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If Sharpness Truly Mattered Cartier-Bresson Would Be a Joke
Simon King
While teaching a recent workshop I joked that street photography was the only genre where people would buy £3k worth of cameras and lenses and...
I lived on a freezing private island in Finland for 24 days to photograph winter turning into spring
Pasi Markkanen
A few years ago, I got this beautiful chance to spend time living and photographing on a freezing island located right in the central Helsinki....
Make your own DIY scrim/silk frame for huge diffused lighting modifier
Jake Hicks
So before the film school nerds explode, let me just explain what a ‘scrim’ actually is and what the term colloquially means to us photographers....
Here’s how to use the crop tool to zoom
Matt Ward
I want to talk today about one tool, in Lightroom and Photoshop, that is probably used on nearly every image but is not used to...
Check out these seven 3D printed photo gadgets you can make yourself
Prusa Research
Apparently, you can find quite a lot of amateur and professional photographers in the 3D printing community. And a lot of them have already had...
Canon EOS R5 in concert photography – a review
Rui Bandeira
(It goes without saying that) This article is not sponsored or commissioned by Canon, this article represents what I really felt when using the Canon...
How I built a DIY GOBO projector for under $30
Petri Damstén
I wanted a device that can throw light patterns onto a wall or a model. There are some commercially available but they are quite expensive...
Colour in Cinema: Ad Astra – The Most Colourful Movie You Never Saw
Jake Hicks
Have you seen Ad Astra? Do you remember it being one of the most colourful movies you’ve ever seen? No? Why not? Many modern space...
Tamron 70-180 vs. Canon 70-200: Lens review for Sony
Simon Bettell
The non-photographers might want to skip this blog post as it is a fairly detailed Tamron 70-180 v Canon 70-200 lens review for Sony E-mount...
How I shot this wet plate portrait of a sword-wielding medieval knight
Markus Hofstätter
The task was clear – an original portrait of a Medieval Knight Sword Fighter (national champion). So I planned to do a collodion wet plate...