TTArtisan has announced their new newest lens for Leica M mount; the TTArtisan M 90mm f/1.25 manual focus full-frame lens. Despite housing a Leica M mount, you’re not limited to just using Leica M mount cameras. This lens can be adapted to every mirrorless system out there through the use of adapters, including Fuji X, Canon RF, Fuji GFX, Nikon Z, Leica L, and Sony E. The new lens is pretty beefy, weighing in at a hair over 1kg....

This year’s contest received more than 19,000 entries from 38 countries. The overall winner is Jasper Doest from the Netherlands for his photo A monkey’s mask. The photo was taken in a traditional Japanese sake house north of Tokyo. “After dinner, the tavern’s guest can watch Japanese macaques performing tricks with various props on a makeshift stage,” the artist explains. “In the old days, the Japanese macaque or snow monkey was a sacred religious symbol, known to mediate between gods and humans....

Images on Instagram generally tend to fall into three categories. Food & Drink, travel & lifestyle, and then everything else. Even when just photographing friends for an Instagram post, the lifestyle kind of images tend to perform well. But creating a pleasing lifestyle image isn’t really as straightforward as just pointing your phone at your subject and grabbing a quick snap. Charles and Luke at Wandergasm, though, are here to help....

We all know that photography is not a cheap hobby. But hey, just because the gear is expensive, it doesn’t have to be that expensive. There are some tips and tricks that will save you tons of money when buying gear, and Caleb Pike of DSLR Video Shooter will show you as many as ten of them in his latest video. 1. Grey market gear 1. Grey market gear The first thing you can do is buy gear on the grey market and from overseas....

Well, this is a strange one, but given how things have been going the last few years, maybe not so much. The D.C. Circuit Court has ruled that First Amendment rights no longer apply to filmmaking, sort of. At least, not in National Parks and not if you intend to make even a single penny out of the resulting footage – even if just posting to your own social media. In 2018, independent filmmaker Gordon Price filmed some scenes in Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia, for his film, Crawford Road....