SIGMA NEWS

Hey guys, I hope you’ve had some wonderful Christmas holidays with your loved ones, enjoying nice dishes and your free time. Today I’d like to inform you about some news from SIGMA. This September, SIGMA was happy to announce the development of three new SIGMA CINE lenses as part of the FF High Speed Prime ...

fetching_tigerss – A success story on Instagram

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BU303Qwl97I/Annegien has always been a creative kid. With her dad being a photographer, she quickly immersed into this world. At the age of nine she already got her first camera. At 13 she came to know and love Instagram. She gets inspired and starts taking her own pictures and publishing them. As a ...

An experiment with the sd Quattro

For the longest time I have used Sigma’s Art and Contemporary lenses, which as you know offer very good image quality. In the course of the year I have taken my 135mm f1.8 Art with me surprisingly often when I went out to take photos with my sd Quattro. Surprisingly because before buying it I ...

The fairytale world of Kristina Makeeva

Let’s be frank: Every now and then we all need a bit of magic and kitsch. One just has to look around Instagram to notice that magical looking images of sceneries and cities are true Like magnets. One person who’s doing pretty well in this field is Kristina Makeeva. On her account on https://www.instagram.com/hobopeeba/ she ...

The best gifts for photographers

With Christmas time and Christmas Day around the corner, the question what to get your loved ones pops up once again like every year. Many of us keep thinking too hard and still don’t know what to get and even struggle constantly to find the perfect present. This year, we have tried to make it ...

William Klein

His pictures from the 1950s and 60s were an uncompromising rejection of all rules of photography in that era. He started his artistic career as a painter in Paris until he discovered his passion for photographer in the beginning of the 1950s. First, he used the new medium to present abstract issues. Soon, however Klein ...

Above the clouds – or almost, at least

350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10118 - 102 floors above the ground - 443 meters to the top of the antenna of New York’s most famous skyscraper. The Empire State Building! Without any doubt it’s one of the most popular sights in the city and definitely worth a visit! Climbing up to the rooftop ...

Outrage over nude pictures shot atop of the Great Pyramid

There are people who are prepared to do anything for 15 minutes of fame, regardless of how tasteless it may be. Because, as we all know, there is no such thing as bad publicity. And in current era of social media attention-seekers are getting ever more numerous. The latest incident in the world of photography, ...

Jimmy Nelson

As somebody who loves nothing more than traveling the world, immersing into new cultures and meeting people, whose lives couldn’t be more different than your own, it’s not surprising that I not only consider Jimmy Nelson’s works to be incredibly great but I simply adore them. Some years ago I first came across one of ...

The power of photography – Lu Guang

As we all know, photography is more than just “taking some nice pictures”. Photography had and still has the power to influence convictions, opinions and perspectives. It can explain and reveal things, raise awareness, bring joy and hope, but it can also deceive, hide things and be dangerous. This power of photography isn’t something new. ...

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