Calling All Canonistas!

It's an all Canon post today as we take in four new Canon products.

Canon is almost surely the maker that is most aggressively pursuing film-quality digital video technology in 'cinema cameras'.  Here we look at a review of their 1D C and an...

The Guardian’s Best Photographs of 2012

Having seen the photographs our press have chosen as their 'Best Photographs of the Year', it may be interesting to compare what the media mavens in Old Blighty and those across the (big) pond over in America consider to be their Photos of the Year, courtesy of The Guardian and TIME respectively.

We'll cover The Guardian's selection in this post, specially the dramatic and dynamic images, and review those of...

The Majestic, the Whimsical, and Some Advice for Collectors

"Minus 30 degrees."  Those are the lengths some photogs will go to to find "their calling."  Enter Camille Seaman who photographs the biggest icebergs in the world!  San Francisco Chronicle has just reported that the result of her passion is that "she has spent the last 10 years photographing enormous chunks of prehistoric ice in remote places across the globe."

Seaman's story is quite riveting and her photographs are awesome...

Top Tutorial: Dynamic Landscape Photography

What Everybody Ought to Know About Landscape Photography is one of those year-end roundups.  Obviously, it is about landscape photography and is actually a Top Ten list of tutorials.  They are listed "in no particular order" with Composing Dynamic Landscape Images at No. 1, the top of the list.

And, boy, is it a 'Number One' 'Top of the List' tutorial!  Photography is primarily an art, not a...

Street Shooting — and ‘Home Shooting’!

If you've got into the groove of 'street shooting', it's no big deal to you.  But if you haven't, the idea of pointing your lens at strangers may seem a little intimidating. 

In The Ethics of Photographing Random Strangers on the Street, Ming Thein provides, not only a sketch of the ethical issues involved, but, tips and techniques as to how to go about doing something that, according to him,...

DP School’s Top Tutorials for the Second Half of 2012

If you're a photographer, you know about DP School.  Two days back they listed their fifteen most popular tutorials from the latter half of 2012, during which time they published about 300 such tutorials.

Fifteen out of 300 – we're looking at the top five percent.

The fifteen how-tos are a seriously varied bunch – one tutorial may appeal to the rank newbie; another to the experienced pro.

The top 'how-to' is...

Sinar System from Switzerland and a Sony Award for an Aussie

Most beginners use compacts and APS-C, a few may use DSLRs.  Take a gander, then, at this camera from Sinar of Switzerland.  Sinar's lanTec was announced yesterday.  It is an ultra-high-end camera system for landscape and architectural photography and is the digital equivalent of 'large format' 8x10 cameras from the film days – its resolution goes all the way up to 80 megapixels.  

Such a 'system' allows a photographer...

A Beguiling Gallery of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples are Humankind's 'endangered species', so to speak.  This Pinterest gallery contains some wonderful images, primarily portraits and 'head shots', of such persons.

Many of the photographs reveal persons of considerable beauty regardless of the lighting, be the subject a mere child, or even if all you can see are the subject's eyes.  Given the harsh conditions so many Indigenous Peoples live under and the...

A Mixed Bag of Three Cameras: Leica, Fuji, and Polaroid

We know that top-of-the-line cameras can be really expensive but $2.18 million?  The price of a mansion?  And this is not even one of those diamond-encrusted iPhones, it's a plain old Leica.  

This Leica M3D is not a prototype or a limited edition; it is a production camera although it is "one of four that was specially customized by Leitz...