Why I swapped The Best Camera for Instagram
I’ve been resisting it for months. Instagram, the iPhone app everyone seems to be using at the moment. (I was tempted to say “Instagram,...
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Michal Dzierza
Feb 1, 20111 min read
Which Canon lens to choose?
How many times have you asked yourself this question (assuming that you own a Canon camera)? We all want to spend our money wisely and...
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Michal Dzierza
Jan 5, 20111 min read
Undercity and petrified children
Absolutely crazy and therefore brilliant. Its creator, Andrew Wonder, seems to specialise in filming people who can only be described as...
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Michal Dzierza
Jan 3, 20111 min read
Editing images without Photoshop
Here’s a quick tip for the New Year. If you cannot afford – or don’t want to use – Photoshop, and find Gimp too cumbersome, here’s...
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Michal Dzierza
Nov 18, 20104 min read
London in 80 gigapixels – meet Jeffrey Martin
My prayers have been answered. London eventually got its first decent gigapixel image this week. You’ve probably already seen what its...
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Michal Dzierza
Oct 21, 20102 min read
Saved by the phone. Again.
Then one day you walk to work early in the morning, bleary-eyed and in need of a really strong coffee, when you spot a fantastic photo...
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Michal Dzierza
Oct 4, 20102 min read
Arlington West
In a country of replicas, another copy of a better-known icon should not surprise anyone. Yet, seeing a replica of a cemetery in the...
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Michal Dzierza
Oct 3, 20101 min read
Liquid glass
If you are into glass blowing (which I’m sure you are), check out my Posterous gallery from a glass blower’s studio in London. #glassblowing
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Michal Dzierza
Sep 17, 20101 min read
Daybreak – is anyone surprised?
Daybreak, which replaced GMTV, allegedly lost a fifth of its audience in a week. Is anyone surprised? The endless gossip pieces about...
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Michal Dzierza
Sep 16, 20102 min read
The joy of photographing… well, anything and everything
For reasons I don’t necessarily want to discuss here and now, I haven’t had a chance to play with my DSLR as much as I would like to over...
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Michal Dzierza
Jul 29, 20101 min read
Six minutes of extreme slow-motion destruction
This is what happens when you get your hands on a high-speed camera. Love it. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12113203&server=vime...
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Michal Dzierza
Jul 29, 20101 min read
And now we’ve got 70 gigapixels
The latest gigapixel project seems to be the biggest produced to date, yet probably even more boring than the experimental Dubai one....
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Michal Dzierza
Jul 19, 20101 min read
Current favourite quote
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” Taken from Christopher Nolan’s superb Inception. #inception #quote
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Michal Dzierza
Jul 19, 20101 min read
One more try
I installed WordPress for iPhone when I first got the phone, but, apart from comment moderation, I haven’t used the app for blogging as...
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Michal Dzierza
Jun 29, 20104 min read
How to protect images online
I remember doing an image search a few months ago and seeing a copy of a picture I own. The image was posted on a site I didn’t...
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Michal Dzierza
Jun 25, 20101 min read
How the big boys do it
Have you backed up your pictures recently? Oh, you don’t bother? You’ll do it next week? You’ve got some on a USB stick? Riiiiight…. Got...
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Michal Dzierza
Jun 25, 20101 min read
Time lapse on the iPhone
Judging by the queues outside Apple Stores everywhere yesterday, we should expect a deluge of iPhone 4 HD videos, well, right about now. ...
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Michal Dzierza
Jun 24, 20103 min read
Flickr gets a new interface
UPDATE: If you’re looking for the February 2012 Flickr update, it’s here. Oh, I do like nice surprises! Last night I discovered a...
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Michal Dzierza
Jun 21, 20103 min read
Bland, tired, clichéd. Welcome to the world of stock photography
Everyone is complaining that it’s more and more difficult to make money on photography and that the stock photography market has become...
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Michal Dzierza
May 13, 20101 min read
Eyjafjallajökull video shot using Canon 5D Mark II
This is beautiful. Thanks to @documentally and @kate_day for posting the link on Twitter in the first place. Oh, and as always, go full...
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