When it comes to photography, the internet is equal parts helpful and harmful. Ok, maybe not in perfectly equal parts — it’s certainly going to lean heavily in one direction or the other depending on who you are how you use the internet, but for most people, the nett effect is somewhere in the neighborhood […]
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Staying motivated is a struggle that befalls virtually every photographer at some point (probably multiple points) in your creative life. This struggle is indifferent to what kind of photography you’re doing — street, portrait, wedding, pet — though professional photographers may feel the crunch a bit more intensely due to the fact that clients and […]
Why do you photograph? What compels you to raise a camera to your eye, compose a scene and press the shutter? If you’ve never asked yourself this question, I think you owe it to yourself to do so. It’s something you should really sit with for a few moments, and then revisit in subsequent days, […]
I discuss film photography often, both here on Light Stalking and in real life, because I simply have a passion for it. I’m not of the mind that film is objectively better than digital — in fact, I’m quite aware of the drawbacks of film, but I will continue to choose it whenever possible for […]
I don’t like to refer to photographers as amateurs or professionals; I would rather say that they are either passionate or not. You can hire a professional photographer who is bland and without passion. And you can meet an “amateur” photographer who is extremely passionate about the craft. Let’s talk about passionate photographers today. There […]
Is the Canon/Nikon dominance of professional photography over? Here we look at the history to answer this question.