This trippy music video for Bonobo‘s new track “No Reason” is full of what would appear to be clever CGI, but it’s actually all shot in-camera using “a very small camera and a very big set.” The video is a look inside the head of a hikikomori, a young man who stays hidden from society. They “spend years at a time stuck in their bedrooms,” according to director Oscar Hudson. In the video, a small action camera is moved through a series of 18 rooms. The rooms get progressively smaller, and the young man seems to get bigger. … [Read more...]

A photographer in San Francisco is offering a $1,000 cash reward with no questions asked for the return of stolen memory cards containing irreplaceable wedding photos. The cards were taken from her car a week ago by a thief who also made off with $15,000 in camera equipment. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that wedding photographer Amanda Tung had finished shooting an intimate wedding at San Francisco City Hall on July 17th, 2017, when she and her assistant stopped at a playground in Presidio Park to use the bathroom. When they returned to the car 10 minutes later … [Read more...]

    Victoria Ling Who printed it?Park communication Who designed it?I did. Who edited the images?Siobhan Squire and myself. How many did you make?1200. How many times a year do you send out promos?Every six months or so.   ------------------------ Visit our sponsor Photo Folio, providing websites to professional photographers for over 9 years. Featuring the only customizable template in the world. ------------------------ … [Read more...]

UK drone pilots have enjoyed some of the most relaxed regulations around the popular pastime, but now the government has proposed new regulations that will require all owners of drones over 250 grams (~8.8oz) to register their quadcopters, attend safety courses, and pass a safety test. According to the BBC, the Department of Transport has admitted that a timeline for the regulations coming into action is undetermined, as “the nuts and bolts still have to be ironed out”. The courses will mean that pilots have to “prove that they … [Read more...]

When a new film photographer asks the photography community which films are the best, most voices tend to agree on Porta, Tri-X, and HP5… but are these the most popular? In this article, we are going to look at the top 10 films photographers prefer. Earlier this year, I launched a Film Dating tool for helping photographers find their favorite 35mm film stock. It’s been a few months since I launched it and its popularity went way beyond my expectations — over 38,000 people have used it so far! This unexpected popularity also gave me the opportunity … [Read more...]

Have you ever dreamed of using an off-camera flash with your smartphone? Godox wants to make it happen. The Chinese lighting brand is teasing an upcoming product called the Godox A1. It’s a “phone flash system” that’s both a flash and a transmitter. On the lighting-side, the product will offer both a flash unit and a LED light, giving you flexibility for how you light your scene and subject. There are three built-in LED lights and a flash unit that can be triggered with the A1 away from your phone camera. The A1 will also work as a transmitter … [Read more...]

As a professional documentary wedding photographer, actually taking photographs is a small (but essential!) part of my job. Much of what a wedding photographer does is in the editing and processing of the images. And that’s where tools like the Loupedeck photo editing console for Lightroom comes in handy. It’s the kind of tool that can save a photographer a substantial amount of time processing each image, and when there are hundreds of images to deliver from each wedding, that time saving soon mounts up. My 27-minute Loupedeck review above will give you an … [Read more...]

Light painting photography is increasingly popular these days. Applying the concepts to video, however, isn’t as straightforward. This 2-minute tutorial by light painter Eric Paré shows one way to do it in Adobe Premiere. With your camera at the ready, have your model stand in a fixed pose. With someone hidden behind them, you can paint shapes with a light tube. Taking that video clip into Adobe Premiere, you can use the “Echo” effect to continuously overlay frames against each other, bringing the light trail into existence in a … [Read more...]

If you’re a fashion model in China who needs to pose for over a hundred outfits every day, you learn to work fast. Really fast. There are videos online showing how models pose rapid-fire style for the photos used on Taobao, China’s equivalent of Amazon. As a photographer continually snaps shots, the models “freestyle” through a large number of different poses. They can do about two poses per second, or 30 poses over 15 seconds of continuous photos: Chinadaily reports that some Taobao models pose in up to 150 outfits in a day and make more than … [Read more...]

Photo colorization is usually done in programs like Photoshop, but did you know that you can achieve good results in Lightroom as well? In this 21-minute video by tutvid, learn how to colorize a black and white photo using only Lightroom. If Photoshop is so versatile and powerful, why on Earth would you bother using Lightroom to colorize? The video is more to show the capabilities of Lightroom and what it can do with some of the more hidden features. By harnessing the power of adjustment brushes and non-destructive editing, you can bring color back to a … [Read more...]