Six Tips for Working With Backlight

Hi Moment Makers,

Charles Haacker says there is no light like backlight. He has an egg to prove it.

Six Tips for Working With Backlight

Charles Haacker learned lighting at photography school, where the first assignment was a white egg on a white background. He's been chasing backlight ever since. Six tips, from leaves with the sun behind them to keeping a face from going black. Worth the time if you shoot late in the day. TAKE A LOOK →

What story does your photo tell?

Unlocking the stories within your photography begins with seeing beyond the obvious. Practical inspiration helps you develop that unique 'photographer's eye' for captivating images. TAKE A LOOK →

Multiple Exposure Portraits, Done in the Camera

Yesterday's wedding roll was a mistake. Chris Gampat does double exposures on purpose, in the camera, and shows how he sets one up. He also lists which cameras can still do it. Have a go this weekend. TAKE A LOOK →

Eline Deckers's Hard-Light Antwerp

Eline Deckers photographs her own city in black and white with the contrast all the way up. A man in a doorway, cut out of a wall by one wedge of sun. She put the camera away for years because she thought her early pictures were no good. Then she went back to the raw files and found they were. Worth a look if you like your shadows black. TAKE A LOOK →

Who Is Buying All Those Fujifilm Cameras

Fujifilm went from 430,000 cameras a year to over a million in two years. One of its bosses told Nikkei who is buying them. Seven in ten X series users are under 40, and four in ten are women. Camera makers almost never share numbers like that. Jeremy Gray has the rest. TAKE A LOOK →

Tomorrow: A feature-length documentary on London's street photographers

— Jeff

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