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Tributes have flooded in for renowned music photographer Mick Hutson who died suddenly last week aged 58. Hutson made his name photographing the world’s greatest rock musicians, with many of his images appearing on album and magazine covers.
He photographed official album covers for Nirvana, AC/DC, Primal Scream, Queens of the Stone Age, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest and many more.
Vignetting: sometimes you love it and sometimes you hate it. Sometimes it creeps into your photographs unintentionally and sometimes you decide that a vignette will help to draw focus to your subject and it’s exactly what your image needs.
Vignetting describes the darkening that can appear at the corners of a photo. It is sometimes called light fall-off, because it refers to the difference in brightness between the centre and edges of your photo. Vignettes can be added deliberately to photos but often occur because of optics. In this article, we will look at the different types of vignettes and what causes them, as well as how to remove them and how to add them if you want to, too.
[Read More…]Canon has been showing off a new camera at Photonext 2023 in Yokohama, Japan. The camera has no name or model number yet, and Pronews reports it to be a concept prototype. The concept, though, is intriguing coming from a company like Canon. Intriguing because it’s a concept that’s been released before and didn’t really seem to take off.
It’s a 180º and 360º hybrid camera aimed at the consumer market. In its folded state, it’s a standard 360º 2D camera with its lenses back-to-back. Unfolded, it places its lenses side-by-side to shoot 180º 3D VR content. While the overall form factor appears very different, it sounds very similar to the Insta360 EVO.
More scammers and blackmailers are creating deepfakes from people’s social media photos, the FBI warn. In a disturbing trend, criminals are using people’s images to put them into compromising videos and on porn sites in order to extort money from them.
The extortionists (sometimes called sextortionists) then threaten their victims with leaking the images and videos into the public space unless they pay them. Typically they obtain the victim’s photos through social media and then feed them into deepfake AI software to make fake videos and images.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to shoot stills behind the scenes for movies and TV shows? Well, the streaming giant, Netflix, has opened up applications to join its first-ever Unit Photography Bootcamp. It’s a three-day course on unit stills photography, running in July. The bad news, however, is that it’s only open to photographers in Australia, and only ten places are available.
The course, Netflix says, is designed to develop skills, network with others in the industry and obtain insights into what’s required as an on-set photographer. The course is led by unit stills veteran John Platt, with practical experiences and the opportunity to meet Netflix department heads from Australia and the US.
Artist and activist Stuart Semple started a new project with a plan to take on “corporate overlords” Adobe. As a response to “renting” Adobe software, he has created Abode, a new software suite for creators. It’s yours to keep forever once you buy it, but there’s a potential problem: everything looks a lot like Adobe, even the logo.
Instagram’s algorithms are actively promoting child sex abuse rings, studies have reported. Networks of paedophiles are using the network to commission and share illegal content, as well as grooming new victims.
The Wall Street Journal and academics at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted a joint investigation into the issue. The results have revealed a dark underside to the popular social media network run by Meta.
The term “cinematic” means lots of different things to different people. There are a lot of people out there who believe it’s anything shot on full-frame with a shallow depth of field. Some think it’s anything shot with a super-wide 2.35:1 aspect ratio. These ideas are all a bit simplistic, though. They’re also usually wrong.
Sure, they might be contributing factors to the final piece, but simply using a shallow depth of field or a wide crop alone isn’t going to do the job. In this video, YouTuber and filmmaker Vuhlandes walks us through his process for creating cinematic footage with some easy “cheat codes”. And they work even with an old-school 4:3 aspect ratio.
To capture these images, we had firebreathers and pyrotechnicians breathe fire on and around the Perpetual Plastic Machine. But first, some background.
I started this project to raise awareness for the simple fact that Because plastic waste in the ocean is universally condemned, the plastic industry tries to redirect everyone’s energy toward waste management. But plastic production leaves a trail of pollutants in its wake, similar to the light trails left behind by our curtain of fire. If you want to learn more, click here.
Photographing fire is not a trivial task. On top of challenging exposure considerations, you also have to take safety into account. So here are my tips on dealing with this absurd mess that is multi-fire-breathers-on-a-plastic-machine at a large scale.
Pinhole photography is photography at its most fundamental. Based on the camera obscure that came before it, the principle is essentially the same. The only real difference here is that there’s something to capture the image. In this case, the digital sensor of your mirrorless camera or DSLR.
In this video, Sean from Fotodiox walks us through making a pinhole lens. It’s a lens that pretty much any of us can make just for the cost of a can of coke – or your soda of choice. That’s because it’s made from the can itself, along with a bit of gaffer tape. It’s a pretty simple project to try.
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
Dave Williams is an accomplished travel photographer, writer, and best-selling author from the UK. He is also a photography educator and published Aurora expert. Dave has traveled extensively in recent years, capturing stunning images from around the world in a modified van. His work has been featured in various publications and he has worked with notable brands such as Skoda, EE, Boeing, Huawei, Microsoft, BMW, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Discovery, BBC, The Guardian, ESPN, NBC, and many others.
John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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