Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! A Promised Land, back and front cover, showing the BACK-COVER PHOTO THAT ALMOST DID NOT MAKE IT © Phil Mistry How the Photo on Barack […]
There are two big leaps you can make in your photo editing workflow. The first is moving from a mouse-and-keyboard setup to a pen tablet like the Wacom Intuos Pro—almost everybody does that at some point. But if you really want to kick your experience up to another level, there’s one more step you can […]
On August 4, an explostion rocked the city of Beirut, killing over 200 and injuring more than 6,500. In order to reconstruct exactly what happened, forensics researchers were able to piece together the event using photos and videos uploaded to social media. Forensic Architecture was invited by the Egyptian online journal Mada Masr to review […]
Photographer Reid Godshaw creates colorful portraits that are one hundred percent unedited and made only with his physical light-painting techniques. He also is dedicated to making as many of them as possible, at no charge to his subjects. Godshaw says that each photo he creates takes an average of two to three minutes to produce, […]
Chroma Cameras, which was originally launched in 2018 by Steve Lloyd via a successful Kickstarter, has launched its latest product: a modular, customizable camera system for 120mm film called the 679 System. Following previous field camera designs, the Chroma Camera 679 system will allow you to build your own camera to fit your specific needs. […]
Flying drones have become extremely commonplace but also suffer from growing restrictions on their use. It’s hard to argue against their novelty, but safety continues to be a concern. So where do drones go next? What about underwater? Underwater robotics company Geneinno recently announced its second underwater remote operated vehicle (ROV), the T1 Pro. Designed […]
A photographer in Japan was forced to sell his favorite camera earlier this year after being impacted by the COVID-19 recession. Instead of letting that put a stop to his art, he decided to build his own 4×5 large format camera… using LEGO blocks. The photographer, who goes by @wagoimages on social media, pulled out […]
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights, Alabama, 1965 © Matt Herron courtesy of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House Tami Sawyer, […]
Ricoh is not a brand uppermost in the minds of most photographers on the market for a new mirrorless camera. Sony, Fuji, and Panasonic seem to have dominated market visibility, if not the actual market, for high-end mirrorless cameras systems for the past five or so years, with late-comers Canikon gaining traction with their most […]
Photographer and educator Karl Taylor believes that parabolic softboxes are nothing more than marketing and that any conventional softbox can achieve the same results. In this 10.5-minute video, he proves it. “It never ceases to amaze me how certain products are created purely for marketing reasons,” Taylor says. “When in fact they have no physical […]