Coming up with new and interesting ways to improve your portraits in the studio can sometimes be challenging. You feel like you’re just going through the motions session after session. Photographer, Joe Edelman, recently posted a video about the Light Blaster and how it can help you get more creative in the studio, to project […]
One of the most popular open source, multi-platform media player applications in the world has now added 360 photo and video support. This makes it the first major video player to add such support to the desktop. VLC’s developers, non-profit organisation, VideoLan, teamed up with Giroptic, a 360 HD Camera company to develop the technology. […]
This one should be fairly simple (pun intended). Find something and shoot it in the most minimalistic way possible. Put less into your image. Get closer and crop tight. Another way to think about it is to simplify. Like these:
One would think that lighting up a green screen would be similar to working with something like a white seamless backdrop. But there are a fewdifferences. Unlike a white seamless, green screens aren’t blown out beyond your camera’s dynamic range. They can also reflect colour back onto your subject. And you’re usuallyshooting on a green […]
It wasn’t too long ago that Fuji announced the entry levelX-A3. The much anticipatedupdate to the X-A2, increasesthe resolution to 24.2MP, and provides a touchscreen LCD. Now, Fuji haveannounced the the new Fujifilm X-A10, which sits right at the bottom of their entry level range. So, what’s different? Well, for a start, the resolution’s quite […]
Sometimes less is more. When that comes to photography that is often true. Beginner photographers frequently try to put too much into their photos. That causes the image to be cluttered and the subject to be less clear. Let’s see some examples.
21 super simple compositions that show how you can use minimalism to create stunning and effective images.
Ive had my little NEX 5n marvel now for 5 years and long ago came to grips with its charms and deficits and reached a point where most of its operation is totally intuitive. Its been my main snap shooter and travel camera companion since early 2012 yet even today the files compare nicely with […]
We’ve posted about the Chronos high speed camera a couple of times before. We mentioned how it smashed through its kickstarter goal in less than 24 hours. There’s still three weeks left of the campaign, but several units have been sent out for testing and review. One of those is Ben Krasnow, of YouTube’s Applied […]
Very little is as precious to photograph as a newborn baby. Those tiny toes, the fluttering eyelashes, the way they grasp their parents’ fingers. These are the moments that parents want to record and keep forever. There are two schools of newborn photography – I think it is fair to say that they exist on one spectrum.
On one far end of the spectrum is what we’ll call traditional newborn photography. This is an incredibly popular style with so many beautiful... more
Question: can AI vision systems from Microsoft and Google, which are available for free to anybody, identify NSFW (not safe for work, nudity) images? Can this identification be used to automatically censor images by blacking out or blurring NSFW areas of the image? Method: I spent a few hours creating in some rough code in […]
