In our society, the war photographer exists to document battles, not fight in them. In the world imagined above, the war photographer will take your head off with an external flash. In a short film directed and produced by Jordan Drake, the team at The Camera Store take the war of brands, formats, film, digital and everything else to F-Stop Ridge and battle it out. The Camera Store opened in 1996 to better serve the Calgary and western...

Every air to glass interface causes a slight loss of resolution and contrast. This tends to make a lens look “flatter” and less sharp than it could be. Lens designers have understood for over a century that adding more glass elements increases the compromise. In the 1940′s and 1950′s they were willing to compromise things like corner sharpness and flatness of field so that they could design lenses with fewer...

I like Eliza Dushku, I’m not gonna lie. Yes, from Buffy to Tru Calling to Dollhouse, which, by the way, was her best. It’s a shame they cancelled it after two seasons. It wasn’t our fault they decided to air it on Friday night! Below is a short clip of Eliza in some action video by Freddie Wong. This guy is a machine when it comes to producing interesting action videos consistently, which is probably why he has one of the...

What if you took a set of images that became so popular that it was used hundreds of times all around the world by hundreds of artists, businesses, websites, and publications? As photographers, it’s what we all dream about but what if you were never paid for your work? What if you weren’t even given credit? What if your images were stolen for years and you never had any idea? If there was ever a video to share, this is it. This is Noam...

As some of you may already know, my site is a self-hosted WordPress site. This means that I use a hosting service, DreamHost, to upload and install the WordPress package. Hosting your own website, instead of using WordPress’ free service, comes with a lot of advantages and customization capability. One of which is the ability to install any plug-ins you want, including ones that help you back up your data. It goes without saying that when...

It’s been about 10 days since I last posted an entry, and I apologize for that. If you follow me on Flickr, you may have already known that I recently took a trip to Las Vegas, FIRST TIME!. The trip was awesome; overall, I have little to nothing to complain about. Well, maybe a few things to complain about. First, we got to the airport a little late, and we almost missed our flight. Luckily, one of my friends was able to get us to cut...

This past weekend was another great New Year’s holiday that I had. Instead of the parties that I usually go to in Sacramento, I went to the bay area to celebrate New Year’s Eve with a ton of family members. People from all over the world gathered at my aunt’s house in San Francisco and hung out. I’ve eaten so much food within the last 2 weeks, I’ve put on about 10 lbs (time to say “hello again” to the low-carb diet)....

Man, what a great Christmas it was. I think I ate about two weeks’ worth of food during the holiday. All props and credits go to my grandma, who provided us pretty much unlimited Pho and fried rice. She was always in the kitchen making something for us… talk about cooking up a storm! I usually go to Southern California for Christmas and New Year’s; but I wanted to change it up a bit and decided to stay here in Sacramento instead. It...

In case you’ve missed it, I had a small issue with my site last week. Here’s a quick recap: You know when you share a link on Facebook, you drop it in your status box, and Facebook parses and fetches the link’s content, along with the thumbnail image right next to the post? Well, that’s not what happened here. Instead, all I got was the URL, the link’s content underneath my name, but without the thumbnail. This was driving me...

I hate WordPress. It’s one of the most stupid things I’ve ever had to deal with. Whoever invented it must have been on crack. Okay, I lied; I take it back. I think WordPress is one of the coolest things I’ve seen. Once you download and install it, you can customize it to the max; or, if you want, you can just let it be, because it works right out of the box… Except for when it doesn’t. Or maybe it does, but Facebook is just not...