In this blog article I will share a very useful tip which Brendan Van Son explained to me when I was on the second day of his photography workshop in Hucachina, Peru. He saw what I was doing when trying to photograph the above scene and saw that I was making the same mistake that lots of photographers make when photographing landscapes and showed me where I was going wrong.
His advice helped me out a lot and enabled me to get a much better photograph. . thephoblographer.com
The year was 2014. I was seven years younger and because of that, it was a very good year. Do you remember the time when it didn’t hurt to get out of bed? When camera bags didn’t feel like bags of wet cement, and when your eyesight was so good you could spot a discounted […] petapixel.com »
2021-11-19 22:46
My dad has been part of a trucking and excavating company for just about his whole life. He was a trucker for a long time and sometimes when I was little I would go for rides in his semi. Once we were even in a parade. boredpanda.com »
2021-05-03 06:04
Photographer Andrew McCarthy was shooting the Sun recently when an airliner unexpectedly flew right into his shot. The result was this picture-perfect image of “A Civilian Transit.” McCarthy was shooting in the afternoon from Northern California on January 17th when this happy little accident occurred. “When you take pictures as often as I do, the […] petapixel.com »
2021-02-10 19:37
First and foremost, I'm not rich. But compare my income today to that of when I was younger, then it's safe to say I'm doing okay. When money was scarce, I would visit my local photography store, salivating and longing for cameras that my bank balance would not grant me. thephoblographer.com »
2020-05-17 13:00
Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2019 Winners At the beginning of this month, 260 semi-finalists were selected out of nearly 60,000 entries for Red Bull Illume's photography and videography contest. dpreview.com »
2019-11-27 22:18
A spiky iceberg reflecting in the waters of Disko Bay, under intense sunrise colors. I took this shot while scouting for my Greenland workshop. It was the last morning of our trip on a Russian Yacht, and little did I know that it would be the best by far. dpreview.com »
2017-07-15 17:00
Fujifilm Acros 100 is the company's last black and white film emulsion, and for many photographers it was an absolute favorite. Acros 100 is a very fine grain film considering how it's also a fairly slow film. thephoblographer.com »
2017-04-30 07:00
Astronomy photographer Marc Leatham was left a little red in the face after an innocent mix-up over an invite to go shooting. Leatham tells DigitalRev that he’d been heavily involved in astrophotography for the past four years and knew a few friends from church who also had an interest in night photography. digitalrev.com »
2016-12-29 03:00
Let's get a few things out of the way first: yes, the Fujifilm Instax mini 90 is a three-year-old camera. No, it is not a digital camera. Yes, it was my favorite camera of the year. Now let's proceed. dpreview.com »
2016-12-28 14:00
Every time I speak with Lois Greenfield, she tells me about how she makes incredible photographs of dancers. She doesn't shoot a ton of frames a second -- instead, she simply understands the moment.
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Some of us reading this site are millennials, Gen X, and older. So the chances are then that you've got a Flickr account. Every now and again, I go through mine and peruse the images that I've posted in the past.
Besides creative vision and understanding what you see vs what you're looking at, there are two other big tools that photographers need to make more compelling images. Believe it or not, part of this is technical.
DJI’s Mini series gave me my start as a drone pilot, teaching me the basics of flight, safety, and imaging from above. Yet its budget-friendly price helped ease the flying anxiety, even when I experienced a dropped connection and a crash from a low height.
The 70-200mm is workhorse focal length, but these workhorses tend to be as heavy as they are versatile. The Panasonic Leica 35-100mm f2. 8 DG Vario-Elmarit Power OIS, however, proves what’s possible with a Micro Four Thirds sensor.
There are updates to the Phoblographer's Panasonic GH6 review, which we did back in 2022. With it now being 2024, we're kind of scratching our head about this camera. It still is very capable, but we truly expected more from it over time.