The Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) organization is "pressing pause" on its Honors of Excellence photography competition until 2024 as it evaluates the program and how it can evolve in the current events landscape. [Read More]
Emerald Holding, the parent company that owns both the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) and the Photoplus Expo (PPE) has announced that it has acquired The Wedding School, an online wedding photography education platform.
If you're reading this, you're wondering why there's no interest in a photo trade show from new photographers. And you're probably missing the times where the industry got together and hung out.
Photo District News (PDN), a 40-year-old photo publication and staple of the industry, is shutting down. The magazine’s owner Emerald Expositions has confirmed that they will be shuttering both the print and digital sides of PDN in order to focus more of their efforts on PhotoPlus, WPPI, and Rangefinder. PetaPixel was told of PDN’s coming […]
I've been hearing news of PDN folding for a few weeks now, but have purposely not written anything due to nothing being official yet. But apparently, the cat is finally out of the bag, and Photo District News is gone.
The Panasonic 50mm f1. 4 Lumix S Pro lens is the company's first really high end prime lens offering for the L mount system; and we recently put it through a quick test for portrait shooting. Photographers who are interested in shooting portraits with a shorter focal length like a 50mm lens will be pleasantly surprised at the fact that Panasonic really put a lot of engineering into this lens.
At WPPI 2019, our staff had the opportunity to play with a Panasonic S1 camera for a while. The Panasonic S1 is the latest offering from the company to photojournalists who want a full frame mirrorless camera.
While I'm not exactly sure how many photographers will be using a 100-400mm equivalent lens for either portraiture or weddings, the new Panasonic 50-200mm f2. 8-4. 0 ASPH is being announced at WPPI this year.
If you know anything about Sony's previous flagship flashes, then you know that they had a very interesting design to them. But the company's new Sony HVL-F60RM is slated to be their flagship, and is also taking the more traditional approach to design.
I really liked the Pentax K1, and so when we found out about the new Pentax K1 Mk II I was very intrigued to see how the company would improve the camera. To date, I genuinely believe it and the Nikon D850 to be the best DSLR cameras in the industry--but the Pentax was surely starting to show its age.
At the WPPI wedding and portrait photography conference and expo this year, photographer Trevor Dayley taught this 1-hour class titled “17 Fast, Easy, Awesome Lighting Recipes. ” Dayley shares 17 lighting ideas you can keep in mind on any portrait shoot using a memorization story.
Skylum ClearCut Pro is a camera-to-cloud app that automatically removes backgrounds from photos between when they are captured and when they are delivered through the cloud to an editor through Frame.io. [Read More]
I’m photographer Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens, and in this video and article, I’m going to look at photo conferences, photo/video conferences. Are they dead? Are they going to happen this year? Is it kind of the nail in the coffin for conferences? Because they were sliding before. Where exactly are they at? […]
PhotoPlus has announced that its in-person event has been canceled for the second straight year amid travel restrictions and concerns over the continuing spread of COVID-19. In a press release, the company states that the in-person show that was originally slated for September 30 through October 2 has been canceled until 2022. The PhotoPlus show […]
PhotoPlus has launched Learning Lens, a new online platform that will play host to educational resources for photographers. The company says that it plans to cover anything and everything photographers could possibly want to learn about, all for free.
Photo District News (PDN), a 40-year-old photo publication and staple of the industry, is shutting down. The magazine’s owner Emerald Expositions has confirmed that they will be shuttering both the print and digital sides of PDN in order to focus more of their efforts on PhotoPlus, WPPI, and Rangefinder. PetaPixel was told of PDN’s coming […]