Adobe rolled out a bunch of updates today to its Creative Cloud platform, including updates to Adobe Photoshop CC, CC 2014, Bridge, Lightroom and Camera RAW. Lightroom has been updated to stable 5.6 version, along with Adobe Camera RAW 5.6. These updates include a number of bugfixes, along with RAW...
Oben CC-2491 Tripod Kit Review
While I do a fair amount of still photography, the majority of my client work is shooting video with my DSLR and mirrorless cameras. When buying tripods and heads I need to consider their functionality from both perspectives. As I recently added a camera jib to my video equipment arsenal,...
Camera for Family Needs – Which Way to Go?
Even though this topic has been touched on numerous occasions, I still get asked this one question rather often - which camera to buy? For someone who's into photography, it is a very vague question. Almost impossible to answer without additional context as it spawns a number of followup questions...
Why I Love the Nikon E Series (AKA Really Cheap) Lenses
At a time when the digital photography world was buzzing with new gear announcements, I managed to fall in love with some of Nikon's very old and cheap lenses, the E Series lenses. My experience with these lenses taught me a great lesson: it is really not about the gear....
Used Full-Frame Cameras – Which Ones are Worth It?
Yesterday, while thinking about the upcoming wedding that I have to shoot, I glanced at my trusty old D700. The rubber is coming off in places and needs to be glued back on, nothing serious. Two of the batteries that I have need replacing. The plastic screen protector has a...
Nikon vs Canon Dynamic Range
After I have published my Canon 6D review, a number of our readers asked if there was a way to show a comparison between dynamic range performance of a Canon DSLR and and a Nikon DSLR side by side with image samples. Since the Canon 6D has the largest dynamic...
Sensor Gel Stick Maintenance
The best part about the Sensor Gel Stick, is that it can be re-used over and over again and with normal use can last for a long time. But what happens if the gel tip gets less sticky overtime or potentially even completely lose the stickiness property? Some of our...
Ted Kozak’s Photographic Stories
Talking to Tadas Kazakevičius (in case you are having a hard time spelling that, he's just as well known as Ted Kozak), a young Lithuanian portraitist, was precisely one of those times when you think you have a million questions to ask. But then you meet him at a restaurant...
Fujifilm Lens Roadmap Update
It would seem releasing great and very desirable optics has now become Fujifilm's habit. Several months ago, we were very excited about Fujifilm's updated lens roadmap - it promised we'd see some truly spectacular lenses. No myriad of only slightly different super-zooms, no tenth kit zoom to be seen. Whoever...
Bird Photography with Sigma 150-500mm OS
After my review of the Tamron 150-600mm VC telephoto zoom lens appeared here at Photography Life, a number of readers had questions on how that lens compared to the long telephoto zooms from Sigma. As luck would have it, I was able to borrow a recently purchased Sigma 150-500mm OS...