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Photographer Nigel Danson recently embarked upon one of the greatest projects of his three decades of photography. Danson spent 30 days photographing a single beach, Luskentyre on the Isle of Harris in Scotland.
While many photographers spend an entire day, or even a few days, photographing a single location, not many...
In all of landscape photography and perhaps photography as a whole, there are few names more famous than that of Ansel Adams. His landscape images of the American west transcended the medium and elevated photography, perhaps for the first time, into the realm of art.
I recently had the opportunity to read the latest...
Photographer Brenda Tharp has been a fine art photographer specializing in travel and landscape photography for over 30 years. She has also run many workshops and tours. In addition to her workshops, she also educates through her writing. Her latest book, "Expressive Nature Photography: Design, Composition, and Color in...
By the time I was serious about getting into the world of photography, the "digital revolution" was going full-steam. My first "real camera" was a Nikon D80, and based on what I read online and from other photographer friends, I was firmly swayed to shoot in RAW mode and then explore the world of photo editing software....
We have covered Marc Silber’s videos on numerous occasions, including his interview with Ansel Adams’ son, Michael, and this interview with Chris Burkard.
Marc has interviewed many other professional photographers and has compiled their lessons learned over thousands of hours of interviews along with his own expertise...
German-based WhiteWall has been producing high-quality prints on a wide variety of substrates from their Frechen, Germany photo lab since 2003. Their online service, WhiteWall.com, has been operational since 2007, and earned an enviable reputation for quality in that time.
Many high-end photographers around the world...
What is art if not shared with others? That is the thought-provoking question brought to life by a new book called SHARE.
Curated and published by Heroes & Pioneers, the idea behind the book is to not purely consume, but also share. That’s because the book is designed to allow you to rip out the individual, perforated...
In the analogue era, contact sheets were the go-to means by which photographers would overlook the photographs from their latest assignment. Created by placing negatives onto an 8”x10” sheet of photo paper and exposing properly, these contact sheets were the sketchpad of photographers and editors who would quickly glance...
We had the chance recently to sit down with Sony Artisan Vivienne Gucwa, a fine art travel photographer and devotee of New York City. In that piece, we got to know a bit of Vivienne and her (inspiring) back-story. This is the second half of that interview, where we talk a bit about Vivienne’s current work, clientele,...
Longtime readers know how much I like doing interviews. Most of what we've published in that vein so far has been fairly technical in nature, talking about new technology with camera and lens company engineers and executives. At the bottom of it all, though, I just love talking with people, and understanding a little bit...
Looking at a photograph is a bit like traveling back in time. The time-travel might be to the moment when the photo was taken—or might be even further back, to some unspecified instant in the course of the subject’s time on earth.
Artist Rachel Sussman takes us back at least 2,000 years with her new book, The Oldest...
We've shared some amazing, early color photography here before but these shots of circus performers from the 1940s and 50s might be the most vivid and gripping images yet. The photos are from "The Circus Book: 1870-1950" by Dominique Jando, which includes approximately 180 of the earliest color images ever captured of...
We kicked off our holiday gift-giving roundup yesterday with a selection of the best cameras and lenses for the photographer-friend in your life, but what to do if they're already happy with their photographic setup?
That's where Part Two of our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide comes in. We've gathered a healthy selection of photo gifts to choose from...
The Lensbaby line of lenses, optics and accessories were designed to let you unleash your creative side to create eyecatching photos with an SLR or mirrorless camera. With some of the effects being pretty unique, though, it can take a little while to grasp the possibilities.
That's where Corey Hilz's book, "Bending...
In 2011, Steve Crist of AMMO Books published EDWARD WESTON: 125 PHOTOGRAPHS, with photos from scans of the photographer's original prints from an extensive collection at at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
This was a slip-cased, large format book with high quality printing on heavy paper, and while it was reportedly a very nice item for collectors, it...
About a month ago, we read an interview with photographer Anton Kusters in Steward Magazine describing his Yakuza project, which documented the life of Japanese gangsters in photos.
While it was an interesting interview that featured Kusters' powerful photos of the yakuza, we felt there was more to the...
Remember those infamous death photos of Osama Bin Laden that were never released to the public? They were more than likely captured with an Olympus digital camera. That's what we learned while reading "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden," written by a former Navy SEAL.
In the...
Do you own (or plan to buy) a Panasonic Lumix GH2, but haven't quite come to grips with all those buttons and dials? Maybe you have one that already feels like an extension of your hand, but you still suspect there are a couple of hidden features you've missed.
Either way, O'Reilly Media's Rocky Nook brand just might have the book for you...
Just released, the 272-page 'The...
HENRICO, Va., Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- White Knight Press, an independent publisher located near Richmond, Virginia, has released Photographer's Guide to the Canon PowerShot S100: Getting the Most from Canon's Pocketable Digital Camera, by Alexander S. White.
This 283-page paperback is a complete guide to the operation and features of the Canon PowerShot...
Santa Barbara, CA—Nov. 1, 2011—There is no better way to learn than by doing. While theories, histories, best practices, and sciences provide for a thorough knowledge of any subject, at some point you have to apply that information to truly garner knowledge.
Ten Photo Assignments (Rocky Nook, $19.95 USD) provides real-world assignments that guide the novice to...