What kind of week was it? Oh, just the kind when Leica announces a full-frame compact and that’s not even the most exciting news of the week. Sony went public with three major product announcements Wednesday, refreshing its RX- product lines and blowing our tiny minds with a 42MP full-frame BSI sensor-toting a7R II. Relive the highlights of an extremely busy week with us. Read more
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Nikon will be offering newlywed portraits for free to couples who marry at the New York City Hall on June 4th and June 5th. Couples married at City Hall will be treated to a free portrait session with pro photographer and Nikon Ambassador Joe McNally, working out of a 20-foot ‘Wedding Truck’ studio. Read more
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It was a week of lens announcements, sample galleries and updates to our existing content for one of the year’s most notable new cameras – the Canon EOS 5DS R. And if that wasn’t enough, we went and added a second installment of our series exploring the source of noise. Catch up on any photography news you may have missed over the busy week, here and elsewhere. Read more
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When it rains, it pours – that was definitely the case this week, both outside our office windows (Thunder! In Seattle!) and in terms of content on the site. We posted our Sony a7 II review, got out shooting with Nikon’s newest DX-format DSLR, and reviewed another Nikon crop sensor camera. Don’t be an April fool – take a look back and get caught up. Read more
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There is a huge trend among baby photographers to do all of those awesome shots of babies all curled up and almost “in the womb” looking. I LOVE those shots, but they have very definite parameters, meaning that you have to catch the baby while she is still curly; so 3 to 7, or sometimes, at the very oldest, 12 Continue Reading
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Starting today, the folks at CreativeLive are hosting a week of educational programs designed to help photographers and designers get the most out of Adobe Photoshop. Classes range from tips for beginners to more specialized sessions in landscape, architecture and portrait photography, to name a few. All classes are streaming live for free over the next six days, and will be available for purchase after the event. Read more
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Are you scared yet? You should be – because this collection of images is straight out of a horror movie, designed to give you the creeps, make your skin crawl and keep you up at night! Oooooh scary!
In honor of All Hallow’s Eve coming soon I thought it would be appropriate to see a few scary images. Enjoy, if you dare!
(These first few images are by my friend Renee Robyn, she has some masterful spooky images)
Magicked by Renee Robyn on 500px
Survivor by Renee Robyn on 500px
Kanína by Renee Robyn on 500px
Lexx by Renee Robyn on 500px
Raziel by Renee Robyn on 500px
Titan by Chris Fletcher on 500px
Exit Planet Dust -Escape from the “Undead” by The Fotokraft on 500px
The dead Countess by Rebeca Saray on 500px
Happy Halloween! by Rebeca Saray on 500px
Little vampire by Manuela Kulpa on 500px
TheCrow by D?nu? Antoche on 500px
2013 Pumpkin by Max Ellis on 500px
She’s coming for you.. by Mattia Bonavida on 500px
Music Lessons by Andy Orozco on 500px
Spooky Halloween to everyone by IgoRAW on 500px
At the wizard… by Anatoly Che on 500px
Ghostly Glow by Alan Borror on 500px
Halloween is Near by Phil Koch on 500px
The Possession by Robert Armstrong on 500px
haunted house by Jörg Barthel on 500px
Lost Amongst the Stars by Lijah Hanley on 500px
The Haunted Victorian Mansion by Frank Grace on 500px
Moonlight by Zoltan Toth on 500px
Haunted House by Dohotariu Mihai on 500px
ghost rider 
by Adrian Sommeling on 500px
Hell and Heaven by Dr. Prem Sundar on 500px
Conspire Dangerously by Paolo Giraudo on 500px
Revenge by Cleon Santos on 500px
Ghost Rider by Ravikanth Kurma on 500px
Dark Stormy Place by Aaron J. Groen on 500px
Come play with us… by Marta Borreguero on 500px
Damned by Johan Lennartsson on 500px
From the darkness it came by Chris Fletcher on 500px
Last of all – a classic, by the legend himself.
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It’s been a busy week here in the office as we’re working hard on some post-Photokina reviews and preparing for PPE next week. We also got a serious dose of Pacific Northwest fall weather, and the rainy afternoons and evenings left us plenty of time to go poking around the corners of the internet for important (read: probably not really important) things that happened in the world of photography. Read more
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I had a great time out photowalking last Thursday night with a great SF crew around downtown SF. The walk was hosted by the always awesome Microsoft store in San Francisco (go check them out in the Westfield Centre in SF).
Thank you to everyone who came out for the walk. It was great to see old friends and also make some new ones. 
We started out the walk in the center itself and got some nice photos of the great dome. From there we made our way up Powell Street, shooting some of the local color around Union Square and eventually made our way to the very top of Nob Hill. Originally we planned for the walk to take a turn down California Street and head towards downtown, but we were sort of distracted by the always imposing and always grand Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill.
We explored the lobby of the Fairmont and an elevator of us also somehow found our way to the top of the hotel with some of the most amazing views of San Francisco that exist.
After our fun at the Fairmont we headed back down California and cut through Chinatown to shoot this distinctive SF neighborhood.
Finally we finished up our way back up Market Street back to the Microsoft store where our ever so gracious host treated us to a spread of food and drinks to finish up an eventful walk.
During the walk folks uploaded their photos from their mobile phones directly to a OneDrive account and we got to watch them in full high res glory on the Microsoft store’s 110 inch LCD display while we refueled on artichoke hearts and chicken skewers.
I was super impressed with so many of the great shots that people got on the walk. If you want to see some of what was shot check out these photos on Flickr here.
I shot with two cameras on the walk. I shot with my trusty Canon 5D Mark III and on mobile I shot with one of the Nokia Lumia 1020 mobile phones.
All of the photos that are in this blog post were shot with the Lumia 1020. The camera on this phone is the best camera on any phone at present. The phone has a 41 megapixel(!) camera that actually shoots in RAW! It’s got a Zeiss lens and I was super impressed with what it was able to do. I liked that the camera could be used in 100% manual mode. Having more granular control over what I was trying to do with it was really helpful. You can pick this phone up for $ 49 with a contract here.
*Disclosure: this walk and post were sponsored by Microsoft and I received compensation for working with them on it.
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London Fashion Week just wrapped up, and a lot of the people I follow on social media were there, taking over brands’ social media accounts, taking pictures, looking good. I spent most of the past four days sitting around at home with absolutely no plans to go anywhere, and I think if you’d touched me, my relief would have actually Continue Reading
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