The recent release of iOS 10 saw an important update to the iPhones operating system for photographers. If you own an iPhone with a 12-megapixel camera (that is an iPhone 6S/Plus, iPhone 7/Plus, iPhone SE or even an iPad Pro 9.7) the operating system now allows third party camera apps to save photos in the DNG format. Thats excellent news for iPhone photographers as it means that you can now realize the potential of your phones camera.
Have you ever needed to replace a boring sky on a photo? If you’ve done this with photoshop, you know that masking the sky is long and tedious process. (well, not always long, but definitely tedious). In what seems to be Adobe’s crawl into the easy tricks realm, they showed a Sky-replacing tech that we […]
One of the highlights of my Sunday is reading Jay Rayners restaurant review in The Observer. I have to say that the photography that illustrates the articles isnt always fantastic, but thats not what Im interested in. In fact, I barely look at it. But Sunday 6 November’s review of Jaya in Llandudno, the photography […]
The visit started with a long ride in a very small iron worker’s elevator (about the size of a phone booth), which goes up through the middle of the tower, for the first 60 floors. The elevator is so small that there was no room for my ThinkTank camera backpack. I had to take my […]
Photographing fast paced action packed sports can be tricky enough as it is. For some, it presents even more challenges. Such is the case with Loren Worthington. After a spinal cord injury, Worthington lost the use of three of his limbs. Along with it, his ability to play sports. Nearly twenty years later, the camera […]
The principles of photography really haven’t changed all that much since its early beginnings. The technology has come a long way, the recording mediums have evolved, but the fundamental principles are still the same. You still need a light tight box (your camera body), something to project light from your scene to the inside of […]
Rugged cases like Pelicans are great at protecting your gear. They’re waterproof, climate proof, indestructible and makes a great apple box when you need to sit or stand on something. After having more camera equipment than I am willing to carry on my shoulders, I bought a Pelican 1560 with padded dividers to carry it […]
Buildings and architecture can tell you a lot about a location. Whether it’s urban or rural, an ancient city, or modern metropolis, and a lot more. It can be full of clean elegant flowing lines, or intricate details.
How you capture architecture in your photography depends on your style and likes. Let’s see how these 27 photographers chose to capture it in their images.
Tilt shift lenses are used for far more than simply making cities look like they were shot as miniatures. They allow you to correct for perspective distortion. They also let you shift the focal plane to get subjects at different distances in focus and a whole lot more. You don’t get quite the versatility that […]
