Street Photography: A Short Guide to the Ethics for New Photographers

Street photography is a polarizing craft. Peaking into the world of others - albeit in a public space - is rejected by many. Street photographers are often mistaken for aggressive, disrespectful, voyeuristic oddballs by those who are unable to accept the practice. But alongside…

Our Zeiss Milvus Guide Has Received a New Lick of Paint, Check it Out

If you're a photographer who demands the very best from the lenses you use, you need to make sure that you check out the less talked about offerings from Zeiss. The Zeiss Milvus collection of prime lenses is quite exquisite, and they should satisfy the needs of those who need th…

The Moog Cookbook

I pretty much stopped using iTunes for music when I switched to Rdio1 (and then to Spotify). So going back in there is like unearthing a time capsule of music I listened to from ~2003-2012. This morning, bored of my Spotify playlists, I dug around a little and rediscovered a cac…

Daniel Řeřicha Takes Us to a Winter Wonderland in Black and White

Shooting during the winter is a challenging but also great time to shoot for landscape photographers, especially for those who hold a preference for black and white. The scenery tends to easily tip into their favor with the snow blanketing the landscapes, transforming everything…

The Most Important Pieces of Code in the History of Computing

Slate recently asked a bunch of developers, journalists, computer scientists, and historians what they thought the most influential and consequential pieces of computer code were. They came up with a list of the 36 world-changing pieces of code, including the code responsible…

Observability and Time

In this talk, Lisa Neigut talks about reality construction from the point of view quantum mechanics, pulling together the thinking of David Deutsch and Richard Feynman.

How IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust

According to a book by human rights journalist Edwin Black, Hitler needed logistical help in carrying out the genocide of Europe’s Jewish population. IBM, an American company whose leadership was obsessed with growth and profits, was happy to provide Hitler with their punch…

New Shimoda Action X Series: Packed with Features for Content Creators

A couple of years after Shimoda introduced the Explore adventure photography backpacks, the company is back with a freshly launched collection on Kickstarter. The Action X series prides itself on being an ultra-aggressive line of camera bags and accessories especially geared tow…

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Close to the Metal

The value of reintroducing friction into our interactions with computers

Jenny’s Holzer’s VIGIL for Gun Violence Victims

This past weekend for a project called VIGIL, artist Jenny Holzer projected texts about the impact and realities of gun violence onto the buildings of Rockefeller Center. Employing her signature text-based practice, Holzer will project testimonies, responses, and poems by peo…

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How to Shoot Dramatic Portraits With One Light Source

Whenever studio lighting or lighting for portrait work is mentioned, it tends to be intimidating. However, it's actually easy to work with just one simple light source to get beautifully dramatic portraits. You don't even need pro-level studio lights to start experimenting with…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: I was debugging this VPN issue. Those two fields drew my attention. Clearly two IPs are different, one is a whole digit shorter than the other. Or is it?

Review: Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ (A Great Camera With a Phone)

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ is packed with four cameras (three on the back and one on the front), and it promises to be quite extraordinary. We all have our own feelings about mobile photography, but whether you like it or not, it's here to stay. Smartphone manufacturers have be…

Photography Cheat Sheet: Exposing the Sky in Landscape Photography

Learn how to avoid overexposing the sky in your landscape snaps with today’s nifty photography cheat sheet. Overexposing the sky is one of the tricky parts of doing landscape photography. Because the sky is often brighter than the rest of the scene, it’s easy to blow out al…

The Essential Film Photography Checklist: What You Need to Get Started

Film is not dead, and you're living proof of it for wanting to try it out. Maybe you were curious after seeing some film photos in your Instagram feed. Or, you came across some photographers whose work you really liked. Maybe you even found your grandparents' old film cameras an…

We’ve Finished a Big Update to Our Full Frame Sony E Mount Lens Guide

If you're a Sony camera user, you know full well just how blessed you are when it comes to the number of lens choices you have. Sony has worked hard to build up it's E Mount platform over the last few years. They have also worked diligently with third-party manufacturers like Ze…

These 8 Photographers Use the Leica M6 to Take Fantastic Photos

Historically, the Leica M6 has been synonymous with style and prestige. But while it certainly delivers on being a quality build, it doesn't mean it will always take quality photographs - that's the job of the person using it. First manufactured in 1984, the Leica M6 is still a…

Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?

This maddening little web toy on vole.wtf challenges visitors to draw a perfect circle and judges them on how well they do. After dozens of tries with a mouse, I could only manage 92.9% perfection (which looks more like 80% tbh). Then I tried it on a touchscreen and got much…

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