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How I made a camera from 23,248 coffee stirrers, powered by a Raspberry Pi, and controlled with a Nintendo controller
Adrian Hanft
This is the story of how I created one of the strangest cameras you may ever hear about. I’ve been working on the design for...
How to create natural looking window light at home with flash and a diffused scrim
Jake Hicks
Unbelievably soft lighting is actually trickier to do than many think. Sure we can place a large softbox in front of our subject to light...
Testing the ISO of Canon EOS R5 and R6 vs 1DX Mark III and 5D Mark IV
Jeff Cable
Whenever Canon comes out with new cameras, one of my most important real-world tests is determining how clean the images look at higher ISOs. I...
Move over selfies – Cartes de Visites were the first great photography craze
Richard Davies
Before Instagram, selfie sticks, disposable cameras, Polaroids, and box brownies, there were carte de visites – small photographic albumen prints, mounted on card, which were...
That time I had my portfolio critiqued – I’m thinking about what Sara said
Neil Ta
I’ve had the great privilege of tagging along with Eric Kim for the Gulf Photo Plus (GPP) event in Dubai back in 2014 and 2016....
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...