This is essential viewing for everyone. His photography is above and beyond most of today’s well-known photographers. The name Sebastião Salgado stands for utterly condense compositions, the redefinition of space and time, a unique film-like black-and-white rendition and the eye for moments most of us will never be able to see. Take his latest project […]
There goes Eve. She’s wearing only head, chin and arm ornaments. Balancing on a fallen tree trunk, she crosses a stretch of jungle water. In search of Adam? Eve is not Eve but a member of the Zo’é tribe in Brazil. But the famous photographer, Sebastião Salgado, presents the young beauty in Old Testament style: […]
You can agree and you can disagree with liberals and conservatives alike. For heaven’s sake, just start thinking for yourself again! Doesn’t mean something they say must be real. Doesn’t mean it can be fake either. Just ask yourself: is it relevant? Does it matter? Why they say it? And most importantly: does it make […]
Right, that’s a title implying, “18 Things You’ve (Probably) Been Doing Wrong.” Anyways, here we go: Back to Basics: Photography is first and foremost about aperture and shutter speed. That’s what defines images. Modes? Bracketing? HDR? Multiple exposures? Time to go back to the roots. Settings, D’oh! The camera remembers, you don’t. Forgot again you […]
Lee Miller, one of the most perceptive photographers of the 20th century, epitomizes freedom, and I mean freedom of choice in every respect. She always did what she wanted to do. Whether she was shooting the atrocities of World War II or the latest collections from Paris, her eye was unflinching. A new book, Lee […]
Digital photography gives birth to all sorts of new photography styles. Everyone’s a photographer these days as a multitude of devices and applications leads to an ever growing pool of photographic output. Is there anything left on earth that’s not yet photographed in a myriad of ways? But a photo is not just a photo […]
It is said that Sebastião Salgado only switched to digital photography when he was certain that he still can achieve that film-like look. Many would argue there’s no more difference between the look of processed, digital bytes and film. Salgado, however, though shooting digital, counts on DxO FilmPack to keep his old trusted Kodak Tri-X […]
It’s an easy way out to add that certain je ne sais quoi to images: bokeh. What looked flat and lost in an unattractive background suddenly looks nicer. Now here’s the challenge: Do you ever try, intentionally, to avoid bokeh altogether? Look at the world’s most famous photographers. They’re not after nice bokeh. Especially if […]
By RONN ALDAMAN Many people say today’s digital imaging sensors deliver quality comparable to film. Two of today’s questions on many a photographer’s mind are: 1) The difference between digital and film photography, and; 2) Would Henri Cartier-Bresson have used a digital camera today? Of course, we will never know. The master died in 2004, […]
