Melissa Mercier: Dextrophobia – Fear of things to the right side of the body

A music box should represent comfort, security, hope and dreams, but if you suffer from dextrophobia and it’s placed on the right side of your body even this innocent children’s toy becomes unbearable. People who suffer from this phobia fear anything placed on their right side. Odd, but true. I find this phobia very unusual. [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #19: Scolionophobia; The fear of school.

Remember your first day of school? That day is filled with excitement, fear, change, bravery and the crossing of a threshold. I am a bilingual Canadian, but I grew up speaking only french in the province of Quebec. This self portrait reminds me of the courage that it took to leave my small home town [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #18:Looking into a mirror

Looking into a mirror is like peering into the eyes of God. There are no lies, no places to hide from the truth that comes from within. I imagine the fear of looking into a mirror is really the fear of facing one’s self. I played with these ideas in this self portrait, keeping the [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #15 –Clinophobia

One of those hot summer nights; too sweaty to sleep under the sheets, yet the silky cotton is too soft to resist. This image explores Clinophobia, the fear of going to bed incorporating the feeling of spying or being spied upon depending on the viewer’s perspective. For this image, I used: Hasselblad body Phase One [...]

Adam Barker: Establishing your Technical Foundation

The advent of digital photography has brought with it greater access than ever before to high end equipment, online tutorials and just about anything else you could conjure up to help one with their image-making. There’s no question it’s an exciting time to be a photographer. It’s alarming, however, how many of us are overlooking [...]

Michael Freeman – How Did You Shoot That? – 1000-hand dance

I’d never come across this before, and when I saw it one warm evening in Yunnan, east of the capital Kunming, I was enchanted. The dancers stand in line facing the audience and the arm and hand movements are co-ordinated exquisitely, fluttering out and around like a fan….or a halo. I was shooting a hot-spring [...]

Michael Freeman – How did you shoot that? – Whirling Sufi

Among the schedule of books that I shoot and write for my different publishers, every several years I get to do a book that doesn’t have sales as it’s top priority. This sounds suspiciously like a case for vanity publishing, I know, but in fact the idea is more practical. Books these days are what [...]

Michael Freeman: Matching shutter speed to the action

Shutter speed becomes important usually for two different reasons. The first is when the lighting conditions and what’s in the picture push the limits so that you’re forced to decide what the slowest shutter speed is that will prevent motion blur. The second is when some motion blur will actually help the image, but the [...]

Teymur Madjderey – Street Photography in South Africa

We were a group of four photographers having the joy of staying mainly in Durban while our short one week trip and we quickly decided to go out and shoot as much as we can and especially a lot of people.

Handy setting tips to improve your photography. From Automatic to almost Manual.

Are you planning your next travel adventure or holiday? Have you just bought your first DSLR camera? Don’t have a clue what all the buttons and knobs on your camera are for? This opportunity is the best option for you: a crash course- easy and effective, showing you all the settings you need to know [...]

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