For some people, manual focus is a way of life; for others, it’s more of an oddity: Why, after all, would you focus manually when your camera has state-of-the-art autofocus technology? A new video from Leigh TheSnapChick explains why manually focus is sometimes the right choice. It’s a tool to fall back on when autofocus argues with you, she notes. Read the full Story >>
If you missed the recent career retrospective of photographer Judith Joy Ross at the Fundación mapfre’s Recoletos Exhibition Hall in Madrid, you can view the accompanying catalog, now published by Aperture. And, notes the critic Vince Aletti at The New Yorker, you might well want to. Ross, writes Aletti, is an undersung master of portrait photography. “Over the years, her presence has been flickering rather than steady, and it was easy to lose sight of her,” he notes. With the retrospective and new book, she is overlooked no longer. Read the full Story >>
Tailyr Irvine is a Salish and Kootenai photojournalist from the Flathead Indian Reservation whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ESPN, CNN and Smithsonian magazine. She is also a National Geographic Explorer and the co-founder of Indigenous Photograph, a global database aimed at elevating the work of Indigenous visual journalists. “Historically, native communities have been represented by stereotypical photos in regalia,” she tells Montana Public Radio in an interview. “When I have a moment where someone's just human, that's what I look for the most.” Read the full Story >>
“There have a been a few situations with lightning and tornadoes that were close enough that my ears popped from the change in air pressure,” photographer and storm chaser Rob Darby tells Feature Shoot. Darby, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, has returned again and again to Kansas, where warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets dry air from the desert Southwest and cool air dropping in from the Pacific to create the condition for big storms. But, he wonders, will climate change alter such patterns? Read the full Story >>
