A few years ago when I purchased my first Canon dSLR I took a free 2-hour class on digital photography from a local school. They offered free seminars as a way to market their series of intensive 6-week photography courses. I was new to digital photography at the time, having learned on 35mm film. During the class I scribbled away in the notebook the instructor handed out. I was given several photography rules to follow, but is that the best advice?
Photographer Steven Burton started an ambitious project, photoshopping out the tattoos from 27 ex-gang members. He did this to understand the effects tattoos have on people escaping the gangs, how they are judged by society and ultimately how they judge themselves. While the photoshop aspects of removing tattoos are quite fascinating (over two years and 400 photoshop [...]
One of the biggest selling points for more professional cameras is their rigidity. Mag-alloy body vs. Plastics; better weather sealing, and all and all better constructions, but photographerMike Quain from Arkansas shows that you can pull it off with an entry levelNikon D3300 and a cheap35mm f/1.8 lens. Mike (A.K.AThe Nikon Kidd) did quite a [...]
Photography is an art form and like every art form, it goes through its fair share of evolution. Hence, it is only fair that as photographers (artists of this trade), we too go through an evolution process of defining and redefining our artistic flair. This redefinition can take place in many different ways. It can be technical (going from digital to film or vice-versa) or it can be business (changing genres of what you photograph). Another way you can evolve as a photographer is... more
Collaborations are hard, and the difficulty bar gets higher the more people involved. However, pulling a big collaborative effort done well, can produce massive results. PhotographerRob Woodcox (see his story here) collaborated with over 20 friends and three top creatives to cope up with the skeleton queene story. Each photo of the Skeleton Queen story [...]
Please I need your help fast. Gosh, thats a fairly desperate title for an email. Normally Id delete that sort of missive as being a scam, but as it came through the Photocritic helpdesk the chances were that a student mightve been a little overwrought. It turns out that the email wasnt from a student, [...]
There’s nothing better than receiving an email with a $2500 paycheck attached to it out of the blue. That was my cut of a settlement thatPixsy was able to secure on my behalf from a single unauthorized use of one of my photos. If you’ve ever had one of your photos published without a license [...]
TheFlashpoint StreakLight 360 is known by many names. Godox, for example, sells it as theWitstro AD360II.But there is a solid reason to buy that strobe under the Flashpoint brand, and that is that it has the best instruction set ever made for a strobe. (ThanksChris-Burger for sending those over) Forget about Chinese machine-translated texts, this [...]
The Helios 44-2 is one of my favourite old lenses. This, along with the Jupiter-9 are my two most used manual focus lenses for stills and video. The Helios 44 line started in 1958. Its initial design is a copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm f/2, and was produced by KMZfor the M42 mount. [...]
