8 lessons you can learn by shooting landscapes at night

You don’t have to restrict yourself to daylight hours for shooting landscapes, you can shoot them during the night as well. And if you do, the team at Photoventure suggest some great lessons that you’ll learn along the way in their latest guest post.

1. The benefit of finding your location in advance

Many landscape photographers use bad weather and poor light days to check out potential shooting

Lenovo N20p Chromebook Review

The N20p, Lenovo's least expensive foray into the Chromebook category, features a component not often seen on notebooks in this price range: a touch screen. Plus, the 11-inch display on this Intel Celeron-powered ultraportable can rotate a Yoga-like 300 degrees, making it easier to watch movies in cramped spaces. But at $330 -- $30 more than most other Chromebooks -- are these features worth the price?

Design

The Lenovo N20p is a sleek, 11.6-inch notebook finished with gunmetal gray paint on top of a

Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e Chromebook Review

REVIEW

When you think about ThinkPad, you might picture businesspeople typing up quarterly reports. But, as it turns out, many of them are using the laptops to work on book reports. Lenovo has long targeted the student market with its durable 11-inch ThinkPads, and now it has added the $455 ThinkPad Yoga 11e Chromebook, which has the same 360-degree, foldable lid as the company's other Yoga laptops and runs Chrome OS. Though Lenovo is primarily selling the Yoga 11e to school districts, you can buy the notebook at Lenovo.com for any use you want. Is this the right Chromebook for you or your favorite student?

Design: Versatile multi-mode

The Yoga 11e speaks the same design language as other

Watch a master pizza maker make deliciously perfect pizza

A Tetris-Playing Bracelet Is Where Fashion Meets Frustration

Skateboarder zips down mountains and flys by cars at insane speeds

NASA finds clear skies on exoplanet

Artist's concept of HAT-P-11b crossing in front of its star (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Coke machines to serve as Wi-Fi hotspots in South Africa

Residents of Qunu and Bushbuckridge will soon be getting free Wi-Fi from Coca Cola coolers

Hull-clinging robots could perform secret searches of smugglers' boats

MIT's prototype contraband-searching robot

ICEdot adds user-activated Trigger to its emergency communications line

ICEdot's Emergency Trigger clips to your helmet strap or wristband, keeping help within arm's length

DHL launches delivery-by-drone pilot project in Germany

DHL's Parcelcopter can carry up to 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) of medication

LENOVO S850 PHOTOS

Lenovo S850

Stylish, Ultra-portable Design

The beautifully designed Lenovo S850 features a stylish, all-glass exterior with multiple color options. And it’s sleek enough not to weigh you down at just 8.2mm thin and 140g light.

Camera Test: Nikon D4s

Octopus bacteria lamp glows when disturbed

Ambio is a new lamp concept that lights up using bioluminescent bacteria

Ship-shaped hospital could set sail for Tunisia

The proposed White Sails Hospital and Spa 

Engineer designs the "perfect" ice cream scoop

The Midnight Scoop is said to make ice cream scooping easier, and reduce strain placed on the user's write

Band plays "world's first" gig with 3D-printed instruments

A picture of the band, from Lund University's Malmö Academy of Music, in sound-check

JPods solar electric vehicle system set to leave the drawing board

A solar-powered, suspended, individual carriage rail system called J-Pods is soon to be built and tested in Secaucus, New Jersey

Ferrari weaves its magic with 458 Speciale A spider

The 458 Speciale A will make its debut at the Paris Motor Show next month

US gives Hollywood film studios green light on drone use

The US aviation authority has granted exemptions for video-equipped drones to be used in film production 

One Clever Explanation of Why the iPhone 6 Plus Might Bend

Huge GoPro Hero4 Leak Reveals Silver and Black Edition Features

Camera Test: Pentax 645Z

The Pentax 645Z features a 44x33mm 51.4MP CMOS sensor, 1920x1080 i60 video capture, a 3.2-inch 1.037-million-dot tilting LCD screen for $8,497 street (body only).

Camera Test: Samsung NX Mini

The NX Mini is so small that Samsung opted to use a MicroSD card slot instead of a regular SD card slot.

DIY Photography Hacks: make your own filter with a cheap pair of sunglasses

In our latest DIY Photography Hacks tutorial we show you how to use an old pair of sunglasses as a filter to create a variety of photo effects.

First, an apology: if you’re engaged in a constant pursuit of optical perfection, you need to look away now. But if you enjoy back-to-basics photography, this technique is a cheap, simple way to capture a lo-fi look.

11 easy ways to make a portrait stunning

Turning a so-so portrait into a pretty stunning one doesn’t take much effort.

You don’t need an expensive collection of home studio lights and an extensive bank of Photoshop tricks to get brilliant results; a short telephoto lens, a reflector and a flashgun – along with a few simple tried and tested techniques – will go a long way to transforming your people pictures.

Digital infrared photography: how to capture the world you’re eye can’t see

In this digital infrared photography tutorial we’ll show you how to choose suitable subjects, set up your camera and compose dynamic infrared images.

Bright overhead sunlight isn’t usually very flattering for shooting landscapes but its actually ideal for infrared photography.

4 classic portrait compositions every photographer should know

Discover how to compose portraits in tried and tested ways. Follow these compositional tips and you can add interest and variety to any portrait shoot.

As with most photographs, the success of a portrait relies on the compositional choices you make. In particular it’s important how elements are positioned within the frame and what is included or excluded

Kobo Aura H20 Review

Pros: Water resistant, bathtub friendly; Bigger display makes reading easier; Gamified reading experience

Cons: No periodicals; Smudge-prone exterior; Lacks parental controls; Overpriced e-books

Verdict: Finally! An E Ink e-reader that's ready for a bath, assuming you can afford this device.

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In the bathtub, at the beach or next to the pool: Those are just three of my favorite places to read. The 6.8-inch Kobo Aura H20 is the first E Ink e-reader designed to be safe in all three situations. Thanks to its bright front-light, it's also good for reading in bed.

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However, this water-resistant slate will cost you a hefty $180. That's $60 more than the 6-inch Amazon Kindle Paperwhite or the Barnes & Noble Nook GlowLight, though neither of those can survive a dunking.

Design

Its 6.8-inch display puts the Kobo Aura H20 in a unique class size, somewhere between the Kindle line of 6-inch e-readers and the 7.9-inch iPad mini. The Aura's larger screen helpfully offers more reading space.

The front design, made of soft-feel plastic surrounding the

How to Use Ask to Buy in iOS 8

One feature of iOS 8 Family Sharing is the ability to set up child accounts. The kids can then use the family credit card to purchase apps, music, videos, and books for their device. But

How to Use the iOS 8 Photos App

iOS 8 adds a lot of new functionality to the iOS 8 Photos app. There are now lots of editing tools built in as well as fun filters. Learn how to use these features in this tutorial.

How to Shoot Time-Lapse Videos in iOS 8

The iOS 8 camera now offers a new form of video: time-lapse. Follow these steps to learn how to use your iPhone to take time-lapse videos.

How to Use iOS 8 Shortcuts and Notifications

How to Change Keyboards in iOS 8

iOS 8 adds a new feature to allow you to use custom keyboards built by third-party companies in lieu of Apple’s preloaded keyboard. Here’s  how to change keyboards and use custom keyboards on your iOS 8 device.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4: Why Verizon is the Best Deal

How to Use iOS 8 Spotlight Search

How to Share Everything with Family Sharing in iOS 8

One of the most anticipated features of iOS 8 is Family Sharing. With this feature you can share apps, music, videos, and calendaring information with members of your family quickly and easily. With Family Sharing you no longer have to buy the same app multiple times, and you can each use a personalized version of the app or connect to different Game Center accounts.

Enable Family Sharing by adding at least one other person to your family.

To share apps:

1. Open the App Store app.

VW Golf Alltrack to debut at Paris Motor Show

The VW Golf Alltrack bring the Golf into four-wheel territory

Artificial intelligence program that learns like a child

An artificial intelligence program created at the University of Gothenburg imitates a child's cognitive development to learn basic arithmetic, logic, and grammar with no pre-existing knowledge

Nissan cobbles together a Frontier and Leaf to create a tiny electric pickup truck

The one-of-a-kind Leaf pickup truck created at Nissan's Technical Center in Stanfield, Arizona

The BlackBerry Passport looks unique – but does it stand out in other ways?

Does the Blackberry Passport's touch-enabled physical keyboard make it worth your attention?

Double O bike lights are designed not to dazzle – or get stolen

The non-blinding Double O headlight

Review: iPhone 6 Plus

Apple was in no rush to start making big-screened smartphones. But now that the company's first phablet is here, was it worth the wait? Let's take a look, as Gizmag reviews the iPhone 6 Plus.

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The iPhone 6 Plus just might be my favorite Apple mobile device to date. It takes that years-old gap between tiny iPhone and huge iPad, and obliterates it – even more than the iPad mini did. With the 6 Plus, we finally have an iOS device that can serve as both phone and tablet. One iDevice to rule them all.

That isn't to say that it's perfect. Pick it up, realize how awkward it can be to use in one hand and you'll likely agree. But, to me, the perks outweigh the compromises.

Metal-based graphene alternative "shines" with promise

A rolled film of the material – the roll is about one tenth the diameter of a human hair