Apple didn't invent the concept, but ever since the company launched its Live Photos feature it has been en vogue to add a touch of motion to still images just enough to give you a better idea of the atmosphere at the time and place of capture.
The latest new app to slightly vary this theme is Polaroid Swing. The app captures 60 frames in a quick burst and combines them into an animated image. When viewing you can trigger the 1-second... more
Amidst a barrage of violent imagery in the past week graphically illustrating the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers, Jonathan Bachmans image of... more
Here are random observations from my time as staff photographer for Dean for America. I wrote this some time ago as advice for somebody who was going to be a campaign photographer.
Campaign photography is an odd mix of photojournalism/documentary photography and promotional work. On one facet is to produce lots of images that make your candidate look good for consumption by the huge number of media outlets that dont have newswire subscriptions. Those images... more
“Vorticity” is a new time-lapse short film by Mike Olbinski, a storm-chasing wedding photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Olbinski spent 18 days driving 20,000 miles across 9 states and shooting 60,... more
It took me a long time to recognize the appeal of video shooting. Even in a job where I have to use a cameras video features, it was only fairly recently that I moved beyond just taking short clips (essentially stills with a little bit of movement in them) and started to think in terms of using video and editing to tell stories.
Given that most modern cameras offer at least rudimentary video tools, I wanted to share my experiences and perhaps encourage others to start thinking about... more
This is pretty big: Adobe today announced a major update for Lightroom for Mobile, and one of the exciting new features is the app’s new ability to open any type of RAW file that can be opened on Lightroom for Desktop.
Previously, Lightroom Mobile supported RAW editing, but only for DNG files. This means it’s the first time you’ll be able to open and post-process the native RAW files created by any camera in real-time on your mobile device.... more
If you're really keen to shoot with a particular camera or lens, but you can't afford to buy it, you don't have many options. Renting gear for long periods of time can get very expensive, very quickly.
Parachut is a new subscription-based service that allows you to borrow from a wide variety of equipment - old and new - for $149 per month. Pitched as a service geared around 'exploration', Parachut allows subscribers to lease... more
Mike Olbinski recently spent 18 days and drove some 20,000 miles to capture one of nature's most powerful forces on camera, and in doing so has created one of the most compelling time-lapse videos we've seen in a long time. He shot some 60,000 time-lapse frames between April 15th and June 15th, 2016 and compiled them into a six minute long epic that concludes with the holy grail of storm chasing: capturing a tornado on camera.... more
The first product of the collaboration between Chinese drone maker DJI and Swedish medium-format camera manufacturer Hasselblad will be a long range drone fitted with the same 50MP CMOS sensor that is used in a number of current medium-format cameras, including the new X1D mirrorless camera... more
