Since I have been running this site and doing this job I have watched as the prices for compact cameras have steadily increased into the sort of price ranges usually reserved for collectible cameras. I do feel partly responsible for this as the site helped to popularise these cameras and bring them to new audiences.
Don’t listen to anyone that tells you that wonderful portraiture can’t be created during anytime of the day or night. There are great ways to shoot equally great portraits during the day or night and they don’t always involve the use of a flash. Instead, they rely more on a photographer’s ability to see and understand light. For starters, you’re going to tell you to use spot metering. Now that you’ve got that locked in, here’s how you make great portraits.
It’s been really long overdue, but high end Olympus camera users will finally be getting Profoto AirTTL radio strobe support. Years ago, Olympus announced their initiative to create a professional style of mirrorless camera with the original OMD EM5. Then the OMD EM1 came out and the Mk II versions for each of those cameras–and it was still missing a fantastic off-camera flash option that had full integration into the Olympus system. But today, that changes with Profoto now coming on board to offer support for their AirTTL flashes. To that end, Profoto is releasing the new Profoto Air Remote TTL-O.
I’ve done a number of posts for our Creating the Photograph series partially because they help me to show off a different way or thinking about a problem that needs to be solved on a set. So recently when working with the Fujifilm GFX 50s on a shoot, I tried to find a way to deliver that “club” type of look that’s becoming so popular again in photography. I’ve written about it before, but not a whole lot and not in terms of practical application.
The latest Fujifilm cameras are getting a lot of attention and hype these days, are you one of the many photographers picking up an X-Series body for the first time and are looking to create some killer portraits? We you are going to need a portrait kit, so let’s get this figured out for you.
So you have your new Sony mirrorless camera and you are wanting to get into shooting better portraits, what should you have in your kit? Let’s put together the essential budget portrait kit for Sony mirrorless shooters.
I’m a professional food photographer…let me stop right there. What do you think a professional photographer actually means? Well when it comes to taxes and marking your occupation down for legal reasons, it means that most of my taxable income is made by being a food photographer and getting hired, etc. So in translation, that means I earn my living and pay my bills taking pictures of food, chefs, sommeliers, restaurants and other things occasionally. Competition is wild but healthy and thankfully not as fierce as that of wedding, portrait or street photographers but it can’t compare to the impact that social media has on our industry, especially Instagram (here’s mine).
Fact: digital marketing isn’t always the most effective method of marketing your photography. That’s why photographers have been creating zines for years. Of any of the photographers in the stable of the Phoblographer, James Moreton perhaps understands this the most. He’s a man that’s all about something that’s tactile, film, and aesthetics. And he’s also collaborated on and made zines.
We all know what they’re like: stock photos are pretty basic because most people and advertisers are pretty basic. They lack creativity; but the folks over at DepositPhotos decided to collaborate with five photographers with different backgrounds to deliver their own totally unique take on the stereotypical stock photo. You know: the woman with a salad, shopping, family, parties, etc.
Today, Lomography is announcing a brand new series of unconventional lenses designed for Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras; they’re called the Lomography Neptune Convertible Art Lenses. They’re a curious and extremely different system based on an older camera and lens system–which is right in line with what Lomography tends to do. The Lomography Neptune Convertible Art lenses are a three element system which all starts with a mounting system. The Aperture and focusing are built into one unit that attaches to your camera. Then from there, you attach another optic. The optics are switched out when you want a different field of view and can also work with special shaped apertures.