Editing is something I don’t enjoy in the slightest. I prefer to get it right in-camera to spend as little time as possible stuck behind a computer screen. Tablets are a great way to speed up intensive skin retouching, although I still dread it. I was pleasantly surprised at how the new Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 took the monotony out of retouching. It was even borderline fun.
Got a Panasonic L-mount camera? Good! That’s the first step that you can take experiencing how great the best Panasonic lenses under $800 are. It’s not too unreasonable to ask for more affordable lenses either. But what makes these lenses even more fantastic is the fact that they build in weather-resistance: which elongates the potential lifetime of the lens. So if you’re shooting portraits, street photography, landscapes, or travel work, these lenses will do it all for you.
“…I learned photography in the classic way, loading my own film, setting my f-stop and shutter speed, focusing manually, developing, and printing my images in the darkroom,” street photographer Gretchen Grace tells the Phoblographer. “This process forms a connection to the medium, and black and white is typically where you begin. There is a depth and contrast to black and white that color sometimes misses.” Indeed, if you pour your eyes over Gretchen’s work, you’ll understand exactly what she’s saying.
“To be honest, I don’t know why but for me, it was important to bring my camera,” says photographer Greta Rico in an interview with the Phoblographer referencing her Surrogate Mother photo project — which started the day of her cousin’s funeral. “I remember that when I arrived at the funeral home and hugged her sister, one of my cousins, I also asked her permission to take pictures, and she said yes.” Taking photos at funerals isn’t uncommon for a lot of us. Sometimes it’s a way to hide. In other ways, we must remember what happened.
Phoblographer members get discounts to 7 companies and even more programming is coming! So far, the Phoblographer’s subscribers have won various cameras, lenses, bags, tablets, and more. But their biggest wins are the banner-ad free Phoblographer and the extra discounts/benefits they get. This month, all our subscribers qualify to win a Gura Gear Kiboko 30+ …
Leica lens owners: want something really cool? We’re in the middle of a special deals period on Sony cameras and lenses. At the middle of it is the Sony a7c: which is perhaps Sony’s best camera to use with manual focus lenses. Additionally, it’s also their smallest full-frame camera with a rangefinder style camera body …
Aside from Leica and Fujifilm, none of the major camera brands today have an interest in manufacturing digital rangefinders. Something I consider a real shame because nothing beats a rangefinder in terms of form factor and style quotient. Editor-in-chief Chris often says that most camera brands have stopped being creative. And when it comes to a style standpoint, he’s absolutely right in this regard.
Every time I talk to a rep at a camera company, I think that they have their heads in a space that’s consumed by their smartphone and the web. This is why so many have said that photography is dying a slow death. When you go to Instagram or TikTok, they put no value on photos. But marketing reps and photographers all forget that life isn’t all about social media. We’d know this best as millennials. Truly, photography isn’t dying. It’s going somewhere else, and it should start to make itself very comfortable.
“I have found that the most difficult photographs to make are of people who are experiencing an emotional crisis,” says photographer Mary F Calvert to The Phoblographer in an interview. “My goal is to make these pictures with integrity on my part while keeping their dignity intact. Like many photojournalists, this work does take an emotional toll on me, and at times I have to take a break from the project to replenish my psyche.” Mary is one of the winners of the Leica Women Foto Project, and brings with her all the stories that one would expect from a photojournalist in America.