This Week in Photo

TWiP contributor Sohail Mamdani recently interviewed acclaimed Director of Photography Shane Hurlbut for BorrowLenses.com. Listen to the interview to learn more about Shane’s life, his work, and the challenges of shooting so close to live fire.

David duChemin has had one hell of a year. Let’s see: Divorce, self-induced homelessness, falling off of a wall in Italy and breaking both feet (and his pelvis); and the subsequent fight to walk again. He has taken the time to chronicle his year in this amazing ebook along with some incredibly salient words about “gear lust”.

Thought I’d give my opinion on how the iOS 5 update experience was for me. I updated two iPads, one iPod Touch, and one iPhone 3GS to iOS 5 over the past couple of days. Personally, I had no problems at all.

If you’ve ever tried photographing birds, you know that they can be one of the more difficult subjects to capture. TWiP contributor Ronald Boyd shares some tips and advice for getting better photographs of birds in flight.