Canon's 50mm f/1.8 Mark II is a terrific lens for its price, but its build quality definitely leaves something to be desired. Do a quick search, and you'll find legions of broken-hearted Canonites who had their 'Nifty Fifty' split into two pieces after accidentally bumping or dropping it. Flickr user tastygiant is one such Canonite, but he subsequently discovered an awesome use for the broken lens: …
After seeing a video on YouTube of an Indonesian toddler who smokes 40 cigarettes a day, Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens decided to respond to a general smoking ban introduced in her country recently with a series of photos showing children smoking.
Did you know that you can use Photoshop's Match Color feature to turn old paintings into "filters" for your images? James Delaney of Unfocused Brain explains, …
Here's a geeky shirt that's relevant to photography: today's Woot shirt of the day is titled "Everything is Golden", and features the golden ratio! It's available until the end of the day for $10 with free shipping.
Here's a helpful tutorial by Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens on how to mix strobe light with sunlight to make photographs more interesting.
Here's an amazing time-lapse created using NASA's Earth Observatory photographs of our planet. It spans an entire year, and shows how lands change with the passing of seasons. You can download a higher-res version here.
