Could YouTube Style “Matched Content” Be The Solution For Licensing Journalism and Photography?

Nobody likes having their creative content stolen, and everybody wants to be paid for their work. While file sharing has altered the power dynamic of the music industry – the music industry did successfully blow up Napster (if you’re under 30 you probably don’t recognize the name Napster – but its rise and fall was [...]

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Portraying The Passing Months As Sliced Vegetables Scans

As the year cycles, each month has some flora that reaches its peak. It would be interesting to looks at a year as a sum of each month’s ripened fruits and vegetables. And this is  what photographers Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves did. They scanned the ripe fruits of each month an created a kaleidoscopic image out [...]

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You Will Never Trust Instagram Again After Watching This Movie

Do you follow any of the big lifestyle/travel Instagram account? You know the type. They share amazing views and emotion evoking photos, usually accompanied by inspiring and motivating proverbs. Cinematographer Matthew Rycroft suggests a different interpretation to those accounts with his HASHTAG NOFILTER short. And for me, I may never fully trust an Instagram account again. [...]

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Shooting Jason Voorhees Slashes A Golf Player

Photographer Leo Rosas wanted to create a Halloween inspired golf themed photo. And what better way to make to have Jason Voorhees (from friday the 13th) slash away at an innocent golf player? With the final results quite fitting this weekend, Leo was king enough to share both the lighting setup and the photos before and after [...]

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RAW Editing Comes to Snapseed for Android

The popular photo-editing app, owned by Google, launched version 2.1 and is now capable of editing RAW files. “Traditionally, shooting and editing RAW photos has been the domain of DSLR cameras and desktop software”, a Google engineer said, adding that combined with the RAW capabilities added to Android phones last year, “RAW is now becoming [...]

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Bye Bye Bayer; Canon’s 120MP Sensor Rumored to Be Based on Foveon-Like Technology

The Bayer filter was patented in 1976 and can be found in almost all digital camera sensors sold today. While several alternatives have been suggested over the years, some more exciting than others, none caught on. This could soon change, though, as Canon Watch reports that the 120MP full frame sensor Canon is developing will [...]

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High Key, Low Key, Or Just Badly Exposed?

Here is Wikipedia’s definition for Low-Key Lighting: Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. Traditional photographic lighting, three-point lighting uses a key light, a fill light, and a back light for illumination. Low-key lighting often uses only one key light, optionally [...]

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A Year Of My Best Articles And Why I Love Sharing What I Know

By November it will be 2 years since I started writing for DIYP and and it’s time again to recap the best articles for the year plus some of last years plus I want to write how sharing what you know will help not just other photographers but will also help you as a photographer. Ever since [...]

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Here is the First Footage Shot with the GoPro Drone

Exactly five months after GoPro announced it is developing a quadcopter the company shared the first teaser video. There’s a lot we don’t know when it comes to GoPro’s drone, like exactly when it will be released, how much it will cost or what features it will have. What we do know now though, thanks [...]

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