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Spectacular editors’ picks from early 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year entries

11 Sep

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016 

Photo by Nancy Elwood/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
The Eye Of A Gator 

National Geographic’s 2016 Nature Photographer of the Year competition is underway, and like many of the subjects depicted in entries, the competition is looking mighty fierce. National Geographic’s editors have highlighted some standout early entries, but there’s still time to enter – the competition closes November 4.

You can see a few of the incredible entries here – head to the competition website for more.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and caption by Nancy Elwood/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

The Eye Of A Gator

As I was sitting on the bank of the wetlands, watching a pair of anhingas prepare their nest, when one flew right down in front of me to fish. I quickly focused on her and out of the water came a wonderful fish brunch.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Christopher Markisz/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Moonlightning

Lightning strikes lower Manhattan as a summer storm approaches a moonlit New York City skyline.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Kym Illman/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Curious Lions

Using a wide-angle lens (16mm) on our remote-controlled camera buggy results in the background being smaller in shot and appearing further away. We fire the camera shutter using the same remote-control transmitter that we use to drive the buggy, allowing us a range of a couple of hundred meters although we rarely sit more than fifty metres away from camera.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Takashi/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

UFO formation

A baby cloud had born at dawn. The baby cloud had grown bigger and bigger than before. When it came the time of the morning glow, It had grown to many huge lenticular clouds. It looked like UFO formation.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Flamine Alary/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Mist and Wind

Early this morning we were on our way for hiking at the Bruce Peninsula National Park. The sun was rising, it was misty, eerie and we did not see very far away when suddenly these wind turbines appeared out of the mist. It was quite spectacular.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Lidija Kamansky/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Daybreak at Monument Valley

A storm was rolling in from the west and the few of us gathered for sunrise were watching and hoping that day would break before the rains came. The moment the sun peeked above the horizon, we were hit with incredible winds and sideways driving rain. My husband jumped behind me to block the blowing sand and to try to shelter me from the wind. I kept shooting as the skies lit up, while gripping the tripod to keep it steady. This image is the result of those efforts from this memorable sunrise!

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Jassen T. /2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Fossil Fuel Galore

“A quarter century ago, scientists warned that if we kept burning fossil fuel at current rates weíd melt the Arctic. The fossil fuel industry (and most everyone else in power) ignored those warnings, and what do you know: The Arctic is melting, to the extent that people now are planning to race yachts through the Northwest Passage, which until very recently required an icebreaker to navigate.” New York Times, May 12, 2015. Midway-Sunset is currently the largest oil field in California. Aerial.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Li Liu/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Beauty Beyond Disaster

The Soberanes Fire, located south of Carmel and Point Lobos, started Friday morning 07/22/2016. By Saturday night, the fire covered the entire mountain. The sky was illuminated by the golden glow of the forest fire. I hiked down towards a cliff by the beach. Because the wind was blowing south and slightly east, the sky to the southwest was clear. I witnessed the most spectacular sight I have ever seen, the Milky Way glowed above the raging wildfire. Beauty rose beyond disaster.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Kyon. J/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Through

It was amazing to capture China’s beautiful mountains in such magnificent morning rays coming through.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Kim Aikawa/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Swamp Raccoon

While looking for alligators at a swamp in Louisiana, this beautiful little creature wanders out of the murky waters right into the morning light, pausing just long enough to capture.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by T. King/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Jellyfish

Jellyfish

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Hugh McCrystal/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Wildebeest Migration

This is a photo of Wildebeest during migration in the Serengeti.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by QIAN WANG/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Let’s picnic

Yellowstone National Park, west thumb geyser basin, a perfect spot for picnic, and I mean not for human.

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Aaron Baggenstos/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Bear Hug

Brown Bears, Katmai National Park, Alaska

Editors’ picks: National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2016

Photo and Caption by Yh Lee/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

Bull Race

Pacu Jawi, or bull race, is held in Indonesia where bulls are coupled, with the jockey standing on the plow harnesses attached to each bull, running a short distance of about 100 feet. Whichever pair runs the fastest in a straight fashion fetches the highest price (as they are deemed the best workhorse in plowing the paddy fields for harvesting).

Which images are your favorites? Let us know in the comments.

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Affinity Photo for iPad early build showcased at Apple’s WWDC 2016

15 Jun

At Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2016, software maker Serif demonstrated an early build preview of its Affinity Photo for iPad software. Affinity Photo is a Photoshop alternative currently available for macOS with, as previously announced, a Windows version in the pipeline. This newly demonstrated version of Affinity Photo is designed specifically for the iPad, and brings with it the same features found on the desktop version.

Though the company hasn’t formally detailed all of the iPad version’s functionality, the video does showcase a handful of features and capabilities, including a high level of performance enabling it to handle very high resolution photos, full 32-bit HDR editing, the ability to view and edit panoramas in a 360-degree view, and focus merging.

‘We’ve still got a load of work to do on [the iPad version],’ Serif stated, ‘but we thought you might like a peek.’ An anticipated release date was not provided. The company currently offers a macOS version for $ 49.99, while Windows users can sign up for access to a pending Windows beta release.

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No alias: Pentax K-1 Pixel Shift shows impressive early results

06 May

It’s been a long wait for the arrival of our Pentax K-1, but it finally is here. We wasted no time taking Ricoh’s new flagship DSLR to our studio to see how the long-awaited full frame 36MP sensor stacks up to the competition. Huge thanks to LensRentals for renting us the lens for these tests.

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Pixel Shift

It’s worth calling out in particular one of the major highlights of the K-1: its Pixel Shift Resolution mode that debuted in the APS-C format K-3 II last spring. We’re only showing you this mode at ISO 100 for the time being, but we’ll be updating our widget with higher ISOs once ACR support is updated.

The K-1’s Pixel Shift Resolution mode takes four consecutive shots and moves the sensor by a single pixel each time. This means that each of the original pixel positions gets sampled by a red, a blue and two green pixels. This has a few major benefits. First, it removes the need to demosaic: you don’t have to interpolate data from the surrounding area to build up color information, which leads to less color aliasing. It also brings a modest increase in resolution because you’re sampling luminance (green) information at every pixel position and not effectively blurring it by borrowing it from surrounding pixels. The increased resolution can easily be seen by looking at the color resolution targets, or looking at the text in the center of the studio scene, which shows no aliasing and can be read down to the very last line.

Another benefit to Pixel Shift is better noise performance: because you’re taking four shots, the camera essentially captures four times as much light, which decreases relative shot noise contributions. The decreased noise levels lead to better high ISO performance, and increased dynamic range.

There’s yet another benefit to Pixel Shift: the camera locks up the mechanical shutter and mirror, and uses a fully electronic shutter instead. This removes any risk of vibrations that might be caused by the mechanical shutter. For example, there’s a very tiny amount of blur in single shot mode at 1/40 sec, although it’s near-imperceptible without a direct comparison to a sharper, Pixel Shift image.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Fujifilm X-Pro2 release moved to early March

09 Feb

Last month, Fujifilm unveiled the X-Pro2 mirrorless camera with a February 18 release date. Per a statement (in Japanese) issued on Friday, the camera maker has postponed the release until early March due to an unspecified production delay and higher than anticipated global orders. The postponement will ‘ensure a sufficient supply amount’ is available, according to Fujifilm. A specific release date will be revealed at a later time. This news follows last week’s Nikon D500 delay announcement, with Nikon also citing high demand as the reason. 

Ready for its close-up: See how the X-Pro2 defines a new era of video for Fujifilm

Via: FujiAddict

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Early Morning Light: What’s so Great about It?

13 Aug

Let’s face it, getting up super early in the moring is horrid, any way you look at it. I hate it, the clients hate it, my assistants really hate it, and yet, more often than not, here I am, setting my alarm at 3 in the morning. Why? It’s the Light. Morning light is so gentle and beautiful. It just Continue Reading

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Kids Posing Guide: Early Bird Discount Ends in 36 Hours

19 Jun

NewImageA few weeks ago we launched a brand new Kids Portraiture Printables collection in the dPS store with a 25% off Early Bird Discount (40% off if you get it with the companion eBook).

This post is just a quick note to let you know that that discount ends in just over 36 hours.

The printables collection is just $ 14.99 and gives you access to five kids posing models that cover all ages – Babies, Toddlers, Little Kids, Bigger Kids and Tweens.

Each of the 5 modules includes:

  • a tutorial to help you master posing kids of that age
  • a printable version of the poses that you can print out and fold up to take with you
  • a digital version that you can keep on your phone or tablet to use when photographing kids

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As an optional extra you can bundle this posing collection with our previously released Kids Portraiture eBook and save 40%.

The collection and eBook have been getting fantastic reviews from other websites like Two Days in Dublin who writes:

“If you want to improve your photography and capture those special moments, I recommend this e-book for those already in the business, just starting out in picture-taking, or for moms looking to capture great photos of their own kids!”

The Early Bird special ends in just over 36 hours so grab yours today here and start taking gorgeous photos of your kids.

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Fisher Price Camera Tripod Modification – It’s Never Too Early Tutorial

24 Dec

This summer I took my 3 year old son to Big Sur for his first camping trip to show him the Milky Way. Remarkably he held on to this experience beyond expectation and he’s been talking about the Milky Way ever since. On top of that he’s really developed an interest in photography and cameras. I’m not sure how that happened, perhaps it is something in the water supply.  Fast forward to last week when he caught sight of my Joby tripod. I gave it to him to play with thinking it’d be one of the few items he could bend and try to destroy that wouldn’t worry myself or his mother. To my surprise he immediately dug up his retro Fisher-Price toy camera and proceeded to put it on the Joby tripod. The kicker is that he was telling me he was photographing the Milky Way. This would be a short story if it wasn’t for the fact that every day since he’s been setting up his camera and tripod all around the house to photograph different things at all times of the day.

If my little guy is going to get serious about make believe photography I felt it was my parental duty to make sure that he was going to develop good habits. To put it bluntly no one in my household is going to take sub-par make believe photos and to avert that we needed a secure way to fasten his camera to the Joby tripod. When I explained the dilemma to my son he was eager to take me up on my offer to modify his camera.

Here for your entertainment is the Fisher-Price camera tripod modification:

(Have a great Christmas!)

The Fisher-Price rubberband mount wasn’t cutting it. For simple shots sure it worked, but….

The rubberband mount worked well enough for level shots,

but not for all shots.

Any non-level use of the camera resulted in camera instability.

We were pumped to fix the problem and even more so

because we weren’t using toy drills.

Just before we started the modification.

Things would never be the same again.

To create a stable mount we had to drill a hole in the bottom

of the camera to install the Joby base plate.

Looks good lets try it out

Making sure that the base plate was installed as

level as possible we put it to the test.

Our first test was a positive one, but what does the photographer think?

My little photographer was quite content with the new

tripod mount. Now he’s on his way to good make believe

photography technique.

Copyright Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved

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Thunderbolt Racing Kayak and Ice in Early Spring Paddling

31 Mar

I am reviewing my old forgotten paddling video clips and posting them to my YouTube channel. Here is one from March of 2007. First paddling that season with Thunderbolt-X kayak on Beaver Pond in Arapaho Bend Natural Area. I was just playing in a small area of free water and pushing the kayak through a soft ice.

I bought Thunderbolt designed and built by Doug Bushnell from West Side Boat Shop in December of 2006. You can find a lot of pictures of Tbolt, trip and race reports in this blog and in Fitness Paddling.

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Snap Up our Food Photography Guide for just $7 [Early Bird Special]

20 Mar

snapnfoodToday I’m excited to announce the launch of our brand new Guide to Photographing Food over at SnapnGuides.

This mini-guide is all about helping you to learn how to mouth-watering photo of food and today it is just $ 7 (30% off for early birds).

If you’ve ever looked at other people’s pictures of food and thought to yourself, “Why don’t mine look like that?” then this is the guide for you.

Snapn Food will:

  • break down all the important aspects of photographing food
  • give you practical advice on what gear to use
  • show you how to leverage available light
  • teach you how to use simple props to great effect
  • illustrate how to use different composition techniques and shooting angles to take great food images
  • help you to develop your own style of taking delicious photos of the food you make and eat

The guide doesn’t overcomplicate things with technical jargon – everything is explained in a way that everyone can follow and understand.

It is also written in a way that is accessible to people using all kinds of cameras – from a camera phone through to higher end DSLRs.

Grab Your Copy for Just $ 7

Ready to improve the quality of your food photography? Grab this brand new SnapnGuide here for just $ 7 before the price goes up.

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.

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20 Digital Cameras for a Kid or How to Become a Photographer from an Early Age

06 Dec

In this article I talk about why you should stay away from “made for kids” cameras and get a “real” camera instead. It’s easy to find a great camera that your kids and your wallet can be happy with. And by getting an actual camera instead of a toy, you’ll be buying a product that will last longer than a week and that has capabilities that your child can grow into over time.

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