How To Organize Your Digital Archive

Because if you can’t find your images, then they are as good as not taken

Amy Touchette

Any professional photographer will tell you that the time they spend on administrative tasks is probably double the time they spend actually photographing. Ranked most important among those administrative duties is the ongoing management of their digital archive. Because if you can’t find your images, then they are as good as not taken. The hardest... Read more

Use Apple Keynote For Video Motion Graphics

Apple Keynote is a great alternative to Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion for motion graphics for Final Cut Pro X, Premiere, Resolve or any NLE

PhotoJoseph

If you’ve been wanting to make awesome animated lower thirds, animated callouts, title sequences and more, but don’t have the chops or want to learn Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion, then Apple Keynote may be the solution for you. Check out this tutorial on how to go from Keynote to Final Cut Pro X (or Premiere or Resolve), and see what... Read more

Find Inspiration In The Ordinary

Letting your mind explore without any expectations can help you get out of a creative funk

Brian Matiash

I suspect that more than a few of you will be able to relate to this story, and that’s exactly why I want to share it. I was recently in a pretty big creative funk that I couldn’t shake. That tends to happen whenever I find myself having to be creative on a deadline and the ol’ muse just isn’t cooperating. I just couldn’t get into a groove... Read more

Exploitative Labor Practices At Louisiana State Penitentiary

30 years of photographs by Calhoun and McCormick at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Amy Touchette

Men Going to Work in the Fields of Angola. 2004. Courtesy of the artist. © Chandra McCormick The impact of a photographer’s long-term commitment to a subject matter can’t be denied. When a body of photographs portrays people and a place over an extended period of time, viewers get the rare opportunity to start piecing together a much more holistic... Read more

Speaking With Documentary Photographer And Photojournalist Glenna Gordon—Part 3

The final interview with the photographer about her journey across Nigeria

By Amy Touchette

The train reaches Zaria around midnight and the station is mainly deserted. Photo by Glenna Gordon. In August 2015, photojournalist Glenna Gordon was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to photograph her 720-mile train journey across Nigeria, from Lagos to Kano, for its first-ever Voyages issue. (You can read part one and part two of this series.) It... Read more

Anatomy Of A Photo: Working With A Longer Focal Length

Creating an eight-image pano with a ZEISS prime lens

Brian Matiash

Sony a7R III | ZEISS Batis 2.8/135 1/320 sec. at f/2.8; ISO 100 | 8 images pano-stitched August 10, 2019 Utah It’s rare that I’d ever head off anywhere, even locally, without bringing at least one camera and lens with me. I may not bring filters or a tripod, but I’ll always carry a camera with me, just in case. Usually, I’ll change which lens... Read more

Speaking With Documentary Photographer And Photojournalist Glenna Gordon—Part 2

Photojournalist Glenna Gordon talks more about her journey across Nigeria in this second of a three articles

By Amy Touchette

Aisha Lawan, the little girl in the red dress, takes the train from Lagos to Ibadan with her family. Photo by Glenna Gordon. In August 2015, photojournalist Glenna Gordon was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to photograph her 720-mile train journey across Nigeria, from Lagos to Kano, for its first-ever Voyages issue. (You can read part one... Read more

Pixel Fodavil C220: Is This LED Light An Aputure 120 Killer?

Aputure LED lights are very well known and popular, and for good reason. They're fantastic. But that doesn't mean the competition isn't biting at their heels. Could this LED light from Pixel take the crown?

PhotoJoseph

The Pixel Fodavil C220 is one of the newest LED lights to come after the current YouTube crown holder, the Aputure 120. The Pixel is brighter than the newest Aputure 120 series while still being cheaper than the original. It’s got the Bowens mount, looks (perhaps a little too much) like the Aputure and appears to be well made. But it can’t... Read more

A Choice Of Weapons: The Power Of A Photographer’s Written Words

Gordon Parks’s autobiography reveals how this iconic photographer was also a gifted writer

By Amy Touchette

“Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, with three grandchildren and her adopted daughter,” by Gordon Parks, District of Columbia, United States, Washington D.C., 1942. This past summer, I read A Choice of Weapons, the memoir of legendary photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006). Autobiographies are my favorite genre to read because—if it’s... Read more

The Most Useful Shutter Speeds To Know, Part I

While knowing the specific camera settings of a photo won't guarantee your ability to recreate it, it will make you that much more equipped with the knowledge needed to try

Brian Matiash

Recently, a well-known photographer shared a post pleading with others to stop asking him about the camera settings he used to take his photos. To summarize my understanding of it, the photographer believes that, rather than concern yourself with those settings, you should focus on the experiences and what I call “soft metadata” that went into... Read more

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