Thinking of upgrading your main photography gear? If you have your eyes set on Sony cameras or lenses (or both), you’re in luck. With B&H’s ongoing Sony Summer Trade-In offers, you can get additional discounts on top of instant savings when you trade any working digital interchangeable lens camera body! Curious? Here’s
A fellow birder, my friend Ted Grussing, has a small skiff and invited me out for a birding session on Lake Pleasant in Arizona. It was wonderful as it was a target rich environment. You can get close approaching from the water versus trying to get in position coming from
We’ve all been there. Standing at the precipice of a creative endeavor, brush poised over canvas, fingers hovering over the shutter button, a million “what ifs” swirling in our minds. “What if it’s not good enough?” “What if they laugh?” The fear of imperfection and the dreaded “what will others
As a working photographer, I’m always looking for the most efficient way to create high-quality images. There are hundreds of things to keep track of during a photoshoot, but nailing the exposure is definitely one of the most important. Choosing the right exposure mode can make or break your photo
Whether you’re a hobbyist or a pro photographer, one of the most important camera settings that you should be able to master is camera metering. If you’ve ever been disappointed that your photo looks too dark or too bright and you couldn’t figure out why, this setting is most likely
Joshua Tree National Park is fantastic for night photography. How can light painting help take your desert photo to the next level? What is light painting? The term is often used loosely to describe any addition of light to a night photograph. Really, though, light painting is a technique that uses a
We recently had some fun in the studio. I had this idea about using silver Mylar emergency blankets hung up around the studio to reflect colored lights to create some very cool creative portraits. Add in a VERY cool costume and some crafty hair and makeup, and we had a
It’s time to make your voice heard! Each week, we ask a question of our readers so we know what sort of content to produce more of. Your input helps us make Photofocus better. Whatever your genre of choice, whether you’re a pro or a hobbyist, an efficient workflow is
By now, most photographers shoot in RAW to ensure the best quality of their final images. However, those who are just getting started with photography may still be unsure how to go about editing RAW files. So, it’s not surprising that many also want to know, are JPEGs still that
If you’re considering the newly released Lumix S9 as a dedicated street photography camera, you must be curious about your other Lumix options. Will an older model be just as good? Today, we have Manchester, UK-based street photographer George Holden comparing the $1,500 S9 with the eight-year-old $500 Lumix GX80. In the video above,
Whatever your discipline of photography, there’s one skill that is crucial to catapulting your success: culling. That boring, obnoxious task of sifting through all the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in order to finally surface with a body of work worth looking at (or showing to the client).
Canon just launched two new professional full-frame mirrorless cameras: the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II. The EOS R1 camera is designed for both professional still photographers and video creators in a wide range of fields including sports, news reporting and high-end video production. The EOS R5 Mark II
