This week, I spent some time practicing one of my favorite genres of photography: intimate landscapes. There’s something exciting to the fact that you can get interesting landscape photos anywhere. It doesn’t need to be a grand vista or a world-famous National Park; it could be a pond near your house. And while I was busy photographing the grass in one such pond, a few interesting things happened in the world of photography. Here’s the biggest news of the week.
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Photographers don’t always have a good relationship with post-processing. Some photographers over-edit their photos, getting in the way of what they captured in camera. Other photographers neglect the post-processing stage – such as culling through their photos carelessly, or not utilizing the available tools to fine-tune a photo’s processing.
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Viltrox has just announced the Viltrox AF 28mm f/4.5 Chip lens, a fixed-aperture autofocus lens for the Nikon Z mount, which has been available for the Sony E mount for some time. This pancake lens is pretty small, inexpensive, and has some interesting features all for $ 99. In this review, I’ll be taking a look at this fun little lens, which I tested on the Nikon Z6.
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Nikon’s Expeed 7 processor – used in the Nikon Zf, Z5 II, Z6 III, Z8, and Z9 – added a variety of capabilities to the Nikon Z lineup. Among its most notable characteristics is that the handling of RAW (.NEF) files on these cameras has a new option called High Efficiency* (HE*) compression. Nikon asserts that this formats is “visually identical” to their traditional Lossless Compressed RAW files, yet much smaller – and more capable of shooting long bursts without filling up the buffer.
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Today, to celebrate crossing 100,000 subscribers on the Photography Life YouTube channel, I published a video with a giveaway of 100 contact prints from my apartment darkroom! I took all of these photos with a large format camera and printed them by hand, no digital steps involved.
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