Why you shouldn’t follow composition rules but might also know some. They can still however be a great path towards better photography and narration. — Can photography be great when you follow composition rules? If you are a beginner or casual amateur, you will find tips and tricks to enhance your photographic abilities almost everywhere. Many will state that a good photograph is about applying essential rules. Follow them, or you will never take great photos.

Two cameras from Leica in the historical lineup of M-mount compatible ones might come up with their peculiar designs. The M1 was a parallax corrected viewfinder camera produced from 1959 but that didn’t have a rangefinder. …

Tania Kaaz — mesmerizing with film photography and getting in touch with deeper details of reality Tania discovered the magic of analog photography as a child. Capturing light in that way empowered her not only to be more mindful of her surroundings but also a way to share the finer details that most would have missed. She discusses how she captures moments that would otherwise…

Again in an attempt to understand AI’s capacity for photography, we will focus on the history of a famous photographer. More in the video and of course images too, but here is part of the bio we got from AI: “Helmut Newton was a German-Australian photographer. He was born in…

Stefania Rosini — the magic of movies and photography, from Tuscany to movies sets in Hollywood In this dialogue she talks about her passion for photography and how it revealed itself first in the darkroom but evolved with the magic of capturing light. From her internship in the archives of a press agency, experimenting the passage between analog to digital photography, her love of music through…

For this month of photos, multiple cameras as usual, from modern cameras like the Leica SL2 to exotic digicams like the DXO One with its lilliputian size and one-inch sensor, but also film cameras like the often misrecognized Leica CL, some snapshot via the Polaroid Go, but also the astonishing…

Again in an attempt to understand AI’s capacity for photography, we will focus on the history of a famous photographer, this time Nan Goldin. More in the video and of course images too, but here is part of the bio we got from AI: “Nan Goldin is an American photographer…

With a minimal focus distance of 1.5m, weighting 38g, this all plastic lens is meant to mount on a DSLR and give you the lofi looks of the original Holga Camera lens. The performance is quite terrible in terms of definition and rendring, with a reasonably sharp center but blurry…

This week’s Photocollective podcasts are again available as usual from the pcll.tv/podcast and pcll.tv/podiffusion links on the major podcast platforms. Andrej Vasilenko — capturing reality, photography as a natural extension to represent objectivity Andrej is a documentary photographer from Vilnius, Lithuania, the city which he made the focus of his first book, a wide-ranging subtle portrait of his hometown.