By D. SCOTT CARRUTHERS Photography is among areas that have kept advancing for years with new ways of pursing the art emerging each day. These changes have been seen to bring to life different trends, which have defined the direction photography takes within a specified period of time. There have been interesting changes introduced to […]
First you think, wow someone hijacking a good old name of the camera industry! Yashica. Some of you younger readers never heard of the name. Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, founded in 1949. In December 1965, Yashica introduced the world’s first commercially successful electronically controlled 35mm camera, the Electro 35, a popular rangefinder […]
By RALF L. Lighting plays a big factor in portrait photography. You need to think about how to compose flattering portraits for your subjects, including angle of view, face view, lighting ratio, and lighting pattern. Here are three top portrait lighting patterns that you can try out: Loop Lighting Put the light source slightly higher […]
December 24, 1994. Christmas Eve, in a suburban New York mall. Digital photography is nowhere yet. It’s all Kodak and Polaroid, yet film’s doom days are closing in. There is no future for this camera store. The two elderly employees, store manager Ray (John Larroquette) and his loquacious, liquored-up partner-in-sales Pinky (John Rhys-Davies), arrive for […]
For ages Canon’s and Nikon’s snobbish pro-DSLR argument has been that mirrorless simply isn’t yet there and likely will never be there. Well, that’s a dinosaur argument since the announcement of the Sony α9, a true challenger to Canon’s and Nikon’s long-held last bastion, the high-end pro market. The announcement of the α9 both marks […]
The storytelling power of images. Here is a beautiful example of the marriage of words and visuals, conveying a story that is above both words and images. Johanna Nordblad holds the world record in free-diving under ice. For 50 meters she lets herself glide through the ice-cold water, without oxygen, wearing only a neoprene suit. […]
Quick shout about Fundy Designer, a professional photography software company known for its design software / workflow, Album Builder and Gallery Designer, with in-person / remote sales tools. Fundy just launched it’s revamped All-in-One Suite for professional wedding and portrait photographers. Fully integrated are Pro Enhancements that include Fundy’s very own Design Proofer, once-click retouching […]
It must be true. Read it on the Internet. And I quote: “The quickest way to tell an amateur with a fancy DSLR from a pro before they even begin shooting is to watch where they hang their strap (…) Amateurs put it over their necks, like the woman in the photo: Must be the […]
Well the photography revolution started with digital photography. Wait, with the iPhone and subsequent smartphones. Wait! With the Internet’s democratization of access to information and anyone’s ability to produce and share content. Or wait: with images’ increasing ability to “communicate.” Writes Snap in its IPO documents: “In the way that the flashing cursor became the […]
Trade-in any Olympus camera and/or lens with B&H Photo and get up to an $800 bonus. Add any of these Olympus cameras or lenses. Get a bonus for each item. Use promo code TRADENTIME at checkout. Then trade-in your old gear at B&H. They’ll take care of the rest. Start trade-in. For details and orders […]
You can agree and you can disagree with liberals and conservatives alike. For heaven’s sake, just start thinking for yourself again! Doesn’t mean something they say must be real. Doesn’t mean it can be fake either. Just ask yourself: is it relevant? Does it matter? Why they say it? And most importantly: does it make […]
Photos document a timeline, are a snapshot of body and mind at certain times along our lives. Photos allow for time travel. Looking at an image from the past might explain moods and things and connections that were not obvious at the time. This might have a therapeutic effect. Looking for clues in how I […]
We reported on Aram Pan in the past: an energetic young Singaporean and photographer who, accidentally, kind of fell in love with North Korea. Right, the hermit regime where no one dares to travel to. Must admit, travelled to North Korea twice and it was a unique experience. Now Aram Pan is a North Korea […]
Happy Chinese New Year of the Rooster! Some alternative views:
By NIGEL FOGG A Portrait by Marsha Burns Can I begin by crying? She is so frail, so strong, so shocking, so beautiful, so young, so damaged, so afraid, so courageous, so angry, so old, so wise, so determined, so veiled, so strident, so hurtful, so full of life… More than we seem able to […]
eBay premium seller 6 Ave has Canon’s two most popular standard zooms EF 24-70mm F2.8L II USM and EF 70-200mm F2.8L IS II USM lenses for $1,399 and $1,529, respectively. These lenses normally cost $1,749 and $2,099, so this is a great deal. Must-haves for wedding, portrait, landscape, event and sports photography, these lenses don’t […]
Street photography and shyness, they don’t match, do they. Street photography requires an outgoing personality, eager to not mind what passersby think, not shying away from even confronting people. People can get upset if not aggressive when they see a stranger’s camera pointed at them. Some photographers just don’t care. Others are careful enough to […]
From now through March 4, 2017, Sony is having a “trade-in event” where you can save up to $480 when trading in any lens, mirrorless camera or DSLR. In addition to the trade-in bonus, the customer will also receive the value of their traded-in product as valued by Adorama’s used department. That’s right, you’ll receive […]
The fall 2015 course might not be the newest one, but if you think everything photography has to be brand new, well then good night. And just don’t tell you got accepted into the prestigious university. Yet it’s easier than ever, in fact it’s free, to take Harvard’s online course in digital photography, Exposing Digital […]
All new Orlit RT-600C TTL RT Speedlight (for Canon), RoveLight RT 610 TTL Monolight with on-board power (for Canon and Nikon) plus RoveLight transceivers: Find the links to all products right here.
Fujfilm’s hotly anticipated medium-format GFX system finally sees the light of day with the GFX 50s camera. We’re promised spectacular detail and unmatched color and light rendition. Yet, is Fujifilm gambling too high? With a price tag of $6,499 for the body and $1,499 for the “cheapest” 63mm F2.8 lens they’re aiming for the professional […]
As photographers we’re all, in the broadest sense, media representatives. For this reason allow me the following thoughts. The 45th president of the United States of America isn’t a protectionist, but what can be produced back home shall be produced back home. Even before assuming office, POETUS Donald J. Trump received the support of car […]
Ride or die. As imaging technology advances and gets ever more powerful, so do the challenges promoted by action sports. Higher, faster, ever more foolish. Equipped with the latest action cam, people risk their life for the ultimate footage. The images we enjoy are breathtaking indeed. A millisecond separates the daring stunts from the abyss. […]
Improvisation rules. There is a gadget for everything, yet often most simple and basic things can do the same job as an expensive add-on. Back in the early days I used butter to get that dreamy David Hamilton look. Just smear it around the lens, and you get a perfect dreamy erotic look. Here are […]
This is the story of how William Henry Fox Talbot preserved a moment of the past forever, when he invented the photographic negative. It’s a story of hard work, experimentation and how one man longed for something that was not possible until then — how to preserve that perfect moment, those frozen memories from the […]
New release: Nikon D5600 24.2MP DX-format CMOS sensor EXPEED 4 image processor 3.2″ 1.037m-dot vari-angle touchscreen Full HD 1080p video recording at 60 fps Multi-CAM 4800DX 39-point AF sensor ISO 100 – 25,600 and 5 fps shooting SnapBridge bluetooth and Wi-Fi with NFC Time-lapse movie recording For details and orders from B&H Photo: Body only: […]
It once was the biggest name in photography. Kodak. Gone are the Kodak days, yet the prominent victim of the digital era celebrates a kind of comeback. Not like Polaroid, a company that as well is back from the dead, but licenses about every product imaginable, such as a Polaroid 3D printer, a Polaroid drone, […]
John Berger, the politically committed critic, novelist, screenwriter, lyricist, dramatist, essyist, activist and, above all, photographer, John Berger is dead. He passed away on January 1 in Paris after a long illness, a few weeks after his 90th birthday. As photographers we owe many things to John Berger, above all to his equally influential and […]
What’s the point of New Year anyway. Next new day felt like the day before. Celebration? A break can help to adjust goals and leave sorrows, sadness and pain behind and restart with a smile. Yet pardon my French, I reckon many are forced into these behavioral patterns, such as having to celebrate Christmas and […]
