VSCO has just announced that it’s releasing its popular mobile app photo filters on desktop. The filters are packaged in a pack called VSCO Mobile... more
A little while back, I was working for a small local newspaper outside of Houston, Texas. I was working on a series about adrenaline junkies around the area. One article I really wanted to write was about skydiving at Spaceland Houston.
Its one of the larger skydiving places in Texas. I had skydived there before, and I knew people would love to see what it’s really like. And as a photographer, I really wanted to shoot it.
It was a small newspaper I was writing for,... more
The photographers at Mango Street wanted to show that it generally takes more than “pro” camera gear to shoot “pro” photos, so they decided to do a shootout to... more
I had just moved to the pretty, but constantly rainy, Portland, Oregon, and the weather was getting to me! After going through a hard period of homesickness and mild depression, following a friends advice, I got my very first DSLR camera. I liked the idea of registering anything I wanted, and by anything I mean everything: landscape, objects, wild life (as wild as downtown Portland can get!), you name it
A bee hops between blackberry flowers on a sunny day in North Tacoma. By holding the stem of the flower in one hand and camera (with a full-frame fisheye) in the other, I could adjust the composition quickly and blast frames whenever the bee appeared close. My slow noggin just couldnt keep up. July 2014. Photo and... more
The Serengeti is on many-a photographer's bucket list, but it's not a cheap trip to make. If you're wondering whether it's worth making the investment, photographer Michael Bonocore gives a resounding 'yes.' He made the trip to Tanzania last year and... more
DSLR sales continue to decline, but great news: the overall camera market seems to be stabilizing.
The latest figures released by the Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) show that the total camera market remained mostly steady year-on-year for the month of April, and that mirrorless sales are growing against a decline in the number of DSLRs sold. CIPA's data demonstrates that its member companies produced almost the same number of cameras this April as they did in April 2016, but... more
This tutorial provides useful advice for getting the most out of Lightroom when it comes to converting images to grayscale and making edits. The narrator notes that it is OK to push sliders way more than you might be use to when editing color images, which is definitely important to remember! He also offers quality advice on using the color sliders to improve the tonality of b/w images.
Off the top of your head, do you know how much more light f/2.8 lets in compared to f/5.6? Do you know the f-stop number that comes after 11? This 1.5-minute video reveals the simple pattern used by the scale.
If you didnt know, f/2.8 lets in four times as much light as f/5.6. Thats because the aperture is bigger by two stops. As shown by freelance filmmaker... more
