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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...

One of the best light modifiers might be at your local hardware store rather than photo store

 
 

Strobes can be very expensive, ranging from hundreds of dollars well into the thousands. If you're just starting out, the cost of artificial lighting can be prohibitive. Fortunately, every day a bright, very useful light source rises above the horizon, its lighting prowess just waiting to be harnessed. Professional...

Capture One Pro 10.1: PSD support, enhanced X-Trans RAW handling and much more

 
 

The first major update to Capture One Pro 10 has arrived in the form of Capture One Pro 10.1. Capture One Pro 10.1 makes numerous improvements in addition to bringing a variety of new features to the powerful RAW editing software.

New features: PSD file viewing support, X-Trans file support and more

With...

Cloning in Lightroom? You don’t need to leave Lightroom to get a useful cloning tool

 
 

Lightroom expert Scott Kelby has an awesome website called Lightroom Killer Tips where he regularly publishes Lightroom tutorials. His latest video shows you that you don't need to go into Photoshop to clone objects, but can rather stay inside Adobe Lightroom.

In the video below, Kelby is working on an image...

Perfect poses: Tips from professional photographers for creating natural, emotional portraits

 
 

Posing is one of the most challenging aspects of portraiture, particularly when you’re working with subjects who aren’t used to having their photos taken. Everyone wants to look natural and relaxed, but for people who don’t spend a lot of time in front of a camera, that can be very challenging without the...

Canon EOS M5 Review: Is the M5 Canon’s best mirrorless camera yet?


Click here to read our Canon EOS M5 Conclusion

 
 

Canon's mirrorless EOS M camera series is continually evolving. Early models were limited by a lack of features and exhibited rather lackluster overall performance. The Canon EOS M5 hopes to buck that trend, and as it turns out based on our now-completed EOS M5...

Do you have a distracting portrait background? Five accessories to draw attention to your subject

 
 

As part of their “Photographing the Bride” workshop, SLR Lounge has detailed five accessories you can use to counteract a distracting background. These are five items any wedding or portrait photographer can have on hand to make sure your perfect shot isn’t ruined by a distracting background.

When shooting...

IR Podcast: The ‘fastfoodification’ of Instagram images

 
 

This week on the Imaging Resource Podcast, we discuss a few of the week's pressing stories including the Sal Cincotta Shutterfest situation, the quality of images produced by the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 and more. Also, they are joined by Sony Artisan of Imagery Vivienne Gucwa, who talks about struggles she has found with...

Sharpen smarter in Photoshop: An overview of three common sharpening techniques

 
 

Jesús Ramirez of the Photoshop Training Channel has created an excellent in-depth tutorial about sharpening your images in Photoshop. In the video below, he covers three common sharpening techniques in Photoshop and discusses the pros and cons of each in addition to showing you how to use them.

To make sure all...

Follow these six storm-chasing Instagram accounts from the safety of your home

 
 

If you’re looking for daring photographers to follow on Instagram, you’d be hard-pressed to beat this group of storm-chasing shutterbugs. While many of us prefer to stay as far away from severe weather as possible, some people opt instead to track down the action and document it as it unfolds.

Take Chris Sanner,...

Sony RX100 V Review: It might look unassuming, but it’s really a pocket-friendly rocket ship!


 
 

Five years ago, Sony wowed us all with the RX100, a compact camera that could slip almost unnoticed into a pants pocket, and yet which featured a much larger-than-average 1-inch image sensor for great image quality, even in low light. Incredibly, that camera is still on sale today, as are all four models...

Do-it-yourself optics: Why buy a lens when you can build your own?

 
 

When sharing DIY photography projects we see on the web, we try to ensure that they strike a balance between utility, cost and achievability. This one from Mats Wernersson might not check that last box for most of us because he built his own Petzval-inspired 90mm f/2.8 lens, even machining the glass himself. So...

Processed images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show first true-color image of Saturn’s north pole

 
 

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft launched in 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. It is currently in the “Grand Finale” stage of its mission, which entails the spacecraft flying over Saturn’s poles. As is regularly the case, the images from NASA’s Cassini mission and the Grand Finale are available online.

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7.5mm f/2 MFT lens: Venus Optics announces the world’s widest f/2 lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras

 
 

Venus Optics, the manufacturer of Laowa lenses, has announced the availability of its new ultra-wide angle prime lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras, the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 MFT. This new lens is the world's widest f/2 lens for MFT cameras and offers a 110° angle of view in a compact form factor. If you're curious, both...

SLR Magic announces new full-frame 25mm f/1.4 CINE lens for Sony E-mount

 
 

SLR Magic announced earlier this week a new addition to the full-frame cinema lens lineup, the SLR Magic CINE 25mm F/1.4 for Sony E-mount. The lens will be available through authorized retailers by the end of May and will sell for just under US$400.

The fast wide-angle prime lens has 11 elements in 9 groups and a...

Canon T7i Field Test: A nice entry-level DSLR with impressive autofocus and performance for the price


Click here to read our Canon T7i Field Test

 
 

The Canon Rebel T7i is the first Rebel series camera to include the company’s DIGIC 7 image processor, which proved to pay dividends with regard to performance. Despite retaining the same 24.2-megapixel APS-C sensor as its predecessor, the T6i, the T7i delivers...

The elk that earned the honors, as yet another Canon 7D brings home the prize money

 
 

We love the chance to honor photographers entering our contest for the first time, but this month in our competition it's all about paying homage to our "regulars" - those dedicated souls who enter the competition month in and month out, and in doing so help keep our competition standards lofty in the quality...

World’s fastest camera stops light in its tracks and records five trillion frames per second

 
 

Who doesn’t love slow motion? There’s something very impressive about high-tech slow-motion cameras. Perhaps none are more impressive than the device a team has built at Lund University in Sweden. Their new fast camera can record five trillion - yes, that’s 5,000,000,000,000! – frames per second.

At these insane...

Sigma 135mm f/1.8 Gallery: Fast, sharp, insanely shallow depth of field

 
 

Get your biceps into shape and work on your ability to nail critical focus, because a new portrait offering from Sigma awaits you. As we've already demonstrated from our full technical review of this incredible lens, the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 Art is indeed quite sharp and the lab results are definitely something to...

Phase One Capture One Pro 10 Review: A very powerful RAW processor and image editor

 
 

When photographers are looking for a RAW editor, there are a variety of choices and two of the most popular are Adobe Lightroom and Phase One Capture One Pro. I have been a longtime user of Adobe Lightroom, but I’ve always been interested in Capture One Pro after hearing many photographers talk about its excellent...

Popular Photoshop plugin Portraiture updated to version 3, twice as fast as its predecessor

 
 

Update on May 2: Portraiture 3 is not available as a standalone version, but only as a plugin. 

Imagenomic has released the third major update to its popular Photoshop plug-in, Portraiture. Portraiture 3’s improvements primarily focus on speed and performance. Imagenomic states that Portraiture 3 is twice as fast...