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Two photographers, two cameras, one accidental argument. The Canon is wearing a first-party red-ring zoom. The Sony is wearing a prime that Sony didn’t make. Nobody staged that as a comparison, but it explains the two systems better than any spec sheet does. …
The photographer in this frame is doing something that looks excessive and isn’t. Wide zoom at the eye, telephoto hanging off the other …
Editorial fashion portraits are lit and directed, not caught. That is the whole gap between a snapshot of a well-dressed person and a frame …
Grey sky, mid-morning, mid-October. This is the light most people complain about and then shoot in anyway, because you don’t get to …
Most hero image slots on the web are landscape. Most people looking at them are holding a phone. That gap is the whole argument for shooting …
On paper this scene should not work. A floodlit white stone bridge sits against a sky with no light in it at all, the water throws back a …
The Louvre has been photographed more than almost any building on earth. Your version adds nothing. The pyramid is lit the same way every …
The seafront promenade is one of the few street environments that reliably delivers subjects moving in a predictable direction at a …
Container terminals are among the most photogenic industrial environments anywhere and among the hardest to get into. They are also, from …
The 135mm prime is the cheapest good lens in the used market and has been for thirty years. Every SLR system made one, most made several, …
