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Weather Sealed Lens With a Fly Inside
Roger Cicala
I’ve been blogging about testing and taking apart camera equipment for almost a decade. Lensrentals.com has many thousand lenses these days, and they all get...
A Nifty Cabinet To Hold Your Photography Gear
Rodney Cassar
I have started taking photography seriously over the past year. I graduated from a point and shoot Fuji used mostly in Auto Mode to an...
A Guide to Plagiarism and Theft in Photography
Robert Baggs
In 2013, my most popular article (by some distance) was the story of how my most successful image was plagiarised in a rather unusual way;...
Can I Just Get The Digital Files?
Missy Mwac
Dear potential client, I have no crystal ball, yet, I know you will be calling me this week for information about what I do. You...
3 Highly Effective Methods To Do Street Photography Ninja Style
Marius Vieth
One of the biggest obstacles in street photography is the fear of capturing strangers. I mean, it makes sense. You are taking photos of people...
Searching for the Miao Goddess
Asher Svidensky
It’s a funny thing, how these little things in life lead us to places. When I left china at the end of 2013, I forgot...
Photographing the Milky Way with a Smartphone and the Future of Photography
Ian Norman
Some believe that smartphones will never replace “real cameras” like DSLRs or mirrorless cameras. This article is about providing evidence to the contrary and about making...
The 20 most Influential Street Photographers According to Streethunters.net Readers
Spyros Papaspyropoulos
My name is Spyros Papaspyropoulos and I am one of the co-founders of www.streethunters.net, a complete and free online street photography resource. I was asked...
Sony’s New FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Takes On Canon’s 100mm f/2.8 In Lensrentals’ Resolution TEst
Roger Cicala
We got a pre-release set of Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 G OSS Macro lenses in for preliminary testing last week, and I was kind of...
Skin-Retouching Techniques: Compared
Lisa Évoluer
In general, there are four “famous” skin-retouching techniques on the photography and retouching market to achieve a smooth skin: Gaussian blur (for me not a...