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Him, Her: A Photograph That Works Like a Renaissance Diptych

Two figures share a photograph and refuse to share anything else. He stands on the left in a black suit, glasses, mid-sentence, addressing someone outside the frame. She stands on the right in a black slip dress, eating from a paper wrapper, eyes down. Running …

6 min read

photography

Photo Walks: Why a Group of Twenty Photographers Shoots Less Than One Person Alone

Count the cameras in this frame. Roughly a dozen visible, probably twenty in the group, DSLRs on neck straps and wrist straps and one small …

5 min read

photography

Subject Isolation on the Beach: Canon RF 135mm f/1.8 vs EF 135mm f/2

This beach frame is a good argument for the 135mm focal length. The woman sitting on the sand holds the eye because she’s the only thing …

4 min read

telephoto

Long Lens Reach on a Budget: Cheap Glass, Crop Bodies and Whether You Need a Monopod

Stand behind a line of photographers pointed at something offshore and you can price the whole row without asking a single question. Two or …

6 min read

photography

Ring Lights in Daylight: How Close You Have to Be for On-Axis Fill to Work

A ring light is the only modifier that puts the light source exactly where your lens is. Everything else about it follows from that one …

4 min read

photography

Shooting From a High Vantage Point: Haze Is the Real Problem, Not the Height

Every high viewpoint makes the same promise and breaks it the same way. You climb, you turn around, and there it is: the whole city, the …

4 min read

photography

Background Separation Is a Distance Problem Before It Is an Aperture Problem

Three people leaning on a railing, all of them facing away, and behind them a wall of orange that used to be flowering shrubs. Nothing back …

4 min read

photography

Shooting a Griffon Vulture From Behind: Why the Back View Beats the Portrait

The instinct with any big raptor is to get the face. Wait for the head-on stare, fill the frame with the beak, go home. That instinct throws …

3 min read

street photography

Night Street Photography on a Fast Telephoto: The Technical Choices Behind a Cinematic Frame

A frame like this one looks like a still from a film, and people usually credit the grade for that. The grade is the last five percent. …

6 min read

brand photography

Brand Photography on the Street: Zara, Holland & Barrett, and the Logos You Cannot Control

Three brands sit in this frame and none of them paid to be there. A Zara carrier bag swinging at the subject’s hip, a Holland & Barrett …

5 min read

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