Took the girl, a beach, the M11, the Summicron 28mm Matte Back Paint Limited Edition – and Capture One. The 28mm cron can do as a portrait lens. Of course needs some cropping. Also, a more controlled environment wouldn’t hurt for closer-up shots. Yet, she’s not looking bad.
Hua Lamphong Railway Station – that’s Bangkok’s Grand Central. A train station with lots of history that was about to be shut down. Replaced by a much bigger brand new train station further north. Well, Bangkok can not be impagined without Hua Lamphong. Even a quick stroll through it is rewarding. Shot with the Leica […]
A few attempts in black and white photography. Might be focusing for a while on the monochrome world around us. Currently being in Bangkok, Thailand, metropolis of colors and wild impressions, this sounds like a nihilist approach. Guess we’ll find out! What’s your take on a world of shades of gray? BTW, would appreciate if […]
It’s been far and long since the last post. Life is stunning, wild and comforting at the same time. So much to tell, but this is not a confessional site. Here a few recent unedited snaps with the oh-so-easy-to-use iPhone 13 Pro. Simply look around. Life, the world? Breathtaking. So much of everything, all around. […]
Had a “Baby Fashion Show” the other day at the nearby shopping mall here in Bangkok. While enjoying the eye candy, one couldn’t stop wondering about what’s motivating these girls to behave like, or shall I say: imitate adults. Of course behind every girl there’s a parent applying the makeup and getting the high heels […]
By MAX TERRY As photographers, we’re often looking for ways to compose our image so that our main subject is highlighted. We want to be able to direct the viewer’s eyes, to draw them in to our subject and let them rest there a moment. And while there are a number of different techniques you […]
By SAM FISCHER More and more smartphones today are coming out with cameras that are incredibly functional. A dedicated camera still will outdo smartphone cameras in most aspects. But even a consummate photographer like myself isn’t ashamed to take a quick smartphone photo anymore. Camera features to look for when selecting a phone: Camera resolution […]
By D. SCOTT CARRUTHERS Photography is among areas that have kept advancing for years with new ways of pursing the art emerging each day. These changes have been seen to bring to life different trends, which have defined the direction photography takes within a specified period of time. There have been interesting changes introduced to […]
By RALF L. Lighting plays a big factor in portrait photography. You need to think about how to compose flattering portraits for your subjects, including angle of view, face view, lighting ratio, and lighting pattern. Here are three top portrait lighting patterns that you can try out: Loop Lighting Put the light source slightly higher […]
Well the photography revolution started with digital photography. Wait, with the iPhone and subsequent smartphones. Wait! With the Internet’s democratization of access to information and anyone’s ability to produce and share content. Or wait: with images’ increasing ability to “communicate.” Writes Snap in its IPO documents: “In the way that the flashing cursor became the […]
Happy Chinese New Year of the Rooster! Some alternative views:
The fall 2015 course might not be the newest one, but if you think everything photography has to be brand new, well then good night. And just don’t tell you got accepted into the prestigious university. Yet it’s easier than ever, in fact it’s free, to take Harvard’s online course in digital photography, Exposing Digital […]
This is the story of how William Henry Fox Talbot preserved a moment of the past forever, when he invented the photographic negative. It’s a story of hard work, experimentation and how one man longed for something that was not possible until then — how to preserve that perfect moment, those frozen memories from the […]
Meet Teco Barbero, Brazilian, blind, and photographer. In fact, Teco Barbero works as a professional photographer. With a vision of 5%. Unbelievable, but true. He is blind, and has a feel for great images. He sees in the dark. With his hearing, touch, taste and smell. Antônio Valter (Teco) Barbero was born visually impaired, but […]
By MARC ANDRE One of the most critical decisions when composing and taking a photograph involves the selection of a focal point that will capture the attention of viewers. Going along with that, selecting the depth of field will have an impact on how the focal point is portrayed in the photo (for example, creating […]
By THORSTEN OVERGAARD Thorsten Overgaard is widely known as the Leica historian and for his website that offers free advice on photography. In this article exclusively written for THEME, Thorsten takes on automatic photography and how to take back control of your own photography. If you feel there is so much you need to still […]
My wife, as a Facebook addict long accustomed to exclusively shoot for mobile publishing, always shoots vertical format. Which disturbs my eye and sense of harmony. “Gosh dammit for the sake of it shoot horizontal!” For traditional print and desktop publishing, vertical format is a pain, and guess I grew up accustomed to the plain […]
Panning is not easy. Gosh it’s difficult. Yet, there’s a panning shot from the Rio Olympics that’s probably the Rio 2016 shot of shots of the Games. Granted, there’s an amount of luck and skill in every great shot. Yet Reuters photographer Kai Pfaffenbach still had to make a quick choice of photo style, and […]
Their CEO fell asleep, they went wild. So Enlight app published it all on their website. Enlight? “An addictive and creative photographic experience. The only all-in-one iPhoneography app for creating masterpieces.” Care to chip in own creativity? Certainly an interesting app if you’re on iOS — download here. And cheeky PR. See for yourself: Download […]
Does Levon Biss ring a bell? Of course not. Another fantastic photographer most people haven’t heard of yet. Levon Biss mainly does sports, his clients are big names for advertising and editorial, such as Adidas, Puma, Carlsberg, New York Times, FHM, Time, and so on. But then, to have something to work on when he […]
Following up on the last post on virtual reality, 360° videography is its sibling. If you’re about to make a decision about where to take your photography, I’d give 360° videography a very close look. Yes, in many aspects it’s a still experimental field, yet sure if you’re doing it with the right equipment and […]
Virtual reality is coming and transforming the way we see and learn about things. Now, you can walk through a faraway city or see a hotel room in faraway say Sydney. Without being there. All this can be done at the comfort of your home. Using your smartphone. While photos are a reflection of reality […]
By KAREL VAN WOLFEREN Pixel peepers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your mind! Quite literally. All those infected by the bokeh bug ought to know that the verb form of this Japanese term, bokeh suru, means that you are losing it. The bokeh mania will be with us for some […]
One of the great achievements of the first truly digital camera system, Four Thirds, was the invention back in 2003 of the supersonic wave filter, the first dust reduction system ever that cleaned the sensor at each camera startup. Right, it came with the honorable Olympus E-1. Today that’s standard equipment — not entirely foolproof, […]
He was a class of his own: complicated, choleric, visionary, always borderline, conscious and breaking new ground. The movie director known for masterpieces such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut and A Clockwork Orange rewrote filmmaking, often to the horror of his bosses. First and foremost though Stanley Kubrick was a photographer. He […]
There’s a perpetual air of mystery surrounding the abandoned buildings of the world. Dutch photographer Hans van Vrouwerf aims to clear that mystery. He explores the rotting, decaying buildings left to the wild. Those asylums, factories, churches and other buildings exposed to the elements are treasure troves for photographers with unique settings, light and ambience. […]
Be it New York, Paris or the Victoria Falls in Africa, chances are a company from Russia has made most stunning panorama visuals of them. AirPano developed a unique technology to visually reinterpret sights we’ve seen a million times, but hardly ever in such, well, realistic virtuality. We had a quick talk with Sergey Semenov, […]
Expelled from Hungary at the age of 17, Endre Friedman bounced from Germany to France learning photography along the way. When he arrived, the man we know as Robert Capa was born. Possibly the greatest war photographer in history, Capa’s contributions are as broad as his interests. The biography of Robert Capa is as captivating […]
Call it more of a marketing stunt — and Olympus is good at that. Fact is that the 40MP high-resolution mode of the new Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II seems to be a lot of fun to shoot with. If you’re care about maximum detail in landscape photography, this is a worthwhile alternative to a […]
Beauty is not a question of money, makeup or background — this is the message of Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc who portrays young women from all over the world. Most notably, her photographs are (largely) wide angle portraits, not focusing on perfect skin and hairstyle, but on women, their eyes and natural, authentic beauty and […]
