Posts by Author: Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies.
His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
Film beat out GoPros and drones as the best-selling photo gear on Amazon this holiday season
Dec 31, 2015
Gannon Burgett
Amazon has become the go-to place for holiday shopping. This year was no exception, with the Seattle-based web retailer raking in record numbers of Prime…
5 Best Primes for Photojournalism
Dec 30, 2015
Gannon Burgett
All things held constant, prime lenses are far sharper at any given focal length than their zoom counterparts. The trade off, of course, is that…
Two tourists arrested for flying drone above Vatican
Dec 30, 2015
Gannon Burgett
If there’s one place you shouldn’t be flying drones without permission, it’s over the Vatican. Two Israeli tourists learned this the hard way when local…
This DIY GoPro Remote is one square inch and only costs $15
Dec 30, 2015
Gannon Burgett
GoPro action cameras are small enough that they can be placed almost anywhere. But the problem with choosing unconventional locations is that you still have…
Fox News set to defend itself in court over use of 9/11 images on Facebook
Dec 30, 2015
Gannon Burgett
The news has become the news. January 11th, 2016, Fox News will battle it out in the courtroom against North Jersey Media Group, publisher of…
‘Do What the F*ck You Want’ is the image licensing option you’ve never heard of
Dec 29, 2015
Gannon Burgett
You’ve probably heard of the different variations of Creative Commons and Public Domain licenses. But did you know there are other, lesser known licenses available…
This ‘Smashing’ New Year’s video is thirty seconds of camera gear destruction
Dec 29, 2015
Gannon Burgett
If you possess a weak stomach, you might want to turn away while you can. What you’re about to see is thirty seconds of devastation,…
Make it or break it: Lensrental shares its annual gear repair rate report
Dec 28, 2015
Gannon Burgett
As they do every year, LensRentals has released their annual repair rate report. Within the detailed analysis are the numbers showing what photo gear comes in…
Official photos of Fujifilm’s upcoming X-Pro2 have leaked
Dec 28, 2015
Gannon Burgett
Fujfilm fans, prepare your wallets. Images of Fujifilm’s upcoming X-Pro2 have been leaked, giving us our first real glimpse of the successor to Fujifilm’s genre-defining…
A look inside Canon’s redesigned mirror mechanism
Dec 28, 2015
Gannon Burgett
On the outside, Canon’s 5DS and 5DS R DSLRs remain almost unchanged from their predecessor, the 5D Mark III. But on the inside, things couldn’t…