If you’re not familiar with the texts of either of these bills, familiarize yourself today. If you live in the US, contact your Senators and your Congressional Representative today via the link below. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage We shall return shortly

If your camera had teeth, they’d be chattering right now. When the days grow shorter and colder and you’ve got Jack Frost nipping at your extremeties, you might be tempted to stay in, make some hot cocoa, and save the photography for warmer weather. Don’t; you’re missing a lot of photo opportunities! Keep your batteries toasty: You might keep your

Okay, I admit it. I love photography. But there are times that you just have to put down the camera, and try something else out for a change. There can be any number of reasons to do this. First of all, while a passion can be a stimulating thing, it can also be draining if it’s your only outlet. One

Photographer Eve Arnold (O.B.E.)  passed in London on January 4, aged 99. A member of Magnum since 1957, she was known for her portraits of celebrities, first ladies, and the like, in addition to location work in China, South Africa, and Afghanistan. PMA @CES is next week, likely bringing with it a whole raft of new product announcements and speculation

At midnight EST tonight — about half an hour from now — Nikon is expected to finally unveil its new flagship model, the full-frame D4. It replaces the venerable D3 series (D3, D3x and D3s). With authority. A few highlights: 16MP full-frame sensor (this is good news) 51-point AF system with 15 cross points 10 FPS burst shooting 1080p HD

Maybe because of my choice of subject matter (much of it inanimate) or my choice of gear (camera, lenses, and not much else) I wonder sometimes if I’m somehow “cheating” at photography, especially when I look at work by other photographers whose work clearly involves backdrops, complicated lighting setups, staging, makeup, an assload of post-production, and God only knows how much

There’s no shortage of debates in photography circles. Choose a subject – whether it’s one camera over another, color versus black and white, available light versus speedlights, or any number of other contentious subjects* — and there’s likely to be a wide difference of opinion. One such subject of debate is whether to shoot in RAW or in JPEG. To

There’s an expression in the recording industry: “Fix it in the mix.” Whether the guitar’s a bit off-key, the vocalist can’t decide whether she should be singing on, behind, or in front of the beat, or the drummer’s keeping lousy time, the logic is that you can always fix it later. That’s what ProTools is for, right? By the same

The First 10,000 is on a brief hiatus. We will return on January 2, 2012. In the meantime, we wish all of our readers a happy holiday season, and a great new year

If we want to grow as people, much less as photographers, we need to be challenged and to challenge ourselves from time to time. If we fail to do that, both we and our work start to go stale. Of course, the challenges we pose to ourselves aren’t without their own perils. Sometimes we find that our reach exceeds our