Flying Squirrels are fairly common, although seldom seen members of the rodent family. The Southern Flying Squirrel is found throughout the Eastern half of the United States. The Northern version is only found in the Northern most tier of states and in Canada. One of the biggest challenges of this project was attracting, and training […]
With seven species of bees having been added to the US endangered species list only a month ago, photographs may soon be all we have left. Thanks to the USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab (BIML), at least we’ll have those. For the past several years BIML have been creating stunningly beautiful macro photographs […]
Facebook’s takeover of Instagram becomesmore apparent by the day. We’ve seen ads, selective algorithm driven feeds, business pages and other features. Some good, some bad. Now, we get online shopping, too. We already have ads popping up in our feeds as we browse. Now we’ll start seeing them inside the posts themselves. Facebook’s own “marketplace” […]
Macro lenses can be a fascinating thing. They can show us a side of our world that we didn’t even know existed. Letting us get up close and personal to things we’d never really paid much attention to before. Suddenly, everyday objects we take for granted offer an alien beauty. This video from the Macro […]
Bokeh – it’s that word nobody really seems to know how to pronounce, and the thing all photographers love. Those dreamy out of focus blobs that occur when you have shallow depth of field.
Here’s what several photographers did with their bokeh:
Regular readers here on DIYP will know how much we like seeing Mathieu Stern’s videos. He’s shown us some great old and weird lensesworking with modern cameras and shared a few cool stories. Now, he’s teamed up with fellow French photographer Serge Ramellito talk about portraits. More specifically, they’re portraits with vintage lenses. In these […]
Having one’s camera gear stolen is the nightmare of every photographer. The nightmare for those that steal it? Being arrested by the guy you’re trying to sell it to. But, that’s exactly what happened to two thieves who stole from a visiting photographer in the middle of a session with a client. Chicago based photographerMirlanbek […]
Whats the most important lesson that shaped you as an artist? For me its this. If a photographer only looks at the work of other photographers, his artistic growth will eventually stagnate or even decline due to boredom. Instead we should direct our attention to a much broader spectrum of visual art. Drawing and painting, […]
Recentannouncements from Sigma have made a lot of portrait and landscape photographers very happy- the question is, can theSigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Artand theSigma 12-24mmf/4DG HSM Artreplacethe current favorites from Canon and Nikon? The Sigma Art series primelensesare steadily taking over theentire range of focal lengths. With the recent announcements, Art primes now cover […]
