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Photographers, look after your eyes
Kieran Stone
Sight is very important to me. It’s one of my senses that I don’t think I could ever do without. A musician might fear going...
How to shoot an HONEST styled wedding shoot
Missy Mwac
Saw an ad for a “Styled (Wedding) Shoots Conference.” For those of you unfamiliar with the styled shoots, it’s where models play fake brides who...
Copyright vs. Conscience: why legal action isn’t always the right move
Blair Bunting
A few days ago, I awoke to a text message from a friend who lives halfway around the world telling me that he had unexpectedly...
Be Wary of the Wellcome Photography Prize
Allen Murabayashi
The Wellcome Trust is the world’s second largest charitable trust with an endowment of approximately £23.2 billion (~USD$30 billion). For the past 20 years, it...
The case against the watermark
Michael Reynolds
Inevitably a time comes around in when a budding photographer decides to start “taking this seriously”, “discouraging image theft”, and my personal favorite, “gaining exposure”....
I’m a photographer and I don’t shoot at fan conventions, here’s why
Rob Swackhamer
OK… so the title is only mostly true. I rarely con shoot. But the reasons for that still come from the same place. One thing...
Photo essay: backyard adventures
Marta Anna Løvberg
The Lofoten archipelago is one of the most photographed regions in Norway. Its images have flooded the social media in the last couple of years...
I used a drone to shoot top-down light-painting photos
Russell Klimas
So there are a couple of different ways to use drones to light paint. Some people will attach Lumecubes to their drone and paint an environment...
Grown children looking at their childhood photos 20 years from now
Missy Mwac
“Hey, mom, what is going on here?” “Oh my goodness, let me take a look. THAT is you at 2 weeks of age.” “Why am...
Is the sensor or the lens to blame for poor image quality?
Jake Hicks
Embarrassingly a few years ago I was very vocal about how disappointed I was about some of the Nikon lenses. I’ve been using Nikon cameras...