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 By now, you're probably locked into a photo sharing site, but as the line between photographers and cinematographers continues to blur, choosing a video-sharing service has become increasingly important. Vimeo was already one of the best, but they're hoping a full redesign of their site will help attract even more people.

For lighting portraits, you can accentuate the shape of a subject’s figure, bring out the texture or drape of the clothes, or, as in environmental portraits, adjust the light so that the subject and background are of equal importance. Or you can light for character. Joey Lawrence, a young New York advertising pro and teacher (www.learnfromjoey.com) does just this for an ongoing personal series of Ethiopian portraits.

CES 2012 let us see the internal organs of a bunch of hardware, but all of it pails in price when compared to the behemoth that is the Red Epic-X. The folks at Wireless Goodness managed to get their hands on the FCC teardown shots of the high-end camera, and its been doing the rounds ever since.

As any photographer knows, no matter how advanced the camera, auto focus has its flaws, especially compared to the human eye. That’s because most autofocus mechanisms use contrast levels to determine how in or out of focus an image is, which takes time and battery power and relies on the assumption that best contrast equals best focus.