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Is Stock Photography a Good Source of Passive Income? That Depends on You
While there's been much ado about the death of stock photography in the wake of AI-based imagery, there are still many photographers earning passive income from the trade. Just how are they doing that, though? Full-time stock photographer and videographer Luka Ažman made this video that shares a few tips on how he makes money on his stock images and video. First, it's → Read More
How to Make More Compelling Photos Through Compositing
Compositing a photo may seem quaint in the age of AI-generated everything, but it's still often the best or sometimes only way to get the image you're truly going for. Toronto-based photographer Anthony Gugliotta shares a quick tutorial on how to combine a longer exposure photo with a shorter one, an easy way to create a portrait where the world is moving along behind the → Read More
3 Tips to Improve Your Travel Photography
When traveling, it's often the case that photographers zero in on the iconic sights that everyone else gets: the Eiffel Tower in France, Big Ben in London, etc. But instead of capturing what everyone else gets, there are ways to capture the feel of a place without necessarily getting the "standard" shot. Travel and lifestyle photographer Patrick Stapleton shares a few tips and → Read More
Did You Know? Android Began Life as an Operating System for Cameras
Before Android-powered modern smartphones, the company, pre-Google, was focused on making a universal operating system for cameras. It raises the question of an alternate reality that never happened, but what if it did? From old digital camera aficionado James Warner over at the Snappiness YouTube channel is a video that details the short but interesting history to unify → Read More
Can’t Get a Fujifilm X100V? Try This Instead
I've long been a fan of Fujifilm's X100 series of cameras, the "T" model being my gateway drug into the Fuji X system. Fuji's X100V, the latest and greatest in the lineup, launched in 2020, seems near impossible to find even in 2023. So, what's a photographer to do? Try this instead. → Read More
How Can Photographers Leverage AI and What Are the Dangers Ahead?
Artificial intelligence is here to stay, whether photographers like it or not. So, what are some ways photographers can leverage it rather than fear it? Photographers and YouTubers Tony and Chelsea Northrup give us a deep dive on how they've come up with some ways that photographers can embrace AI in ways that they may not have thought of. One of the most astonishing things → Read More
Is It Worth Traveling for Photography if AI Can Do It for You?
I recently posed a challenge to DALL-E 2 (or to myself?) to mimic one of my photos using prompts. I didn't think it was actually going to work, until it did. Almost. The left part of the photo above represents AI's interpretation of a "photo of Fire Island Lighthouse during the day with few clouds and common reeds with shallow depth of field in foreground" which is about the → Read More
We Review the HP Sprocket Studio Plus: A Capable, if Pricey, Photo Printer
Small, dye-sublimation printers have all but eliminated the need to go to the drugstore to make basic 4x6 prints, and HP’s new Sprocket Studio Plus is a welcome update to this style of printer from a venerable name in printing. HP’s Sprocket lineup is designed to be a portable (or in the case of the Studio Plus, an almost-portable) photo printing solution for your smartphone. → Read More
I Subjected Myself to the Cheapest Camera on Amazon so You Don’t Have To
"Vintage" point-and-shoot digital cameras are all the rage among Gen Z today, and while you can cruise eBay to find something used to scratch that itch, what can you get for about the same money new? To answer that question, I headed over to Amazon.com and typed in "Digital Camera" into the search box. Surprisingly, most of the listings that came up were not from any major → Read More
Are Samsung’s Phones Fudging It on Moon Photography?
There have been some mighty impressive moon shots taken with cell phones these days, but are they even real? In the case of Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra, the answer is: maybe. Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee starts out with a most compelling question in modern times: what is a photo? And to answer that question, he brings up what he considers an "edge case" of moon photography. → Read More
Forget the Vintage Point-and-Shoot, the Barbie Wireless Video Camcorder Is the Retro Handicam of Your Dreams
It's no secret that Gen Z has rediscovered the digital cameras of most millennials' youth. But while 20-year-old point-and-shoot cameras are fun and all, the realest camera of them all just might be the Barbie Wireless Video Camcorder. Coming at you from retro-tech YouTuber The 8-Bit-Guy is a deep dive and teardown of the Barbie Wireless Video Camcorder, first released in 2001. → Read More
How One Photographer Trekked Across New York to Produce a Book of Abandoned Spaces
Despite the deep-freeze of a cold January day, a lone photographer moved swiftly through the graffiti-covered halls of what was once a bustling psychiatric center in the heart of Long Island in New York. The photographer, John Lazzaro, explained how he'd been to the remains of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center hundreds of times, and the speed at which he walked through rooms → Read More
How Well Does the M2 Pro Mac mini Handle Video?
I'm not a novice to the world of computer hardware. I've been building my own Intel-based PCs for the better part of 25 years, but the new world order of Apple Silicon has turned conventional wisdom on its head for those looking to buy a machine for multimedia work. For starters, there's no easy way to compare Apples to oranges (or Intels, really). What is an efficiency core → Read More
We Review the Liene Pearl K100 Portable Photo Printer: A Competitive Entry in the Zink Space
While instant photography cameras like Fuji’s Instax series have gained a large following amongst a younger generation discovering the beauty of instant prints, lugging around a sub-par camera just for the hard-copy photos is a drag. That’s where portable photo printers such as Liene’s Pearl K100 Portable Photo Printer come in. The phone in your pocket is already a pretty good → Read More
Some Out-of-the-box Ideas From a Photographer With 100,000 Portraits Under His Belt
There are a lot of common rules about portrait photography, but rules are meant to be broken, and one photographer shares how he does that in a meaningful way after shooting more than 100,000 portraits. In this video from Australian filmmaker and photographer Mitch Lally he shares insights that he's learned after years and thousands of portraits. While it's easy to take a → Read More
AI Will Mean the End of Digital Photography
Artificial intelligence is coming for photographers, just not in the way you're thinking. While there's a lot of buzz around tools such as DALL-E 2 and others that can create art from just a few words typed in as a prompt, photographers are generally less than enthused. → Read More
What Are the Best Budget Cameras at the Start of 2023?
Everybody's got to start somewhere. The difference these days is about where you want to start. Whether it's vlogging, still photography, or making feature films, beginner cameras have really branched out into specialized tools in recent years. Tech Through The Lens' River Sheppard helps make sense of all of those specialized tools by distilling the list to four budget cameras → Read More
Post Reels, Not Photos if You Want Any Hope of Success on Instagram
It sounds counterintuitive for the once photo-only Instagram to be minimizing photos in favor of video, but it's exactly what's happening, and if you're not on the bandwagon, your photography brand might get left behind. From Shopify Creative Strategist Michelle Bali, she details some sobering numbers that every photographer should be sweating, namely that content creators can → Read More
Why I Bought Into a Dead-end Mirrorless System for 2023
I’ve always had a set of “work” cameras and “fun” cameras, the former being big, heavy professional tools and the latter being the kind I’d bring on family trips and for street photography. When one of the fun cameras, my Olympus E-M10 II, took a spill and died at a protest this past fall, I knew that I’d need to find something to replace it. I’ve long been a proponent of the → Read More
Here’s How to Use Social Media to Improve Your Photography in 2023
I'm very much an advocate of the year-in-review photo post as a step on the path to self-improvement. Landscape photographer and YouTuber Mark Denney has an even better idea you should consider, though. In his last video of the year, Denney talks about ways to improve as a photographer using Instagram. No, it's not about making a post, optimizing images, or gaining followers. → Read More