I was super excited to hear a few weeks back that Lensbaby had a new lens in the works and even more excited when I heard it was going to be a lens with the swirly bokeh effect. In the past this swirly visual effect had been the money-train for Lomo and their Petzval lenses [...]
In an age where iPhones are shooting stellar images and high quality DSLRs are coming down in price, it’s becoming increasingly challenging for food photographers to make a living as professionals. As a food photographer in Seattle, I’ve noticed that many of my clients have becomeopinionated about what makes a good photo, and in many cases are shooting right next to me... more
Lighting is often a serious point of conversation; soft, hard, broad, short, high and low key etc… it can really go on extensively, so when I saw this photographby Alexandre Watanabe I just had to get in touch to see how he did it! I mean, its just an egg, right? YetAlexandre lit it in [...]
The goal of any photographer is to make each and every photo stand out from the crowd. Making an image that pops is something that we all strive to achieve, but it’s not always easy to do. Luckily, there are tools at our disposal in Adobe Lightroom that can go a long way to help us achieve an image that we can be proud of, and that catches the attention of the viewer. What are these tools? They are many and varied, but there are three central processing techniques that can make your... more
Ions ago (at least in technological terms) Google were out to change the world with their Google glass wearable tech. One of the most prominent objections to that tech was people being afraid of being spied upon. Google Glass now lies at the bottom of Google’s failed-projects cemetery. Sony is out to bring this concept [...]
As someone who shoots on location a lot I’m often given a choice on what I like to call “popping” or “blending” a subject into a scene, in short this really as as simple as using your main light source to either complement the direction of a natural / embedded light source in a scene [...]
Many photographers are fascinated with old things, the more decayed and falling apart the better. Urban decay and grunge is a popular subject for photographers in cities. Some go out of their way to find abandoned buildings and little known spots.
We all saw the big announcement a couple of weeks ago about Lytro’s new Cinema camera, but the folksover at No Film Schoolsat downto have a more in-depth discussion with Lytro’s Head of Light Field Video, John Karafin, and gotan exclusive look intosome of the features and abilities of the Lytro Cinema camera system. With [...]
We might not possess the power to change the weather during a photoshoot, but we do have the power to change how the sky and surrounding environment looks with nothing more than a few tweaks to a camera’s settings. Here to explain just how to do thatis David Bergman. As part of Adorama TVs Two [...]
