Category: photography

You think mirrorless cameras can’t handle wedding shots? Think again!

Dunja Djudjic

Most professional wedding photographers are not thrilled when someone brings up mirrorless cameras. I understand – the concept is relatively new, and there may be some distrust towards these cameras’ performance. Especially in demanding conditions such as shooting a wedding. But an example by Kevin Mullins proves them wrong. He shot an entire wedding with […]

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How to Get Better at Photography – and stick with it forever

Patrick Beggan

I think you can look around at a lot of the content based around photography on the internet and extract a theme: People want to be better photographers. At the lower levels of the hobby that’s fairly easy. There are a lot of concrete skills and tips to pick up and integrate that are available […]

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How to Get Better at Photography – and stick with it forever

Patrick Beggan

I think you can look around at a lot of the content based around photography on the internet and extract a theme: People want to be better photographers. At the lower levels of the hobby that’s fairly easy. There are a lot of concrete skills and tips to pick up and integrate that are available […]

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30 years later: Exploring Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and shooting only with iPhone

Chris Feichtner

I originally announced my plans to visit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on my private Facebook account. My friends know me and thus the reactions were anywhere from “you’re nuts” to “HaHa”. Maybe because I posted it on April, 1st? Anyway, before I could visit the zone, I had to agree to a number of behavioral […]

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This may be the last Cibachrome image ever taken, and it’s a hand built camera

Dunja Djudjic

Have you ever tried Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) processing? The materials for it are not produced any longer, and I suppose most of us will never get to see or make such photos. But artist and engineer Tim Hunkin was lucky enough to have some of the papers left in stock. He chose quite a strange DIY […]

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Is being a photographer worth losing time with your kids?

Dunja Djudjic

No matter who you are and what you do, the moment you become a parent, your life changes forever. For Benjamin (Ben) Lowy it was exactly like this. He is an award-winning conflict photographer who covered Iraq War in 2003, as well as many other major events all over the world. But becoming a dad made […]

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OVF vs EVF – A Philosophical Difference

Luigi Barbano

OVF vs EVF! Let’s the bloody war begin 😉   The world is divided in two… always, that is why there is people making a lot of money selling t-shirts for opposite points of view! The users of mirrorless camera are not different, photographers loving the optical viewfinder and photographers loving the electronic viewfinder and […]

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This handy tool helps creatives say “no” to dismal projects

Dunja Djudjic

As a photographer, I’m sure you’ve been in those situations when people ask you to work for peanuts, or even worse – for free. Not many things annoy me as the sentence “Come on, it’s only a few snaps.” No, it’s not. Of course, there are some instances when you can and should work for […]

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8 creative camera hacks in under 90 seconds that you can try yourself

John Aldred

Photographers are always coming up with ways to try and think a little differently. Sometimes they add a little uniqueness and interest to our shot. At other times they lets us get shots we otherwise might not be able to get at all. In this video, photographer Peter McKinnon shows us us 8 different camera tricks […]

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