Best cameras for kids in 2022

Fujifilm Best for instant shots Fujifilm Instax Mini 11 instant camera Check Price Simple controls and cool instant prints make this one of the most fun cameras around. Best overall runnerup Nikon COOLPIX W150 Check Price It’s cheap enough that it won’t hurt too badly if it gets smashed or lost. Best action GoPro HD… Continue reading Best cameras for kids in 2022

Best portrait lighting kits in 2022

Billy Cadden Best portable lighting kit Flashpoint XPLOR 600 Monolight Check Price A powerful strobe with a built-in battery and receiver. Best studio lighting kit Profoto B10 Plus 500/500 AirTTL Duo Monolight Kit Check Price Profoto’s legendary light quality in compact form. Best budget portrait lighting kit Neewer 700W Socket Light Lighting Kit Check Price… Continue reading Best portrait lighting kits in 2022

Women Street Photographers’ annual exhibition highlights the power of the female gaze

A woman’s dress blows in the wind, by Carin Van Derdonk, one of the 79 artists featured in the show. Carin Van Derdonk This week, Women Street Photographers, a collective founded by renowned photographer Gulnara Samoilova, opens its annual exhibition at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 in East Harlem, New York. The show The Women Street… Continue reading Women Street Photographers’ annual exhibition highlights the power of the female gaze

Museums, galleries, and alternative spaces in the metaverse

Enter the marble hall at Musee Dezentral, and you’ll be greeted by tall ceilings, exquisite columns, classical sculptures, and a palatial water fountain. But as in most museums, the main draw is the art on the walls. In this first hall—the Hall of Fame—you’ll find NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, from now-iconic crypto art collections: CryptoPunks,… Continue reading Museums, galleries, and alternative spaces in the metaverse

Photographing Formula Drift with an instant camera

Kristen Lee / The Drive This article originally appeared on The Drive In addition to seeing awesome cars throw themselves sideways around turns, another wonderful thing Formula Drift gives us is the opportunity to practice photography. You’re usually sitting close enough that you can grab at least a couple of really cool photos. Just for fun, I thought I’d bring… Continue reading Photographing Formula Drift with an instant camera

See the winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 19th annual photo contest

“Najin Resting With Her Caretaker”. Matjaz Krivic Smithsonian Magazine just announced the winners of its 19th annual photo contest, and the results are simply spectacular. In six categories, the winners capture pandemic life, American identity, far-flung locales, and the intricacies of nature.  About the contest Over the 19 years that Smithsonian Magazine has run the… Continue reading See the winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 19th annual photo contest

Alec Soth on the serendipity of getting sidetracked

Ames, Iowa. Alec Soth Alec Soth has just released a new book, A Pound of Pictures, which is a collection of photos made between 2018 and 2021 as he traveled across the US. The project was initially supposed to follow Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train. But the original plan derailed and it became something more personal.… Continue reading Alec Soth on the serendipity of getting sidetracked

6 Practical Tips for Getting Ready to Photograph Your First Wedding

A wedding is often one of the most important days in a couple’s lives, and as the wedding photographer, there’s a lot of pressure on you to capture those memories in the best way possible. Try our course, Wedding Photography for Beginners to learn about everything you’ll need. In this lesson, you’ll find out about… Continue reading 6 Practical Tips for Getting Ready to Photograph Your First Wedding

2022 World Press Photo Contest regional winners announced

A collage showing some of the regional winners from this years World Press Photo Contest. World Press Photo The regional winners of the 2022 World Press Photo Contest have just been announced. Although the contest has been running for 65 years, this is the first time they’ve used a regional format. We’re pretty excited about… Continue reading 2022 World Press Photo Contest regional winners announced

Outsmart your iPhone camera’s overzealous AI

Dan Bracaglia Last weekend The New Yorker published an essay by Kyle Chayka with a headline guaranteed to pique my interest and raise my hackles: “Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?” (March 18, 2022). Aside from being a prime example of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, it feeds into the idea that computational photography is a… Continue reading Outsmart your iPhone camera’s overzealous AI