Wish I had a grip on coding… Say bye to proprietary chains. Great hardware, but you either just get along with Sony’s software because you have to. Or you hate it. Now Sony kinda goes the Samsung open source way. Sony is opening up its camera API to anyone that wants to write a remote […]
By GAIL MOONEY I created quite a stir when I posted the article How Motion Is Changing the Future of Photography on my blog. What surprised me most about the comments I received from that post was that most folks just couldn’t begin to imagine the future that I was contemplating in my writings. With […]
Extrem highlights, extreme shadows, extreme situations: Goran Tomasevic is a veteran war photographer, covering conflict for over 20 years in countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria. The following film was commissioned to accompany an exhibition of Tomasevic’s images from Syria that appear the Visa Pour L’Image international photojournalism 2013. It’s a moving documentary. […]
You may laugh them off as atrocious gadgets. Revolutionary lens-style cameras, or more correctly: lens modules for smartphones, who would have thought of this? Think again: for two thirds of the price you get an RX100 II — without body and LCD that is, but the way the Sony QX100 allows the photographer to be […]
Want to surprise him or her? What about a camera tattoo. You’re the first among your friends, promised. Hesitating? Hey, you’d not be the first after all. Here’s a selection of some of the finest camera examples that go under the skin. Maybe you have all the gear. But you sure don’t have a camera […]
Photographs change the way we behave, look at the world and — most importantly — treat other human beings. If you want to know more about what makes a photo work and about the power of photography, then you might want to have a look at the excellent book Photography Changes Everything by writer and […]
Lee Miller, one of the most perceptive photographers of the 20th century, epitomizes freedom, and I mean freedom of choice in every respect. She always did what she wanted to do. Whether she was shooting the atrocities of World War II or the latest collections from Paris, her eye was unflinching. A new book, Lee […]
Stick with DSLR? Switch to mirrorless? This is not another David vs. Goliath debate. But how come DSLRs still outsell mirrorless, even though mirrorless offers that convenience factor and optics are on par with the very best DSLRs. DSLRs, however, focus and track like no mirrorless, they offer wider depth of field leverage and have […]
Elixir — synonym for extract, potion, panacea or cure-all — is the name of the latest street presets from the makers of photography magazine Inspired Eye. Their by now fifth presets pack for Lightroom 4/5 comes as a color and a black-and-white version putting the look of street photography at your fingertips. Create stunning images […]
Who cannot help but laugh at the breathless excitement over doing “serious” photography with a smartphone, with or without any gimmicky filters, right? Yet today we have serious photographers, including some leading photojournalists, doing assignments with crappy iPhones, making the resulting photos technically even worse by using gimmick filters and post processing add-ons that produce […]
The Fujifilm X series promo is back. Save up to $300 on select XF lenses with the purchase of a qualifying Fujifilm X series camera: $300 off the XF 18mm F2.0 $150 off the XF 27mm F2.8 $150 off the XF 35mm F1.4 $250 off the XF 60mm F2.4 Macro $200 off the XF 18-55mm […]
Amazing, isn’t it, how reliable the rumor mill has become. Thanks to dedicated camera rumor sites — that can be read in real time on our Live Feed — we know many weeks if not months in advance when what cameras will hit the market. Common marketing strategy would suggest rumors undermine sales of existing […]
Everything ends up on YouTube these days. Politics, private lives, even funerals. And, of course, photography. Once we used our cameras exclusively for stills. A camera without video function can’t be sold anymore these days — even though many photographers could live happily ever after without 1080p et al. The mechanisms behind this trend away […]
Fujfilm’s most successful cameras — the X series — are all about retro feel. Now the Japanese camera maker takes the nostalgia to another level with the Instax Mini 90, a neoclassical instant camera that revives the old Polaroid feel. Well the Polaroid we once knew has become The Impossible Project still making the film, […]
Genius move by Sony: a wolf in sheep’s clothing with the heart of a NEX. By introducing the A3000, a no-nonsense mirrorless camera disguised as a DSLR, Sony might very well convince the people that still think a good camera has to look like a DSLR. Mirrorless adoption is still lagging in the Western countries […]
He may have even changed the way we use and look at photography, but by encouraging people’s deeply confessional urge to show and share themselves in every possible situation Steve Jobs taught us to forget about enjoying real life moments. Smartphones are amazing. Not less amazing is the colossal loss of interpersonal relationships. Wasn’t photography […]
Right, there is Virb, an easy way for photographers and videographers to build a nice website. And now there is VIRB, a GoPro-like Garmin action camera. VIRB is not just another 1080p HD, water- and shockproof gadget in a highly saturated market. VIRB is like the reborn action camera. Not only the form factor is […]
Good camera bags are expensive. You might have payed thousands of dollars for your gear setup. It’s only logical to carry the precious hardware in a worthy bag. There are all kinds of bags, the options are overwhelming, but still not good enough for photographer Allen Mowery who was “just sort of shot in the […]
They’re almost gone, but if you’re in the market for the enthusiast full-frame Canon I wouldn’t waste a second. Over at eBay a Top Rated Plus dealer has the 6D for $1,499, that’s 25% off list price. Read our The Canon EOS 6D File for all the essential 6D reviews. Order the camera here.
The average contents of a photographer’s bag cost anywhere between $1,500 and… well a lot. Photography is big business. It’s not only the camera and lens makers, the providers of accessories and how-to books, tutorials and dedicated websites. It’s all the advice from pros and fakes alike telling and selling you how to shoot better […]
While Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson experienced the intense joy of new life and fatherhood with the birth of his first child, a son, his father was diagnosed with lung cancer. With life and death so close to each other, it seemed obvious to Anderson to explore the bliss of life and tragedy of death with […]
Digital photography has come a long way since the 90s, the early days of consumer digital photography that were filled with cameras that broke new ground, though not necessarily in directions that were widely adopted. After more than a century of “conventional” film photography, also the old mechanical ways became questioned: be it the sensor, […]
Photojournalism legend and Magnum photographer Thomas Höpker, 77, romances over the good old times when a magazine employed a dozen photographers and didn’t ask any questions about travel expenses. Photographers flew business class back then, enjoyed big paychecks and enough time to do a proper job — sometimes they even flew back on location for […]
Not the luckiest of names, but after a makeover photography site Camerapixo is back up and running again. Camerapixo is, in a few words, an online service which publishes several photography magazines as well as portfolios of photographers from around the world, famous, less known, beginners. The “new 1.0” site is well worth a visit. […]
It may be a sign of our photoshopped times that many don’t trust their own eyes anymore. Everything can be completely fabricated in Photoshop. Take Paul Hansen’s Gaza Burial, awarded the World Press Photo of 2013. Many say it’s doctored, the light’s just too perfect. Now here comes a cute innocent little frog clinging to […]
Don’t look like a photographer and get rid of the tension, says photographer John Free who has some strong and rather philosophical thoughts on what makes a good photographer. “Be able to effectively react to a particular instant in a situation that you wanna react to,” he says. Henri Cartier-Bresson might have called this the […]
Not that THEME is the philosophizing photographer’s site. But we like to dwell upon things that are contrarian at times and not always mainstream. You should find on THEME what you don’t always find on other sites. This horse, however, has been beaten to death many times already — the question what’s more important: sensor, […]
Over at Leica forums the article is named and shamed — mainly because Ken Rockwell (who at least has made a name for himself) is interviewed as a Leica authority. But leaving personal grudges aside, the New York Times article Leica Cameras Have Eye-Popping Prices, With Photos to Match is a good read — and […]
In case you haven’t yet heard of a digital photography project called Phototrails, haven’t you ever wondered what happens to the millions and billions of photos that are uploaded day after day? What really happens to the trillion of photographs shot each year? Right, they’re not only floating as endless combinations of ones and zeros […]
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