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, [...]
The One Plus 3 smartphone amazed me in many way. Since the introduction of the first model, the One Plus One (that Ive reviewed here), the company focused on producing astellar device on budget. The first iteration was a very good product even if it suffer from some young problems (like the LCD touch problems). [...]
It’s that time of year again when the ghosts and goblins take over and the timid and meek take shelter and hide. Yes, it’s Halloween this coming week.
Depending on where you live, this may be a holiday the kids enjoy, but we adults can have a little fun too. Spooky images of ghosts in the night, apparitions, scary pumpkins and more. Let’s see what these photographers found spooky and captured for Halloween.
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s new Surface Studio, Apple have announced the new MacBook Pro. What is their thinnest and lightest unitever, the new MacBook Pro features a brand new “Retina-quality Multi-Touch Display” called the Touch Bar. Essentially it’s a secondary interactive display to complement whatever app you happen to be running. The Touch [...]
