By OLIVIER DUONG In this tutorial I am presupposing that you are using Adobe Lightroom for your street photography. But every program that allows you to mess with your curves will able to reproduce the results. Step 1: Load Your Picture Load your photo in Lightroom and clean it up if need be (spots, dust, […]
This is a rather short review of the second incarnation of the Nikon 1 system’s fancier V lineup, currently headed by the Nikon V2. You’re not buying this camera for its ergonomics or external beauty. The aesthetics are — pardon my French — boxy, clumsy, an ugly duckling. The predecessor’s look was more refined. However […]
By DAVID HOLLIDAY Cambodia is a very interesting place to be a photographer at present. It slowly climbs out of the period in history so full of horror and darkness into a vibrant and happening place that is quickly developing. People say it is booming now. It certainly has changed in the three years I […]
Never rest on your laurels. Look at Apple. They kept on relying for too long on their cash cow, the iPhone. Now all indices are pointing southwards. Stock is worth nearly half of its high in 2011. Not that the share price reflects reality, but despite revolutionary innovations they failed to stay ahead of the […]
For a limited time only, Adorama is running a promotion on a great selection of Sony, Canon and Nikon products. They raised the rewards from 2% to 6%, that means for instance 6% off the Sony RX100. The promo will run through May 1, 2013. On some products an additional $200 instant rebate applies. Each […]
Nah, you never feel restless, are always in perfect harmony with people and your surroundings and your body can take it all. Seriously, being on an shooting assignment can be one of the most exhausting tasks. Depending on the climate you’re soon covered in sweat, full of dust and tired — or you have to […]
I actually wanted to write an article about George R. Lawrence, the extreme photographer with the giant camera: around 1900 Lawrence built the world’s largest camera after he got an order from the Chicago & Alton Railroad company to show their new and long trains on one single photograph. Well Lawrence built a camera heavier […]
By CHRIS KOVACS Adore Noir is a fine art PDF black-and-white photography magazine which was conceived in February 2011 by husband and wife team Chris and Sandra Kovacs. In just over two years they have produced thirteen issues and have featured emerging, established and world renowned photographers. It is this eclectic mix along with Adore […]
It’s all over the news, one of the terrorists’s already dead and chances are that by the time you read these lines his fugitive brother identified as 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has already met his maker as well — or is at least in custody. But there’s a part of the story that might be of […]
This post should actually keep you busy for a while. Without being presumptuous, it offers a treasure trove of photography and retouching knowledge that can change your photography altogether. Seriously. Heard of Phlearn? It’s a Photoshop and photography tutorial site with the mission to “achieve the impossible” and “provide the skills, confidence and encouragement for […]
Adorama now carries a full line of the SLR Magic lenses, including: SLR Magic Noktor 50mm F0.95 HyperPrime Lens for Fuji X Mount Cameras SLR Magic Noktor 50mm F0.95 HyperPrime Lens for Sony E Mount NEX Series Cameras SLR Magic 35mm F1.7 MC lens for Sony E Mount NEX Series Cameras SLR Magic 35mm T […]
It’s the Canon standard zoom, pairs greatly with APS-C and especially full-frame sensors, an ideal one-lens solution for travel, photojournalism, etc. eBay has it for $739.99, that’s 36% off $1,149 list price. Specs: Filter Size: 77mm F-Stop Range: 4-22 Minimum Focus Distance: 1.48′ (0.45m) Magnification: 1:4.3 Zoom/Focus Control: Two Touch Angle of View: 84-23° (with […]
How many photographs can you look at more than once? Not many, not many. Henri Cartier-Bresson (The following is a free interpretation of Forbes’ excellent Leica M Monochrom review by David Foster.) Although the technical brilliance of modern digital cameras is undeniable, there’s also something about the ease with which pictures can be taken that […]
Not only do we have the official announcement of the first X series native telephoto lens: the Fujinon XF 55-200mm F3-5.4 R LM OIS finally gives the X-Pro1 and X-E1 the longer reach that has been missing in the original lineup. This new lens, available in May (preorder from B&H or Adorama), starts off exactly […]
You can already preorder the Ricoh GR Digital V, world’s smallest, lightest and cheapest APS-C fixed lens compact camera, from B&H and Adorama. Cheapest has nothing to, however, with cheap quality. Read our Ricoh GR compendium covering all the camera’s ins and outs. As said, preorderable from B&H and Adorama.
If I’d had to be on that proverbial island, with only one single lens, the choice is easy: to me the 28mm focal length offers the perfect photographic vision closest to the human eye, ideal for documentary style, photojournalism and street photography. Now I was never really a friend of Ricoh’s relatively cumbersome GXR modular […]
Well with the “our” in the title I mean the large majority. Not you! Thing is, today’s cameras promise better and better images. Much of “modern” photography that is dictated by functions and presets, however, leaves photographers less connected with their subjects/objects and more dependent on “interpretations” of them. The uniqueness of a photograph gets […]
By DAVID HOLLIDAY I am a semi-professional photographer based in Phnom Penh where I have exhibitions and sell my work in some of the hotels and shops. My theme, at present, is the construction of photomontages of old colonial buildings. People seem to like them more than my gritty black-and-white street photography. To hang on […]
Well almost in stock. This sweet camera is about to ship from Amazon U.S. (+++ BTW, some top rated eBay U.S. sellers have the camera as well, for availability check right here.) Any deliveries are gone quickly, so you better check back again a few times a day via this link if you’re in the […]
By WHITTEN SABBATINI The rural South of the United States is a place still haunted and oppressed by segregation. It is a place where, often times, African Americans are viewed as dangerous or pitiful. As an outsider, I am interested in what it looks like to be an African American male living in the same […]
Tim Ashley does it again. I’m pleased that one of the best camera gear hands-on reviewers (who’s a multi-system user!) reviews Leica’s latest digital M baby — and kindly allows THEME to republish it. If you know Tim, you know that you’re about to read some of the most balanced, thought-out, objective gear review written […]
B&H offers the stunning Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera for preorder: Extremely small and light Super 16mm CMOS 1920×1080 resolution ProRes 422 recording Rolling shutter Mini HDMI output Active Micro Four Thirds mount $999 and July release Says EOSHD — oh yes, Andrew Reid’s excited: A pocketable BMCC M43, doing what the Bolex Super 8 movement […]
By SARAH COLEMAN If you believe the hype, the next great technological frontier will be in the realm of vision, with digital tools embedded in glasses or in contact lenses to record, analyze and enhance what we’re seeing and doing. It’s called augmented reality. But some futurists have brought up another possibility, “deletive reality.” After […]
As some of you might know, I’m based in Bangkok. An Thai actor, Vithaya “Pu” Pansringarm who plays the Oscar-worthy lead supporting role in the latest Ryan Gosling flick Only God Forviges, over a few bottles of red wine drew my attention to this short movie called True Skin, directed by Stephan Zlotescu who’s envisaging […]
This is quite some work by German photographer Helge Hackbarth of 3D-Kraft! Helge compares a unique collection of super fast — some F0.95 — 25mm, 35mm and 50mm prime lenses. His posts are for connoisseurs of bright, hyper fast and wide lenses, and whom better to ask than Helge who prepared some extensive reviews. In […]
Too much reality: A young filmmaker is believed to have frozen to death while making a documentary about sleeping rough on the streets as he tried to impress television bosses. Young Englishman Lee Halpin planned to spend this week on the streets of Newcastle experiencing and filming what life is like for those who are […]
By DIERK TOPP In 1955 I took my first photographs with the Agfa Box of my mother during a vacation camp. Ever since then photography exited me. My grandpa had an old wooden camera and as I was very much interested how it works, I took it apart — and tried to put it together […]
For years indie photographer Mike Brodie traveled with dropouts, adventurers, homeless and freedom seekers on freight trains across America. Now his first photobook A Period of Juvenile Prosperity is published — the book is a ride as wild as inspiring. It’s not the work of a few happy shoots, but of many years of ardent, […]
No doubt, this is soon gonna be one of the world’s probably most photographed panoramas again — the stunning view from the observation deck of New York’s One World Trade Center, reaching some 400 meters or 1,250 feet into the sky. Once completed, the skyscraper formerly called Freedom Tower will be the tallest structure in […]
You remember Street Presets, presets for the ultimate street look. Now their creators Don Springer and Olivier Duong present their latest labor of love: Inspired Eye, an inspired, high quality, rich in content photographic magazine with no real competition. They’ve done their research and after reading the first (free!) issue I must agree, none of […]
