Another way of mounting a strobe, flash or continuous light and a light modifier onto a light stand

If you are a professional photographer — regardless of whether you’re mainly shooting weddings, portraits, products or fashion — it’s understood that you have a number of light mounting options, including light stands, clamp systems, rails, etc. But if photography represents a side income for you or it’s a hobby, or you carry around a light stand with accessories most of the time, chances are you’re going to want light stand accessories that can be used for more than one purpose, and that excludes flash/umbrella holders.… Read More Another way of mounting a strobe, flash or continuous light and a light modifier onto a light stand

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The Rogue Umbrella Travel kit, a high quality pair of light shapers in a slim package

Photographers and filmmakers rarely use light sources as they are. Pointing a lamp, strobe or flash at the subject, press the release and done — it’s not their thing. That is why you’ll see them use reflectors, diffusers, softboxes, and umbrellas. The people at Rogue Photographic Design took the latter and improved it. Enter the Rogue Umbrella Travel Kit.… Read More The Rogue Umbrella Travel kit, a high quality pair of light shapers in a slim package

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DXO PURERAW 3: DeepPRIME XD and TransX support, nicer interface

PureRAW lets you benefit from DxO’s PRIME denoising neural network, which indisputably is the best available, without having to buy a license for Photolab. With version 3, DxO has added the power of DeepPRIME XD that became available in Photolab 6 last year, which this magazine published a review of back then. As was already clear and in spite of this reviewer’s scepticism, DeepPRIME XD is capable of squeezing detail out of images that even you didn’t know was present in the image in the first place.… Read More DXO PURERAW 3: DeepPRIME XD and TransX support, nicer interface

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Yanobox’s latest gem for motion graphics: Motype 2

Yanobox, the creator of Nodes and Mosaic, has released Motype 2, a spectacular text-based animation system for Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, Motion and After Effects. As always, Yanobox released Motype 2 on FxFactory where you can find a huge collection of effects and titles for these two NLEs and motion graphics apps. Motype 1 was quite powerful if you needed animation on a single line of text. Motype 2 blows version 1 out of the water with support for paragraphs and, well, more of everything.… Read More Yanobox’s latest gem for motion graphics: Motype 2

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Music and motion picture, regardless its format or distribution medium, go hand in glove – here are some tracks you might find appealing

Since the day the silent movie was replaced by “talkies”, and even before that, producers have alwaysused some kind of musical underscore. In our age, the “soundtrack” of some blockbuster movies is as important as the visual production itself. If I say “Blade Runner”, for example, I’m sure you’ll answer “Vangelis” and/or “Deckard’s Dream”.… Read More Music and motion picture, regardless its format or distribution medium, go hand in glove – here are some tracks you might find appealing

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