A New Year for Wedding & News Photography
Wedding photography in 2012 was great. As the first day of 2013 drew to a close, I took the opportunity to start getting ready for this amazing year ahead by making a folder where all the new photographs will reside. This is a new year for wedding and news photography. And I expect to make ...
Latest & Greatest: Not So Great
This happens every time a new electronic comes out: it’s hyped, fanboys/girls take their sides, pre-orders fill up, and then the complaints. There is a risk of buying the latest and greatest of anything the moment it hits the shelves, including DSLRs. This strange “need” by so many photographers to simply have the newest gear ...
2012 Blossom Kite Festival
This year’s kite festival, held annually within the National Cherry Blossom Festival, was an extra special outdoor celebration as it has been 100 years since Japan gifted cherry blossom trees to the United States. Thousands gathered on the breezy National Mall to have picnics and fly all sorts of kites. Expert kite fliers and kite ...
2012 Northern Short Course – Day 3
The third and final day of the 2012 Northern Short Course in Photojournalism began with a real treat: Gerd Ludwig. Ludwig is an amazing German photographer who has worked for pretty much any publication that matters (Time, Nat Geo, Life, Stern, Spiegel, etc.), producing a poignant body of work that focuses heavily on the former ...
Canon EOS 1D X – Speed on Speed
While I was waiting around for my back-ordered Canon EOS 1D Mark IV to become available, Canon-following websites and top photographers were abuzz with rumors that Canon was going to release a new camera and rid itself of the APS-H sensor. In many cases I was to told to wait and save my money ...
‘Made in Japan’ Hard to Find
To many of you, the shortage of Japanese electronics, particularly professional photography equipment, is old news. But I hadn’t experienced the stock slump until recently when I went hunting for a Canon 1D Mark IV. British newspaper, The Guardian, reported back in mid-March that the Great East Japan Earthquake would create a shortage of ...