Pro Talk

While overall hate crime dipped in 2020, hate crime against Asians increased dramatically in a number of cities around the country. That trend has unfortunately continued into the early parts of 2021, most visibly manifesting itself with the killing of 8 people […]

I previously wrote an article on some of the gear that photographers can buy used and how I saved $15,000 doing so. It feels wrong for me to buy any new gear — like I’m burning money when doing so. That said, […]

Today marks 10 years since I attended a photography walk that would change the course of my life. If you’d have told me at the time that this would lead me to photograph Arnold Schwarzenegger from just meters away, spend an evening […]

It’s no secret that most photographers want the pro stuff. Indeed, perhaps your favorite YouTuber has a Canon R5 or the latest expensive L lens. Pro gear beats amateur gear in most areas, even if it’s 10 years older. I know people […]

For mist to form on water, the conditions need to be just right. Go at dawn as the mist evaporates after sunrise. Photograph/Swapnali Mathkar Do Some Research Beforehand Read as much as you can about the location before you visit it. Use […]

What was it about the door that caught the attention of photographers like Paul Strand, William Henry Fox Talbot, Eugène Atget, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange? What were they after? Afterall, the door is just a division separating the exterior from the […]

It’s time we put some updated sensibilities’ behind the statements “fix it in post” and “getting it right in the camera”. A few people mentioned these phrases to me recently and honestly, I was surprised to hear how they interpreted the meaning […]

Polaroid founder Edwin Land was a visionary tech titan of his time, and as is common with pioneering entrepreneurs, Land had unusual foresight into where technology was headed. Here’s a neat video from 1970 in which Land accurately predicts the coming age […]

Almost every one of us has a phone in our pocket. These phones are now capable of helping us to create awesome images, alongside the mobile editing apps available to us such as Adobe Photoshop. The performance of mobile phone cameras has […]