Allan Weitz

A graduate of the High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Allan Weitz started taking pictures when digital meant doing something with your fingers. Currently the host of the B&H Photography Podcast and a member of the B&H Explora writing team, his work has appeared in (and on the covers of) dozens of publications, including New York magazine, Philadelphia magazine, Esquire, GQ, Yachting, and Nautical Quarterly.

Latest Articles

Teleconverters vs. Cropping (Everything Has a Price)

1 year ago

If the longest telephoto lens you own never seems to get you in tight enough to your subject, you have three choices. The first is to get up and get physically closer to your subject. If you can’t, for whatever reason, do this, you can either take the picture as is and crop it to your liking post-capture, or you can use a…

Teleconverters

Birding Photography Telephoto Lenses

Best of the B&H Photography Podcast: Food Photography

1 year ago

It’s Food Photography Week here at B&H Photo, so our guests on this week’s B&H Photography Podcast are California-based food photographer Meika Ejaisi, and from her new studio in Boulder Colorado,…

The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut

1 year ago

Ideas born from a place of passion have an undeniable life about them, and you can feel it when you are in their presence. The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, located in a ubiquitous brick building, in Windsor, Connecticut, is one of those places. As part of Music Appreciation Week, we thought it would be a good idea to visit the…

vintage

radios

music

Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-RX100: The Evolution of an Iconic Point-and-Shoot

1 year ago

In 2012 the obituaries for pocket-size point-and-shoot cameras outnumbered the number of announcements for their replacements. Five years earlier, Apple had unveiled the original iPhone, and though the image quality of the then-current iPhone 4 still wasn’t enough to plant a knockout punch to the point-and-shoot market, every generation of smartphones that followed further pounded away at what…

Point & Shoot Cameras

Street Photography

Travel Photography

JOBY Introduces the Wavo, Beamo, and GorillaPod Mobile Vlogging Kit

1 year ago

Joby has introduced new products for vloggers, influencers, and mobile creators who need truly portable run-and-gun social media gear. The Joby Wavo is a compact video mic that works with your smartphone via ¼"-20 screw or any camera with a cold shoe. Unidirectional and shock-…

Lighting & Accessories

Vlogging

video microphone kit

Mobile Accessories

Introduction to Wildlife Photography

1 year ago

It’s amazing how many people think you need a bag full of expensive lenses and pockets deep enough to bankroll safari adventures in faraway lands to photograph wildlife. Regardless of where you live, how hot it gets in the summertime or how cold it gets in the wintertime, you’re surrounded by wildlife the moment you step out your door. The fact of the matter is, if you live near a park or, for…

Tokina SZX 400mm f/8 MF Mirror Lens: Sports Photography on a Budget

1 year ago

Common sense says if you’re going to take sharp, dramatic photographs at a fast-action sporting event, make sure you have an autofocus lens that is at least 300mm or longer, and fast (f/2.8 or f/4) and, IMHO, preferably a zoom. As part of our coverage of Sports Week, I thought it might be fun to photograph the opening night of the 2021 racing season at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl using a…

Mirrorless Lenses

Sports Photography

Telephoto Lenses

Intro to Macro Photography

1 year ago

Photo fact: Anything photographed close up looks amazing. It doesn’t matter what your subject is, be it a flower, a bumblebee or butterfly, a gemstone, or a slice of apple. Get in close enough and people start exclaiming, “Oooooohhhh…!” Going face-to-face…

Macro Photography

Close-Up

Macro Lenses

Announcing the Godox UL60 Silent LED Video Light

1 year ago

LED light sources have been a godsend to videographers for several reasons, but not all LEDs run as silently as one might wish, during interviews, online streaming, broadcasting, or in other noise-sensitive recording environments. This is where the new Godox UL60 Silent LED Video…

Lighting & Accessories

Macros and Spice and Everything Nice

1 year ago

Going eye-to-eye with a praying mantis can be a trip and a half, but understandably, not everybody shares my enthusiasm for creepy crawlies. This doesn't mean you cannot enjoy the visual treats afforded by peering at everyday objects at life-size or greater magnifications. To illustrate my point, I pulled a half dozen spice jars out of my cupboard along with a few herbs from our spring garden and…

Macro Photography

Macro Lenses

Landscapes and Ultra-Wide-Angle Lenses: A Marriage Made in Heaven

1 year ago

A friend of mine once described his favorite wide-angle lens as his “gateway to landscape photography,” and that’s a pretty good metaphor for wide-angle lenses if I ever heard one. Wide-angle lenses and ultra-wide-angle lenses naturally lend themselves to capturing landscapes with a sense of depth. They also tend to capture a sense of drama that you seldom get when photographing landscapes with…

Extreme Wide-Angle Lenses

Wide-Angle Lenses

Landscape Photography

1-Inch Sensor Superzoom Cameras vs. Entry-Level Wildlife Lenses

1 year ago

For the longest time, comparing image quality between point-and-shoot cameras and full-frame cameras, or even APS-C format cameras, was a conversation you could have start to finish during the course of an elevator ride. Point-and-shoot cameras were convenient, but the detail and dynamic range of their smaller sensors never measured up to the detail and dynamic range you get from larger sensors.…

Wildlife Photography

Telephoto Lenses

Bird Photography

Tools for Capturing Macro Photographs Without a Macro Lens

1 year ago

The term “macro photography” is most often defined as close-up photographs taken with macro lenses, but isn’t always the case. True, macro lenses are designed to deliver life-size photographs of small objects with sharp edge-to-edge detail, but macro lenses are not the only tools of the trade when it comes to going face…

Filters & Accessories

Macro Photography

Tips for Getting Your Photo Gear up to Speed

2 years ago

If you haven’t touched your cameras since the leaves turned color and fell from the trees, it’s time to break out your gear, clean it up, and get everything ready for a new season of picture taking. In case you haven’t noticed—spring is coming down fast! If you are an outdoor photographer and are thinking of ways to upgrade your gear, see my article…

Photography Accessories

Lens Accessories

Monolights: For the Times Speedlights Simply Aren’t Enough

2 years ago

For the longest time, the differences in weight, size, power, and recycling times between speedlights and monolights were glaring, but this is no longer the case. Technologically, speedlights and monolights have become increasingly…