Wanting a Professional Camera

I want a professional camera, what should I buy? Most photographers get asked this question by their friends.  Answering,  “It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer,” is very true, but it is not what most people want to hear. This is particularly true when people imagine you have expensive gear.  But you don’t need an …

Airport Scanners – Nude and Radioactive Photographs?

Airport Scanners – Nude and Radioactive Photographs? As a photographer and somebody working in radiated environments (Chernobyl), the issue of airport scanners intrigues me.  Are they safe?  Can you really see somebody naked?  Is the person in the back room secretly checking us out, or laughing at us?

Lo-mob iPhone Application – Review

Review of L-mob for iPhone Lo-mob is one of the hundreds of applications available for iPhones that make your digital pictures look vintage. It costs $1.99 and offers 38 filters you can apply to pictures in your existing photo library or to new images you take with your phone. The filters are broken down by …

BlackRapid Camera Straps

BlackRapid Camera Straps I’m still on the hunt for the ideal camera bag, but in the meantime, while browsing the bag section in B&H in New York I came across a camera strap system that makes sense.  Black Rapid.  It made me think of  the infamous Blackwater  contractor at first, and then, when I noticed …