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Read this post before buying a Leica M or a rangefinder camera

Vincent Moschetti
Today I want to share with you my thoughts on the Leica M and more generally the Rangefinder system. When I sold all my digital equipment to make a permanent...

How I shot dramatic portraits on a wonderful Icelandic landscape

Jay Philbrick
My wife, Vicki, and I are full-time portrait and wedding photographers. When we aren’t shooting these things, some of our favorite concepts are creating dramatic...

How to match the colors between different photos in Photoshop

Colin Smith
What I’m going to do is I’m going to show you how to match the colors between backgrounds and objects once you’ve cut them out...

My visit to Chernobyl and the abandoned city of Pripyat

Roman Robroek
Before you read the rest of the article, and it will be a long read, please allow me to share a few thoughts with you....

This is why I now only use one lens

A.B Watson
After many years of experience using different lenses, I now have resorted to only using a single prime lens. I started with a 50mm then...

3 powerful tricks that improve your fine art street photos and save you time

Marius Vieth
You don’t have time? Perfect, me neither! We both have one major challenge: time. While you may be reading this in an office right now,...

How I photographed rare moonlit Firefalls at Yosemite National Park

Rogelio Bernal Andreo
This is the famous and elusive Horsetail “Firefall” Fall in Yosemite, but unlike every other image you may have seen – always taken near sunset...

Sigma’s new 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG HSM OS Contemporary lens is small, fast, strong and very sharp

Tim Neumann
You know it’s going to be a good Spring when you get to test drive two new lenses in a row. So far it’s shaping...

The Ten Commandments of Retouching

David Justice
There are some things in life that are just universal rules we should all follow. Things like not cheating on your wife, not killing anyone,...

Ethical Photography, Where Do We Go From Here?

Guest Author
We’re seeing a lot of commentary triggered by the Souvid Datta episode, where he is accused of both photographing unethically, and of passing off collaged...