I'll be the first to admit that I am not a fan of most "self-help" style seminars because I feel like they often do more to help your money go into some other guy's pocket than they do to actually improve people's lives. At a recent Tony Robbins seminar in Dallas, a walk across hot coals helped give...

We first saw the Sigma sd Quattro under glass back at WPPI in March, but now the company has released some official pricing info for its new mirrorless camera system. The sd Quattro body itself will costs $799, while the bundle with the 30mm f/1.4 DC HSM Art lens will cost $999. Sigma is also revamp...

To broaden his photo skills, Gary Gustin signed on for last February’s Mentor Series Lighting Workshop in Miami Beach. “I wanted to lea something about using flash,” says the retired physician assistant from Largo, Florida. “Because I shoot mainly landscapes and travel, I don’t get to work with them...

Weste Digital’s My Passport Wireless drive is a pretty handy solution for backing up photos in the field, but it had the form factor of a small brick. Now, WD has a new contender called the My Passport Pro Wireless, which cuts down on thickness while adding features. Available in both 2 TB and 3 TB ...

For years now, there have been rumors floating around about a digital mirrorless medium-format camera system from a wide variety of camera companies. It tu s out Hasselblad is the first company to actually make it happen with its new X1D. The X1D camera looks radically different from the typical Has...

When it comes to using backdrops, I’m a big fan of paper seamless because it’s cheap, consistent, and most importantly, it never needs to be steamed or ironed. The Mermaid Sequin Fabric Backdrops from Backdrop Express, however, offers some impressive flexibility with the ability to change color in c...

I you haven’t watched the most recent Game of Thrones episode yet, probably best to start reading now, and make sure you really don’t watch the video. Also, if you don’t know what Game of Thrones is and you don’t like cinematic violence, you should also definitely not watch the video. [embedded cont...

[embedded content] Anyone who has ever shot a wedding as a primary, or even a second, photographer knows that it’s a unique experience full of surprises, logistics, and lots and lots of walking. Photographer Tom Harmon mounted a GoPro camera to the top of his main camera to capture the day in real t...

As many of you know, I think rumor posts are often more harmful than good for everyone except the blogs that rake in the page views. However, Hasselblad is currently teasing a “world’s first” a ouncement that will be coming on June 22nd. Hasselblad will be live streaming the event on their Youtube p...

Like with anything, there’s a happy medium to be found with photography. You don't want to miss Grandma blowing out the candles on her 100th birthday cake because you're fiddling with an aperture ring, but it's also unreasonable to imply that taking pictures prevents someone from enjoying an experie...

We’re seeing an increasing number of photographers with signature series gear from manufacturers in recent years, and now fashion photographer Frank Doorhof is getting the Jordan treatment from Flashbender. The new FlashBender 2 XL Pro Super Soft Silver comes with a reflective surface that falls som...

Final Step: To straighten the image in Photoshop, click on the Crop tool, move the cursor to a co er of the image until it becomes curved, then drag up or down to rotate. Click the check mark at the top of the screen to apply. To remove extraneous objects, such as the wire at the very top of the ima...

So far, we have really been enjoying challenging your photographic knowledge with our weekly quiz. This week's questions range from technical to historical, so there's something for everyone. Make sure to brag about your score on social media and tag us on Facebook or Twitter when you do! Let's bloc...

Fotodiox, purveyor of lens adapters, studio lighting, and other photo and video accessories has a new LED light aimed at studio shooters called the LED100WB. Shaped like a studio strobe, the LED100WB uses the same Balcar bayonet mount as Alien Bees, Einstein, and Paul C Buff lights to mount accessor...

The film-emulation presets made by VSCO have been wildly popular for years now, but the company has been shaking things up lately with a redesigned mobile app and now an affordable Film Essentials preset pack containing some of its most popular looks. For $59, it offers the following presets: Film 0...

Many people know SanDisk as the company that makes camera memory cards, but they also make exte al storage and the Extreme 500 and 510 Portable SSD devices are designed to be faster, more versatile, and tougher than a normal exte al hard drive. I put them to the test in a professional wedding photog...

When smart photo editors see a wide open expanse of bright green we can't help but think: Chroma Key. The classic technique allows you to replace a swath of an easy-to-isolate color, usually green, with pretty much whatever you want. So when the Queen of England wore a bright green suit at an event ...

The Mentor Series trip to Oregon mentored by Tom Bol was an amazing opportunity. This was my first trek, so I didn't know what to expect. I wanted to lea about my camera, maybe make a friend. What I got was an amazing weekend. Tom was so helpful. He made sure we all got the most amazing pictures. We...

[embedded content] Affinity Photo iPad sneak peek for WWDC 2016 from MacAffinity on Vimeo. WWDC is happening right now, which is Apple’s big developer’s conference. It doesn’t always get as much news as some of Apple’s big product a ouncements, because they typically talk about things like operating...

Ever shoot an almost-perfect photo on your iPhone that you just knew you could have fixed—if you had only shot it in RAW? Bad white balance due to mixed lighting, a backlit photo where the subject is underexposed, auto HDR that just doesn’t cut it… We shoot so much with our phones these days that th...