Photography Cheat Sheet: Three Ways to Make Darker or Brighter Photos

Still getting a grip on how to set your camera’s aperture, shutter speed, and ISO? Getting acquainted with the Exposure Triangle is one of the best and fundamental ways to understand how it all works and come together to create proper exposures. Changing the value of one eleme…

How to Read a Scientific Paper

With the Covid-19 pandemic and the reams of research scientists are producing in trying to understand it, many people are reading scientific research papers for the first time. Long-time science writer Carl Zimmer, who estimates he’s read tens of thousands of them in his caree…

Learn All About Lens Filters and What They Do With Our New Guide

If there is one photography accessory that causes confusion, its lens filters. It's easy to see why these simple tools can seem complicated to those who are new to photography. To start off with, there are many different types of filters that all do specialized jobs, and there a…

“Be Bold By Being Simple” - The Art of Sungi Mlengeya

I love this work by self-taught Tanzanian artist Sungi Mlengeya. From an interview with the artist: I stumbled into the minimalist space in one of the earliest paintings I made, and I remember how free I felt knowing that I could choose to paint or leave out anything I want…

Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon

A guide to keeping yourself and others safe while photographing protests. "Some people are risking their jobs by showing up at protests. Even if they're wearing a mask, employers can still identify them." [wired.com] A thread of stories about being stopped by police for driving…

Always Stand on the Side of the Egg

In 2009, novelist Haruki Murakami controversially accepted the Jerusalem prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in the aftermath of Israeli military action in Gaza. In his acceptance speech, he related a story about something he keeps in mind while writing: “Betwe…

Duck Programming

Prior to joining Unspace Interactive, one of our developers worked on an “interesting” project, a project that taught them many lessons. One of those lessons was to beware of “duck programming.” Before we explain that term, let’s have a look at the project and get a fe…

Duck Programming

Prior to joining Unspace Interactive, one of our developers worked on an “interesting” project, a project that taught them many lessons. One of those lessons was to beware of “duck programming.” Before we explain that term, let’s have a look at the project and get a fe…

Have to do better

This is an incomplete list of todos and resources that I’m currently working with as a white woman trying to do better in how I approach race and to truly understand the privilege that I’m afforded every day. Much of the contents of this post is via friends and people I woul…

Nixon Started the War on Drugs to Target Black People & the Antiwar Left

In 1971, Richard Nixon kicked off America’s “war on drugs”, focusing not on the societal problems that lead to drug abuse but on categorizing drug users as criminals. In Nixon’s eyes, drug use was rampant in 1971 not because of grand social pressures that society had a…

Cheap Photo: Fujifilm GF50mm f3.5 $499, Tamron F2.8 Primes Just $299

Looking to grab some new lenses to pair up with your Fujifilm, Sony, or Micro Four Thirds cameras? If so, you'll love these deals. The Fujifilm GF 50mm f3.5 for GFX series cameras is just $499 (that's half price), and the 56mm f1.2 RPD for X mount cameras has a discount of $500.…

Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

Protests against police violence are happening all over the US (and the world), not just in the big cities. [twitter.com] "You can download these books about police violence for free right now." [lithub.com] A thread by educator Erica Buddington detailing the long history of opp…

This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew

Author, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew has published This Is What I Know About Art, a book aimed at young adults about her experience studying art history in school and then working in the art world. In a piece for Teen Vogue, Drew outlined why she wrote the book. For fa…

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“Increasingly Rightwing” Police Unions Have Made Policing More Dangerous In America

BuzzFeed’s Melissa Segura writes that the political ideologies of police unions moved further to the right in response to calls for reform from the Obama administration and groups like Black Lives Matter, resulting in increasing violence and a lack of accountability & conseque…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: OAuth scopes sounds too comprehensible? Lacks mystery? How about we add TWO such fields? thanks @AdrianSieber for the picture

DxO Brings a New Perspective to Their Plugins: Nik Collection 3 Review

It's been nearly a year since DxO released version 2 of their popular Nik Collection of plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and DxO PhotoLab. Today, the French software company is announcing the release of Nik Collection 3. Photographers that want to further reduce their d…

Two Quick Links for Wednesday Morning

"If you want to stop white children from growing up to be white police officers who murder Black people, you have to tell them the truth about white supremacy." [stevelocke.com] Ella Jones has been elected as the first black (and female) mayor of Ferguson, Missouri. [nytimes.com…

Print Your Landscapes: Red River Palo Duro Baryta Fiber Paper Review

I've always admired how Red River created good paper at an affordable price point; but the Red River Palo Duro Baryta Fiber paper had us scratching our heads despite the great details it rendered. The best way to describe it involves thinking a bit like watching an old school mo…

May 2020

Travel Photography: How to Keep the Dignity of Your Subjects

As exciting as travel photography is, there’s a way to approach and protect the dignity of your subjects. I’ve been exploring the world for the better part of four years. Being able to combine photography and travel is a dream come true for me; discovering new lands, culture…

Photography Gear: APS-C, M4/3 Continue Their Positive Trends in May

There's nothing like buying new photography gear, and lots of you have given new homes to plenty of equipment during May. Lenses were the big sellers this month, with primes being the flavor of the month. When it comes to cameras, we saw a few Full-Frame cameras get new owners,…