Today, I would like to take you on a journey into the dark green twilight of the tropical Andes...where a raging mountain torrent weaves its way between the rocks. Where foamy water thunders down into the depths of a rock gorge. Where the branches of the trees are covered with...
The Great Melting: Photographing the Changing Alpine World
At 3,798 meters, the Grossglockner is the highest mountain in the Austrian Alps. In fact, it could be considered one of Europe's last wildernesses, as there are no cable cars and the summit is only accessible to trained climbers. The steep slopes belong only to the birds and the few...
Photography News: DNG Raw Standardized, World Backup Day Sales
Spring has finally arrived in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, where I’m writing these lines. You can feel it in the air—and at last, you can hear it too—that wonderful season of love. A few days ago, while out for a run along the river, this reality really...
An Easy HDR Workflow: The Ponta de São Lourenço Case Study
The dynamic range of a sunrise over the sea exceeds the limits of even the best sensors. Thus, with a single shot, you're forced to accept crushed shadows, blown highlights, or a compromise using graduated neutral density filters. Instead of fighting those limits, I prefer creating an HDR image by...
The Love Life of Kingfishers
Kingfishers have held a special place in my heart since childhood. I can still recall the excitement of receiving, then devouring in a single breath, one of my very first books: a beautifully illustrated story about a kingfisher family and its struggle to survive in a human-dominated world. Kingfishers on...
DxO PureRaw 6 Review: Amazing Compression?
DxO PureRaw has carved out a niche among photographers seeking to efficiently and automatically denoise their Raw files. With the release of PureRaw 6, I had high expectations for new features that would further refine this powerful software. After extensively testing it, I found that this version adds something new,...
Photography News: Canon R7 Mark II Rumors, DxO PhotoLab 9.6 Announced
It almost felt like the autumn of 1989, when the totalitarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia was collapsing. Back then, Letná Plain—the largest open space in Prague—was filled with 800,000 people. This Saturday, “only” around 250,000 showed up, but the goal was similar: to send a clear message...
Torrent Duck – Photographing in the Roar of Wild Water
When we think of a duck, most of us probably imagine a stocky bird with a flat beak, cruising across calm, mirror-like water. And indeed, of the 165 species of ducks known today, the vast majority fit this description. But there are four species that have chosen a very different...
New Online Workshop: Secrets of Professional Photographers
Today I’m excited to announce the release of our newest Online Workshop: Secrets of Professional Photographers with Libor Vaicenbacher! This 2 hour, 41 minute course takes you behind the scenes with two eminent Czech photographers, Ondře Prosický and Magdaléna Straková, revealing their secrets in two in-depth interviews.
Video Gimbals vs Video Tripod Heads
If you like shooting video, you might be wondering how to make your footage more stable. The in-body image stabilization of modern cameras is great, but it's really tuned for photography rather than videography. To go beyond IBIS when you're filming videos, the two main options for enthusiasts are video...