Billboards are often ignored. You can walk past a hundred of them in a day and not remember what a single one of them was promoting. We just kind of tune them out. This one in France, however, is a little difficult to ignore. Especially if you’re crossing the street when you’re not paying attention. The billboard has sensors which monitor for people crossing the road when they’re not supposed to....
Judging from recent patent applications from Canon, we might see two new zoom lenses for the EOS R system: a 17-70mm and a 52-83mm f/1.2 lens. They both include multiple optical formulas, which could mean that we’ll see them in production in the future. Canon 17-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Canon 17-70mm f/3.5-5.6 According to the patent, the 17-70mm lens will come with the aperture range between f/3.5 and f/5.6. There are three optical formulas discussed in the patent for this lens:...
Capture One seems to be growing rapidly in popularity. Since Adobe’s decision to split Lightroom up into multiple products, and ditch the perpetual license they promised would be around forever, more and more are making the switch to Capture One. Now they’ve announced the first major update to Capture One 11 with an 11.1 release. It offers workflow improvements for bulk editing, as well as support for a lot of recent camera & lens releases....
After almost a year of detention, award-winning Chinese photojournalist Lu Guang has been released. He has been documenting China’s dark side for years, and in November 2018, he got arrested. He has been released a few months ago, but he is reportedly still kept under surveillance. Around this time last year, Mr. Lu went missing, and his wife Xu Xiaoli shared on Twitter that he last heard from him on 3 November 2018....
Advertisements This year, the shoot took place in Melbourne, but photographers and artists from all over the world were involved in creating the finals pieces. It’s interesting that the same Santa who has been with the project from the very beginning was also there this time. Of course, due to the pandemic, sitting on Santa’s lap was ruled out this year. But Karen found a creative solution: she photographed the children with their parents....
