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'Father of Digital Photography' Made No Money Inventing the Active Pixel

'Father of Digital Photography' Made No Money Inventing the Active Pixel

Peter Noble invented the solid state active pixel in 1966, a concept that is still used in brand new mirrorless cameras today via CMOS sensors. 81-year-old Noble tells...

Fascinating Book of Victorian Mugshot Photos is Saved from a Dumpster

Fascinating Book of Victorian Mugshot Photos is Saved from a Dumpster

A police photo album from the Victorian era that features criminal mugshots will go to auction after it was saved from a dumpster. The remarkable set of images found in an old...

The New Work Balance for Photographers

The New Work Balance for Photographers

A Photographic Life - 230: Plus Roland Miller 28/09/2022 In episode 230 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on not shooting the messenger, good conduct...

3 Things Every Headshot Photographer Needs to Do Right Now

3 Things Every Headshot Photographer Needs to Do Right Now

As far as my group of photographer friends is concerned, I am an oddity. Our studio operates 9-5, Monday through Friday, with no holidays and very little emotion involved....

What I Did When My Photos and Articles Were Stolen

What I Did When My Photos and Articles Were Stolen

Occasionally, it’s worth Googling your name to see what turns up. When I did it, it showed that a website was plagiarizing Fstoppers articles and stealing my photos too. This is...

Here Is How I Always Beat My Competition in Photography

Here Is How I Always Beat My Competition in Photography

As a commercial photographer, I have a ton of competition from other photographers. There are a lot of other people who take fashion pictures. There are even more people who...

4 tips for fall photography: make landscape shooting simple!

4 tips for fall photography: make landscape shooting simple!

I am a self-taught photographer, and first started practising landscape photography around ten years ago. I remember seeing some beautiful images that inspired me to get out...

A Historic Moment for Landscape Photographers: The NLPA Book Is Here, and It's Stunning

A Historic Moment for Landscape Photographers: The NLPA Book Is Here, and It's Stunning

Historic? Really?Allow me to justify. Despite 2021 being their inaugural year, the Natural Landscape Photography Awards have already earned a reputation among the landscape...

Night Landscape Photography Tips

Night Landscape Photography Tips

Night landscape photography yields amazing looking images, sometimes showing things not readily apparent in daytime images. It can also obscure certain elements of the...

Lomography - Large Format Portraiture With Sarah Stellino

Lomography - Large Format Portraiture With Sarah Stellino

Sarah Stellino tells us that she gravitates towards “making photographs that feel formal and intimate.” This might seem like something of a contradiction, because the kind of...

Photography Newsletters Are the Opposite of Social Media: Personal and Profound.

Photography Newsletters Are the Opposite of Social Media: Personal and Profound.

Wesley Verhoeve recalls having tea and cookies and chatting with Bruce Davidson in his storied New York apartment before settling in for a portrait session he’ll never forget....

Women’s Photography as a Tool of Resistance

Women’s Photography as a Tool of Resistance

What is a feminist picture? A growing chorus of museums, galleries, and publications have been asking this question for the last couple years and with Our Selves: Photographs by...