In photography sometimes simplicity is the best answer and works well in most situations. Maik Lipp from Germany certainly has nailed his minimalist approach when it comes to his passion for modern architecture and land-cityscapes. Maik specifically composed straight geometric lines of architecture found from cities around Europe into a photo series titled “Geometric Lines”.
Road, a man-made infrastructure which connects places, can be a powerful photography subject in landscape photography. Christian Schmidt’s mini photo series titled “Roads” is an outstanding example of blending roads with incredibly beautiful scenery in the background.
The big announcement from Sigma recently for the still imaging world was definitely the introduction of the long rumored and long awaited 85mm F/1.4 Art lens. We had a chance to take a look at Sigma’s new beastly portrait lens here at PhotoPlus 2016 and today we have our initial impressions for you.
Working with off-camera lighting is a lot easier than most people think. But one thing that many people don’t understand is a very simple concept about lighting: when shooting portraits, it’s often best to make your subject face the light source to deliver a flattering image. Why?
One of the biggest problems that everyone faces in portraiture is making chins look good. Peter Hurley and other photographers tell you to direct portrait subjects to push their neck out just a bit. That works all the time, but another trick that also works well is making sure that the positioning of the chin is at the right elevation to begin with. This trick is a bit more complicated and requires you to “see light” so to speak.
We had a chance to see and interact with the new Olympus 12-100mm F/4 here at PhotoPlus Expo 2016. This lens was announced back at Photokina and this was our first opportunity to give the lens a good look, so today we have some initial impressions for you.
For a very long time, Olympus’ fastest primes were only available at f1.8; but with the recent introduction of the Olympus 25mm f1.2 PRO lens they’ve broken that previous standard. It’s one of the company’s highest end lenses and will most likely be purchased by professionals and high end enthusiasts. With an f1.2 aperture, the equivalent depth of field in full frame terms if around f2.4 though it still has the light capturing abilities of f1.2.
Kodak, one of the most well known photography brands in the world is getting into the smartphone game, and just as you would expect, the camera and imaging capabilities are the headline features.
While the world now revolves around digital photography with the Megapickles race running rampant, there is still a movement of going back to and enjoying traditional approach in photography. Cahute is a portrait studio based in Finland that specializes in 8×10 large format camera on direct positive paper.
Sigma has announced the official pricing on the zoom lenses in the line cinema lenses that they launched a little while back. The 18-35mm T/2 and 50-100mm T/2 both received official pricing and availability this morning ahead of the opening of PhotoPlus Expo.