10 Tips for the Aspiring Street Photographer

Let’s face it, starting street photography is no easy task. For the average photographer, going from shooting flowers into shooting people in the streets is like stepping into a Ferrari after driving a Toyota Prius. It is intimidating at first, but quite exhilarating once you try it out. After shooting on the streets for about four years, here are my top ten tips for somebody (with absolutely no background in street photography) to get their feet wet.

1. Ditch the zoom ..read more

10 Quick tips for Photographing Antelope Canyons

A Guest post by Amar Ramesh.

Antelope Canyons in page Arizona is one of the most exquisite gifts of nature that is generally overlooked by people traveling to Arizona.

The sandstone canyons lit from the streak of light passing right through the slots makes it one the most serene places in the world. Located at the Navajo Tribal Park near Lake Powell, these canyons have narrow paths, created by water flowing through them for millions of years. It’s a photographer’s paradise. Listed below are some the quick ..read more

Wide Angle: Weekly Photography Challenge

This week your photography challenge is to take a share a picture with the widest focal length available to you.

Image by Adriano Agulló – Shot at 8mm

For some this will mean using their point and shoot at it’s widest setting, for others it’ll be fixing a zoom lens to your camera and using the widest focal length on it and for others it might mean attaching a wide angle prime lens or even a fisheye lens and shooting with that.

A ..read more

Canon releases PowerShot SD4000 IS compact with manual control

Canon has released the PowerShot SD4000 IS (IXUS 300HS in Europe) ultra-compact camera. It features the company’s new ‘HS’ system that promises better low-light performance and high-speed photography through a combination of a 10MP back-illuminated CMOS sensor and DIGIC 4 processor. It sports a 28-105mm equivalent f/2.0-5.3 stabilized zoom lens (much like that seen on the S90), 3 inch LCD and P/A/S/M shooting modes. The camera also features a Super Slow Motion movie mode that records ..read more

Jowling – Photography Fun For a Rainy Day

Note: File this one under ‘bizarre’, ’silly’ or ‘things to do on a boring rainy day’…

Looking to take a portraits with a quirky twist? Try ‘jowling‘ (also sometimes known as slap n’ flap).

Photo by rent-a-moose

How do you do it? Get your subject to relax their facial muscles completely (to the point that they have no facial expression)…. open their eyes and mouth (try to keep them open)… then to shake their head from side to side as fast as they ..read more

Tokina 12-24mm f/4 AT-X Pro DX II LENS – bargain ultra-wide?

Introduction

If you’re looking for an affordable ultra-wide angle lens for your APS-C cropped sensor Canon, Nikon, Sony or Pentax DSLR in 2010, you have quite a few choices. In the last year or two, most lens makers have updated their ultra-wide offerings: Tamron replaced its 11-18mm model with a new 10-24mm (available for Nikon, Canon, Pentax and Sony), Sigma produced a new, faster 10-20mm (Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Sony), Nikon replaced its 12-24 with a 10-24mm and Olympus added a ..read more

Casio Outs A New Point-And-Shoot Camera

Casio Outs A New Point-And-Shoot Camera

Here’s the latest point-and-shoot camera from Casio, the EXILIM Zoom EX-Z350. This compact camera sports a 12.1-megapixel image sensor, a 27mm wide-angle lens, a 4x optical zoom lens and a 2.7-inch TFT color display. It also comes with a number of advanced features including Face Detection, 23 BEST SHOT programs and YouTube Capture mode for videos. The Casio EXILIM Zoom EX-Z350 is now available in Europe for 149 Euro (about $182). [DPnow]

Canon IXUS 300 HS – A Game Changer?

This is mostly a press release about the forthcoming Canon IXUS 300 HS but it’s also close to my heart! It would seem that Canon have almost come full circle.. It was 2001 when I first purchased my Canon Ixus 300!

Press Release Starts Here Folks…

United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, 11th May 2010

– Canon today bolsters its luxury IXUS range with the launch of the incredible new

IXUS 300 HS

– a stylish and powerful premium compact digital camera capable of ..read more

Sigma 8-16mm APS-C Lens

…but is it any good?!

Sigma announced the release of their new “Widest on the aps-c market” Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM FLD AF Ultra Wide Zoom Lens at PMA this year, and below you will find the press release if you’re interested in such things… What we don’t have just yet is access to this lens to try it out and see if it is indeed any good… (update from Darren: we’re hoping to get one from Sigma in the ..read more

The BeetleCam Project

William Burrard-Lucas and his brother Matthew are up and coming wildlife photographers from the UK. Their unique approach to wildlife photography involves working as a team to take imaginative and innovative photographs of wild animals. You can find out more about them on their website, Burrard-Lucas Wildlife Photography. In this guest post they talk about their latest project: BeetleCam.

As wildlife photographers, we are continually trying to take unusual and original photographs of our subjects. In recent years this has meant ..read more

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