Many photographers prefer shooting portraits with soft light than hard light. There’s certainly a good reason for it: it’s more flattering on the subject, more forgiving, and requires less retouching. But does it mean you should discard the hard light? Absolutely not! Even though it can be more demanding to work with, there are reasons to love hard light and embrace it in portrait photography. In this video, Lindsay Adler shares three main reasons why you should do so....

YouTube introduces Live rings to know when people are live YouTube introduces Live rings to know when people are live A lot of the time, a YouTuber can be live, but most people won’t really know that. Sure, you can know if you happen to go to their channel, but there should be a way to tell if you’re not on their channel. This is where the new YouTube Live rings come in....

A photograph is, by its very nature, a still image. Good ones perform their task very well. As technology has evolved the lines between photo and video have started to become a little blurred. We’ve got live photos, Instagram supports video, and now wants to be SnapChat. Then we have augmented reality. The combination of computer generated data and real world imagery in real time. The big problem with augmented reality is that the two don’t really mix together too fluidly yet....

Tokina has today announced its new SZ 2x Extender (TA-020), a T-mount 2x teleconverter for the Tokina SZX Super Tele 400mm f/8 Reflex MF lens released in July 2020. The SZ 2x Extender sits in between the lens and the mount adapter for your camera system – Canon EF, Fujifilm X, Micro 4/3, Nikon F, Nikon Z, or Sony E – and while it’s being marketed specifically with Tokina’s 400mm f/8 – they’ve even launched a new kit bundle that includes the two together – it should hypothetically work with just about any T-mount lens....

In the list below, you’ll find 10 applications. All of these apps are available via the Google Play Store, and all of them are quite popular. These apps are not listed in a specific order, though, so keep that in mind. Chances are you know the vast majority of these apps, if not all of them. Not all of them work the same way, though, of course. They do share that instant messaging aspect, though, of course....