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The Phoblographer’s Top Posts for the Week of May 9th

Chris Gampat
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05/09/2015
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Want to catch up on the best of our news for the entire week? Well here’s your weekly Phoblographer round up. This week, readers were all about inspiration, tutorials and apparently some of you don’t like the 50mm focal length.

Gear

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Does the World Still Need DSLRs?: According to you guys, yes–the world still needs DSLRs. It seems like you want to have nothing to do with a world that is devoid of them.

An Ode to the 35mm and 85mm Lenses: An open letter to my photography mentors about why the 50mm focal length wasn’t for me and complete lack of understanding why they tell everyone to go for it.

Five Portrait Lenses That Won’t Make Skin Look Unsightly: Photographers who love portrait lenses may also start to realize that they’re way too sharp at times. Getting lenses that are less sharp can actually make skin look much better.

Making the Best of a 35mm Lens: We teach readers how to start using a 35mm lens and the intricacies of the focal length.

Sony 35mm f1.4 E Mount review: Sony’s latest lens can hold its own with others very well.

Features/Tutorials

7 Places to Find Inspiration on the Web: We’ve used lots of services to find inspiration for photography and overall just for ideas. And this is our list of our favorite sites to find this stuff. If you’re in a photographic slump, check these out and keep thinking about new ideas.

Image by Marius Vieth
Image by Marius Vieth

Six Ways to Draw a Subject’s Eyes into a Scene: Yes, the rule of thirds is king. But if you’re looking for other ways to bring someone’s attention to a specific area of a photo, we’ve got a number of different ways that you can achieve that.

How a 365 Project Was the Best and Worst Thing for Me: Managing Editor Julius Motal talks about his 365 project and what it taught him the hard way–like shooting just to shoot.

10 Inspirational Photographers You Should be Following: Trust us when we say that you probably haven’t heard of these folks. You’ll want to bury yourself in their work after reading this piece.

Shooting Better Food Images With One Light: The secret to getting better food images has to do with making the delectable treats look like they’re part of the human perspective.

Artist Features

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Iron Man Grounded: When Robert Downey Jr was a complete jerk to him, photographer Raffael Dickreuter decided to find a way to make Iron Man more personable and relatable rather than untouchable by mere mortals.

Comfort in Chaos: This series shows off a man playing with a smokey cloud in a whimsical, fantastic and fun way.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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