Day 1 Workshop Report: Night shooting with the Hyperprime 50 T0.95 Woo Hoo! Day one of the Los Angeles workshop has wrapped up and with over 30 of us in attendance it was an amazing night! This is gearing up to be the best workshop yet and today we all gathered at Hatakeyama Studio in [Read More...]
Traveling light in Myanmar with a Nikon V1 by Colin Steel Hey photo travel fans, I am newly returned from a week long trip to Myanmar with a twist. I decided to travel very light with a totally minimalist kit comprising a Nikon V1 with two lens kit (10-30 & 30-110), my tiny Manfrotto travel [Read More...]
Event Photography- Photographing a Restaurant Opening By Ashwin Rao – Ashwin’s blog can be seen HERE Hi everyone, it’s Ashwin, back with a short and sweet post (hopefully) as the New Year fast approaches. As many of us have gotten increasing experience with our cameras, we have received opportunities to port our cameras [Read More...]
The best posts of 2011, and the year in review - It has been a blast, but let’s keep the passion in 2012! So Winter is settling in. In many parts of the world the snow is falling and the chill is in the air. The end of another year is upon us…and boy did it [Read More...]
A Day at the Zoo with my Leica M9-P and 50 Summitar f/2 Since I live in Phoenix AZ I get to enjoy mild and beautiful winters. Full sunshine, and mid 60′s in December makes for a perfect time of year to head outdoors. In the summer when the heat rises to a blistering 105-115 [Read More...]
Just for fun: Sensor sizes compared for Bokeh – Small, Medium and Large This is a “just for fun” post. I used to do these kind of things all the time not because they are really extremely useful, but because there are some readers out there who are absolute newbies (been getting lots of e-mail [Read More...]
My tips on the Fuji X100 by Kaushal Parikh I know in my last post on Steve’s site many people were quite pleased that I did not make any mention of gear used. I don’t think that gear alone can create good photographs but I do believe that a good photographer can be inspired [Read More...]
Dark, Gritty, Noisy. Sometimes it works. I was out this week with my trusty Olympus E-P3 and 12mm SLR Magic lens as well as the 14-42 kit zoom that comes with the camera. I took a visit to the state fair in AZ and mostly shot with the NEX-7 because I am still testing it [Read More...]
10 Simple Ways to Become a Better Street Photographer By Eric Kim The most beautiful thing about street photography is that you are able to capture real slices of life and capture them forever. Not only that, but street photography is open to everybody. You don’t need a fancy camera or expensive lenses to capture [Read More...]
The Chicago Workshop was Awesome! Many of you may have noticed that I did not update my site this weekend. Well, that was because I was in Chicago since Thursday for the workshop you have been reading about here on the site. I was a bit worried when flying in because the weather forecast called [Read More...]
ITS THE LENSES! – Don’t upgrade your camera just yet! By Steve Huff It seems that every month or so there is some new and advanced camera being released and in some cases new models get replaced within a few months. Cameras like the Panasonic GF2 had a short 4 month life. I guess [Read More...]
Conquering the Streets of Mumbai – by Kaushal Parikh Street photography grabbed my attention only about 3 years ago when I stumbled upon images made by photographers like Cartier Bresson and Joel Meyerowitz on the streets of Paris and New York. Those images were so real. So unposed. For the first time I felt emotionally [Read More...]
It’s the photographer not the camera! Or is it? You know I have been thinking and the more I think the more I realize that the old saying of “It’s the photographer, not the camera” is sort of BS. Well, kind of… Sure, someone who knows nothing about photography will not be able to create [Read More...]
How to Save a “Throwaway Shot” By Ashwin Rao Hello, my fellow Huffites, it’s Ashwin again, coming fresh off the excitement-packed Seattle 2011 Photo Workshop. Steve, Roger Paperno, Charles Peterson, Tim Isaac & his wife Lily, and myself entertained and photographed with over 20 very talented photographers from both near and wide. It [Read More...]
Seattle SteveHuffPhoto Workshop July 2011 Day 2 – The Assignments! Happy Monday morning to all! It’s 8am and I am on a plane right now headed back home to Phoenix. Yes, there is WiFi on the plane so I am able to update this site as I fly! Pretty snazzy… Yesterday was the 2nd day [Read More...]
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