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This surgery puts a Godox AD200 on an S-type bracket
Mauro Pastore
It was a while since I was thinking how to perfectly center the Godox H200J bare bulb head in the S-Type Bracket. The AD200 and...
How to build a DIY 35mm slides and negatives copying machine
Steven Heap
Like many of you, I have a large collection of 35mm slides and negative film that I have taken over the years that are currently...
Comparing Real film grain to Adobe Lightroom film grain
Bill Lawson
In my never ending search for that “special” photographic look that sets me apart from the competition, I recently discovered that overexposing film increases the...
A comprehensive optical snoot review
Jake Hicks
When photographers use terms like ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ light, it’s actually incredibly vague. You would rarely describe your meal as simply a ‘meat’ dish, so...
Modern cameras: how they make it harder to take a bad photo
Blair Bunting
Twenty years, they have gone by fast. I can remember the first time I saw a camera with a screen on the back of it...
Photographers, Instagrammers – stop being so damn selfish and disrespectful
Paul Reiffer
What does it take to push a farmer to this point? The point where, fed up of thousands of disrespectful photographers, wannabe “influencers” and narcissistic...
Would you relinquish your privacy to look old? Don’t use FaceApp
Allen Murabayashi
Every once in a while, a “fun” website or app that requires us to upload a photo of ourselves goes viral. In 2015, it was...
A letter to new and aspiring wedding photographers
Eric Ronald
I have read so many magazine articles, social media posts, and had discussions in which ‘established’ photographers don’t think new and aspiring photographers should be...
My adventures and experiences with the Panasonic S1R mirrorless camera over the past three months
Paul Monaghan
If you’re wondering why someone who loves Sigma cameras and gets called the ‘Foveon Wizard’ by his peers is writing about the Panasonic Lumix S1R...
I imagined what an “Organ Trade Market” might look like and made a photo of it
Juhamatti Vahdersalo
A surgeon at a meat market. An absolutely ridiculous and simple idea, so it had to be done for real! I am very lucky to...