Year: 2011

  • TWiP #233 – Vincent LaForet on Shooting DSLR Video

    In this chat Vincent and Frederick discuss the then and now. How the industry has changed, and what might be next. And he gives plenty of tips on how “regular folk” can get started shooting professional-looking video without taking out a 2nd mortgage.

  • TWiP #232 – There’s A Yak For That

    This week on TWiP: dSLRs banned from a UK tube station, iPhone photos find their way into stock photography, Kodak burning through $70 million a month, and CF cards to be replaced by smaller XQD format.

  • New eBook! Vision is Better 2

    David duChemin has had one hell of a year. Let’s see: Divorce, self-induced homelessness, falling off of a wall in Italy and breaking both feet (and his pelvis); and the subsequent fight to walk again. He has taken the time to chronicle his year in this amazing ebook along with some incredibly salient words about “gear lust”.

  • TWiP #231 – Only $30 to Touch Their Junk

    This week on TWiP: CNN lays off photojournalists citing the accessibility of quality cameras, brick and mortar camera shops start charging you touch the goods, looking back a the most memorable stories and images from 2011, and an interview with Paul C. Buff.

  • TWiP #230 – Flash is Dead? Long Live Flash?

    This week on TWiP: Are liquid lenses the next big thing in Photography, Adobe kills flash for mobile and revamps it’s upgrade pricing model, Google+ reunites a DSLR owner with his images lost at sea, new hardware from Nikon, and an interview with Dan Brodnitz about the state of distance learning for creatives.

  • TWiP #228 – Google <3 Photographers

    This week on TWiP: The camera manufacturer industry is abuzz with big news from Olympus, Canon, and Red, Google+ launches pages for businesses, and an interview with Photoshop guru Jeff Schewe.

  • TWiP #226 – Retro Active

    This week on TWiP: A new iPhone app called Shoebox lets you scan & archive old photographs with your iPhone, Nikon eying webOS, What’s behind the rise in popularity of retro photography?, and does the printed portfolio still matter?

  • Adventures in Updating to iOS5

    Thought I’d give my opinion on how the iOS 5 update experience was for me. I updated two iPads, one iPod Touch, and one iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 over the past couple of days. Personally, I had no problems at all.

  • Where Are We Going With This?

    TWiP Contributor and photographer Rick Alacron recently gave up his full-time job to focus on his photography and to try and find work in the field of photojournalism. Rick shares his thoughts on photojournalism as a career in the face of increasing competition and decreasing demand and ponders where he is going with it.

  • iOweYou

    Yesterday, the world lost a visionary when Steve Jobs lost his battle with cancer. TWiP contributor Patrick Reed shares his feelings on Steve’s passing in a thank you note on behalf of the TWiP audience to man known as the heart and soul of Apple.

  • TWiP #217 – Big Things in Small Packages

    Now they’re saying size DOES matter? An Israeli company develops a smaller Jpeg, Flickr lets you put up a digital fence around your photos, Urban Outfitters & their photographer face a lawsuit from parents of a model he photographed in a, let’s say, ‘adult’ manner. Plus a special interview with Jack Reznicki.

  • Shoot Away the Summer

    Summer is here and that means great weather, vacations, and cool drinks on the beach. It’s also a great time to head outdoors and getting shooting. TWiP contributor Huba Rostonics shares his tips for getting the most out of your vacation photos this summer.

  • Understanding the Inverse Square Law

    Are you baffled by the inverse-square law? Wondering what it means to you and your photography? In this article, TWiP contributor Alex Singh explains the meaning of the inverse square law and how it applies to lighting and photography.

  • Show Me How You See It

    Duchemin is engaging and real in this composite of essays – and so his connection to the reader is natural. He leads us from foggy frustrated thoughts at 5 a.m. in Ethiopia about the challenges of the job to a mini-biography about how he journeyed from theology student to comedian to photographer.

  • TWiP #215 – Stock it to Me

    This week on TWiP: Stock buyers or stock shooters – who’s to blame for the state of stock photography today, Delkin releases new CF cards for extreme conditions, a photograph of President Obama at a memorial site stirs some controversy, and Nokia creates the world’s largest stop-motion animation with a cell phone camera.

  • Nikon D3100 Digital Field Guide Review

    If you shoot with the Nikon D3100 and are looking to learn more about using it, the Nikon D3100 Field Guide might be for you. In this article, TWiP Contributor Bill Debevc shares his review of J Dennis Thomas’s book – Nikon D3100 Field Guide published by Wiley Publishing Inc.