There are places where it’s difficult to take a photo without people or cars in the frame. Sometimes, you can tell people to move so you can take a photo. But in some overcrowded locations it’s simply impossible. And not to mention that you can’t do it if it’s cars messing with your composition. Thanks […]
Photographers are always coming up with ways to try and think a little differently. Sometimes they add a little uniqueness and interest to our shot. At other times theylets us get shots we otherwise might not be able to get at all. In this video, photographer Peter McKinnon shows us us 8 different camera tricks […]
It started with a phone call from the picture editor of one of countrys best selling newspapers asking me to catch a flight that evening to Amsterdam to accompany a journalist for a story first thing the next morning. I was warned to be very discrete as the story could be very sensitive to some […]
The atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th & 9th in 1945 remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in mankind’s history. Six days later, Japan announced its surrender to the allies, effectively ending World War II. This event has seen much debate over the years, […]
As we all know, GoPro cameras are made to endure all sorts of extreme conditions. Among other things, they can work on temperatures below zero. But a YouTuber Grant Thompson, aka The King of Random, took coldness to another level. He submerged GoPro Hero 5 Session and GoPro Hero 5 into a vat of liquid […]
On my last visit to China I was invited to review quite an interesting product – a robotic arm. This has nothing to do with photography and everything to do with making. If you are here for the photography tips, move along, there is nothing to see. If you wanna see a kickass robot read […]
How many times has it happened that you travel and manage to photograph only a bunch of other people’s heads, mobile phones and selfie sticks? Thomas Heaton came in a situation like this, and he became every photographers hero when he decided to do something about it. Thomas and his wife went to Hawaii, where […]
How many digital photos will be taken in 2017? Its predicted there will be 7.5 billion people in the world in 2017, and about 5 billion of them will have a mobile phone. Lets say roughly 80% of those phones have a built-in camera: around 4 billion people. And lets say they take 10 photos […]
I knew the second I had the email come through offering me the chance to review Jake’s latest tutorial that I was going to be in for a marathon of content. RGG EDU are renowned for 20+ hour slabs of content and this is the first time I’ve delved in with a professional capacity for […]
Photojournalists and documentary filmmakers get into a series of unpleasant, dangerous and even life-threatening situations on a daily basis. Seizing or steeling their cameras is very common, and the unprotected data on cameras memory card can easily fall into wrong hands. This is why Freedom of the Press Foundation published an open letter to five […]
