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. [...]
The human eye is incapable of seeing infrared light, so Infrared photography is truly a way to show your audience something they can never see with their own eyes. This guide serves as an introduction to getting started with digital infrared photography. Prerequisites Before you get too excited, there is a bit of a barrier [...]
Eyebrows were raised in the photojournalism community yesterday when World Press Photo an industry stalwart announced the creation of a new contest that would not have rules limiting how images are produced. The contest would allow staged and manipulated images dubbedcreative documentary photography in support of contemporary storytelling. One the one hand, [...]
