Like most people switching careers, photographer Grace Chon found herself miserable. She was a stressed-out art director at a large advertising agency. Like someone in wet clothing stuck out in the cold, she needed a change while still being authentically herself. “…I ultimately decided to return to my childhood love of photography and bought an entry-level DSLR,” Grace tells the Phoblographer in an interview. “I started volunteering with a dog rescue by taking headshots of the dogs to help them get adopted, which turned into a side hustle pet photography business. After about 9 months of juggling my full-time job art director gig and the photography side hustle, I went all in on photography and never looked back.” Unlike the myth of Orpheus, she succeeded — clearly.
The way that Mpix’s Framed Textile prints were described to the Phoblographer leads us to believe that they’re a completely different way of displaying your photos. Made from similar material to what you see with trade show banners, Mpix describes them as an “Ultra-soft pigment coated fabric featuring a matte finish and subtle fine art texture.” After this, you use a metal frame. Essentially, it’s like the ultimate version of a canvas print. And when you realize how large these prints are, you really start to understand why this is the case.
Exiting the elevator on the 7th floor of Pace Gallery thrusts a person right into the latest solo exhibition of the incredible Josef Koudelka. But it doesn’t prepare you for what you’re about to experience. It feels almost like you understand a secret language only true artists and photographers speak. Specifically, one must also understand the Koudlekan dialect — which should be a romance language in which one must forget all they know about landscapes and documentary photography. One can stare at Josef’s images the way one stares at the stars at night in amazement and wonder.
Tamron’s latest sale involves lenses for full-frame cameras. That means that you can get great discounts on lenses for both Sony and Nikon cameras. And we’ve got the roundup for you right here. The Tamron sale is running until April 28th, 2024. Here are all the deals you care about.
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz is a pioneer in a way that many photographers don’t even realize. Indeed, without his work, it’s possible that many others might not have ever taken your photographs seriously. With his exhibit at Huxley Parlor ending very recently, the famous documentary photographer will be showing off his photographs at the Howard Greenburg Gallery in NYC. But that’s not the really fascinating part. “…the show presents six unique dye sublimation prints from the first ever museum exhibition devoted to digital printing technology at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994,” says the press release. “These prints are permanent and display a uniquely beautiful color palette not unlike traditional dye transfer prints.”
In 2009, Canon launched a camera that started to change what the public thought of point-and-shoot cameras. It was called the Canon S90 — it was fantastic in so many ways. I wrote about it before starting the Phoblographer for Photography Bay, and it was the first time that a camera this special had been announced. The S90 had a large sensor for a fixed lens digital camera, an f2 aperture, a zoom lens, and a ring around the lens to mimic the feeling of a lens aperture. This little camera changed everything — and most people reporting on cameras these days don’t understand how significant it was.
Man, if you ever wanted great bokeh from a lens, this is the one to get. And one lucky winner is getting the 7Artisans 50mm f1.1 lens. Every month, the Phoblographer’s App subscribers are entered into a special exclusive giveaway. They get perks, banner-ad free articles, and entry into the giveaway. It’s truly something special …
In 2012, we reviewed the Olympus EM5 — a camera that we consider part of the onset of peak Micro Four Thirds. This was after Olympus said that 12MP was enough. I fondly remember embracing the camera with all the excitement that Micro Four Thirds was launched to do. Much marketing around the camera and Micro Four Thirds involved using vintage lenses adapted to the system. In fact, a lot of it was all about adapting. There was a point where Leica couldn’t even get us cameras to loan, so we adapted their lenses to Micro Four Thirds instead. The retro aesthetics and appeal tugged at the hearts of so many despite how full-frame and APS-C cameras were also progressing. This era of peak Micro Four Thirds created some of the cameras that many look back on fondly.
If you’re a member, then you’re automatically entered to win! In the month of April 2024, the Phoblographer is giving away vintage gold! We’ve got a Contax 45mm f2 converted to Leica M Mount — and we’re giving it away to one lucky subscriber in our giveaway that’s available exclusively to our members. When we …
Portrait photographers: trust us, you’re going to miss out. A while back, we launched our first set of Adobe Lightroom-compatible editing presets. We’ve had a really good response to them so far and this article here showcases more of their capabilities. While they work great on landscape, travel, and street photos, we realized they also work wonders with portraits. This article gives you visual examples of all 20 presets in our Photojournalism Presets Pack, as applied to various portraits we’ve taken over the years. And if you want, you can purchase them right here at our store.