance. In the new second Field Test, the focus turns toward shooting modes, wireless functionality, and video features.

The SL2's...