Shooting from the hip without looking through the viewfinder is a foundational discipline in street photography. New York photographer Joe Wigfall turned this practice into his signature working method. He walks through the crowds of Manhattan with his camera suspended at chest level, capturing frames continuously with...
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In March 1993, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter captured in the Sudanese village of Ayod the image of an emaciated child collapsed on the earth while a vulture waited a few meters away. For documentary photography, that record with a Nikon camera became a harrowing symbol of the famine in Africa. At the same...
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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed a green and purple aurora over Kyrgyzstan from the International Space Station. For the capture, she used a Nikon Z9 camera with a focal length of 15 mm. The image documents how solar particles excite atmospheric gases at different altitude layers during a moderate geomagnetic s...
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In 2008, Annie Leibovitz photographed Sean Connery on a dock near his home in the Bahamas for Louis Vuitton's Core Values campaign. The portrait appears to capture a moment of rest, but the behind-the-scenes footage reveals a precise production that turned the actor's biography into part of the advertising message.No e...
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Dual ISO shows that a digital camera can change the way it reads the signal at certain ISO values. For a photographer, that means the lowest ISO is not always the cleanest decision, and higher ISO does not make everything worse in a straight line.The rule of keeping ISO as low as possible is still useful as a starting...
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The Nikon D80 turns 20 years old after its August 2006 introduction, and it is back in conversations about the so-called “CCD look”. The camera matters less as a nostalgic object than as a concrete way to see what changed when digital photography gained comfort, speed and room for error.On paper, the D80 cannot compete...
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Cheap 420-800mm telephoto lenses do exist, and the reach they promise is not a marketing fantasy. They do not replace a modern super-telephoto. Their low price shifts the cost somewhere else: less light, fewer automatisms, less room for error, and much more work for the person behind the camera.That is the real catch w...
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There are outings where the photo does not appear right away. You arrive with a vague idea, look at the place, try a path and realize that the image was not where it seemed to be. It was hidden in an angle, in a sound, in a distance or in a small detail that did not draw attention at first.That was the most interesting...
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The phone is no longer an emergency camera. For many photos, it is the main camera. It is always with us, processes quickly and delivers images that are ready to share.That point does not need defending. A modern phone can handle travel, family, social media, visual notes, memories and even simple jobs. The problem app...
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Some images stop you in your tracks. You look at them for a few seconds and something hooks you, even if you can't quite explain what it is. The curious thing is that they're often not the most technically complex photos, nor the ones taken with the most expensive camera, nor the ones showing the most spectacular lands...
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