Author Archives: Steve Crane

Chris, one of our members, sent me this link to a beautiful time lapse video of the Milky Way. The picture about is a grab of one frame and gives some idea of what the video is like. Terje Sorgjerd, the photographer behind the viral video The Aurora, has done it again. Here, Sogjerd capturesContinue reading “Time lapse video of the Milky Way”

Florian, one of our members, sent in this article that he thought others might find interesting. It begins, For years, lens makers have fought hard to market lenses of wider and wider aperture. Wide apertures (e.g., f /1.4 instead of f /2) but a series of measurement published on dxomark.com cast some doubts on theContinue reading “F-Stop Blues”

From Lightstalking, When you start to get serious about photography, something becomes very apparent to you – that getting different effects while photographing the same subject doesn’t need to be particularly difficult. It is actually quite easy to render totally different effects on a single subject using a few tried and tested tactics. What youContinue reading “5 Ways To Truly Explore a Single Photographic Subject”

Jim Goldstein writes, Employing long exposure photography techniques is a great way to create an image that makes others go “Wow!”. If you’re unfamiliar with long exposure photography the major ingredient needed is low light conditions, which will require your camera to expose for longer periods of time. In fact it’s even possible to useContinue reading “5 Tips To Transform Your Photography With Long Exposures”

Jason Row writes on the Lightstalking blog. Until a few years ago, workflow was a virtually unheard of word. Now it is the mantra of nearly every professional photographer but what does it mean? Well, put simply, its carrying out the day to day work tasks in a consistent and hence efficient way. Following onContinue reading “What a Typical Digital Management Workflow Looks Like”

Our member Gavin Whiteford sent in this link to a time-lapse video of a 28-hour period composed of 3359 individual photographs. The images were all shot from a single point in the city of Dubai. Watch the video

Our member Chris Joubert sent in this link to a collection of 100 photos billed as still life. Included are photos of creatures, landscapes, frozen motion and other subjects that don’t conform to a traditional definition of still life images, but they are worth a look anyway as there are some very interesting photos inContinue reading “100 Attractive Examples Of Still Life Photography”

On her blog Mostly Lisa, Lisa Bettany writes, Happy New Year Everyone! Every year I vow to become a better photographer. Last year I set some pretty lofty New Year’s resolutions for myself. This year I have very different plans that involve a little bit of travel — watch for an exciting announcement coming veryContinue reading “6 New Year’s Resolutions Every Photographer Should Make in 2012”

Read this list of great photography-related books released in the last year.