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“The Times They Are a-changin’”, like Bob Dylan would say. That’s what is happening at the moment in the photography world.
In the last decade (or even less!) we saw the rise of the so-called “mirrorless” cameras, and the set back of the DSLR reflex domination.
Sony, which has probably been the real first mover in the mirrorless market, has just announced to have surpassed Nikon in sales, and became the #2 world camera producer, just behind Canon.
One of the most common dilemmas in the photography world is whether you shouldn’t settle for compromises and buy your equipment as new or you should save some money and look for the same objects (or maybe the previous version of them) in the secondhand market. While the first option is the safer one (but also the more expensive), the latter is a bit more risky but at the same time it’s also more tempting.
It can be overwhelming – to say the least – to enter into the “magical” world of editing softwares and apps, if you don’t have a clue about what are their features or even how to interpret those qualities/numbers, what do they mean in practice.
And oh, did I mention the fact that there are more and more choices every day? Till the last decade, options were quite limited; now, (un)fortunately, they are endless!
Even if you started taking photos a few days ago, the chances that you already encountered or heard the words “HDR photography” at least a couple of times are very high; this particular technique became incredibly popular in the last decade, specially in those years when there weren’t yet digital cameras with a super wide dynamic range.
Talking about which image format is better is a bit like discussing on which lens is better between a 14mm and a 500mm, or on what cameras are better between mirrorless and reflex; you got it, it’s one of those arguments that will never leave the table of passionate photographers and will keep to make people arguing about it, over and over again.
If you tried to shot in the sun direction (or some other strong light source) a few times during your photography sessions, you probably already noticed that sometimes a weird effect is occurring in your shots; the effect I’m talking about appears in the form of some colorful circles (or rings) all over your picture, often giving a sort of soft color cast all over the frame. This effect is called “lens flare”, and that’s what we’ll discuss in this article.