Having been asked, here is my list of (sports) photographers that I am closely monitoring: Michael Clark, James Quantz, Dennis Murphy, Brian Baily and two local Bavarians: Andy Fox and Uli Wiesmeier.
For street photography my favorites are Richard Kalvar and Joel Meyerowitz while I learned also a lot of Bert Stephani, Zack Arias, David Hobby and the strobists.
Recommended books: I started in the 70ies with Andreas Feiniger’s Fotolehre and Ansel Adam’s Positiv, moved on with Joe Mac Nally’s Moment, John Freeman’s Composition and read more recentlyDavid du Chemin’s Frame. Just in case you want to know that too…

Being currently in London, I am combining the visit to an allergy congress (and work about a new review on evolutionary origins of immunoglobulin E) with some practical photographic experience at the river Thames.

I am reading currently about Tyndall scattering (Show me more…)

I have long been searching for a method to correct extreme lens flare in Photoshop (that my wide angle Nikon 17-35 tends to make). With the new content aware fill that can be accomplished in 2 minutes: just mark the flares with the lasso and (Show me more…)

That’s a problem I need to solve for the next funpark shots. Of course, the most easiest way would be to use Nikon’s built in iTTL/FP sync, however, FP severely downregulates the power of my speedlights. Furthermore FP often delays my camera trigger probably for still communicating between devices. I found a Phase One 645DF body could sync at 1/1600 with atheP40+ back but that costs me an unacceptable 280€ /day…. I tried also a Canon G11 but found it difficult to handle in the bright sunlight.

As others already found high speed sync working Nikon DSLRs using a SB-800 (Show me more…)