Digital Photography School:
I sometimes hear from people who’ve newly acquired a digital SLR, saying they find it a hassle to continually change lenses when shooting a wide variety of subjects. Frankly, it goes with ‘SLR-territory’ (digital and film) and is the price you pay to enjoy the improved image of an interchangeable lens, reflex camera.In real (Read More)
Amateur Photographer:
Photographers will have to wait even longer for Sigma's SD15 DSLR, which has been on the cards since the beginning of last year. (Read More)
Strobist:
Last week I was in San Miguel de Allende, which sits at over 6,000 feet of elevation in the central Mexican highlands. (Town motto: Meh, oxygen is overrated…)There for a Santa Fe Workshops lighting gig with Rosi, Beth, Françoise, Sara and two Peters, we threw ourselves into a week-long intensive on small flashes, eating wel (Read More)
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
If you are in the market for a compact digital camera check out this review by Flickr user Andertho. He highly recommends the Olympus E-P1.Retro beauty, modern function. This is the sweetest, nicest, awesomest, prettiest digital camera I have ever seen. The form factor is amazing. The build quality is just superb. The fit (Read More)
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
From Adobe: Adobe today announced the Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6 and DNG Converter 5.6 Release Candidates, available for immediate download on Adobe Labs. The term ‘release candidate’ means this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing to provide the highest quality experience (Read More)
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Over at the Photobox blog they are complaining today after Flickr has apparently cut off their commercial API access. Photobox is a commercial photo printer in the UK who had previously been able to use the Flickr API to help Flickr users print photos with them.From the Photobox blog:“At PhotoBox we passionately believe in (Read More)
Digital Photography School:
I’d like to take a moment to talk about power. Electric power that is. We all have a craving for it as it powers everything we do with digital photography. If you’re completely digital gone are the days of being able to manually adjust your camera and still get shots without the need for a battery of some kind. And tha (Read More)
Digital Photography School:
Many of the images that you take particularly cityscapes, like most portraits, can do with some spot fixing. I’ve been traveling through Europe a lot lately and because it’s considered almost de rigeur to smoke there, many of the photos that I have are littered with cigarette butts and assorted garbage. And although you may (Read More)
Amateur Photographer:
A camera club has raised hundreds of pounds for the BBC's Children in Need appeal by challenging members of the public to take photos of Pudsey Bear. (Read More)
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I was sitting at home reading fascinating tales about the Yakuza in preparation for my trip to Japan (exciting news, dear readers. The next blog post will be coming at you from Japan. I’m leaving Thursday) when I saw an update from my friend Emery:Awesome night for a fogwalk.Fog? My ears perked up. I’m a sucker for the stuf (Read More)
Digital Photography School:
This guest post on wedding photography equipment was submitted by F.C. from Camera Tech.Image by man's picSo you’re desperately keen to go into wedding photography — or maybe you’ve made a start. The only problem you’re faced with is the equipment: and there are a lot of choices.Firstly, the most important thing to realize (Read More)
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I am the youngest of three children, so we took turns holding the polaroid. Happiness was experiencing the magic that developed instantly.Those memories planted themselves firmly in my subconscious. {How he smiled with his camera slung around his neck, a cigar hanging off his lip.} Looking at that polaroid camera will alway (Read More)