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Painting competition on “Nature in the City”
Events / News

Hahnemühle – Painting competition on “Nature in the City” starts

Looking for green oasis – painting competition on “Nature in the City” starts. An urban park with skyline, lined up flower pots on the balcony or a vegetable garden on the high-rise rooftop – show us your green oasis in an urban environment nor your dream of it. Hahnemühle’s new painting competition is […]

Canadian IMAGING Trade Show
Events

Canadian IMAGING Trade Show 2015 – FREE PASS

FREE Trade Show Entrance Pass offered by Amplis Foto for Canadian Imaging Trade Show 2015 Sheraton on the Falls Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario Sunday – April 26, 1-5pm,  Monday – April 27, 11-2pm 19 World-Class Instructors Two Day Trade Show Pre-Con Workshops Pre-Con Photo Walk Awards Banquet For more […]

News

Save more, Shoot More with Cactus Bundles

Cactus Portrait Bundle Cactus V6 Wireless Flash Transceiver and RF60 Wireless Flash Bundle Save by purchasing all three together. This kit includes one Cactus V6 Wireless Flash Transceiver for your camera and two (2) RF60 Wireless Flashes.  The multiple award winning Cactus V6 is the world’s first flash transceiver that […]

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Metz 58 AF-2 Final Clearout

Limited Quantities! Crazy Prices! Act NOW!   Was $419 NOW $299 – Save $121 Due to its high GN of 58 at ISO 100/21° and 105mm focal length, the 58 AF-2 digital is not only especially powerful, but also can be used for indirect flash lighting to great effect. This […]

Tutorials

The Endless Knot

  Low Key with fog, putting it all together optically My wife gave me this beautifully detailed and eye-catching glass sculpture for Christmas called an “Endless Knot”. It was time for a challenge and I wanted to capture the entire image optically – no Photoshop effects were used here. I […]

Tamron SP 15-30mm
Featured / Reviews

Tamron SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD Review

Every year there are a select number of lens announcements that I find personally exciting.  I reviewed no less than 15 lenses last year, and this is the fifth already this year, so a lot of gear passes through my hands.  Not every lens has the same capacity to excite […]

I Dreamed I Could Fly
Editor's Choice

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Inspires Photographer

I had heard it all before, “Life is too short…follow your passion…use your time wisely by doing things that inspire you…be the best person you can be.” Generally, a feeling of invincibility made those comments go in one ear and out the other but when you find out you have […]

Michael DeFreitas
News

2014 NATJA Awards Competition Grand Prize for Photography

Congratulations to Michael DeFreitas! The North American Travel Journalists Association has just announced that our PHOTO News travel photography specialist, Michael DeFreitas, has won the 2014 NATJA Awards Competition Grand Prize for Photography! Michael’s work was judged as the best of the best in travel photojournalism for 2014. In addition […]

Editor's Choice / Inspiration

Shetland – One of Europe’s Last Wildernesses

Travel around Scotland provides amazing photo opportunities with the awe-inspiring castles, well preserved and accessible ancient ruins, and summer festivals. However a trip to the Shetland Islands (also known as Shetland) is a nature photographer’s dream come true! So last summer my wife and I boarded the Northlink Ferry that […]

Shooting Sport
Tutorials

Shooting Sports

Nikon D3 – Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 | ISO 6400 – 1/800 @ f2.8 I have been shooting sports for over 25 years professionally. I first started shooting sports my last year of high school when my buddies and I would go skiing in the Laurentian mountains just north of Montreal. […]