How To Use Photoshop For Focus Stacking Multiple Images

One problem photographers face when focusing on objects extremely close to the camera’s lens is the depth of field can become quite shallow. Even if you shoot at f22, your lens simply can’t keep everything from 1 foot to infinity sharp and in focus. Gavin Hoey has released an incredibly helpful tutorial on how you can use “image stacking” in photoshop to create images that have much more depth of field than normal. If you are a landscape photographer or shoot tricky subjects like interiors or macro still life, stacking images for maximum sharpness can be a...

Fuji Announces the X-E1: The Smaller and Cheaper 16.3MP Sibling of the X-Pro1

Fuji has announced its new, much leaked, X-E1 mirrorless camera. It features the same high-quality CMOS sensor as the X-Pro1, but packs it into a smaller and lighter body for increase portability. Specs include a 16.3 megapixel APS-C sensor, a 2.8-inch LCD, a pop-up flash, ISO of 200-6400 (expandable to 100-25600), shutter lag of just 0.05 seconds, focusing speed of up to 0.1 seconds, and RAW and built-in RAW conversion. One of the main differences with the X-E1 is that it’s missing the highly-acclaimed hybrid viewfinder found in the X-Pro1 and X100. Instead, it features an electronic...

Nokia’s Lumia 920 Shows that PureView Isn’t About the Megapixels

After Nokia unleashed its 41-megapixel 808 PureView phone back in February, most people thought that it would set the bar for future phones branded with the PureView monkier. “PureView” came to mean, “a ridiculous number of megapixels in a phone camera.” Turns out that’s not the case. The company unveiled its new Lumia 920 phone today, which also carries the PureView name. It features a much more modest 8-megapixel camera, showing that PureView isn’t about the megapixels after all. The camera features a Carl Zeiss lens, and is reportedly superior to all...

Photoshop World 2012 Kicks Off in Las Vegas

The Adobe team is here at Photoshop World in Las Vegas sharing pro Photoshop and digital imaging tips with photography mavens from all around the nation. Day 1 has concluded and we want to show you what we’ve been up to! This morning, Adobe Vice President of Products Winston Hendrickson shared thoughts on where the digital imaging team members find their inspiration: customers, digital and traditional artists, and the drive to “seek beyond the extraordinary.” Adobe Sr. Creative Director Russell Brown announces today’s availability of Photoshop Touch 1.3, complete with Retina support...

Thermal Cameras Could One Day Have Drunk-Face Recognition

Over the past decade, many airports around the world have adopted special thermal cameras that can determine whether or not a passenger has a fever. The goal of these cameras is to prevent infectious diseases from spreading and causing an epidemic (or pandemic). Greek scientists Georgia Koukiou and Vassilis Anastassopoulos recently came up with a similar concept, except their thermal camera is used to detect drunk people instead of contagious people. The paper they published, titled “Drunk person identification using thermal infrared images” and published in the International...

Street Photography: 7 Steps to Success

“Watering Hole” captured by DailyTravelPhotos (Click Image to See More From DailyTravelPhotos) Have you ever tried taking a picture of a friend and you told her to, “Just act natural?” While attempting to take the second shot, did your friend look right into the camera? Have you ever wondered how street photographers manage to capture the most candid shots of their subject? Most of the people seem so unaware of the artistic invasion. The photographers often allow us a glimpse inside the world that they’ve created through lenses. We witness stolen moments of...

Use Gunnar Glasses to Reduce the Strain Post-Processing Puts On Your Eyes

Since launching back in 2007, Gunnar glasses have received a considerable amount of attention in the tech world for their ability to combat computer vision syndrome (CVS). If you spend hours upon hours every day staring at your computer monitor while post-processing your photographs, you might have experienced the symptoms of CVS, which include eye fatigue, visual stress, irritation, burning, tearing, and dryness. Here’s the description of Gunnar glasses on the company’s website: GUNNARS increase contrast, comfort and focus while minimizing eye fatigue and visual stress for...

Nokia Caught Faking Floating Lens Stabilization in Promo Video

This promo video for Nokia’s new “floating lens” image stabilization technology is causing a lot of discussion… and not for reasons Nokia should be proud about. After including it in a post today about the Lumia 920′s PureView camera, we were pointed to a post over on The Verge stating that the video was faked. During one portion of the video, as the happy-go-lucky girl is apparently being filmed through the floating lens on the Lumia 920, she rides past a trailer with a window: Take a closer look at the reflection, and you’ll see that it’s...

Ritz Camera to Go Up For Public Auction Tomorrow, Use Your Gift Cards Today

As we first reported back in June, Ritz Camera is putting itself on the auction block as it struggles to pull itself out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The public auction will be held tomorrow, and may mean the breakup of the largest camera store chain in the United States. The company ran 800 stores back in 2009, but now only has around 300 under various names, including Ritz Camera, Wolf Camera, and The Camera Shop. That number will soon be trimmed to 137. A number of buyers are reportedly interested in snatching Ritz up, presumably due the fact that the company still generates a good bit of...

25 Great Photography Quotes

We know it’s hard to waste time on the internet without stumbling across a some kind of pretentious quote these days, but we have a feeling that you might like the 25 photography quotes Kai has curated and so brilliantly acted out for us. In the video below, he dissects the meaning behind some popular inspirational sayings as he jokingly shares with his viewers ways in which they can utilize the words of wisdom for their own photography. Get ready to have a good laugh as you take look: Just remember, not all the quotes are to be taken in their literal sense… Despite the...