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What Makes Soft Light Soft?: It’s More About Basic Geometry Than Anything Else
Seth Shostak  |  Oct 10, 2016

For decades, soft light has been the bee’s knees for portrait photography. It’s flattering, pleasant to look at, and undistracting.

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Check Out 7 Sweet Images We Captured with the Super Speedy Sony RX100 V Compact Camera
Dan Havlik  |  Oct 07, 2016

We were at Sony’s press conference yesterday to unveil the blazing fast RX100 V compact camera and afterwards we got a chance to try out with this speedy little bugger. The biggest headline about the Sony RX100 V is that can shoot at 24 frames per second, which is the world’s fastest continuous shooting speed for a compact camera and faster than even the most expensive professional digital SLRs on the market.

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Multitasking Combat Photographer Switches Between Rifle and Camera in This Amazing Video
Ron Leach  |  Oct 07, 2016

Combat photography is, to say the least, one of the more challenging assignments anyone can accept. But if you’re both a photographer and a British Army soldier, let’s just say you have your hands full.

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Viral Video Lets You Read the Logo on an Airplane Thanks to the Camera’s 200X Zoom Capability
Ron Leach  |  Oct 07, 2016

The short video below should help explain why the latest superzoom cameras are so popular, as you get both a wide view where a FedEx airplane is barely visible, and a tight shot where you can actually read the logo on the planes fuselage.

 

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Our 7 Favorite Classic Lenses of All Time
Jason Schneider  |  Oct 07, 2016

I’ve shot thousands of pictures with hundreds of great lenses over the past 40+ years, but these seven have a special place in my heart. That’s because they capture beautiful images that have “the look”—an elusive quality that may be a combination of excellent detail and sharpness plus a natural roundness in their rendition. It’s not bokeh exactly—that refers to smooth transitions and shape retention in the out-of-focus areas of the image—although these lenses all have gorgeous bokeh as well. 

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Exploring Fujifilm’s ACROS Film Simulation Mode
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  Oct 06, 2016

The monochrome mode on most digital cameras is a convenience that is best avoided. Conventional wisdom says that it’s far, far better to shoot Raw and convert to monochrome—or at least to start with a color JPEG. But Fujifilm suggests that their ACROS film simulation mode might even top the best Raw converters. Does it? 

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Check Out These Spectacular Macro Insect Photos of Yousef Al Habshi’s “Little Monsters”
Ron Leach  |  Oct 06, 2016

Yousef Al Habshi is an award-winning photographer based in Abu Dabi. He specializes in macro photography, and the spectacular images of insects you see here are part of his Little Monsters project.

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Sony’s New RX100 V Compact Camera Packs a Big Punch with High-Speed AF, 1-Inch Sensor and More
Ron Leach  |  Oct 06, 2016

Sony just dropped the curtain on the RX100 V, a new flagship model in their powerful Cyber-shot RX line of 1-inch sensor compact digital cameras. Sony says their latest model has the fastest AF speed, most AF points, and fastest continuous shooting speed of any compact camera.

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Sony Intros the a6500: A New Flagship APS-C Camera with Blazing AF Speed & Pro Video
Ron Leach  |  Oct 06, 2016

This morning Sony introduced a new flagship mirrorless camera, the a6500, which claims to have the world’s fastest AF speed and the highest number of AF points with in-camera 5-axis image stabilization. The camera features Sony’s acclaimed 4D Focus system, which can acquire focus in a mere 0.05 seconds.

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Watch Photographer Freeze Flying Bullet Shells With this Awesome Stop-Action Video
Ron Leach  |  Oct 05, 2016

Italian photographer Matteo Mescalchin is a location photographer who specializes in aerial and underwater photography. In this dramatic video, you’ll see him stop some high-speed action by freezing flying bullet shells.

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