Being a photographer used to be pretty simple. You had a camera, you had a subject you liked photographing and you used to go out with your camera and photograph the subject you liked. And apart from perhaps showing off the occasional print at the local camera club to a group of like-minded tragics – that’s probably about as far as it went. Then social media arrived and as with so many aspects of this modern connected life of ours, everything changed....

“Show me something I haven’t seen before”. That is the voice of my photography teacher in almost every review session and something that I try to remember every time I take my camera out. It seems to be the mantra of all the winners and finalists of this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year Awards, proving time and again that we know more about space than we do the oceans of our own planet....

Being a full-time huge fan/buddy of the guys over at the RAWexchange store, I often get asked to check out their new material. Well friends, let me tell you that their newest endeavor to start selling in-depth tutorials is one of their best ideas yet. Stefan Kohler created a Colors & Photoshop tutorial that is two and a half hours video. And it’s jam-packed with everything you could ever hope to know about colors and how/why they work the way they do in Photoshop....

Studio lighting gives you almost endless possibilities. You can even recreate natural, window light with a pretty simple setup. Joanie Simon of The Bite Shot shares with you how to create a studio lighting setup that mimics window lighting, and it’s perfect for still life and food photography. For this lighting setup, you’ll need the light (obviously), and a window-shaped cucoloris or “cookie.” Joanie used this one, but you can DIY it if you don’t feel like buying it....

Elden Ring Colosseum Trailer Elden Ring Colosseum Trailer 1-minute trailer is available that describes the event and it arrived on the 7th of December. It was clearly a sight to behold. Many new additions were done and it made the game more interesting players are now having a really great time with this update. The map was extended a lot and players can travel to vast distances the Three locations are Limgrave, Caelid, and Lyndell....