This post will probably sound harsh to some, but I think it’s needed as street photography has a problem. It may be because of a so-called renaissance in street photography in the past few years, or just the fact its become fashionable, but the sheer number of terrible photos is quite impressive.
Its bad and the reason is often because people aren’t stringent enough when culling photos (choosing your best photos) and too hastily posting online.... more
In the 1970s and 1980s, photographers on a budget had help from an unlikely corner. While the West may have faced occasionally tense stand-offs against the Eastern Bloc, two of the Communist worlds biggest camera makers made millions of cameras that helped amateur shutterbugs get on the first rung of proper picture-taking.
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With only 4 hours notice, Kaustubh from Jungle Lore asked me join him for a trip to Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, India. I packed my bag quickly and decided that I am going into the forest to photograph wildlife with my new Sony bridge camera, the RX10 III.
Along with it, I stuffed my camera bag with 3 extra NP-FW50 batteries, the Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone and my trusty Carl Zeiss Terra ED 1042 binoculars. That’s it.
This. Is. So. Cool. We (and probably you) have seen video captured from the back of eagles and falcons in flight. But this is the first time we’ve ever heard of someone strapping a 360 camera to the back of a golden eagle and letting it fly.
Drone maker DJI wants you to fly their drones safely, which is why they just updated their GEO geofencing tech to keep you away from nuclear power plants, prisons, ‘national... more
The cover photo for National Geographics February 1982 issue featured a camel train in front of the Pyramids at Giza. Soon after publishing the issue, National Geographic was called out for having manipulated the image, altering it to place the pyramids closer together so that the horizontal photo would be better suited for the magazines vertical cover. Since then... more
