When Every Photo Is Technically Perfect, What Makes a Photographer Good?
Cameras have gotten so good at handling exposure and noise that technically perfect photos are now the baseline, not the achievement. So what separates a great photographer from an average one when anyone can nail the technicals? I trace this shift from Ansel Adams's notebook to today's ISO 10,000 shots — and land on the question every photographer should really be asking.
Do Locations Make Photographers? Or Do Photographers Make Locations Their Own?
When an Australian photographer was priced out of Japan and moved back home, his new work looked nothing like his old. It raised a question worth sitting with: are we shaped by the places we shoot, or do we shape them — even Ansel Adams left Yosemite once in a while.
How to Create a Sense of Movement in Still Photography
A photograph never actually moves — so how do the best photographers make a still image feel alive? From Ansel Adams' snowstorms to Cartier-Bresson's mid-air leap, here are three techniques for creating a sense of motion in a frozen moment.