The importance of presidential photography cannot be understated in today’s visual world. Although the bulk of photography since the inception of regular presidential photography in the 1950s still consists of “grip and grin” photo ops, White House photographers have sought to capture a more intimate look at the leader of the free world. Press access […]
How do you make drones safer? The answer to that question, if you’re this group of researchers from Virginia Tech, is on the other side of a few blunt crashes between commercial drones and a crash test dummy…’s face. Current FAA regulations prohibit drone flights over people unless a special permit has been granted; the […]
Donald Trump officially became the President of the United States yesterday, and his official portrait has been published as well. Yesterday, I went out to photograph the protests in Washington, D.C. during Trump’s inauguration. I’m a professional freelance photographer, and I had never really taken a stab at photojournalism before, so this seemed like a […]
Yesterday, I went out to photograph the protests in Washington, D.C. during Trump’s inauguration. I’m a professional freelance photographer, and I had never really taken a stab at photojournalism before, so this seemed like a good time to try. I followed a group of protesters and they ended up leading me to a big intersection […]
If you’re thinking about moving to Micro Four Thirds or buying the E-M1 Mark II, read this first… it may actually save you money and headaches down the line. For the past year and a half I have been shooting both the top of the range MFT and A7RII on professional assignments. Sadly, I often […]
Tetyana Dyachenko is a Ukrainian photo retoucher who often does restorations of vintage photos that are extremely damaged — often seemingly beyond recovery. Yet using her Photoshop skills, Dyachenko is able to recover (and recreate) extremely fine details in the photos. It’s a well-known “fact of the Internet” that almost anything will look cool if […]
If you’re obsessive about checking every exposure on your camera’s histogram, this informative little video is a must-watch. In it, Matt Granger covers three common misconceptions about your camera’s histogram that many photographers—even experienced shooters—might be falling prey to. Want to learn photography from Harvard? (Yes, that Harvard.) It turns out you can easily do […]
CMYK—which stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (or Black)—is the color model used in most printing. It’s called a subtractive color model, and if you don’t understand what that means or how it works, this brilliant little demo should help. The video was posted by the Instagram account @physicsfun, and it shows how each […]
If you’re into photography enough that your feed gets filled with a bit of camera porn from time to time, you’re likely to have seen the $55 8x telephoto lens for cellphones being sold by The Outdoor Spirit. The image being used to sell the product is so poorly composited, so unethically marketed that I […]
Want to learn photography from Harvard? (Yes, that Harvard.) It turns out you can easily do so, even without being a student. The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States offers a free 12-module online digital photography class. Photographer Kaylyn Messer was browsing Facebook recently when she learned that there was a large […]