1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (169+ words) In tonight's episode Bill Bailey pairs sisters Grace and Amy with Karen Turner, an award-winning artist with a powerful commitment to telling women's stories. A rare medical condition meant Grace was born without a womb and unable to give birth....

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (167+ words) Why Planning the Perfect Shot Produces Worse Photos'Fstoppers The pressure to nail every frame is one of the most common things that stalls creative growth. A decades-old classroom experiment reveals exactly why that pressure works against you, and what actually…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (489+ words) We often aim for a shallow depth of field in images. When you focus on a subject, the foreground and background will appear blurred to varying degrees. That depends mainly on three variables: your proximity to your subject, the lens…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (202+ words) 8 Unpopular Photography Opinions That Are Actually True'Fstoppers 1. Gear Matters More Than People Admit 2. Most Portfolios Have Too Many Images Thirty images is too many. Fifty is a disaster. Eighty is not a portfolio; it is a hard drive dump with…...

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6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (318+ words) The Phoblographer The Phoblographer may receive affiliate compensation for products purchased using links in this article. For more information, please visit our Disclaimers page. An 85mm lens, this offering is from Russia and was designed for cameras with an M42 mount. This…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1316+ words) observer. com President Ronald Reagan was generally seen as easy-going; not so much his wife. When portrait artist Aaron Shikler (1922-2015) was asked to paint the official White House portrait of the then-former president, neither of them liked it. Shikler painted…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (145+ words) Here's the problem: When sharpness becomes a primary metric, our work drifts towards the safest version of itself: clean, polished, technically flawless" and emotionally beige. That's where sharpness turns into a substitute for having something to say, because it is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (384+ words) A rare 400-year-old painting, housed in a Kent former hunting lodge of Henry VIII, is at the heart of an identity mystery. One of the two teenage boys featured in the portrait is of African heritage, representing an very early…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago  (500+ words) Antonin Artaud called for a theater of cruelty. Not violence for spectacle, but violence as clarity, a way to strip away performance and reach something that cannot be negotiated or softened. Portraiture, if it wants to matter, must operate on…...