There is no ideal image aspect ratio. Depending on the situation, each and every crop ratio has its own pros and cons. Personally I prefer the more landscapy 3 x 2 format, digital imaging’s equivalent to film’s classic 35mm proportions. To some it seems unnatural. Also, the more squarish 4 x 3 offers better corner […]
The photos we take are an expression what we’re looking for, not necessarily what we’re looking at. Every camera we use, we use as an extension of who we are. This short video makes you want to go out and try to capture the street, the nearby forest, the mood. It makes you smile — […]
Great work, as always, by THEME’s regular contributor Lorenzo Moscia who travels the world with two cameras and two lenses. Lorenzo witnessed Brazil’s fatal FIFA World Cup blow against Germany in Rio de Janeiro’s biggest favela. Going down 1-7… Gods were humiliated in a nation where the seleção should have promised pride, joy and momentary […]
VSCO, digital photography’s probably leading solution for the emulation of film, wants you to live the artist in you and get a scholarship of the $1,000,000 Artist Initiative. The initiative is a fund providing photographers the resources to pursue their creative vision. It honors art and artist by discovering, funding, advising and promoting creatives from […]
“Everyone of us has at least one or two great photographs in them.” Says David Griffin, former photo director for National Geographic. But, to make a living from photography, “you have to have more than one or two great photographs in you. You’ve got to be able to make them all the time.” It’s another […]
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By MARTIN KALAYDJIAN Since I’m one myself, I get the impression that we camera geeks are a lot more obsessive than people who pursue other hobbies. We have raging debates here about “which is better” when the difference may not even be discernable to the naked eye. In fact, this may be the only place […]
It’s a plot for a Hollywood movie. You remember the recent ferry accident in South Korea. Almost 300 people died, many of them schoolchildren. But you didn’t know that a pastor-turned-photographer is the chief suspect in the Sewol tragedy. His name is Yoo Byung-eun — and he’s hard to pin down. Posters flashed across television […]
By YVAN COHEN, LIGHTROCKET “The camera never lies,” goes the adage, and for a long time we almost believed it. While photographs could never lay claim to being entirely truthful, there was a sense that an image recorded on film was as close as we could get to a freeze-frame of real life. Photography has […]
You’ve probably heard it, Microsoft and Canon signed a patent cross-licensing agreement. According to the Microsoft presser the deal furthers collaboration on research and development. Teaming up gives each company access to the other’s patents portfolios, which include a range of products and services such as certain digital imaging and mobile consumer products. So are […]
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By MARTIN KALAYDJIAN I just took a look at the CIPA shipment numbers for April 2014, and they really are depressing. CIPA reports that new camera shipments continue to fall, losing about a third of their market each year. This isn’t meant to be about doom and gloom. It is only “crying wolf” if the […]
Match prints to their monitor displays — or why not just finally have a properly calibrated computer screen. The Datacolor Spyder4PRO Display Calibration System sells for $99, that’s nearly 50% off list price. Can be used with desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets. Special price limited supply only, order here.
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A lot has been said about Apple pulling the plug on Aperture. Not only Aperture, iPhoto is a goner, too! Loyal Aperture users are considering the transition to Lightroom, giving in to monopolist Adobe that’ll rule the digital imaging processing world. Not that Apple drops digital imaging altogether. The upcoming Photos app will replace and […]
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Holy consumerism. Sometimes you wonder how much people of the first world still have to work. In some countries it’s down to a few hours a day while people enjoy lots of spare time for recreational pursuits, such as sports, outdoors, video games, smartphones, travels — and photography. Electricity lets us people of the first […]
In this Kickstarter era, going public with great new gear ideas and consumer hardware startups is extremely hot. GoPro is the latest American dream of a now self-made billionaire who had a great idea, believed in it and made the dream come true. Especially in the field of photography many gifted innovators are courting the […]
Esther Honig‘s idea was as simple as brilliant. Not that she’s an outstandingly beautiful women, she’s certainly good looking — but as the ideal of beauty depends on the beholder and his or her cultural background: how would Honig’s “ideal” appearance look like if she’d live in another culture? So she sent a portrait photo […]
Interesting Guardian article on the city of Rochester, New York, home of film giant Kodak which collapsed in 2012. Now, using Kodak film, Magnum photographer Alex Webb and his wife Rebecca Norris Webb have captured the streets of the rundown town, creating a eulogy to the days of transparencies. Either see the death of the […]
Everything gets a little bit better with this repeat champion of DSLRs — Nikon just announced the D810 (specs) with a redesigned mirror mechanism and electronic first curtain shutter option to reduce the risk of “shutter shake” reducing resolution. Also, Nikon drops the optical low pass filter for improved resolution and dynamic range. Meaning, there […]
The Wall Street Journal blames Nikon’s poor overall performance on missing the mirrorless boat. “Nikon needs to start breaking some mirrors,” the paper says. “That isn’t usually seen as a way to good fortune, but mirrors — specifically, the ones that add bulk to its high-end SLR cameras — are one of Nikon’s biggest problems […]
George W. Bush firing at a poster of Putin, Queen Elizabeth II reading a book on the loo, David Beckham frying fish sticks wearing underpants serving his victoria — photos every paparazzi is dreaming of. Well they’re fake and the creation of Alison Jackson, a British contemporary artist whose photographs are “convincingly realistic work about […]
Kate Upton floating in space. Her trademark assets have seen about every place on earth — now she conquered the last frontier: the universe. Or nearly. For a Sports Illustrated “Zero Gravity” swimsuit shoot, a project that took four years to complete, Upton went up up up for the rest of the world to see […]
The Sony Alpha A7 lineup is a classic already — full-frame performance in a compact, versatile package. Now the 24.3MP A7 with tiltable screen is on sale — $200 off the body or kit with the FE 28-70mm F3.5-5.6 OSS zoom. That’s $1,498 only for the body and $1,798 for the kit! And check out […]
Want to experience how astronauts see our planet? That’s not a problem, made possible by a project called Daily Overview with its stunning, daily updated collection of digital images, shot from space, looking down on our planet’s spectacular, vulnerable nature and man-made impact and geometries. It must be a very special feeling when astronauts see […]
Rumors have become fact, Amazon announces its first smartphone, the truly unique Fire. It’s in no way surprising that Amazon wants to sell stuff, therefore much of the phone’s technology is developed for this very purpose with quick identification of and access to products, music, movies, etc. Quite interesting is the phone’s advanced camera system […]
Hard to miss the Sony A7S doxology currently running rampant in websites and online fora. The camera that can see in the dark. All of a sudden 12MP are king. I’ve been saying all along that less is more and that too many megapixels are more of a burden than a blessing. Now everybody seems […]
