With our camera gift guide taken care of, were on to the next piece of gear youll be needing lenses. For part two of our round-up, weve gathered some of the best glass from both first party and third party manufacturers. From smartphone lens attachments to the classic Thrifty Fifty, we have you and [...]
Investigating selfies and self-portraits using a mix of theoretic, artistic and quantitative methods, Selfiecity compared photos taken in five major cities around the world – Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paulo. The group recently added London to the mix, analyzing 152,462 Instagram photos, and the results are pretty cool. The photos were all [...]
Brian Matiash is a photographer based in Portland, Oregon. The Visual Palette is his first book published by Rocky Nook.
As the title suggests this is not a technical book. Its aimed at evolving photographers who grasp the basics, but need some guidance in developing the creative side of their photography.The book is divided into three sections Composition, Post-Processing and Stylization, and Sharing Your Work and Your Brand. Each section... more
For DSLR photographers looking to make the jump to mirrorless, one of the biggest turnoffs is having to settle for an electronic viewfinder (EVF). As things currently stand, most EVFs are good enough to get the job done, but many still lack in resolution and arguably most importantly color rendering. Thats changing though, [...]
So here is a little fun thing to play around with… I did it with motorcycle helmets, but you could easily do the same for football helmets etc…
First step is to find a good helmet for the base… this one is from Adobestock.com
Once you have the helmet you want, use any selection method you like to select out just the trim and inside of the helmet and put it on its own layer... more
Black Friday may have come and gone, but if youre anything like us, theres still plenty left on your Christmas shopping list. To help you narrow down your decisions for either yourself or photography-loving friends and family, were creating a five part gift guide. The first installment (this one) will focus on the most important [...]
Don’t you hate when you realize that you spend more time in front of the computer than actually taking photographs? The realization is even more depressing when you are a travel and landscape photographer and, by definition, you are supposed to travel and discover the worlds beauty.
The Crisis
This is how I felt about 12 months ago during my second ever processing crisis as a photographer.
The first crisis happened about 10years ago when I became more serious about... more
If you thought that film is dead and that theres no money to be made in nature photography, youd better think again. 74 years after the National Park Service commissioned the great Ansel Adams to document the National Parks, the NPS is looking for a full-time photographer to perform a similar job, and is offering [...]
From a complicated, time-consuming and expensive process to the simple press of a button, photography has come a very long way since the first cameras came along in the early 1800s. The vast majority of this fascinating evolution can be seen in this video where Chris Marquardt went on a private tour of Kodaks technology [...]
