“Since typical street shooters need to capture fast-changing moments, the faster the film the better.”
Napoleon Dynamite is surely a cult classic film; and one of the parts that photographers can truly appreciate is the headshot session of Uncle Rico. If you’re an established headshot photographer then this will make you laugh and cringe at the same time. But even if you’re not into portraiture, it’s still something worth laughing at simply because of the dialogue and posing process.
In a recent photography workshop that I was teaching, I encountered a problem with an attendee as far as a creative vision is concerned. And that’s when I really started to think about how I can teach someone how to even start developing a creative vision of any sort. For the uninitiated, a creative vision is an idea that you have which you try to translate into a visual masterpiece on camera. It involves light, framing, depth of field, and creative freedom.
Westcott and Jerry Ghionis have announced their latest collaboration in the form of the new Omega Reflector 360. The new reflector, like the original Omega reflector, features that shoot through design to allow you to get amazing light and catch lights in your subject’s eyes without the need for a complicated setup.
For many, many years I was a hardcore Lightroom user. When it comes to way that most people work, I don’t blame them for using the product; it’s simple, is more than good enough, and allows you to manage your system, edit, print and export all from one spot. It’s a one stop shop in many ways. But the old adage goes something along the lines of believing in and knowing exactly what you have until you suddenly see something else that’s more shiney, better, robust, etc. For me, that’s Capture One Pro 10.
These days, it’s not uncommon to see timelapse videos shot with just still cameras; but it was very uncommon to see it back in 1997 and done with the Nikon F5. But a vintage ad (yes, because the 90s are vintage) This commercial was shot back in 1997 by Alastair Thain using the Nikon F5 camera! According to the YouTube description, this was the first time a stills camera had ever been used to shoot “moving images”. More than 200 rolls of 35mm film were developed for the commercial, in rolls of 36 shots each. These were spliced, graded for colour and edited.
Conceptual photography plays around with distortion of reality in images to creatively present an idea or illustrating an imagination. John Wilhelm has taken conceptual photography to another level in his compilation of work found at his Behance gallery here.
The Phoblographer Frameworks Photography Workshops is offering a special two day intensive class for all you foodies out there. Everyone attending gets a free bag courtesy of Adorama and a three course dinner. Plus, you of course get some fantastic knowledge for photographing food.
After Agfa’s consumer imaging line of products folded and went into receivership, ADOX repurchased Agfa’s MCP, MCC, APX and the entire line of Agfa Black & White chemical line saving the film and processing for future photographers. With the purchase of the line of Agfa line of film and chemicals, ADOX was in need of a facility for production and distribution which they purchased in 2006. A little over ten years later, ADOX has started construction on a new factory in Bad Saarow, Germany (near Berlin).
Lexar has recently launched a new 512GB 3500x CFast 2.0 memory card which has twice the capacity of its predecessor model. Having high capacity and high speed memory card is especially crucial for recording of high bit-rate 4K and ProRes videos, or shooting stills in massive high resolution RAW images.