Should you stick with your kit lens or upgrade to something more expensive?

John Aldred

Many interchangeable lens cameras these days come with some kind of kit lens. Something to get you up and running, shooting as quickly as possible, without having to immediately spend more money. Newer photographers who don’t already have a big stack of lenses often face a bit of a challenge. There are questions that can […]

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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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See what happens when you shoot GoPro out of an air canon

Dunja Djudjic

Corridor Digital are known for their viral cinematic short videos, with plenty of awesome effects. But when they’re not busy creating these, they like to get a bit goofy on their sister channel Sam and Niko. This is where they recently published a video of shooting a GoPro 5 out of a custom made air canon. […]

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Review: Photography Composition and Design

Joseph Parry

I recently had the pleasure of reading through Tavis Leaf Glover‘s latest book Photography Composition and Design. A book that aims to take the complex nature of composition and make it easily digestible in order to pass on 100’s if not 1000’s of years worth of information passed on through the ages. While art is something that is […]

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Couples play light painting charades with large format instant film

John Aldred

Charades is a pretty common game to play with the family at Christmas. You know the one. Where one person tries to mime out a word or a phrase, while everybody else attempts to hilariously guess what it is. Well, this year, the folks at Analog Process decided to give the name a new twist, […]

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