Photographer Pye Jirsa has more than a couple of ideas about shooting couples for engagement and wedding portraits. In a new video from Adorama he shows you his favorite compositions and goes on to talk about lenses, camera settings, editing styles and more. Start with the “His/Her Perspective” and go from there. Read the full Story >>
In 1924, Columbia Pictures adopted a logo featuring a heroine with a torch raised high, like Lady Liberty. Her classical clothing was adorned with American flag drapery for a mid-century update. By the 1990s the company, in search of a more modern logo, turned to artist Michael Deas, whose paintings have adorned magazine covers, U.S. postage stamps, and bestselling books. Like many painters, Deas often used reference photos to craft the perfect image. For Columbia, notes My Modern Met, he used one by his friend Kathy Anderson. Read the full Story >>
The Nikon Z9 is the company's most advanced camera, competing with the Canon EOS R3 and Sony A1 for full-frame mirrorless camera supremacy. For all its razzle-dazzle—including 45.7MP stacked sensor, 20fps bursts with continuous 3D tracking AF and unlimited JPEG buffer, plus 8K video recording—the camera depends solely on an electronic shutter, while other mirrorless and DSLR cameras include both mechanical and electronic shutter types, notes Tech Radar, which has an answer as to why. Read the full Story >>
An aerial photograph of two boats, with nets cast wide fishing for anchovies in the waters of Vietnam, has won the Save Our Seas Foundation Marine Conservation category of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2022 award, notes CNN. The image by 34-year-old Vietnamese engineer Thien Nguyen Ngoc serves as "a stark visual reminder of man's reach and control over the surrounding habitat and its devastating effect on the natural balance," according to the award's judge, Peter Rowlands. Read the full Story >>
