Today Adobe announced Photoshop and Premiere Elements 15, and one of the headline features for the latest Elements update was the addition of touch capabilities for better use on touch-enabled devices. This will be a huge usability improvement for those utilizing Elements 15 on devices like Microsoft’s Surface devices, or other touch enable laptops.
Take a look at the lead image for this story: what do you think it was shot with? It’s a photo I use often here on the site. That photograph was shot with Kodak Portra with a Bronica ETRS. No editing was done. It looks like it could have been done with a modern full frame camera or some other digital camera, right? To be honest, I could have done it with 35mm, Micro Four Thirds, APS-C, etc. What really mattered what the lighting and the situation because the further truth is that the laws of exposure don’t change.
Photographer Nils Karlson is a 41 year old creative living in Germany. “I started photography in my late 3’s, almost a decade after I got a glaucoma diagnosis, which affects my eyesight – my right eye is useless for photography, so I adapted and became left-eyed.” His journey started with messing around with digital photography then moved to 35mm slide film. Eventually, he got into the square format with 120 film–and those are part of his series “Earth Stands Still.”
Hoya USA introduces Solas, a new series of IRND (Infrared Neutral Density) filters for photo and cinema cameras. Through the use of advanced materials and precision Japanese manufacturing the SOLAS series maintains neutral color transmission throughout the 1 to 10 stop density range while suppressing infrared contamination.
Photography generally represents a reality that the photographer intends to illustrate. In the world of photo-manipulation where the possibilities are endless, it is up to the creativity and wild imagination of the artist to produce thought-provoking and often incredible reality in their work of art. Bjørg-Elise Tuppen blends the elements of mostly wild animals in their most unnatural habitat, resulting in strange and awkward environmental portraits of the wild animals in his series of Visual Strangeness.
Being wheelchair-bound was no reason to put the camera away, instead Tony Wallace used photography as a form of physical therapy after a spinal cord injury. The passion for shooting his hometown Toronto, Canada grew and he is now seeking crowd-funding for his Kickstarter Project, Toronto Black and White.
Montreal based photographer, Sasha Onyshchenko, has recently completed a beautiful 10-image series featuring dancers. Mixing strobe and natural light, Onyshchenko captures his subjects in striking poses along a rocky coastline. The juxtaposition of the hard, jagged rocks and nimble, graceful dancers creates a series showcasing form, contrast, and color that is both eye-catching and thought-provoking.
Digital Photo Pro recently sat down with Sekonic rep, photographer, and educator Lorenzo Gasperini to discuss why light meters are still essential tools. Gasperini stresses the importance of using a meter and how it accurately informs him of what his exposure reading will reveal about what he’s getting in the highlights and shadows of his photograph.
Ukranian photographer Alex Kolodyazhni is creating stunning beauty, lingerie and fashion portraiture all over the world. Kolodyazhni’s work, or much of it, at any rate, has this very well processed and cinematic look with an intimate lifestyle feeling to it.
When you look at the work of Tomasz Zaczenuik, you get the feeling of being transported to a place of pure magic. Mr. Zaczenuik is very passionate about animals and creating his photographic compositions to transport the viewer to a surreal world. A digital artist for 10 years, Mr. Zaczenuik has had his wok displayed in exhibits, galleries, etc. Like every other surreal photographer out there, he has a message to convey in his images.