I recently returned from a trip to Siam Reap, Cambodia and I’d like to share my experience about traveling lightweight for a photography trip.

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Richard Avedon is one of the most prominent figures in the history of photography. With a distinctive style of portraiture and fashion photography, Avedon influenced generations of photographers with his trademark white background and portraits that revealed the souls of his sitters. Now you can download the Avedon app for free and inspire yourself with his works on your iPad!

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This is a “first look” preview of a pre-production unit of the Ricoh GR, which I have been fortunate enough to get my hands on – for a day. My time with it is limited to the half-day shooting I had, and I am only sharing my experience with all readers the initial impressions of it. The images are selected to demonstrate the fast response of the Ricoh GR, and not the noise performance because it will not be fair to make any judgment based on a pre-production unit. Most of the images are in monochrome because I prefer black-and-white in street photography. None of the images have been cropped, to demonstrate the focal length effect of the Ricoh GR.

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Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride.

The last time I checked, cropping is not included in the list of the seven deadly sins. So why do photographers have this compulsive aversion to cropping their photos? Some say that shooting loosely and cropping in post-processing are signs of sloppy technique and a lack of discipline. And that cropping wastes precious real estate of film or digital pixels, degrading the quality of the final image.

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