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Save Money Buying Off-Trend Vintage Lenses
How to actually save money with vintage lenses without compromising quality. Get ready to focus. Sorry. If you didn't already know, vintage lenses are a cost-effective way to build your lens collection so you can get creative with whatever you're shooting. You start off buying some on eBay, finding an adapter (I use GoBe's m42-EF mount, was like £13) and then being a little pissed off when you find it's full of mould. If you're thinking, "Mine's not mouldy, it just has a vintage tinge to it"—shine your phone torch through that bad boy and count the snowflakes. It's mould.
By Samuel F. Sherring7 years ago in Photography
8 Things You Need to Know About Depth of Field (DoF)
As a new photographer, it can be difficult to understand the various settings on your DSLR and how they all work together to create an image. Maybe you understand some things like shutter speed and composition, along with the tips for using the rule of thirds in photography, but you find the more technical aspects of photography a bit more elusive and complex, like depth of field.
By Hannah McSorley7 years ago in Photography
Desktop Inspiration
As per many of my inspirations, they seem to ignite while hard at work behind my computer. So it should come to no surprise that “Desktop Inspiration” is another such writing. I have two computers at my desk, a work horse that captures my emails, calendar of events, and everything work-related, and of course my inspirational rantings. the other computer is solely for scheduling my work force. It is this computer to which this writing comes into fruition. Often the computer will sit idle, and return to the random desktop images that Windows OS 10 offers, and at present I have the images on the nature's path imagery that is, every so often, updated, selected through Microsoft’s vast library of beautiful landscape photography. Seeing that I have been trigger happy this summer, taking my own photographs, I’ve adopted Windows Desktop images display and added my own photos to the mix, and have even been able to incorporate my own inspirational verbiage to the screen pictures.
By John Neil7 years ago in Photography
My Happy Place
My legs and feet were growing numb from sitting on hard ground. Something, hopefully a tree root, was digging into a crevice I’d rather not mention and swarms of mosquitoes were alternately biting any exposed flesh or flying into my ears, eyes and nose. (I’m smart enough to keep my mouth closed.)
By JT Fisherman7 years ago in Photography
Focusing on the Process to Hone Your Craft
The article was quite generic, not applying to anything specific, but rather serving as a general rule or theory to live life by: don’t get bogged down with the outcome, and put yourself under pressure to achieve a goal but instead focus on the journey to get there, and let the goal happen by a product of the successfully executed process.
By David Romanis7 years ago in Photography
More than Just a Camera
For the last few years of the Seventies after leaving the Royal Air Force, my Dad took a job that meant he had to spent a decent amount of time in the US. His jobs over the years took him all over the world, and we didn’t see him for months on end in my early childhood, but I know he really enjoyed the international travel, despite his protestations that it was tiring (I’ve since worked for short stints abroad and, while tiring, you make time to have a bit of fun too; otherwise, what’s the point?!).
By David Romanis7 years ago in Photography
Why I Fell (Back) in Love with Slow Photography
I read about slow photography a little while ago when I was looking into buying bulk 35mm film and loading my own canisters. It’s predicated on the idea that we shouldn’t hurry the creative process and we should enjoy photography for the art and the creation of pictures rather than snapping shots on a smartphone and uploading to social media for likes and shares.
By David Romanis7 years ago in Photography
Sparked! Photography
Back in 2015, I flew out to California for the first time, which was also my first flight alone, and I stayed with my stepmother Liz. At some point, she had purchased tickets for the Bill Pickett Rodeo being held in Hayward. I hadn't been to a rodeo before, so I tagged along with her. Her friend Yolanda also came with us and she had brought her camera to take some pictures of the event. I think it was a Canon EOS Rebel SL1. Anyways, I enjoyed the whole experience and after the rodeo was over, I asked Yolanda to see some of the pictures she took. In no way was she a professional, but I was fascinated by what she captured. At that moment, I knew I wanted to do that, too. That's when my interest in photography sparked.
By Michelle Jones7 years ago in Photography
New Chapter: Returning to Photography
A new chapter has arisen in my life, and I feel it's only the beginning of it. This journey started in the beginning of January of this year, after being jobless for quite some time. I was completely lost, feeling like I had a missing piece of the puzzle within my soul to search for. I didn't take long before I realized, perhaps, being away from photography was the cause of my feeling like I had lost my way.
By Guije Sanchez7 years ago in Photography
