When I was a much younger working photographer, I always wanted to get to the point of needing Canon Pro services. Truly, something in my mind felt like it was a prestigious thing and that I'd worked so hard to achieve it. Yet in truth, you could easily buy your way into it. And…
Street photography requires one to learn three critical things: to time well, "anticipate" things that aren't there yet, and wait patiently for the above points. While many young photographers get one of the three aspects correct, today, we bring a few photo books that street ph…
I just read this post from Marcin Wichary's Unsung, where he points out a peculiar macOS dialog box that shows boolean toggles in four different shades of grey: Marcin offers some improvements, but the actual problem is fundamental to macOS: these types of toggles are bad UI…
I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could possibly imagine. This is the second and final sequel to The Country Girls whic…
In 2020, Leica launched the Leica SL2s and we published our review. Around one year later, I bought one along with a 28mm f2 SL APO lens. Since then, the camera has been replaced in the Leica lineup by the Leica SL3s. But just last week, the Leica SL2s, a now 6 year old camera,…
Until Linux Journal hired me in 1996, no publication—tech or otherwise—would employ me. Not full-time, anyway. I was too obsessed with the Internet, the Web, and what I saw as the dawn of a new reality: a digital world we would co-occupy with the natural one. So I self-publi…
It's easy to get to a point where you think you know everything about photography even though you really don't. But don't worry, nobody is looking this time. Today we're talking about something that too many photographers set to the auto mode and then try to fix in post-producti…
One of the biggest concerns any photographer faces is how they can edit their photos to the best of their abilities. While there is Photoshop and Lightroom as two critical options for photographers to edit, let us tell you about a few more to make your life easy.
Black and white photography is loved across various genres. Whether it is photographing portraits, streets, or landscapes, black and white often enhances the mood and texture of the scene. Keeping this in mind, here are some cameras that are adored by photographers who love to s…