Photography for the Serious Amateur
Photography for the Serious Amateur
In early 2018, I almost lost all my images (from 2006 to 2014). I also almost lost all the pictures that my father had taken from 2008 to 2014. I say ‘almost’ because I didn’t lose them all… But that’s…
In many ways, this photographic debate is very much like the Mac Vs. PC debate. In many ways, it’s not. The debate has always been fuelled by passionate fans of each camera system, with each group saying that their choice…
I came upon the Saramonic SmartMic (also called the i-Mic) by accident, while window shopping at FotoTrade. I mistakenly thought it was similar to the Rode SmartLav+ and was quite surprised to find a similar product at that price point.…
This simple-yet-effective lens buying guide helps you make the right decision every time. This is a humorous take on buying a lens. Humorous, but true. Our real “lens buying guide” is actually very comprehensive and in-depth. Please check it out.…
Choosing a camera for beginners can have two compounding issues. 1. They don’t don’t what they need 2. They don’t know how to find out what they need. Most first-time camera buyers ask around a lot, and do a lot…
This is the one setting that I always turn on as soon as I install Lightroom (LR) on any computer: Automatically Write Changes into XMP. This setting makes Lightroom Classic start saving small .xmp files next to your RAW images.…
Photographers use Silica Gel in their camera bags, and lens storage all the time. Often, though, I find that they don’t know that Silica Gel needs to be recharged after it has been used for a while. This is because…
Sometimes, when you mount a GoPro camera on the body of a moving vehicle, the camera vibrates so much that the resulting video is unusable. The video footage seems to warp, wobble, and it seems like you’re viewing the world…
The name Hasselblad is synonymous with high-quality medium-format photography. Over the years, hundreds and thousands of medium format 120-film Hasselblad cameras have been made and sold. They eventually became unsuitable for most commercial photography (except that Phase One has kept them alive for…
Sony has just announced something that is probably revolutionary to the compact camera market, but when you think about it, seems like an obvious step in its evolution. It’s a stabilised zoom lens, that has a 20Mpx sensor, battery, flash…
Science is amazing. Scientists look at the world around us and try to understand it in increasing detail every time. We see light all the time… But we don’t see what it does as it moves through space. We can’t…
A friend writes to me: I’m no photographer, and therefore I’ve never understood what makes a photograph amazing? Nationalist sentiments aside, what’s in the photo – “Heroes of Iwo Jima” that makes it so awesome and memorable? Also, the National…