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Tired: Slow Food. Wired: Slow Photography!
Date:
02/22/2010
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Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2 We've seen slow versions of everything lately: slow food, slow travel, slow shopping, slow dentistry. (We might've made one of those up.) But have you tried slow photography? It's like a yoga class for your camera. Long conversations with subjects, patient exposures, and delicate macros will lend your photos a new calmness and longevity -- so vital in these rush-rush go-go slam-crash rock-and-roll... [Read more...]

Freelensing! Turn any Lens into a Tilt-Shift or Macro
Date:
01/25/2010
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A great philosopher once told us, "first, you must first learn to focus without focusing." Or maybe it was our optometrist. Whatever. It's deep. That transcendental magic is at the heart of Freelensing, a photographic process that begins with the removal of your lens. Freelensers simply hold unattached lenses in front their camera's exposed sensor, and delicately tilt it until focus emerges. Hand-manipulating a lens will reinvent your focal... [Read more...]