I know…this is a very odd question. To be honest too, I don’t think that I’d ever sit there and lick a roll of film no matter how smitten I am with well exposed Portra 400. But the folks over at Not Another Gear Review decided “Screw it, why not?” Yes, they decided to see if the taste of a piece of a film affects the image quality in any way, shape or form. Why? Science? Funsies? YouTube hits? Being featured on a site like this one?
If you’re a portrait photographer that loves to shoot in natural light and who also lives in a big city, here’s a great tip for you. Tall buildings on cities are often reflecting light off of one another and therefore creating a type of specular light. Imagine it sort of like sunlight being reflected off of a mirror. This reflected light acts like a natural photographic reflector and therefore gives subjects a bit of a spotlight look.
Instagram: if you can name another social media platform that pisses off photographers as much I’d be shocked. But the truth is that lots of photographers seem to focus highly on Instagram vs Facebook or Twitter; and sometimes for obvious reasons. However, it’s not easy to figure it out. So here are some insights and tips that you may not have known or noticed as of May 2017.
Photographer Iwona Pinkowicz has evolved quite a bit since bidding her day job adieu to pursue photography full time. To refresh, Iwona is a fantastic street photographer who then got into street portraiture and earned a spot on our list of great women photographers to watch. Iwona’s approach has always been really different from others, and even the results that she gets when asking people candidly for a portrait seem to turn into photos that show some sense of connection.
In my previous review of the Fujifilm GFX 50s, I noted that while a pretty good camera system, there isn’t a whole lot that differentiates it from 35mm full frame systems enough to give it more of a competitive edge. Flash sync settings asides for professional photographers, there are some features about the camera that just don’t feel medium format in quality. Granted, Fujifilm isn’t flat out saying that their system is Medium Format; though in truth there isn’t really much else that we can call it if it’s larger than 35mm full frame. I mean, bigger-than-full-frame-smaller-than-645 doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. But a lot of what makes the image quality though isn’t necessarily the sensor, but the lenses. And that’s where the biggest problem is.
All images used with permission from Eleanor Macnair. Many readers are fans of the work produced by the photographers over at Magnum Photos, and these very cool photos from the agency rendered in Play Doh are also surely worth your time. Years ago, artist Eleanor Macnair got started with producing images rendered in Play-Doh. That …
Hi everyone, Next month the Phoblographer is looking to showcase the work of various portrait photographers. Want to be featured? Check out our submission process after the jump.
Photographer Manu Cabanero has been working on the Splash Wars series for a really long time now. Inspired by the fantastic work of Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz, Manu combined his love of the Star Wars franchise to create milky portraits of many iconic characters in the series.
A couple of years ago, a company tried to create the SunDisc in order to change the way that we lit our photos. The SunDisc is a collapsible and portable softbox and reflector in one. It’s very versatile and lets you shoot with a gold or silver interior. We reported on it back in 2015, but it failed. Why? Maybe they were asking for too much money; but at least to me it seems like a really nice and no-brainer solution for many different types of photographers who use flash.
For over a year, workers at the B&H photo warehouses have been protesting for better treatment and for the creation of a Union. In fact, the issue has become so large that it’s now been a class action lawsuit put into place by the US Government and backed up by controversies that have been in place for the better part of 10 years now. So it comes as a bit of a shock that workers are still protesting outside of the store the way that they did this morning.