One year ago, we changed the tagline of our website to say “Photography Life: AI-Free Since 2008.” Even though it was largely a statement against generating our articles and photos artificially, it was also a statement for something I consider essential in photography, perhaps today more than ever: personal style and artistic expression.
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A widespread belief among the general, non-animal-photographing (and therefore more or less normal) population is that patience is the essential quality of a wildlife photographer. I consider myself primarily a wildlife photographer, and my social bubble is teeming with other such weirdos. So let me give a little insight into how things really are.
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This hands-on review covers everything that you need to know about the Nikon Z DX 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ, a budget ultra-wide zoom lens for Nikon’s DX mirrorless cameras. The price is low, but the performance surprised me. Here’s how it measures up!
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Not a lot of foregrounds accomplish what I want them to do in landscape photography. Maybe that’s why I don’t take a lot of classic-style landscape photos with a big, obvious foreground layered in front of the background. But I do still constantly think about finding good foregrounds as a landscape photographer, and it goes without saying that your choice of foreground can make or break a photo. I hope this article sheds a little bit of light on what makes good foregrounds and how to capture them in landscape photography.
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As I write this opening paragraph, I’m sitting on a train, looking out at the flooded landscape around the tracks. Just a few dozen kilometers further north, floodwater is rushing through the towns and villages. Streets have become raging rivers, houses have become islands. How helpless and vulnerable we humans are when we try to resist the force of a mighty current. Yet, what is an extremely inhospitable environment for us is home to the Torrent Duck. This duck can face the roaring current with ease and grace. If only we humans could do the same. Today I wish you good luck navigating any troubled waters you experience, and I’ll bring you some recent photography news to start off your week.
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