Category: Stories
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7Artisans 18mm F2: This Lens Surprised Me
When I’m buying a lens or a camera, I care about one thing: does it take good pictures? That’s it. No test charts, no sharpness diagrams, no pixel-peeping. Take it outside, shoot with it, look at the photos. So when 7Artisans sent me their new AF 18mm F2 LITE to try, that’s exactly what I…
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Welcome to Marc Snaps
It doesn’t matter if you don’t like my photos. Or me. I don’t care. I’m not here for you. I’m here for me. I love cameras and photography. I got my first camera 55 years ago, have worked every job photography has had to offer since 1980. Follow along if you like, I can promise…
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Did I Find an Inside Joke on My Leica Q?
Sometimes the camera is funnier than the photographer. Set my Leica Q down with the lens in autofocus and it tips forward, top heavy. Flip to manual focus, and the little focusing tab on the bottom levels it right out. Is that a deliberate Leica Easter egg, a quiet nudge toward manual focus? Or am…
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My Definition of Gatekeeping in Photography and Why It Needs To Stop
Somebody told me to look up the word gatekeeping. Miriam Webster says it can mean a couple of different things, so here is my definition as it applies to photography. Gatekeeping by discouragement. That is when somebody tells you to stop doing what you are doing because it is not good enough for you to…
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Are Megapixels Just Propaganda?
Megapixel propaganda? Change my mind. Camera companies keep cranking the megapixel count higher and higher, and I am not convinced it is because our photos keep getting better. I think it is because the upgrade cycle has to keep spinning. Here is what they do not put on the spec sheet. More megapixels means bigger…
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YouTube Photographers Need To Shut Up. (The Short Version)
This one hit a nerve. A big one. It is now the biggest video on the channel, so either a lot of you agree or the gatekeepers are watching through their fingers. Some article in The Phoblographer tried to tell photographers that if you appear in videos about your photography, you are more content creator…
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The Best Street Photography Camera You Need to Buy Today.
After owning Leicas, Fujis, Nikons, Canons, Ricohs and Sonys, my pick for the greatest street photography camera of all time is the Sony a6700. That is the whole video in one sentence. Not because it is the most expensive. Because it is the one that delivers the most. Great autofocus, great image quality, solid build,…
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Photography News of the Day | Wednesday, September 30, 2026
“Three completely different stories with one thing in common: photography is getting weirder by the day.” Story one: parents are using AI to get around paying for school photos. The school photographer shows up, and mom and dad just generate the portrait at home. Cheaper? Sure. A little sad? Also yes. Story two: a fake…
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I Tried Layered Street Photography With a Long Lens
Last time I asked whether the hardest part of layered street photography is shooting the layers or finding the places to shoot them. I also made a Freudian slip where I implied you have to shoot wide for layers. Can you shoot layered at less than 50mm? Let us find out. This time I went…
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Are Big City Street Photographers Better?
“So, does where you live determine how good you become as a street photographer?” Think about basketball. Julia Serving grew up in New York City playing 15 pickup games a day at Rucker Park. Larry Bird grew up in French Lick, Indiana, where he was lucky to get a pickup game. Both became greats. The…
