Fstoppers Wednesday January 5, 2022
It’s time to atone for the sins of skin smoothing, body resizing and skin whitening, declares Fstoppers, which has taken a stand on photo trends that should be abandoned in the coming year. Photographers should also give up on “overblow HDR” and stop vandalizing their images with watermarks, says FS, because they won't stop others from stealing photos. Fake film grain? Passe. Drone photography? “From an artistic, creative viewpoint, they've become a gimmick and are used unnecessarily,” notes FS. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Wednesday January 5, 2022
What’s coming in the way of camera tech in 2022? PetaPixel makes some predictions, among them: Canon will launch at least two cameras in the first quarter — an EOS R5c and an APS-C RF model are very likely to show up, says PP— while the Canon M series will be abandoned. “[T]he system is nearly a decade old now and it still has done next to nothing meaningful to advance Canon’s mirrorless tech,” notes PP. Also: Some high-end cameras will get cheaper, but not all of them, and everyone is going to make a shutterless camera. Read the full Story >>
Austen Paul Tuesday January 4, 2022
If you’ve got 15 minutes to spare in the new year, commercial photographer and YouTuber Austin Paul will show you 30 different lighting setups — from Rembrandt lighting to butterfly lighting, clamshell lighting, badger lighting and more. Read the full Story >>
Vogue Tuesday January 4, 2022
The 24-year-old photographer Quil Lemons, who has made a name for himself by capturing pop culture’s most coveted stars, “is determined to cultivate a space where he can be authentically heard through images,” notes Vogue. He tells the magazine that the 2020 pandemic was a turning point in his career. “While we were in an indefinite period of ‘pausing,’ I was still able to create. I was trying to figure out how I could keep going. Luckily, my subjects happened to be my family so I was fortunate in that way,” he says. Read the full Story >>
