There are few things as wonderful as knowing that you got the shot in-camera and don’t need to do post-production to it. It comes with a sense of pride and accomplishment that’s akin to scoring a 100% on a test when you’re a young kid. Thankfully, LUMIX cameras can help to get you most of the way — or they’d get most of your artistic vision done right in the device. I’m not talking about Real Time LUT or Live Composite this time. I’m talking about the filter settings — it’s a bit of a forgotten and lesser talked about feature that photographers should have a lot of fun with.
I have a confession: most of Joel Meyerowitz’s work isn’t very appealing to me. That’s completely different from saying that the man hasn’t made great images. He surely has made wonderful photographs that continue to captivate photographers today. However, I think he’s probably one of the single greatest indirect photography teachers today. Make no mistake, Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color doesn’t have any of his greatest images; but it contains his greatest teachings ever. In fact, I think even advanced photographers will rediscover something in his words.
If you’re an amateur or a professional photographer, you can get your gear covered, and it starts with a free quote! The Phoblographer is giving away two Sony lenses. Not one, but TWO! One lucky winner will receive the Sony 35mm f1.8 FE and 85mm f1.8 FE lenses in our latest giveaway. To enter, you only need to sign up for free to get a quote from the Phoblographer’s new Photography Care Program. This is the site’s latest camera insurance program designed to protect amateurs and professionals in case something happens to their gear or their business. More details are down below.
“With the unfortunate position to speak to art and commerce simultaneously, I will say that blending the two is always a challenge but this one takes the cake for me,” says photographer Ryan Schaude to the Phoblographer in an interview. “It might take a separate thread to discuss the technical and human relations aspects which were vast.” Ryan is quite a unique photographer. Where so much of the photography is done with lots of post-production later on, Ryan shot the lead image and the photo later on in this story all in-camera. They’re not at all composited — and this is a level of production that so many of us should strive for. And it’s all because of who his clients were.
Adobe Firefly is powering several of the new advancements that are being announced by the company at MAX today. Quite honestly, they’re insanely dystopian yet also pretty exciting for the future of photography if ethics and regulations are put into place. Daido Moriyama says that the camera is an imperfect way of capturing reality, so a photograph can totally be made in post-production. But when does a photograph stop being a photograph and instead be a composite? That’s a question I believe photographers should ask themselves when using the new Photoshop features. Included is a new adjustment brush that does some pretty insane things — powered by the new Adobe Firefly.
For years, portrait photographers adhered to a simple three-color rule. This was in an effort to their images simple and the heroes of their images as the most important part. It prevented distractions, for sure. For example, someone might be framed in green field while they’re wearing a blue outfit. And depending on the tonality of the image, the colors might not even be an important part — especially if the blue mixes into the sky. Colors can indeed be an incredibly important part of the photograph. Luckily for us, LUMIX cameras have a command over colors in full-frame cameras that we just simply haven’t seen before.
You’ve seen the bokeh and sharpness this thing can make, right? 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 …
Professional photographers, semi-professional photographers, and passionate hobbyist photographers can all be covered with the Photography Care Program. The Phoblographer is giving away two Sony lenses. Not one, but TWO! One lucky winner will receive the Sony 35mm f1.8 FE and 85mm f1.8 FE lenses in our latest giveaway. To enter, you only need to sign up for free to get a quote from the Phoblographer’s new Photography Care Program. This is the site’s latest insurance program designed to protect amateurs and professionals in case something happens to their gear or their business. More details are down below; but you’ll see that this is surely the best insurance for professional photographers.
If there was ever an iconic tripod design, it’s the ones from the early 2000s and late 90s. That’s where the new Promoster Epoch tripod is taking inspiration from. Every college video department had some sort of aluminum tripod with a ball head of some sort and they all looked like this. Tripods these days don’t have a whole lot of innovation unless they’re incorporating electronics and AI into them like the Benro Theta. But with Promaster, the company is going vintage and relying on more of their token durability by using fewer parts and sections.
If you closely observe the lead image above you’d probably think that you were looking at some tall grass of sorts — and that the slow shutter speed really emphasized this. By all means, modern technology in cameras has become so good that you can handhold slow shutter speeds easily. So are you really looking at tall grass? LUMIX’s cameras like the S5II have class-leading image stabilization. Perhaps the image was shot when getting down on the ground and looking up, right? That’s part of the importance of vantage points.