Four days ago, Sony quietly issued a product advisory for three of its SD card product lines that could potentially corrupt your video footage when used. The company will replace these cards for free if your serial number is affected. The notice—first spotted by Dan Carr over at Shuttermuse—refers to three affected products: The regular
[embedded content] I don’t shoot much in the studio anymore, but when I used to, I had quite a few different backdrops. They were a pain to store because if you just lie the rolls down on the ground or a shelf horizontally (the most convenient way to store them), they’ll typically develop a “flat
500px is home to more than 120 million images from photographers across 195 countries, with new content added every day. Its commercial distributors have hundreds of millions of photos, and one of them, Getty Images, boasts more than a million customers—all looking to download images for their campaigns. Commercial Licensing is a great way to
[embedded content] PBS NewsHour aired this 7-minute Race Matters segment on the camera’s role over the past decades in not only documenting social movements but also shaping and shifting public perception. (Warning: This video contains violent and disturbing images.) “I see the camera as a visual diary,” NYU photography historian and curator Deborah Willis tells
[embedded content] While digital photography and post-processing have done away with the need for certain types of lens filters, there are still a number of filters that can’t be replaced by Photoshop. Here’s a 8.5-minute video by DPReview on which filters you should still consider keeping in your camera bag. The four filters introduced by
The death of George Floyd this May sparked protests across the USA and even internationally. These events make us reevaluate many things, including the ethics of storytelling and photography. In this week’s episode of Impact Everywhere’s podcast, Benjamin Von Wong spoke to Danielle Da Silva. She is an award-winning photographer, and a founder and CEO
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How to make money with photography is a common question we get within our community. We’ve pulled together the Top 10 insights from our 500px Content Team on how to make money with photography. If you’re interested in licensing your photos with 500px and selling them through our distribution partners, these tips will tell you
Back in 2015, a stealthy startup company called Light made a splash in the photo industry by announcing a point-and-shoot camera called the L16 that featured a whopping 16 separate cameras across its face. Fast forward half a decade, and now Light is no longer working to revolutionize photography at all. Despite the initial hype
[embedded content] Portrait photographer Miguel Quiles is tackling one of the most common beginner questions out there: should I invest in speedlights or strobes? In this video, he covers the pros and cons of both, and which you should go with depending on your needs and shooting style. As with almost any gear comparison, the
[embedded content] Pinhole photography is a strange aspect of photography. On the one hand, it’s used to teach people about the bare basic principles of light and photography and building one can be a fun weekend project with the kids. But on the other, it’s also a whole craft and art form in and of
High resolution. Fast autofocus. Low-light performance. Long battery life. Durability. These are just some of the advantages of upgrading to a DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera, considered by many pros to be a gold-standard in an industry that’s constantly evolving and rolling out new technologies. Because these cameras have been around for a while, your
Earlier this week, Datacolor packaged three of it most popular image and monitor calibration tools into a new bundle for photographers called the SpyderX Photo Kit, and they’ll be offering it at a steep discount “while supplies last.” The new Datacolor SpyderX Photo Kit joins the SpyderX Studio and SpyderX Capture Pro kits, and it’s
The team at Lensrentals just published Part 2 of their fascinating flange distance test, where they compared various Sony, Canon, and Micro Four Thirds stills cameras. What they found is particularly relevant to Sony shooters, or anyone with a camera that has IBIS. In case you missed it, Roger Cicala and his team recently embarked
I’m not happy to say that people can get very creative when coming up with scams. And it looks like an old one has been going around again lately. So, be extra careful when taking jobs and don’t disregard anything that looks like a red flag. Redditor laddphoto warned the community of the scam as
Sameer Al-Doumy was in eighth grade when the civil war in Syria started. Along with his siblings, he photographed his everyday life — and the horror that unfolded around him. As a young citizen of Douma, he was able to capture the war as an insider, documenting moments of despair and hope as his neighborhood
Yesterday, an employee in retailer B&H Photo‘s Human Resources department posted some controversial anti-Black Lives Matter content to his public social media accounts. Today, that employee has been “removed from his position.” This story hit our inbox earlier today, when a concerned B&H Photo employee reached out anonymously to share the following screenshots. The first
[embedded content] Filipino portrait and wedding photographer Jiggie Alejandrino recently released a great beginner’s guide to creating a basic photography studio at home. In the video, he shows you how you can set yourself up to take beautiful portraits using just one light, a 5-in-1 reflector, and not much else. The setup itself is extremely
Notoriously reliable site Nokishita has posted a list of six lenses and two teleconverters that Canon is planning to release in 2020. All of them are RF-mount lenses, some are exciting, and some of them are quite strange… like the 600mm f/11 and 800mm f/11 super-telephoto primes. First things first, here is the full list:
After leaked photos and a flyer with some more info, the Tamron 28-200mm f/2.8-5.6 Di III RXD is now officially announced. Preorders are open and it should start shipping soon. And just like we assumed, it’s available for Sony E mount only (at least for now). The lens is designed for full-frame Sony E-mount mirrorless
In the last ten years, the market for newborn photography has reached new heights. Millennials are driving a whole new movement towards documenting these early memories — and sharing them with loved ones through social media. In 2015, Vogue reported that newborn photography had officially gone “mainstream,” and this year, viral baby photoshoots reminded us
First came Canon, then Fuji, and now Panasonic has released (or in this case, updated) a piece of free software that lets you use your professional camera as a webcam, even if you don’t own a capture card like the Elgato Camlink. The software is called “Lumix Tether for Streaming,” and it’s a Beta update
[embedded content] Want to create an epic ‘dual lighting’ effect for your studio portraits, but don’t have any gels or LEDs to work with? No problem. In this short tutorial, Photoshop master Unmesh Dinda of PIXimperfect will show you how to create this effect in post using just 2 layers! As Dinda shows in the
Tamron’s 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD lens for Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras has been a huge hit since it was announced. But buyer beware: the company has released a product advisory after discovering that some lenses suffer from a calibration issue, resulting in poor performance. The “notice” for “users and potential purchasers” was published June
[embedded content] We’ve all been there at some point or another. We’ve misjudged our exposure, knocked a dial, the sun’s disappeared behind a cloud, or maybe our flash just hasn’t recycled yet. Whatever the reason, we’ve all had underexposed shots that we would actually quite like if we could better see what’s going on in
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Our global population takes more than one trillion photos a year—and 15 million of those photographers share their best work with the 500px community. You may have a strong aesthetic and well-defined point of view; you may know how to tell a story in a single frame. But in a world filled with content, how
In 2018, we shared the story of real estate photographer Whitney Morris, who was shot by a surprised homeowner while taking pictures of her house. Morris sued the homeowner and her real-estate agency and lost by summary judgement. Now, the Georgia appeals court has ruled that the original trial court erred, giving Morris another chance
[embedded content] Matt Huber over at YouTube channel The Garage Learning has put together a fun and creative walkthrough that takes a different approach to splash photography. Instead of manually throwing water onto his subject, he designed a simple ‘DIY catapult’ that does the job much better than he can. Huber originally came up with
The new 13-inch MacBook Pro is a confusing proposition from Apple. We called it a “half update” in our first impressions, and I stand by that. But it’s also an important update that gives photographers and video editors a lot more performance bang for their buck—as long as they’re willing to spend $1,800 or more.