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We Found a Fly Inside a Weather-Sealed Lens
I’ve been blogging about testing and taking apart camera equipment for almost a decade. My company, LensRentals, has many thousand of lenses these days, and they all get used frequently. When you have lots of lenses and they get used frequently, stuff gets inside them. Usually the stuff that gets inside is dust. Our repair techs open up and clean dust out of more than 100 lenses a week. Not because the dust matters a bit in a photograph; it doesn’t. But because people still seem to think it does. People also, for reasons I can’t...
read moreFormer Time CEO Ann S. Moore on Art Galleries and Advice for Photographers
Ann S. Moore is one of the most powerful women in the world according to Forbes and Fortune Magazine. Graduating from Vanderbilt University in 1978, Moore climbed the career ladder leading exciting positions including being the publisher of Sports Illustrated for Kids and People Magazine. She was crowned People Magazine’s president in 1993 and become the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Inc. in 2002. Now, it is 2015; Moore has established a high-end art gallery in Chelsea, New York. The Curator Gallery, as it is called,...
read moreIntroducing Friend, A Better Alternative to the Selfie Stick
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek infomercial by CollegeHumor for a revolutionary new product called Friend. It’s a selfie-stick alternative that lets you pose for pictures “confidently and comfortably knowing that you don’t look like the world’s saddest wizard.†A Friend lets you “take selfies so good they’re just called ‘pictures’,†the description says. (via College Humor via Laughing Squid) Source Article from...
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read morePortrait Posing Tips- How to Help People to Relax and Take Better Photos
Editor’s note: this week we will be featuring a series of articles on posing for portraits. Look for a new one each day. If you miss any make sure you subscribe to our newsletter and you’ll get a reminder of all our articles once a week. One of the trickiest parts of doing a portrait photo shoot has nothing to do with operating your camera, mastering your lenses, controlling the light, or even dealing with uncontrollable weather. Getting your clients to relax, take it easy, and enjoy themselves during your time with them is just as...
read moreTake Your Light With You – the Power of Speedlights
Off-camera flash is a huge part of lighting used in photography today. Of course you can’t compare it to studio lighting, but the question is, how close can you get? In this article I will talk about portable lighting, and how to control it with some simple accessories and light modifiers to achieve the big lights look. As a serious off-camera flash fan, when the Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite was put out on the market, I immediately went out to buy it. I have to say, I love the way it performs and the upgrades it has, compared to its...
read moreAn Argentinian photographer took portraits of older men she thought might be her father
Moisés was the name of Mariela Sancari’s father. A series of portraits of men in their 70s, the age of her father if he were alive today, is now being turned into a major photobook by the Italian publisher Fabrica. When Mariela Sancari was 14, her father killed himself. As she tried, often forlornly, to deal with his absence, sometimes denying even it, Sancari began to invent in her mind his personality, his life, his whereabouts. He grew older in her mind. As a professional photographer, Sancari decided to...
read moreA photographer documented the building of London’s 100km Crossrail Project
Due to complete in 2018, Crossrail is the biggest construction project in Europe, and it’s being photographed every step of the way. As Londoners go about their daily business above ground, unbeknownst to many of them, construction workers below are busy excavating, navigating and building a network of tunnels for the much-anticipated Crossrail. “You pop out of a hole in the middle of Oxford Street and no one knows where you’ve come from,†marvels John Zammit, one of the photographers charged with documenting...
read moreFully stacked: Hands-on with Sony’s RX100 IV and RX10 II
That’s the main problem I have with this. I would really be tempted to buy the RX10 II, but I don’t think I can deal with the lack of DOF control. Im sure at 200mm @F2.8 it’s ok, but I can’t shoot indoor portraits at 200mm.I want better DOF control and a 1″ sensor is just hard to deal with there. Im also curious as to how good the ISO performance is, but even with advancements here im not guessing it’s even close to apsc yet, im thinking A77II, D7200, ect. For an outdoor good light action cam this sounds...
read moreAlpha dog: Hands-on with Sony a7R II
@spidermoon: Perhaps you missed the whole bit about how the a7R II will focus, using phase-detection, 3rd party lenses via electronic adapters. 🙂 The thing is, Sony has now made a body whose main advantage doesn’t even have to be size, but a number of other things: IBIS, on-sensor phase-detection, image sensor-based subject tracking, Sony sensor performance, 4K, etc. Source Article from...
read moreSony RX100 IV compact records 4K video, uses a stacked sensor
The Sony RX100 series has gained quite a positive reputation in the somewhat short time it’s been around, for squeezing a relatively large sensor into a small compact. The RX100 IV continues that tradition and uses Sony’s next generation sensor, a stacked 20.1MP 1″-type Exmor RS CMOS sensor, coupled with an attached DRAM memory chip for speedy processing. This ‘stacked CMOS’ design separates the photosensitive region of the sensor into a different layer from the circuitry; this allows more space...
read moreSony announces Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 II with stacked 20MP sensor and 4K video
Sony has announced the Cyber-shot RX10 II, offering a 1″ type stacked 20MP CMOS sensor, 4K video recording (up to 29 minutes) and improved readout speed thanks to a new DRAM chip. The body design and lens specs remain in line with the RX10, including a Zeiss-branded 24-200mm equivalent F2.8 lens. Other new features include a 40x super slow motion video mode at 960fps, an Anti-Distortion Shutter mode up to 1/32,000sec and a new 2.35 million dot XGA OLED viewfinder. Continuous shooting is boosted to 14 fps. As in...
read moreSony a7R II has 42.4MP on 4K-capable full-frame BSI CMOS sensor
Sony has announced the a7R II, a 42.4MP mirrorless camera with an image stabilized full-frame BSI CMOS sensor. Unlike its predecessor, the camera includes on-sensor phase detection elements for faster autofocus, which continues to work with other brands’ lenses. The camera also has a revised shutter mechanism, rated to 500,000 actuations but also promising less vibration than the one on its predecessor. The sensor is by far the largest backside illuminated CMOS chip to be released, allowing the maximum expanded ISO...
read morePhotographer Nick Ut Revisits the Place Where He Shot ‘Napalm Girl’
This past Monday, photojournalist Nick Ut paid a visit to the location in Vietnam where he photographed his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo titled ‘Napalm Girl.’ The short video above shows the visit, which was 43 years (to the day) after he pressed the shutter to create one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War. This time around, Ut carried an iPhone to shoot Instagram photos instead of the film camera he used back in 1972. One of the people he reconnected with was Ho Van Bon, the cousin of Kim Phuc, the “Napalm Girl.†Ho...
read moreBlacks to Close All Of Its Retail Photo Stores in Canada
Canadian photography retailer Blacks is pulling out of the brick-and-mortar store business. The company announced today that it will be closing all of its 59 stores in Canada on August 8th, 2015, citing an inability to make them profitable in the digital age. Parent company Telus had tried and failed to find a buyer for the Blacks chain of stores before deciding to put an end to operations. It originally purchased the 113-store chain back in 2009 for $23 million, shutting down half the stores at the time to improve the quality of the...
read morePhotoShelter Unveils a Mobile App for Managing Your Portfolio On the Go
PhotoShelter launched a mobile app today that lets photographers on the service manage their photo portfolios on the go using their smartphones. The app offers a new way for PhotoShelter users to access, manage, and take care of their business. You’ll find the same features that are available through the website. Your entire archive is available at your fingertips along with stats and info from your account. Using the interface, photographers can make changes to their photos and account — things like changing visibility, pricing...
read morePriolite Brings 1/8000s Flash Sync to Pentax DSLRs
Shooting flash photography with a wide open aperture on a bright summer day can feel almost impossible sometimes. You have a collection of beautiful shots that could use flash, but due to the sheer amount of light coming into your lens your flash units can’t keep up with the situation. You may be able to use an ND filter to cut down on the light, but your flash units will also have to compensate in the process. Now, professional lighting company, Priolite, has a solution they say will allow Pentax photographers to shoot Hot Sync...
read moreSo, What Kind Of Photographer Are You?
“Hello, my name is Steve, and I’m a photographer.†I have been told that as a photographer I should be able to explain to people quickly and easily what kind of photographer I am in a sentence or two. This is similar to an artist statement, only much shorter. An example of a great reply to this question would be something like, “Hi, my name is Annie, and I’m an American portrait and celebrity photographer who shoots for editorial and commercial clients like Rolling Stone and American Express.†When I try to do this exercise...
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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.