World Photography Association has announced the overall winners of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. The Photographer of the Year award was bagged by Italian artist Federico Borella for “Five Degrees”, his series of photographs focussing on male suicides in the farming community of Tamil Nadu in India, which is facing its worst drought in 140 years. Borella was selected from the 10 winners of the Professional competition. As the winner, Borella received USD 25,000 along with photographic eq … Continue Reading
NEWS
BenQ Announces PhotoVue 4K UHD Monitor
BenQ has launched PhotoVue SW271, a 4K UHD 27” professional photographer's monitor offering industry-standard HDR10 support and advanced colour performance. Covering 99 percent of A … Continue Reading
Panasonic launches Lumix S Series Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras
Panasonic has announced its much-awaited full-frame mirrorless Lumix S series cameras in the Indian market. Comprising of Lumix S1 and S1R with 24 megapixel and 47.3 megapixel … Continue Reading
Digitek Launches Flash Bot Kit
Digitek has launched Flash Bot, a kit of durable accessories and attachments for flash photography. The easy-to-carry kit with instant universal fit includes a grip, a gel mount, a … Continue Reading
Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019
The Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019, an adventure and action sports photography contest, is open for entries. Currently in its fifth edition, the contest has added two categories, … Continue Reading
REVIEWS
Asus PA329Q
Graphic Artist An amateur photographer will consider capture as the most important stage in photography, while a professional will emphasise on colour reproduction. Colour critical applications require monitors that can reproduce accurate colours … Continue Reading
Asus ProArt PA27AC
Monitor for Pro Photographers Sujith Gopinath ProArt monitors from Asus offer professional features required for photographers and graphic artists. The PA27AC is a 27-inch type IPS panel providing WQHD resolution (2560 x 1440), 100% sRGB colour … Continue Reading
Asus Designo MX27UQ
An Allrounder There are top end photography monitors and then there are a second line of potentially good graphic and photography monitors. The second category is essentially made up of monitors which are excellent for multimedia playback, but has … Continue Reading
TUTORIALS
If I Were You – August 2017
Our Imaging Expert No one can take a picture that everyone likes. But, almost every picture can have scope of improvement. Often, we are not our best critics, while others can immediately point out the faults. In If I were you, our expert comments on … Continue Reading
Image Editing – Part 9: Sharpening
‘Sharpening’ is a part of the digital workflow that is often least understood or mis-understood. Most beginners (and some advanced workers too) tend to over-sharpen their images. But first, let us understand why we need to sharpen our images; after al … Continue Reading
Depth of Field & Hyperfocal Setting
Depth of Field (DoF) refers to the zone of acceptable sharpness in our picture. Let’s take that a bit further. When you focus your lens (any lens) at any given distance, technically speaking, only that point (and all points along that same plane – pl … Continue Reading
