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Godox quietly launches cross brand TTL & HSS on all lights
Robert Hall
Chinese lighting manufacturer Godox has already released a few products in 2017 that have helped a lot of strobists build lighting kits with a modest...
Tunisair Stole My Cameras
Ebyan Rezgui
On Saturday 1 July, £600 worth of cameras and equipment were stolen from inside my rucksack, itself packed into a larger suitcase, during a Tunisair...
Why photographers fail
Don Giannatti
Recently there has been a spate of very sad, and ultimately defeatist articles decrying the “death of photography”. We have no shortage of examples. Seriously....
Why Black & White is the goto look for street photographers
Sebastian Jacobitz
Black & White still remains the photographer’s favorite for Street Photographers with very good reasons. Where in other genres, monochrome has become a niche look,...
A lightweight set-up for wide angle macro to give you more depth of field
Nicky Bay
I like experimenting with different setups, especially for wide angle close-ups. Last year, I took my wife’s Sony A7 for a couple of field trips and paired it...
Mesmerizing lucid dreams photos and how to create them
Dan Lior
Last year I attended Midburn, a regional burning man event taking place in the hot Israeli desert. I filmed nonstop for five days and created...
Scarcity vs abundance… it really is your choice
Don Giannatti
Do you shoot with an “abundance” mental approach? Or is your choice to shoot from a mental state of “scarcity”? It makes a difference, you...
Why I’ll Never Use FEDEX Again to Ship My Camera Gear
Marc Weisberg
Who can you trust to ship your photo and camera gear? Not FEDEX! What follows is the story of how FEDEX utterly screwed up my...
I swapped out my macro to shoot butterflies with a 300mm lens on a Nikon D500
Jake Mosher
Every year, on the cusp of true, Rocky Mountain summer, I travel to the high country to photograph butterflies. For a brief couple of weeks,...
Why I swapped my “professional” DSLR camera for the cheapest option available
Ion Paciu
As anyone who follows me on Facebook will know, I recently purchased a new photographic photography camera system – camera body and lenses. This wasn’t...