Insurance for new photographers isn't something most people think about until it's too late. Most new photographers spend their first year worrying about gear, not liability. But the moment you pick up a paying gig, a borrowed lens, or a shoot outside your living room, you're ca…
Burst mode in street photography can be really useful when you're trying to do a spray and pray situation. But what really helps the most is slowing down your walking pace. Street photography is a genre that people often choose at the beginning of their careers. It is accessible…
If you've been shooting photographs for years, you'll know that most SD cards last around 5 to 10 years. Of course, this depends on a whole bunch of stuff such as what kinds of cameras you're using. One of the most overlooked accessories in photography are SD cards. Young photog…
I really liked Ray Nayler’s The Mountain In The Sea. I also liked The Tusks Of Extinction. But reading those back-to-back gave me pause: At times it seems to relish in describing the worst that humanity is capable of. It starts to veer into misanthropy. I said: I hope…
nikitonsky: I’m used to programs begging to update them (why, btw?) but a program asking you to update your OS so they can update? #Raycast #macOS #Update #Upsell
The Sigma 24-105mm f4, originally made for DSLRs, is a wonderful lens by today's standards, too. It may not be lightweight, but it offers superb sharpness, good bokeh, and can be used for genres like events, travel, landscapes and portrait photography. Sigma is one of the few co…
I invested (not just spent) this last week at the Computer History Museum here in Silicon Valley, enjoying a series of unconferences, each building toward, and on, the wacky, vast, sometimes scary, but mostly promising capabilities of AI—especially of the personal kind. I'll h…
The world of super-telephoto lens is one where the conversation largely revolves around the best zoom lenses in this category. Sony has decided to buck this trend, instead focusing on ultra-lightweight super-telephoto lenses like this one: the Sony FE 400mm F4.5 GM OSS. The lens…
What if a barber took 1/10th the time but with the exact same quality? Gut feel is I would pay 50% more and visit twice as often. Robo-scissors at just below the speed of sound, you wouldn’t even sit down. Locations like photo booths, call it Snip Snap. Cmon AI boffins get…