Digital Camera World Wednesday March 9, 2022
Variable frame rate, or VFR as it is more commonly known, or Varispeed on some high-end professional cameras, is a way to record internal slow-motion or speed ramping (speeding up) within your camera, and without having to work video editing magic later on when editing. How many frames per second you can record up to in VFR mode and in what codec is limited from camera to camera, so your mileage may vary. However, it is more common these days to see cameras record VFR to at least 120fps or above on higher-end models, notes Digital Camera World. Read the full Story >>
MONGABAY Wednesday March 9, 2022
The annual migration of a flock of thousands of greater flamingos to northern Sri Lanka’s Mannar wetland draws crowds of photographers each year—a growing number of whom now use drones to photograph the birds from above. Environmental activists and authorities have says the presence of drones disturbs the birds and could drive them away from Mannar altogether, notes Mongabay. In Mannar, a region impoverished by decades of civil war, the flamingos are a key tourism attraction that should be preserved to help boost the livelihoods of locals, experts say. Read the full Story >>
artnet news Wednesday March 9, 2022
Marcell Rév, the director of photography for the HBO series Euphoria,is a master at using camera trick to capture his characters’ emotional states, and at Artnet News he unpacks the art influences that shape the show’s aesthetic. Among them: photographers Nan Goldin, William Eggleston and Gregory Crewdson. “For the first season I looked at a lot of Todd Hido photos, but we went a little more intimate with the second one, and I don’t think his photos are very relevant this time around,” he says. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Wednesday March 9, 2022
On Valentine’s Day 2017, photographer Justin Aversano met Ali and Gili, twin sisters, at a gallery show he’d curated. He later photographed the pair, and 99 other sets of twins, using Polaroid 120mm and 4×5 film. Four years later he minted the Twins collection as NFTs, and in October the NFT for "Twin Flames #83. Bahareh & Farzaneh Safarani," along with all one hundred physical prints, made history when it became was the first NFT to be sold in a photographs auction, realizing $1,100,000, notes Feature Shoot. Read the full Story >>
