The Olympus OM-D E-M5 II is a great mid-level micro four thirds offering ideally suited for those looking to keep things small and light. Packing most of Olympus’s latest technologies into a small, light weight package, this camera is a no brainier for anyone who places size/weight at the top of their priorities list. Oh, its also currently $200 off.
Popular lens upgrades for photographers who prefer primes to zooms, the 50mm, and 85mm focal lengths are among the most popular in use today, but which one should you go with if you had to choose just one for your next lens purchase?
For years, I’ve been in love with Fujifilm 100-C peel apart film. It’s beautiful; or at least it was beautiful. As many photographers know, it’s been discontinued though there are talks about bringing it back from third parties. And as a younger photographer who started casually in film, got serious in digital then very serious in film again what personally breaks my heart so much is that I discovered way too late the absolute fun and extended magic of working not only with the film’s positive photos but also the negatives.
A predominant theme in the modern digital world around us. The greatest appeal of photography is the ability to capture that fleeting moment. To lock it, in true permanence, with the swift and sure click of a shutter. But as with all things ones and zeros, digital photography is by nature immaterial. Film photography, on the other hand, is a physical process with immutable results.
Photographer Nicole Struppert is not only a photographer, but also the Editor of the Women in Photography blog. She’s been running it for a fair amount of time now and continues to update it and profile the work of fantastic women photographers. On a more personal basis, Nicole and I have been friends for a while now and I’ve been working with her to help build the site. We feature a lot of photographers here, but not a whole lot of bloggers. And in a situation like this, I find what Nicole is doing to be particularly interesting.
All images by Kyle Pozan. Used with permission. In the hundreds of applications that I’ve received for the analog zine’s creation, I’ve had to become more discriminatory about the types of work presented. As it is, not everyone’s work is going to get in and I’m only featuring the absolute best of the best. But …
Every photographer romanticizes in one way or another years on down the line about a camera that they’ve used and loved. For many of us, it’s their first camera. When photographers speak about said camera, they’re describing the equivalent of a sensor experience of sorts. In many ways, when you talk to the photographer about the experience it’s often a poetic wax of some sort to a more nostalgic time in their lives. Yet for some photographers, that camera is and will be the Ricoh GR II.
One of the things that many portrait photographers and headshot photographers struggle with is figuring out whether they should get a 135mm or 85mm focal length for their portraiture. It’s a tough question if you don’t understand how one lens works vs the other option. In truth, they both do different things, but I’m not sure that there’s a great reason why a photographer would want to have one vs the other option. They’re both lens focal lengths that can do very specific things and do them very well.
Hey everyone, Within the next month, we’ve got a number of street photography workshops lined up. Join us in NYC and at your own computer tonight for the next three nights (or at your leisure). More details are after the jump!
When you look at the street photographs of Omri Shomer, you start to see work that’s typical of many photographers though in a different way involving the use of specific lighting, color and urban geometry. Indeed, Omri’s work is pretty fantastic from an artistic standpoint. The 34 year old Israel based photographer started taking photos at the age of 13. His early influences are rooted in using an 8mm video camera which then branched out into using a 35mm pocket camera.