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Pergear has announced the launch of its 35mm f/1.4 lens for full-frame Sony E, Canon RF, Nikon Z and Leica L-mount cameras. This fast manual-focus prime lens joins a lineup of Pergear optics that offer affordable alternatives to lenses from the major

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Capturing landscapes at night, especially when you’re trying to include the Milky Way, requires patience, technical skill and local knowledge, as well as a number of different environmental conditions coming together, usually at the last moment. You’

You can capture detail in the Milky Way with any camera, but if you’re serious about pursuing this field, investing in a full-frame model will be worthwhile in the long term. Full-frame cameras bring a significant improvement in low-light performance

The Milky Way can be difficult to capture effectively. The best shots of it require the combination of a number of factors. You need to observe it at the right time of the year, on as clear a night as possible, and with no Moon present; even the thin

Point your camera towards a visible point of light or bright star. If you can see street or building lights in your scene, point the camera towards these. Zoom in to the area containing a bright point of light, and manually focus your lens to get the

Ensure your camera is set to manual; this will allow you to change the shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Automatic settings are of no use when shooting the Milky Way. You have to override some of the normal rules when shooting the night sky. Ignore th

Because the Earth is constantly rotating around its north/south axis, the stars in your photographs will appear to move. Applying the 500 rule can all but eliminate the effects of the Earth’s rotation. All you have to do is divide the number 500 by t

When you’re at the location where you want to photograph the night sky, chances are it will be very dark and difficult to see, particularly if you’re shooting under very dark skies. Consider using longer exposures and torches in order to ‘paint’ ligh

One option for capturing star trails is to leave the shutter open for a very long time. Over the course of one hour, your stars will appear to rotate 15 degrees. When using very long exposures you have little control over how your pictures will come

Work with basic settings such as 15 sec exposure, ISO1600 and f/2.8. If not enough detail is captured in the sky, increase exposure times and sensitivities. Often you won’t need to light the foreground. In this shot, ambient lighting has cast enough

If your camera has this feature, turn it on for longer exposures. When it’s finished recording, the camera will take a separate exposure with the shutter closed to create a dark frame. This is a close-up of a 10-minute exposure, shot with Long Exposu

Set the colour temperature to something that looks close to the scene you saw. Consider altering the overall exposure adjustment at this stage, too. Increase Clarity and Contrast across the image to give everything a bit more pop. Before working on t

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“I took this photo at a concert by the rock band Sunday Sermon in Italy – it really captures the powerful punk energy of the band.” http://bit.ly/3GghFiC “I shot this image in the De Biesbosch National Park in the Netherlands, a vast area of wetlan

The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) has announced the winning and commended images in this year’s European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Russian photographer Mike Korostelev was crowned Overall Winner for his captivating

Whether you’re shooting for a composite or more traditional portrait, window light is ideal for baby photography. The window acts like a giant softbox for flattering, even light. A skylight is great when the baby is lying down, as it lights them from

2 HOURS Babies grow and change incredibly fast, and before you know it, a newborn is a rampaging toddler. So if you’re planning on arranging a baby photo shoot for friends or family, or for your own little bundle, you won’t want to leave if for too l

Window light works best over faces when it’s coming from slightly above the subject, which is why a high window or skylight works so well. With babies, keep in mind that if they’re on their back, ‘above’ to them might be different to the camera posit

One of the great things about Photoshop is that it gives you O the opportunity to transport people or objects from one place to another. You can replace a background, or add different elements to an image, to create new scenes that could never exist

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the evenings are drawing in, and we no longer need to wait until the middle of a very short night to shoot a starry sky. Even so, light is arguably the most important raw material for photography, so things

With a generous viewing angle and superb image quality at its widest aperture setting, the Samyang XP 14mm f/2.4 manual-focus lens ticks all the right boxes for astrophotography. The Sigma 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art is a whole f-stop faster, but coma and

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