Posts by Author: Daniela Bowker
Daniela Bowker is a writer and editor based in the UK. Since 2010 she has focused on the photography sector. In this time, she has written three books and contributed to many more, served as the editor for two websites, written thousands of articles for numerous publications, both in print and online, and runs the Photocritic Photography School.
Just how invasive is Meitu?
Jan 22, 2017
Daniela Bowker
Yesterday afternoon I noticed that my Twitter and Instagram feeds were humming with curiously styled selfies that slimmed faces, lightened skin, and applied a veneer…
If I want to print a photo, what size does it need to be?
Jan 8, 2017
Daniela Bowker
I took the photo just down there from the deck of the ferry that took me from Auckland to the Coromandel Peninsular in New Zealand….
Every camera manufacturer runs some kind of ambassador scheme, somehow they don’t really represent women
Dec 24, 2016
Daniela Bowker
Most camera manufacturers run ambassador schemes. They vary in their numbers and the precise ways in which they’re run, but the principles seem similar enough:…
Uploaded any photos to Foursquare? They could feature in Airbnb’s new guides.
Dec 8, 2016
Daniela Bowker
In April this year Airbnb launched its Neighbourhood guides where locals share their knowledge of where they live to enable people visiting cities from Seoul…
The rise of the disappearing photo
Nov 27, 2016
Daniela Bowker
At the beginning of this week Instagram announced that it was introducing a Snapchat-like option of disappearing photos and videos to its service. As we’re…
6 tips for photographing brown food
Nov 12, 2016
Daniela Bowker
One of the highlights of my Sunday is reading Jay Rayner’s restaurant review in The Observer. I have to say that the photography that illustrates…
How and when to ask for photography advice
Oct 29, 2016
Daniela Bowker
‘Please I need your help fast.’ Gosh, that’s a fairly desperate title for an email. Normally I’d delete that sort of missive as being a…
The complete photography guide to shooting in museums and galleries
Oct 22, 2016
Daniela Bowker
I dropped into the British Museum on Monday and spent a few hours in the Mesopotamian galleries with a brief flit through the Greek and…
Can someone snap a photo of me in the street and use it to identify me?
Oct 2, 2016
Daniela Bowker
With facial recognition technology you can take pictures of people in the street, run them through publicly available photographs online, and get a match. You…
Thinking about closed and open form pictures; or how old art history terms can still be useful
Sep 10, 2016
Daniela Bowker
If you were to mention the term ‘formal analysis’ to an art historian today, you’d probably be told it’s passé. No one really tries to…