Microphotography

In my Intermediate class this week, I was showing macro lenses and someone used the phrase "microphotography". I corrected them, because there is a different between macro and micro. It comes down to the amount of magnification; in macro, they are things you can still see with the naked eye, but micro has a 20x...

Amazon’s Neewer Photo Deals

While getting the latest, shiny Canon or Nikon gear is nice, it's not always needed, especially for students who are still trying to figure out their style and what they'll use gear-wise. There's a few good brands like Neewer or Yongnuo that can give you a lot of bang for your buck, especially when it...

SD cards and the importance of write speeds

I thought this Shutterbug article by Ron Leach was a great explanation for students in our program; I've just talked about the different speeds of cards to my Intermediate class, as I showed them a medium format digital camera and what it needs to run well; while I use brands that display the speed on...

Photographer Natacha de Mahieu visualises the impact of overtourism

My photo history class, Survey of Photography, is starting to explore colonialism in photography and how that morphed into travel photography when I came across this article by Rebecca Liu, "Wish you weren't here". How perfect would it be, how perfect to tie in Stillfried and Brady and the photo craze that created Japonism with the...

Too-Smart Phone Cameras

I thought this was a really interesting article, and something I've thought about a lot with some of the newer smart phone photos I've seen both in some of my classes and out on the webs; what smartphones do by default becomes what we assume is normal. For years I've been trying to retrain students...

Gnarbox 2.0

What is a Gnarbox? Gnarbox is a rugged backup device. It’s a tiny computer, that you control with your phone and can be used to back up your photos from memory cards, USB card readers or external drives. I first heard about it from this website: https://www.hdrshooter.com/2019/06/08/gnarbox-rugged-backup-device/ But it seems to have been updated with...