• So Close and Yet So Far: Fstoppers Reviews the Lomography MC-A Film Camera

    So Close and Yet So Far: Fstoppers Reviews the Lomography MC-A Film Camera
    With a small flurry of compact film cameras launched in the last couple of years, I was hoping to fall in love with the Lomography MC-A. It’s beautiful and satisfying to use, but a couple of annoying flaws leave me both disappointed and frustrated. The Lomography MC-A launched last October, further heralding a renewed love of everything analog in the world of photography. This is a compact camera that arguably takes inspiration from Contax: small and packed with automation but with lots of m
  • How to Photograph Products in Water and Still Control the Splash

    How to Photograph Products in Water and Still Control the Splash
    Shots of shampoo bottles plunging into water, wrapped in bubbles and topped with a crown of splash, look like luck caught at the right instant. Most of that look comes from planning, and the planning behind it answers a question you run into across product work: how to keep a subject exactly where you want it while everything around it moves. [Read More]
  • Why the Most Memorable Photos Ask a Question They Never Answer

    Why the Most Memorable Photos Ask a Question They Never Answer
    You come home from a trip with hundreds of sharp, well-exposed frames of towers, smiling friends, and pretty streets, and almost none of them hold a stranger's attention for more than a second. The photos you remember from books and exhibitions share one trait that has little to do with gear or settings, and you can learn to build it into your own work. [Read More]
  • Laowa's New 24mm f/2 Tilt-Shift Beats Canon's TS-E 24mm on Medium Format

    Laowa's New 24mm f/2 Tilt-Shift Beats Canon's TS-E 24mm on Medium Format
    Shift lenses keep a building's verticals straight while the camera stays level, and they do it without the unpredictable cropping and resolution loss you take on when you fix perspective in software. Laowa's new 24mm f/2 Zero-D Tilt-Shift brings that to most mirrorless mounts and to medium format, at an aperture tilt-shift lenses almost never reach. [Read More]
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  • 4 Editing Tips That Give Flat Landscape Photos More Depth

    4 Editing Tips That Give Flat Landscape Photos More Depth
    A landscape photo can be sharp, well exposed, and carefully composed and still look like a flat print taped to a wall. Depth in a two-dimensional image comes from cues the eye reads instantly, such as where light falls, how contrast changes with distance, and how warm and cool tones sit against each other, and you can strengthen most of those cues in the edit. [Read More]
  • Fstoppers Reviews The Touchscreen Macbook Pro

    Fstoppers Reviews The Touchscreen Macbook Pro
    Two weeks ago I spent over $7,000 on Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro. It finally showed up, so I put it side by side with the M3 Max MacBook Pro I've been using for the last two years. To be perfectly honest, I'm on the fence about whether I even want to keep it. [Read More]

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