February 2009

How To Get Fast Action Shots Indoors In Low Light

A video tutorial explaining some of the key elements to indoor and low light photography, and ways you can get sharper photos and avoid the [...]

How to Choose Studio Lighting

However amazing the vision of a photographer may be, however sharp their lens and regardless of the number of pixels on their camera’s sensor, the [...]

Negative Space in Photography

What is negative space? When composing a piece of artwork, we generally work with three elements: the frame, the positive space, and the negative space [...]

Olympus FL-BK04 and FL-BKM03 Flash Brackets

Today Olympus announces the FL-BK04 Flash Bracket and FL-BKM03 Twin Flash Bracket. Both of these brackets are designed to work seamlessly with the E-30 and [...]

Corel Painter 11

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL)(TSX:CRE) today introduced Corel® Painter™ 11, the newest edition of the world’s leading painting and illustration software. With more than 40 new and [...]

PhotographyBB Online Magazine 13th Edition

PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 13th edition of the PhotographyBB Magazine Online. The PhotographyBB Magazine Online, now into its second year of publication [...]

Olympus E-620 camera

The world’s smallest and lightest creative D-SLR with built-in image stabilisation has finally arrived! The new Olympus E-620 combines the technical sophistication required by pros [...]

Samsung TL320 – HZ15W – PL10 cameras

Samsung Electronics America today unveiled a new 12 mega-pixel compact digital camera boasting a 24mm ultra-wide angle Schneider lens. Samsung’s new TL320 raises the bar [...]

Transform by Zack Arias

Use of Light in Photography

When you use your camera to automatically chose aperture and shutter speed, what your camera is actually doing is using the built in light meter [...]

Is it a crime to take photos in the U.K. ?

From today, anyone taking a photograph of a police officer could be deemed to have committed a criminal offence. That is because of a new [...]

Bagrad Badalian Photography

Why More Megapixels in Photography Is Not Always Better

Generally, the more pixels packed onto a sensor, the higher the resolution of the images it can produce. (Image resolution is somewhat confusingly also measured [...]

Ricoh CX1 camera

Ricoh Co., Ltd. (president and CEO: Shiro Kondo) today announced the release of the CX1. The CX1 features the highly evolved image processing engine Smooth [...]

How to get nice soft light for portraits using diffusion and reflection.

New Dust-Aid products : Dust-Jet – Dust-Swab with Sensor Light – Dust-Shield

Dust-Jet Today DUST-AID introduced the Dust-Jet, a bulb-blower that contains a replaceable filter to clean air blown through the bellows of the blower. These new [...]

Canon Studio Solution software

Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging technology, today announced a new and exciting software product, Studio Solution software for professional photographic studio owners. [...]

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II and TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift Lenses

Canon Introduces the New TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II and the TS-E 17mm f/4L Tilt-Shift Lenses LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., February 17, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., [...]

New Canon Powershot cameras : SX200 IS – D10 – SD970 IS – SD780 IS – SD 960 IS – SD 1200 IS – A2100 IS – A1100 IS -

Canon PowerShot A1100 IS From the tentative first-timer to the passionate photographer, the PowerShot A-Series product line provides the ever-present convenience and cost-effectiveness of being [...]

LEICA SUPER-ELMAR-M 18 mm f/ 3.8 ASPH lens and LEICA SF 58 flash unit

LEICA SUPER-ELMAR-M 18 mm f/ 3.8 ASPH lens With the LEICA SUPER-ELMAR-M 18 mm f/ 3.8 ASPH., Leica Camera AG, Solms, expands their range of [...]

The Truth about Wedding Photography

This page is going to be dedicated to dispelling many of the myths and misconceptions regarding wedding photographers. I will be updating this as necessary, [...]

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 Photo Contest

Call for the wild: Entries for Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 open The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition today begins its [...]

Profoto D1 Monolight Flash System

Elmsford, NY – February 16, 2009 – Ask any professional photographer why they use Profoto strobes and the answers are identical: consistency, consistency and more [...]

Samsung SL820 – SL620 – SL202 and SL30 camera's

Samsung Electronics America today extended its popular SL-Series with the introduction of four new models, comprising two 12.2 mega-pixel and two 10 mega-pixel digital cameras. [...]

New Cybershot cameras by Sony : H20 – T900 – T90 – W290 – W270

If you need high performance in a compact, go-anywhere package, the Cyber-shot H20 teams a powerful 10x optical zoom range and HD movie recording with [...]

DH Kong Photography

Introduction to Macro Photography

To put it simply, macro photography is close-up photography. There are various schools of though on when a photo becomes a macro (when it’s close [...]

Fujifilm FinePix S1500fd

D-SLR-Style Camera Sports Dual Image Stabilization and Automatic Scene Recognition Valhalla, NY, February 17, 2009 – FUJIFILM U.S.A. Inc. today announced the successor to the [...]

Fujifilm announces Z30, Z33WP, J250 and J20 cameras

‘Life-Proof’ FinePix Z33WP Captures Treasured Moments Anytime, Anywhere and in Any Conditions Valhalla, N.Y., February 17, 2009 – Expanding the popular Z-series digital cameras for [...]

PocketWizard Goes Beyond TTL with MiniTT1 and FlexTT5

So. Burlington, VT – February 16, 2009 – Professional photographers have depended on PocketWizard radio slaves for reliable triggering of their manual flashes and cameras [...]