It’s the if not most outstanding website for news stories in photographs: The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture. See what’s happening in the world out here, seen through the eyes and lenses of the world’s best news photographers. A beautiful portfolio every day or every other day. It’s at the pulse of news photography. The […]
By NEIL BUCHAN-GRANT I grew up in a small town in the east of Scotland, stumbling across photography when I was about 18. It was all I wanted to do for a few years. I shot mostly landscapes around the Fife countryside. Amazingly, all I now have of all that work is couple of boxes […]
BY NEIL CHAN In that fraction of a second which is your shutter speed, all the colors, lights, their absences and the shadows in between them are snapped and stored as a still. However, true experiences do not happen in a fraction of a second, and neither do they engage exclusively the sense of sight. […]
Today’s Daily Portfolio by Tony Edenden is not your average portfolio. It comes as an iOS app for iPhone and iPad. Passer-By is the name of the app that brings you some 160 black-and-white pictures. They’re funny, sad and just plain odd, says photographer Tony who’ll tell you why he’s pleased to work with the […]
This is maybe irresponsible. Recently, when traveling the U.S., we made the quite painful decision to put the journey above the imaging experience. Meaning: the big gear has to stay home. Value time spent with family and convenience were the priorities, and not stunning bokeh, super fast AF, always spot-on exposure and you know what […]
Struggling with the proper lighting technique, especially with portraits? Here is some virtual help: a virtual online lighting studio, solely dedicated to simulating the lighting of a human headshot. Great care has been taken to have the virtual lights react in the most plausible and realistic way. If this is successful you should be able […]
To JPEG or to RAW, that is one of photography’s old recurrent questions that has always been highly susceptible to dogmatic practices. Some photographers protect their RAW work flow with religious devotion. Or others shoot primes only and look down on telephoto zoom lenses. Yet other photographers preach only full-frame and film are providing the […]
Here’s the anti-photographer’s handbook. An indispensable field manual. And you thought you knew what makes a great photographer. Feel free to add your own dos and don’ts. Photography is all about perfectly exposed, noise-free images with spot-on focus. Follow the math. Your gear has to always pay off. It’s time you start thinking more about […]
All it takes is a lot of photography gear, lots of it, and some patience. Enjoy this photography-themed Rube Goldberg machine – noooo, he blinked! How could you possibly not like this accumulation of precious gear and invincible determination. If you wanna know what drove these folks here’s the backgrounder. And just to state the […]
In the analog days this was a no-brainer. Had to work in low light? You pushed that Ilford to 800 or 1,600, knowing that the extra grain will give the shots that je ne sais quoi. You weren’t too worried about a print’s texture or too much grain. The onslaught of digital photography changed it […]
Too good to be true? Here’s the deal: Why fork out several hundred dollars for Photoshop‘s flagship CS edition when a few dollars will do. That at least is the promise made by a certain Evan Sharboneau, author of Trick Photography and Special Effects. Sharboneau promises the kind of get-slim-in-60-seconds guarantee. And asks for $97 […]
