Photography’s Basics: Exposure

What is exposure anyway? A colleague of mine says it is the amount of light required to record an image. She’s absolutely right of course. Her answer made me thing about the quality of my question. I believe that the question to ask is “What is a correct exposure?” That answer is much more useful. A […]

High Speed Flash Sync explained… With stop-motion animation!

A few years ago, the Strobist movement went crazy, and that was when a lot of people discovered high-speed flash sync for the first time. To those of us who are used to seeing a ‘sync speed’ of a maximum of 1/60 on a camera, high-speed syncing was absolutely magical… But have you ever stopped […]

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These are the cameras that captured the winning shots in this year’s World Press Photo competition

Controversy aside, the World Press Photo Awards gave us an incredible collection of images from photojournalists around the globe. What you see above is an infographic that breaks down the details of what cameras were used to take the winning shots for this year’s contest. Created by Quesabesde, the infographic was made using EXIF data […]

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Adobe unveils Lightroom 2.0 for Android, complete with RAW shooting/editing, Dehaze and Split Toning

Last week, Adobe accidentally leaked the details for its upcoming 2.0 update for Android. Now, it’s officially out and ready to be downloaded by Android users across the globe. Inside the new update a plethora of new features, tools and visual adjustments to help improve the capture, edits and sharing of photos while on the […]

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Document Everyday Life

Our lives sometimes surprise us. Sometimes, something happens in our lives that defines who we are. Some of those moments are planned, like a wedding. We spend time thinking about the ceremony, who we want to invite, how we want to share this moment in time with our family, and how we want to document […]

Samsung Enters the 360 Degree Camera Market With the Samsung Gear 360. Mark Zukerberg Supports

Looking more like a giant eyeball than a camera, Samsung have today entered into the 360 degree arena with the announcement of the Samsung Gear 360 camera. Two lenses seems to be becoming the standard when it comes to 360 degree cameras, as opposed to bolting half a dozen cameras on a rig, and Samsung’s new camera conforms […]

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