Astrophotographers Rejoice: Apple's iOS 10 Includes Color Filters to Make Your Screen Completely Red

Astrophotographers Rejoice: Apple's iOS 10 Includes Color Filters to Make Your Screen Completely Red
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by Adam Ottke

Astrophotographers have a tough job, balancing the use of electronics and star-gazing apps with the ability to keep their eyes adjusted for the night sky or the dark ground that surrounds them as they shoot. I have wrapped my phone in red cellophane plenty of times. While some apps (many of which were recently pulled) allowed for changing the bluish cast of your device's screen to something more amber, Apple's iOS 10 update is the first time the company has included a way to make everything on your screen an actual shade of red.

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First Look: Adobe DNG Support for Lightroom Mobile App Proves Raw Photography on iPhone Is Superb

First Look: Adobe DNG Support for Lightroom Mobile App Proves Raw Photography on iPhone Is Superb
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by Adam Ottke

Adobe recently released a new version of its Lightroom Mobile app that takes advantage of the raw image support in Apple's just-released iOS 10. Taken on an iPhone 6S running the developer GM seed of iOS 10 (10.0.1), these images show just how good your mobile photos can now be. You'll need to have the latest versions of iOS 10 (running on an iPhone with a 12 MP camera) and Adobe Lightroom Mobile to do this yourself, but we're providing comparison files for testing purposes for those without such access. Tell us what you notice.

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What I Learned From a 16 Year Old Shooting the NY Times Magazine Cover

What I Learned From a 16 Year Old Shooting the NY Times Magazine Cover
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by Wouter du Toit

I'm guilty in being the one telling myself that if I had the gear I wanted, I would go out and shoot the projects I wanted to shoot. So nothing happens until I actually buy the gear. What you and I know is that it's not the gear, it's the person, the patience and the will to do great work that makes your photography a force to be reckoned with. And I've realized that the photographs I look at most, of my own and photographers I admire, are the candid images of models in the greenroom before they go out on the catwalk, or the model I'm shooting for a test, where the moment between shots appear and capture her walking to my instructed area.

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One of the Most Ridiculous Photoshoots Ever: Recreating a Scene From 'Top Gun'

One of the Most Ridiculous Photoshoots Ever: Recreating a Scene From 'Top Gun'
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by Ryan Mense

If you’ve ever felt the need to take on a crazy project despite consequences, photographer Blair Bunting knows exactly how you feel. In an effort to recreate a scene from the classic movie “Top Gun,” Bunting put his guts where his mouth is and attempted to photograph a jet flying 500 feet off the ground while his own jet flew upside down above it only a short distance away. This video captures that remarkable feat, along with the preparation that came beforehand, and you have to check it out.

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Samyang Launches Two New Super-Fast Primes

Samyang Launches Two New Super-Fast Primes
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by Spencer Lookabaugh

In the United States, you might know them better as Rokinon. Samyang Global, the Korean optics manufacturer, has announced two new lenses that may come as a bit of a surprise. While they have been producing quality manual lenses for a variety of mounts, they haven't done much that the mainstream manufacturers haven't already in terms of focal length, aperture, or cinema capability, though their price points have always been far more reasonable. With these new releases however, that has changed.

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Adobe Announces Ability to Capture and Edit Raw DNG Photos in Lightroom Mobile

Adobe Announces Ability to Capture and Edit Raw DNG Photos in Lightroom Mobile
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by Andrew Richardson

Adobe has announced the 2.5 update to their popular Lightroom Mobile app. The new update adds the ability to shoot directly to Adobe's open source raw file format, DNG, avoiding the compression and data loss inherent in standard JPEG files. To capture in DNG, users will need a device running iOS 10 that has a 12 MP sensor, such as the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, and iPad Pro 9.7. When available, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will also support capturing in DNG format. The latest update is available in the App Store at the time of this writing.

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Mad Max: Fury Road Without Special Effects is Still Pretty Outstanding Movie Magic

Mad Max: Fury Road Without Special Effects is Still Pretty Outstanding Movie Magic
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by Andrew Griswold

The recent remake of Mad Max: Fury Road has to be one of my favorite examples of both CGI and practical effects in modern day movie making working perfectly together. The way they created this world for which these characters live astounds me every time I see the film and truly set itself apart from other movies. Thanks to behind the scenes access and places like Gizmodo for the latest BTS footage.

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Musicbed Completely Revamps iPhone App With a New Design and New Features

Musicbed Completely Revamps iPhone App With a New Design and New Features
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by Ryan Mense

Musicbed, the popular music licensing platform for creatives looking to perfect their stories while supporting musical artists, has announced an all new app for iPhone. Touted as not “just some update,” the app has been completely rebuilt to share the same experience of the new Musicbed website that was launched earlier this year. With the Musicbed app you can bring your synced wishlists with you, discover new music, and collaborate with others to find the perfect sound for your shared project.

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The Awesome Highlights Power of Negative Film

The Awesome Highlights Power of Negative Film
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by Hans Rosemond

When touting the many virtues of film, people frequently mention the power of negatives in the highlights. But what does that mean, exactly, and how does its strength compare to its digital brethren? To find out the differences, I shot a demanding subject with both digital and black and white film, severely over and underexposing. How did they stack up against each other? Read on to find out!

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