Recently, a friend told me of a photographer for whom he wanted to work. The seasoned fine art photographer, in his 50s, took a look at my friends 5×7 prints, taken on an assortment of digital and analog cameras, and said “These are not photos. Wait here.”
The man left for a moment and returned with a huge print mounted in a heavy wood frame. “This is a photograph,” he said.
For his project “Counterflow,” photographer and visual artist Mauro Martins of Braslia, Brazil, created a series of composite photos showing people going against the flow in life by making their own path instead of following the masses.
Here’s an interesting idea: the Japanese company Cosina has released a new augmented reality app that shows you what various lenses look like on your camera.
Called Cosina AR, the app inserts virtual Voigtlander lenses into your smartphone camera live view when you point the app at your camera.
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In 1918, photographer Dorothea Lange left New York on a trip to travel the world. That ambitious trip was cut short by a robbery, and Lange ended up settling in the San Francisco Bay Area and opening a studio there. During the Great Depression, Langue took her camera out of the studio and onto the streets to document the country for the Farm Security Administration.
Leica has formally announced the specifications and price of the Summilux-TL 35mm F1.4 lens for its T-series mirrorless camera. The lens, which is available now, will cost $2395/1650. Leica says that the lens performs at its best wide open, with maximum... more
Here’s a 3-minute segment that recently aired on CBS This Morning about the soldier photographers who risked their lives on the front line to document the combat in photos and videos.
