Photography Life

• The Red-Winged Blackbird
  Posted on Wednesday June 04, 2025
  Some say flowers herald the coming of spring, but I feel it is the song of the Red-winged Blackbird that signifies the change of seasons. I still remember their beautiful call one very cold morning near the end of winter, before the growth of any plant or the disappearance of ice. Continue Reading »
• Photography News: Sony FX2 Announced, Travel Tripod Sale
  Posted on Sunday June 01, 2025
  This week, I spent some time practicing one of my favorite genres of photography: intimate landscapes. There’s something exciting to the fact that you can get interesting landscape photos anywhere. It doesn’t need to be a grand vista or a world-famous National Park; it could be a pond near your house. And while I was busy photographing the grass in one such pond, a few interesting things happened in the world of photography. Here’s the biggest news of the week. Continue Reading »
• The Importance of Culling and Editing in Photography
  Posted on Saturday May 31, 2025
  Photographers don’t always have a good relationship with post-processing. Some photographers over-edit their photos, getting in the way of what they captured in camera. Other photographers neglect the post-processing stage – such as culling through their photos carelessly, or not utilizing the available tools to fine-tune a photo’s processing. Continue Reading »
• Viltrox AF 28mm F4.5 Chip Review
  Posted on Wednesday May 28, 2025
  Viltrox has just announced the Viltrox AF 28mm f/4.5 Chip lens, a fixed-aperture autofocus lens for the Nikon Z mount, which has been available for the Sony E mount for some time. This pancake lens is pretty small, inexpensive, and has some interesting features all for $99. In this review, I’ll be taking a look at this fun little lens, which I tested on the Nikon Z6. Continue Reading »
• Nikon HE* Versus Lossless Compressed .NEF Files
  Posted on Wednesday May 28, 2025
  Nikon’s Expeed 7 processor – used in the Nikon Zf, Z5 II, Z6 III, Z8, and Z9 – added a variety of capabilities to the Nikon Z lineup. Among its most notable characteristics is that the handling of RAW (.NEF) files on these cameras has a new option called High Efficiency* (HE*) compression. Nikon asserts that this formats is “visually identical” to their traditional Lossless Compressed RAW files, yet much smaller – and more capable of shooting long bursts without filling up the buffer. Continue Reading »
• New Video: I Made 100 Darkroom Prints for Our Viewers
  Posted on Tuesday May 27, 2025
  Today, to celebrate crossing 100,000 subscribers on the Photography Life YouTube channel, I published a video with a giveaway of 100 contact prints from my apartment darkroom! I took all of these photos with a large format camera and printed them by hand, no digital steps involved. Continue Reading »
• Photography News: Fuji X Half, Nikon Price Increases
  Posted on Sunday May 25, 2025
  While Libor travels in Ecuador, I’ll be bringing you the weekly news – and this was a big week in the photography world. It was also a big week for one of the projects I’ve been working on: an upcoming YouTube video (our first in more than a year!) where I show the process of printing 100 photos in the darkroom. You’ll hear more about that soon, but first, let’s take a look at the major photography news of the week. Continue Reading »
• Viltrox AF 50mm f/2 Air Review
  Posted on Friday May 23, 2025
  Sometimes I feel haunted by 50mm lenses! My first prime lens was a Pentax 50mm f/1.7, and later my first Nikon lens was the 50mm f/1.8G. Although I think 50mm is a little on the wide side for my style, my first Nikon Z lens was also a 50mm. So, when Viltrox offered to send me their new Viltrox 50mm f/2 Air lens for a review, I thought, why not? In this review, I’ll be putting this little 50mm to the test on the Nikon Z6. Continue Reading »
• The Right Time, the Wrong Place: A Story of Wildlife Photography
  Posted on Wednesday May 21, 2025
  You might be smiling ironically right now, thinking those words - "the right time, the wrong place" - sum up a misadventure you've had as a wildlife photographer. And because I know that shared misery is half the misery, let me reassure you with this little story that you are not alone. Continue Reading »
• The Role of Negative Space in Nature Photography
  Posted on Monday May 19, 2025
  Wildlife photographers often use long telephoto lenses to "fill the frame," but there's more to capturing a great photo. Previously, I wrote about photographing wildlife through animalscapes. Now, let's discuss the use of negative space - an often underused technique that deserves more attention. Continue Reading »

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