Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

• I posted this as part of my Op-Ed yesterday, but it’s worth mentioning again. Here are two articles by Zack Arias on wedding photography, along with a video introducing one of the posts.
  • Wedding Photographers Deserve Our Respect.
  • We Need To Be About Our Work.
    
• This article and video comes to us by way of David “The Strobist” Hobby. Photographer John Jackson cris-crosses the country in a 1960′s van, shooting cars. Talk about dedication to one’s craft!
• Daniel Milnor’s Leica Files videos have become something of a staple for me. The newest one, #10, is up now. Nothing fancy here; Daniel essential just deconstructs an image he took with one of his Leicas. Definitely worth checking out.
• Our friend Alexis Cuarezma recently put together a portrait of 19 athletes from 14 sports at his alma mater, Washington High School. Check out this video for a behind-the-scenes look.
• Seventeen magazine has issued a “Body Peace Treaty” where they promise not to change face or body shapes in their images. Is this the start of a trend? I hope so – but really, a “Treaty?” This isn’t international diplomacy, folks.
• We love photographer Jay P. Morgan’s video tutorials. Here’s his latest on ringlights.
• And speaking of video tutorials, here’s one on composition for video, by way of our friends at FStoppers.

That’s it for this week’s Cool Stuff. As always, questions and feedback are welcome in the comments below.

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

• You know we’re getting the much-hyped Sony FS-700, and if you follow us on Facebook, you know that we’ve already used it to do an awesome little take on Reservoir Dogs. If you haven’t, here it is for your viewing pleasure.
• Of course, if you’re looking for a good review of the FS700 while you wait for ours, here’s one you should see. Al Jazeera’s Matthew Allard used the camera on assignment in Mongolia, and this is his review.
• Speaking of new technology, if you haven’t seen this already, you should really head over to Vincent Laforet’s blog and give his take on 3D, 4K, and more a thorough read.
• Switching gears to the world of still photos, a new documentary from filmmaker Thomas Leach chronicles the life of legendary New York street photographer Saul Leiter. Here’s the trailer.
  
• Strobists, pay heed. Steve Lloyd has a great piece over on PetaPixelon how he created this great image of a mountain biker on an arch.
  

  Photo courtesy and copyright © Steve Lloyd

• Finally, Luke Neumann over at Neumann films has a great set of overlays you can use in your next video to simulate looking through a DSLR viewfinder. Oh – did I mention it’s free?

That’s it for this week’s Cool Stuff. As always, questions and feedback are welcome in the comments below.

Important things you need to know about the new Canon 40mm and how its new Stepping Motor Technology works on the T4i.

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

• We start this week by talking about one of our favorite photographers, Zack Arias. Zack was just named one of the top 50 street photographers  around today by Complex magazine. His response is – as are most things Zack writes – engaging, entertaining and thought-provoking.
• Speaking of great photographers, Steve McCurry, the man who captured what is perhaps National Geographic’s most iconic cover, has posted an outstanding gallery of monsoon images.
• NASA seems to have a knack for releasing jaw-dropping imagery that smacks us upside the head when they do. Here’s some star trails, taken from the International Space Station.
  

  Star trails, captured from the ISS

• The folks at PetaPixel have a great piece with some very practical advice for photographers. Yeah, we know, there’s lots of these types of articles around, but this was was actually pretty good.
• iPhone users, rejoice! You already knew the iPhone 3GS could be a usable camera in a fashion shoot (albeit with lots of studio lighting, etc), thanks to Patrick and Lee over at FStoppers. Now, the always amazing Nick Fancher follows it up with a more minimalist answer to the original FStoppers video, this time with an iPhone 4S.
• And speaking of great videos, this one showing the ridiculously fantastic Dan Winters photographing Jack Nicklaus for the cover of Golf Digest is definitely worth your time.
  
• Street fashion photography Scott Schuman – better known to some as The Sartorialist – has a particular affinity for capturing great fashion on the streets of some of the world’s most glamorous cities. Here he is in Madrid, shooting for Loewe.
  
• We leave you this week with, well, we’ve run out of superlatives, so just watch this video about the creative film Marmalade…

That’s it for this week’s Cool Stuff. As always, questions and feedback are welcome in the comments below.

Andy Biggs

Welcome to Episode 3 of BLCast, the official podcast of BorrowLenses.com.

Taking a photo safari through the African wilderness is something that every landscape and wildlife photographer thinks about. Andy Biggs was so taken with the idea that he eventually left a cushy job to spend more time exploring the continent with his camera in hand. Today, he’s a premiere landscape and wildlife photographer specializing in Africa, leading extensive photo tours through countries like Tanzania, Botswana, and South Africa.

Elephants and Clouds, from Andy's "Timeless Africa" gallery. Image Courtesy and Copyright © Andy Biggs.

I caught up with Andy just before he left for an extended series of back-to-back safaris that would start in South Africa and eventually end in Namibia. Andy was kind enough to talk turkey about his photography, his travels, and his company Guragear, which makes some of the best photo bags on the planet.

Andy Biggs’ website is http://andybiggs.com. His blog can be found at http://www.theglobalphotographer.com/. His company, GuraGear, makes some amazing photo bags, so be sure to check them out as well. Andy is also active on Twitter as @andybiggs, so be sure to follow him there.

Lion Siblings, from Andy's "Timeless Africa" gallery. Image Courtesy and Copyright © Andy Biggs.

You can listen to the podcast right here via the embedded player, or you can subscribe to the BLCast feed in iTunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blcast-official-podcast-borrowlenses.com/id509556349.

Android users (and iOS/RSS users using third-party podcasting apps), we have a feed for you too: http://borrowlenses.libsyn.com/rss.

As always, questions and feedback are welcome in the comments below.

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

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  Black Magic Cine Camera

  A few gear announcements this week. We’ll start with the Black Magic Camera, which gives you 2.5K resolution, 13 stops of dynamic range, and EF and ZE mounts – with electronic iris control. Yum.

• Nikon’s got the successor to its D3100. The D3200 adds a 24.2MP sensor and is available in red. New: optional WiFi.
• There are LOADS more new product announcements from NAB. A few great sites to check these out at are:
• Olivatech
• Cheesycam
• Planet5D
• DSLRNewsShooter.com
• NextwaveDV
• FreshDV
• Here at BorrowLenses.com, we love our Behind-The-Scenes (BTS) videos. This one comes to us by way of Melissa Rodwell of the awesome Fashion Photography Blog.
• Speaking of BTS videos, here’s one of a different kind. The awesome folks at PhotoShelter put together an interview with Forbes’ Senior Photo Editor Michele Hadlow about what photographers need to succeed with the magazine.
  
• And finally, to cement Google+’s place in the hearts and minds of photographers who’ve turned it into their very own community space since the service’s launch, there’s the Google+ Photographer’s Conference. Created with the folks from Kelby Training, this two-day conference in San Francisco is the first of its kind organized by Google+. Scott Kelby put the following video together for the conference.
  

That’s it for this week’s Cool Stuff. As always, suggestions and questions are welcome in the comments section below!