A Guide to Camera Shutter Designs: Focal-Plane, Leaf, and the Rest
Photo by Friedrich Haag and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 To take a photograph is to encapsulate a singular moment in time and space in the form of an image. …
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The Pros and Cons of Using a Scale Focus Camera
Kodak Retina 1a. Photo by Karl Blessing (www.karlblessing.com) and licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5. Nowadays, we photographers are a bit spoiled. With how much power current-day cameras and lenses are …
The Best Tips for Photographing the Total Solar Eclipse
For those who may have somehow missed it, a historic total solar eclipse will be visible across much of North America on April 8. Photographing an eclipse can be tricky, …
Nat Geo Photographer Offers Three Tips to Improve Your Images
Professional photographer Stephen Wilkes has a multi-decade career that melds artistic and commercial photography and has taken him around the world. He’s worked with National Geographic, Apple, and Netflix, among …
The Powerful Lessons Analog Photography Can Teach
Up until recently, most introductory photography classes in colleges and universities still taught students the basics of the medium using film and darkroom processes. These days, though, the majority of …