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Shooting Snow
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Shooting Snow

Of course, we see in colour – but vision is just one part of how we sense the environment and moments. In the mountains I see tremendous peaks, I feel and hear the storms, freeze, and feel emotions from success, failure and intense personal experiences. All that black + white […]

Tamron SP 15-30mm G2
Reviews

Tamron 15-30mm G2 Review

When Tamron introduced the SP 15-30mm F2.8 Di VC USD (A012) wide angle zoom lens in early 2015, many photographers, including myself, considered it to be Tamron’s best lens of that generation.  Soon after Tamron began to release several exceptional lenses, including the SP primes and the G2 (second generation) […]

Editor's Choice / Inspiration

Cutting Edge Images

Our PHOTONews portfolio for the winter 2018/2019 issue features the work of Paul Zizka, a full-time mountain landscape and adventure photographer based in Banff, Alberta. From the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to iceberg-laden seas off the coast of Greenland, Paul’s journey to capture the “under-documented” is a testament to […]

Jerome Brunet - Into The_Light
News

Twenty year retrospective coffee table book “Into The Light: The music photography of Jérôme Brunet” set to release in October 2018

Las Vegas, NV, August 5th, 2018: World renowned award-winning photographer Jérôme Brunet is pleased to announce Into The Light, a twenty year retrospective coffee table book set to be released in October of this year. The book, which was funded in part by a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised over […]

Featured / Reviews

La Dolce Vita with a Sweet Lens

When planning a trip, I try to select a diverse mix of photographic opportunities combined with typical “tourist” activities as well as keeping to my goal of travelling light. Italy was the location this past October where I have vacationed several times in the past 10 years. I am always […]

Laowa new lens mounts
Featured / News

News from Photokina

Laowa has announced 10 lenses at the Photokina show to add to their unique product line-up. New for Sony FE mount cameras, Laowa’s 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 Zoom is currently the widest zoom lens available for Sony full frame E-mount cameras. Designed primarily for travel photography, Laowa has managed to compress the […]

LUMIX S Series Camera
News

Panasonic Announces Two New Lumix Cameras, and a New Leica Lens

Panasonic took centre stage at Photokina with the announcement of the development of two new LUMIX models of its first Digital Single Lens Mirrorless camera and a new LEICA 10-25mm Lens. The cameras will feature the newly-developed 35 mm full-frame image sensor and image processing engine. Effective pixels: approximately 47M […]

Tutorials

Illuminating Car Shows

The indoor car show season is starting soon. That means photographing in warm indoor spaces (Yay!!) With horrible light (Boo!) Last spring, I visited the Canadian International Auto Show (www.autoshow.ca) and wanted to do something different. One of my frustrations with indoor car shows is light – not enough, wrong […]

FUJIFILM GFX 50R
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FUJIFILM GFX 50R Medium Format Mirrorless

FUJIFILM North America Corporation has introduced the new FUJIFILM GFX 50R rangefinder-style medium format mirrorless digital camera, featuring a FUJIFILM G Format 43.8 x 32.9mm sensor with a 51.4MP resolution and high-performance X-Processor Pro image processing engine. The FUJIFILM GFX 50R is a compact, lightweight rangefinder-style camera, and it is […]

Destinations / Editor's Choice

Marine Mammal Photo Tour – Queen Charlotte Strait

When I learned last December about a marine mammal photography tour off the coast of Vancouver Island, I immediately signed up – marine mammals are my passion. I had purchased a Nikon D500 earlier that year but needed to find a lens that would allow me to capture wildlife of […]