In an auction to be held at Christie’s in New York City and online, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will offer the public a selection of over 400 prints including mid-19th century through to the early post-war period photographs from masters such as Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Bill […]
Composition is a way to guide the viewer through the photograph to the subject of interest. There are no composition “rules” in photography but “guidelines” to create compelling images. These guidelines can improve the way you compose an image and help to create a balance between the elements in the frame. Once you become familiar […]
While we often spend significant sums of money on our camera equipment, one area we tend to neglect is the computer side of this hobby of ours. In particular, storage. Most modern computers will play nicely with RAW files, without any lag. However, as we upgrade our cameras, those RAW files tend to get bigger […]
Double exposure photography is a genre that merges multiple photographs to create a single story. Stories told through double exposures are often very thoughtful and visually appealing. Like optical illusions, they catch the viewer’s eye, compelling them to wonder how such an image was created. Certain cameras can merge photographs before they’re even imported to […]
Copyright claims might be getting a little easier for photographers. Legislation proposed by Copyright Alternative in Small Claims Enforcement Act of 2017 (CASE) would streamline the federal copyright small claims process, reducing cost of litigation and limiting friction in the copyright claims process for photographers. Introduced to the US Congress by Hakeem Jeffries of the […]
New tech from Google promises pictures and video that will memorialize your life with a passive, wearable camera that is programmed to take pictures “worth taking” – and you don’t even need to help it. Photography is what you would call an active, engaged field – the best photographers live and breath their work, obsessing […]
India is a land filled with diversity, and one day I hope to visit it. Any photograph I see from India arouses immense curiosity in me. I can only delight in photographs of the country. I separate the images into two large categories: ones from travelers, and ones from native photographers. Here I want to […]
I love portraiture. Taking photos of expressions, movements, and spontaneous reactions fills me with childlike excitement. This was the only genre I focused on when I first discovered photography, but when I began to experiment with other types of techniques, perspectives, and concepts, my artistic self discovered a whole new world. There, I found more […]
DXOMark has just released their review of the Nikon D850 and it has officially knocked the Sony a7R II into second place to claim the mantle as the best camera they have ever tested with an incredible score of 100. This is huge news for Nikon who already held second position after the aR7 II […]
We’ve had another awesome week in the world of photography with many artists creating and sharing great images and writing great articles. In this weeks hand-curated list of links we find that Toad Hollow Photography has been searching in all known corners of the internet for content to share here with you. We really hope […]
