Follow Your Intuition | Eric Kim
That quiet voice inside your head that says: “That might be interesting— why don’t you take a photo?” Then your rational mind goes: “No, that will be a boring cliche— don’t take a photograph.” The more I’ve been studying and Read more …
How to Clean Your Camera Lenses (And Check For Problems) | DIY Photography
In the past, Roger has shown us time and time again, that internal dust and other artifacts rarely have an effect on the image quality produced by your lenses. With how complicated the optics in a lens are designed, lenses Read more …
Color Grading and why SOOC is an illusion | Palle Schultz
Among some photographers there is a certain pride in delivering pictures right out of the box – referred to as SOOC, meaning straight out of camera. But for many reasons I think the SOOC concept is quite silly and in my Read more …
The Mystery of depth of field and crop factor! | Palle Schultz
Why full frame and crop frame will never be the same thing? There have been quite a few attempts to explain depth of field and its relation to sensor size. I will try to explain why shooting with different “crop factors” Read more …
Back to the Future for Creativity | John Meehan
I’ve been reading David Bate’s little book Photography: The Key Concepts. It’s an introduction to photographic theory and history. The cover blurb states: “Photography: The Key Concepts” provides an ideal guide to the place of photography in our society and Read more …
Why Is Image Quality Important? | Eric Kim
It seems that we as photographers have this overly-obsessive fascination and obsession with “image quality” — through how sharp our images are, how well “bokeh” renders, the depth-of-field or “3d-ness” of images, how much the colors “pop”, or things such Read more …
Photographers see differently than Non-Photographers? The Obsession Experiment | CanonUSA
Professional photographers are obsessed over the details, but we wanted to find out how obsessed. We invited three people to analyze the same print and used eye-tracking technology to trace every eye movement they made. In the end, it was Read more …
Why Travel? | Eric Kim
I wanted to write you this letter on traveling; my experiences globe-trotting around the world, my motivations, and things I have learned along the way: I remember when I was 18 years old, I never really had much of an Read more …
Why Shoot Black and White? | Eric Kim
Black and white is where my heart and soul is. I feel that by shooting in black and white, I can better communicate and convey my emotions, thoughts, and feelings. I feel that black and white is less of an Read more …
28 Lessons I’ve Learned From Life | Eric Kim
I have a very vivid memory as a child: I was around 10-12 years old, and I was in the passenger seat of my mom’s car. We were driving around, got lost, and ended up in some shady neighborhood. My Read more …