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8 Factors to Look at Before You Choose a New DSLR or Mirrorless Camera
Not too long ago, the path to choosing your gear was very clear. If you wanted to take professional quality images, the DSLR reigned supreme. Yet, the landscape of available camera gear is constantly evolving, and today there are more options than ever before. Instead of just one or two dominant companies, you now have outstanding systems from no less than seven manufacturers. Mirrorless cameras have matured from a niche product to a complete solution, while DSLRs have been further refined. This may sound daunting at first, but with a bit of...
read more10 Items You Need for Your Night Photography Kit
Buckingham Fountain, Chicago (Shutter Speed: 10 seconds; Aperture f/18; ISO 100; focal length 21 mm) Louis Pasteur famously said that “chance favors the prepared mind.” This statement definitely applies to photography, as there is always an element of chance, with the odds of success growing with preparation. The quote seems particularly applicable to night photography, which has unique requirements for exposure and stability. Preparation is everything. Your odds of getting a great night photograph are greatly improved if you have taken the...
read moreThe changing landscapes of the modern American cowboy
Lucas Foglia’s Frontcountry takes on an American icon – and finds the remaining cowboys’ way of life at risk from the scramble for energy. “This is the last cowboy song, the end of a hundred year waltz. Voices sound sad as they’re singing along another piece of America’s lost.” So goes the chorus of Ed Bruce ballad The Last Cowboy, which was released in May 1980. But although their numbers have been dwindling for years, cowboys so still exist, roaming the plains and valleys of the American West as they have done since the...
read moreEarly morning photography from the streets of San Francisco
All images © Travis Jensen He moved to San Francisco at 18 and almost got swallowed up by the streets. Today, Travis Jensen is one of the foremost photographers of the myriad complexities of an urban icon of Californian living. Travis Jensen answers the phone with a bleary voice. It’s the crack of dawn in San Francisco, but it doesn’t bother him too much. The street photographer with a cool 50,000 followers on Instagram has a seven-and-a-half mile walk into work...
read moreStudying Lovebirds Could Help Us Build Better Drone Cameras, Scientists Say
The way lovebirds turn their heads while flying could help engineers build better camera drones that can capture scenes with less blur, even during high-speed maneuvers. That’s what scientists are saying after studying the flight of lovebirds with a high-speed camera. Stanford mechanical engineering professor David Lentink recently discovered that lovebirds are able to turn their head at record-breaking speeds during flight. The birds, which are known for their agility in the air, were found to be able to turn their heads at up to...
read moreWhat Famous People Look Like When 50 Portraits of Them Are Averaged
What do you get when you combine 50 portraits of the same famous face and averaged the result? Reddit user Dwainosaur dared to not only ask the question but to pursue it. He gathered up a large collection of photos and wrote a script for averaging the results. Subjects include Brad Pitt, Jack Black, Billy Murray, and Barack Obama. Infamous faces include Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Dwainosaur explains the process by saying that for each individual, he used an automated process to load 60 images from Google Images. He “then...
read moreBTS: Inside Amy Schumer’s Mind During Her Glamour Cover Photo Shoot
Now here’s a strange and unusual way to share behind-the-scenes footage from a photo shoot: after comedian and actress Amy Schumer recently posed for the cover of Glamour, the magazine released this lighthearted video that reveals what went on inside Schumer’s head during the ordeal experience. Schumer, not used to posing for this type of portrait, has thoughts on everything from the wind machines to busting her limited selection of signature looks. Here’s the photograph that will be published on the upcoming August 2015 issue of...
read morePSA: Many Film Processing Services No Longer Return Your Original Film
If you’re a film photographer, here’s something you should be aware of: many film processing services at major drug and retail stores will no longer return your original film to you after developing and scanning it. In the good old days, you could simply drop off your film at big-name stores and then pick it up later with your developed film strips along with any prints or CD that you ordered. Those days may soon be gone. Photographer Jack English learned of this change in policy recently at a local Walgreens, where this has apparently...
read moreTwo Wedding Photos Recreated 40 Years Later
Earlier this month, Reddit user magic976‘s parents celebrated their 40th anniversary as husband and wife. To mark the occasion, they decided to recreate two photos from their wedding day back in 1975. 1975 2015 1975 2015 The same wedding dress and homemade jacket appear in all four photos above, but the guy did get a nice upgrade on the motorcycle front. “Some things never change,” magic976 writes. (via Reddit via Laughing Squid) Image credits: Photographs courtesy magic976 Source Article from...
read moreAn Everyday Lens That’s Anything But Ordinary: The AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR Lens Offers Advanced Photographers Powerful Versatility
MELVILLE, NY – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the new AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR lens – an amazingly versatile DX-format lens that is well suited for advanced and enthusiast photographers. The NIKKOR 16-80mm features a combination of the best Nikon lens technologies, some never before seen in a Nikon DX-format lens, including Nikon’s legendary Nano Crystal Coat. The resulting lens gives a wide variety of photographers an all-purpose optic to help take their photography further and tell their story with clarity and precision. ...
read moreTotal Production of NIKKOR Lenses for Interchangeable Lens Cameras Reaches 95 Million
TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce that total production of NIKKOR lenses*1 for Nikon interchangeable lens cameras reached ninety-five million in the middle of July, 2015. *1Interchangeable lenses for Nikon SLR cameras and Nikon 1 Advanced Camera with Interchangeable Lenses In 1959, Nikon (then Nippon Kogaku K.K.) released the Nikon F, as well as its first NIKKOR lenses for Nikon SLR cameras, including the NIKKOR-S Auto 5cm f/2. The NIKKOR tradition has continued over the many years since...
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read more10 Tips for Photographing Strangers
I do a lot of wandering at dawn, taking photos of the city as it wakes. Mostly I am on my own, but occasionally I come across someone, a worker or a person coming home from a party. In Paris, a few summers back, I came across this guy. “Take my photo, friend!” he said to me. So, of course, I did. He was brash, but when I was done he hugged me and carried on with his early morning adventures. If only all interactions with strangers, when I’m out with my camera, could be that easy! But, unfortunately, they are not. So when you don’t have random...
read moreHow to Creatively Alter the Light in Your Photo Using Lightroom
Learn how to fix problem light and enhance your vision for your photos in Lightroom. If you’re like most of us, you’ve taken photos from time to time that you’ve had high hopes for, only to realize later on that they didn’t turn out the way you’d hoped. Often what looks like awesome light when you captured the image, just doesn’t translate to great light when you view the photo on your computer screen. When the photos you’ve captured are once in a lifetime memories they deserve better than this. Thanks to Lightroom they can be improved,...
read moreHarry Gruyaert: “There is no story. It’s just a question of shapes and light”
Boom, Belgium, 1988. © 2015 Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos. All images © 2015 Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos With the recent release of the first English-language monograph of his work, famed Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert talks about the banality of colour and the fuzzy line between art and photography “There is no story. It’s just a question of shapes and light,” Harry Gruyaert says. The storied Magnum photographer is notoriously reluctant to share how he...
read moreAll about his mother: Fashion photographer Charlie Engman’s maternal muse
When an editor suggested that Charlie Engman photograph his mother, he became fascinated by “the ability of the photograph to make something so familiar to me feel so strange”. Her eyes are closed and her mouth open, an open robe hanging from her shoulders. She holds in her hand the talons of a grey bird, its wings spread-eagle. A strange, flared light seems to emanate from her. She’s the mother of Charlie Engman, the man behind the camera. In a few short years, the 26-year-old, New York-based photographer has...
read moreThe Manchester town hall meeting that shaped Africa: remembering the Fifth Pan-African Congress
Weeks after the fall of Nazi Germany, African leaders gathered in a Manchester town hall in the name of freedom and self-determination. Seventy years later, an exhibition at Autograph ABP uncovers the fascinating images documenting this influential meeting of minds. In October, 1945, as the European powers recovered from six years of, 87 delegates representing 50 organisations met in a town hall in Manchester. They came together for the Fifth Pan-African Congress, all with a singular, righteous purpose: the liberation of...
read moreReal-world samples: Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 16-80mm F2.8-4E ED VR
Yes, there’s probably a shrub or tree next to her, but nevertheless when there’s even a hint of green in a skintone Nikons seem to pop it more strongly than Canons in a way that drives me nuts. But I’ve developed a work around that seems to handle it. And as for the sunset shots on the Sigma 24-35, those extremely warm skin tones look natural because the viewer can see the color of the light behind them; the eye is used to that situation. So no it doesn’t bother me. And finally, when shooting jpgs if i’m not...
read moreCasio Japan introduces Exilim EX-ZR3000 and EX-ZR60
Hi Well, it’s better than nothing, althought DPR has missed some announcements more interesting than those 2 models, the EX-ZR3500 cited here but that is not only available in Chia, but in most Asian countries, and most importantly, the EX-100 series: the EX-100, EX-100Pro and the just announced EX-100F, a High Speed premium compact with a 28-300 mm equivalent 2.8 constant aperture lens, much more portable than the Stylus 1 with similar o same lens. No mention either on the EX-ZR850, a best seller in the Casio camera range. And with its...
read moreShooting with the Canon PowerShot G3 X
Well, you can also attach a wonderful portrait lens like the 45/1.8, or an ultra wide zoom like the 7-14/4, 9-18mm, etc, and any number of other specialty lenses. The 12-50mm rather than the 12-42mm wouldn’t add much more weight in any case. So yes, adding more lenses costs more money and means more weight, but it gives you a lot of options that a fixed lens camera does not. I fail to see the logic where interchangeability is a bad thing, it’s simply different. May be better or worse depending on needs. Different doesn’t...
read moreReaders’ Showcase: Luis dos Santos
@Roman: not quite, I think. The point here is a bit narrower: when you take an architectural photo these days, you are taking a photo that in a meaningful sense already existed of a deliberate, specific work of art; the architect could see what they were designing on a screen, and you really are recording their artistic vision, to a greater extent than, say, a landscape or garden view (even a Capability Brown/Decimus Burton landscape), and to a greater extent than flowers or animals, unless you subscribe to a particularly direct view of...
read moreThis is How Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s
In our world of digital photography and high speed Internet, photojournalists can quickly and easily send large numbers of high-res photos to the other side of the globe. Things weren’t always so convenient. The video above shows what a photo transmitter looked like back in the 1970s. What you see is a United Press International UPI Model 16-S, which scanned photos and then transmitted them using a telephone line. In a 2012 blog post for The Dallas Morning News, photo director Chris Wilkins offers a glimpse into how the UPI 16-S...
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.