For all you street and doc photographers, here’s some essential advice from the co-editors of the Times‘ Lens blog. It’s really simple: be respectful of the person in front of the camera. That’s it. Don’t treat people like symbols or little

A little neighborly love is always nice. That’s why I like this video. It’s shot in Sante Fe, New Mexico, which is within hours of El Paso. I love being from El Paso and its beautiful desert. I love knowing

I’ve been wanting to make a listicle for a while now. But I never had the time, or really the subject matter, until one night I was looking through my photos and confirmed what I had thought previously. I’m still a

While I’m sure many photographers have heard about stock photography, most probably haven’t given much thought to shooting premium stock photos. The vast majority of people doing stock photography shoot microstock. Companies like Fotolia and iStockPhoto manage millions of images, selling

Landscape photographers have a tough job. Not only do they have to understand lighting and ND filters like they know the wrinkles of their skin, they must also work against nature. (On a side note: I’ve always imagined it would

Photography wisdom is a behavior imbibed not a training sought after! I’ll be straight with you. I haven’t learned anything in life until I experienced it first. Unfortunately, this is a hard truth. By hard I really mean obscure, but

These 10 photography hacks are great. They’re absolutely essential. They’re gorgeous. They’re amazing. But most of all, they’re funny. I enjoyed them like I enjoy all things in life — with the refined pleasure and applauded taste of what is

It seems like there are three type of photographers when it comes to post-production: the purists, the in-betweeners, and the anti-purists. This tutorial is for the anti-purists. It is through and through pure fakery (as opposed to pure documentation). In

We know Black Backgrounds do make a difference. But there’s no such thing as perfection, right? So why even have the word? Well perhaps because of mathematical precision: a whole number is perfectly equal to itself, complete. But then again

Have you wondered if you could carry your DSLR with only a tablecloth and belt? Lug it around in your very own MacGyver contraption? Well, I know I have. But since I don’t have the arts & crafts know-how or the