Sighting two memorably designed objects in the same scene, Brazilian photographer Brunel Galhego shot a photo that later became a winner of the Latin American Fotografia 2 competition. Galhego, who is based in Sao Paulo, had taken his son to a location near their home where antique-car collectors show their vehicles. There, beneath a flying-saucer-shaped water tower well loved by locals, he spotted a … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? Grace Danico: The pen. It's the tool I've been using the longest! I started writing and drawing at a young age, and the pen has been my trusty companion throughout life. I've actually graduated to using brush pens these days, so it's the best of both worlds. PR: I noticed that you often make … Read the full Story >>
A lot of people are making use of their time in coronavirus isolation to brush up on photography, and companies — including Nikon and Leica, as well as groups like the Professional Photographers of America — have been releasing lessons online for free. The Verge notes that Olympus has also done so, while Thrillist has a roundup of free lessons from others, including online learning platform KelbyOne. Meanwhile, DesignBoom notes that MoMA is offering free online courses on modern art, photography and fashion. Read the full Story >>
Growing up in Syria, Amer Mohamad’s exposure to fashion was limited to what he saw on TV and in movies, but, notes Harper’s Bazaar, his interest was piqued when he got his first computer and could spending hours scrolling on Tumblr: “I would print fashion images and tape them to my wall,” Mohamad says. His first brush with photography was in the 6th grade when his father gave him a disposable camera. Now based in Dubai, he is a rising fashion photography star with more than 90 magazine cover credits, Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Hong Kong, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in the UK? A: I was born in a concrete forest and now a place with no trees (the Shetland isles). I feel very exposed in the vastness of the land and sea, the winter is long and harsh, there is nowhere to go, the best thing is … Read the full Story >>
We’ve been duly noting the arrival of new products, like this camera, aimed at Generation Selfie—which is everyone, including old-timers who were once content just to be part of the “Me Generation.” But who can keep up with selfie mania? The Verge notes that Lenovo has introduced its own selfie cam, the Vibe Z2. And Photo Rumors reports that Sony recently unveiled its Cybershot KW11 selfie camera in Asia. Meanwhile, Time LightBox wonders if the increasingly popular Selfie Stick will ruin selfies for everyone. And then there is the Selfie Brush, which is a hairbrush that takes selfies. Read the full Story >>
Sometimes it’s the little things that make a photographer’s work easier. Nitecore’s newly announced electronic camera cleaning tool, the BB2, is like a leaf blower, only smaller, meaning you no longer need to expend energy constantly squeezing the bulb of a rocket blower; now, notes DIY Photographer, you can flick a switch to get air with speeds of up to 80km/h to blow the dust and other debris off your camera gear. It also features a built-in brush to help you dislodge that stubborn dirt. Read the full Story >>
Cinemagraphs—still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement occurs in one area—have become an increasingly popular effect, and now you can create them easily with Flixel’s Cinemagraph Pro software, notes Filmmaker: You import the video you want to edit, then use a brush and eraser to indicate masked area—the part of the frame to be in motion. The program also has a number of visual-effect presets to change the coloring of the sequence. It’s available for Mac only, and if you act fast you can steal it for only $14! Read the full Story >>
Back when former Disney animator Glen Keane was working on classics like Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, he used old-fashion drawing tools. Now you can watch him create art in virtual reality with an HTC Vive VR headset and Tilt Brush. Keane, who has also created art for Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group, made the VR demo for the 2015 Future of Storytelling Summit (Oct. 7 and 8 in NYC). He describes the process as “stepping into the paper.” Read the full Story >>
Probably the most viral piece of photo news this week was about a San Diego man who thought it would be a good idea to take a selfie with a rattlesnake. It was not: Todd Fassler picked said snake out of the brush and decided to memorialize the event. The snake bit him. CNET notes that Fassier’s subsequent medical expenses topped $150,000—his case reportedly depleted the antivenom supplies at two local hospitals. Apparently, a lot of pain was also involved. Don’t even do this with a selfie stick. Read the full Story >>
Rio de Janeiro-based photographer Marizilda Cruppe notes on her website that she studied mechanics in high school and found her first job, at age 16, doing electrical maintenance at a pen factory. At 20, she began working toward her dream of becoming a commercial pilot but was forced to quit due to “financial limitations.” Her fallback dream, however, was photography. After working for a newspaper she launched the EVE photo collective with five other women photographers and now focuses on powerful social documentary work. Read the full Story >>
If you’re a photographer who often hikes in the great outdoors, you might be interested in a new feature from the mapping service FATMAP, notes PetaPixel. It’s called the Travel Distance layer, and it shows on a 3D map exactly where you’ll be able to hike to in any given amount of time. The map doesn’t just take into account the straight line distance for its calculations, but also the geographical properties (e.g. slope/gradient) of the map as well. Surface properties such as brush, swamps, or rivers aren’t taken into account. Read the full Story >>
The new Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 Touch pen display is so good, creatives may never use a mouse again, declares NoFilmSchool. Designed with a modern look and lightweight construction, the thin 27-inch display screen offers a smaller footprint than even the previous 24-inch Cintiq Pro model but offers a multi-touch interface with faster refresh rates and vivid, accurate color, adds NFS. Read the full Story >>
While urban exploring (also referred to as urbex) can result in thrilling photos, it’s not always fun and games, notes DIY Photography, which reports that an urbex photographer who has had a brush with the law—one that could land him in jail for up to a year and cost him a 15,000-Euro fine. The photog, who goes by the pseudonym The Other Side used Facebook to tell his story, which involved shooting in an abandoned factory in France. It’s a reminder that not all of the dangers of urban exploring are physical. Read the full Story >>
Affinity Photo for iPad has put out a new update that further improves the Photoshop competitor with new features, updated tools and bug fixes, notes DP Review. Among the updates: “massively” expanded support for touch gesture control, a tweaked UI designed for more intuitive control and better brush management, a new Export persona for easy exporting of multiple layers and a slew of under-the-hood changes to boost performance. There’s currently a 30-percent discount being offered on the app, adds DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
Edward’s Hopper’s plaintive visions of the American landscape “left a giant brush mark on contemporary cinema,” notes NoFilmSchool. That fact is the focus of a video essay from editor Ignacio Montalvo, who highlights Hopper's direct influence on cinematography by placing his paintings side-by-side with film shots that borrow heavily from his visual language, from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho to Woody Allen’s Manhattan. Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the pencil or the pen? David Cruz: First came the pen. At elementary school I use to populate my history books with ink drawings, and I also liked to delete some words to change the meaning of the texts, which made them more fun. My notebooks were always full of drawings from my imagination. PR: Please describe your work … Read the full Story >>
Adobe released the public beta version of its new Lightroom 5 software this week, accompanied by video and photo examples of a few exciting new features—which you can find at PetaPixel. Meanwhile, Fstoppers’s Trevor Dayley dove into the new software and came up with a list of his own favorite features. They include “Radial Filter,” used to create a custom vignette anywhere in your picture, and “Custom Healing Brush Shapes,” which Dayley says is “very powerful on erasing wrinkle lines or objects in your photo.” Read the full Story >>
Through August 17, you can brush up on your film history at "Hollywood Exiles in Europe," UCLA's Film & Television Archive's film series at the Hammer Museum in LA. The series features films by Jules Dassin, John Berry, Ed Dmytryk, Ben and Norma Barzman, Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield and Donald Ogden Stewart—writers and directors who fled the Hollywood Blacklist of the 1950s, moving to Europe and working under their own names. The series was curated by Rebecca Prime, author of a book on the subject. Read the full Story >>
Amazon Studios, the original film and series production arm of Amazon.com, has introduced a new tool called Storybuilder aimed at making the process of filmmaking more organized, if not easier, notes FastCompany. Storybuilder replaces old-fashioned pen-and-ink solutions that screenwriters and filmmakers use to collect their ideas with a virtual post-it note design, in which notes are arranged against a “corkboard” background in columns as a timeline or by category. You can also upload images, extra annotation, and tags to help fill out your ideas. Read the full Story >>
