Travel Photographers Will Adore These 4 Cameras

Travel photography is now gaining traction around the world. After the end of the pandemic, many photographers chose to pack their bags and continue their job, with some taking up the job again today. For those who are keen on buying a new camera, here are some models that you m…

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Polytropus

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation, finishing it just a few months ago. When I heard that Christopher Nolan was adapting Homer’s poem, I thought it made perfe…

The White Balance Setting that Makes Portrait and Landscapes Better

For several years, and even now, photographers only tend to go make photographs during the golden hour. But trust me, you don't have to do it. As long as you understand light and white balance, you can actually make any scene in front of you work. Yes, modern cameras are really…

Chíne tréile

When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made. The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher would often put us into groups of ar…

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Filtered for some poetry in modern English

1. My favourite translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wikipedia) - 1,000 year old Persian poetry - is by Robert Graves from 1967. Graves, it turns out, unknowingly based his translations on hoax sources. Which might not have gone down so badly, except that he used the h…

Your Camera Might be Able to Shoot Panoramas, so Why Haven’t You?

Panorama photography is something that we most commonly associate with landscape photography – a photographic technique intended to capture the essence of sweeping vistas and the grandeur of a scene. While there are many ways to achieve this look, sometimes the easiest way is…

The Lifespan of Cameras is About to Get Longer

Before so many of you picked up a camera and set foot into the world where refreshes happened pretty often, cameras had a pretty long lifespan of support. In fact, some even lasted a decade or so until a refresh of some sort. And really, that's all that most photographers needed…

WANDRD Magnetic Camera Strap Review: Worth the Money?

Camera straps are typically not covered on this site anymore. Mostly because straps today are nearly identical to one another and in the end don’t offer photographers anything different. Whether you’re spending top dollar for the finest leathers or just looking for something…