Elderly Couple Shoots Fashion Photos with Clothes Left at Their Laundromat
An octogenarian couple in Taiwan is going viral after they began posing for fashion photos while wearing the clothes left behind by customers of their laundromat. Husband-and-wife duo Chang Wan-ji (83) and Hsu Sho-er (84) own and operate Wansho Laundry in central Taiwan. Over the years, they’ve collected quite a Continue Reading
If Sharpness Truly Mattered, Cartier-Bresson Would Be a Joke
While teaching a recent workshop, I joked that street photography was the only genre where people would buy $3,000 worth of cameras and lenses and then deliberately use them to make out of focus, grainy, imperfect images. This led to a pretty interesting discussion about the merits to imperfection. I Continue Reading
The Photo Bill of Rights: An Interview with Three Co-Authors
The Photo Bill of Rights is a document originally published on June 22 that asserts the rights of individuals in the visual journalism and editorial media industry. Authored by a diverse group of individuals from both grassroots organizations and legacy institutions Authority Collective, Color Positive, Diversify Photo, The Everyday Projects, Continue Reading
Reflecting on Old Photographs: Nathan’s Famous Since 1916
When I was maybe six years old, my father introduced me to Nathan’s. We had dropped off his mother at her what was to me dreary apartment. That woman never seemed happy to me, and it wasn’t until I became an adult, I understood why. When I tell you that Continue Reading
Fotomat: The New Browser-Based Tool for Building Visual Websites
Fotomat is the new browser-based tool for building visual websites, built by the makers of Viewbook, a photo-sharing platform and portfolio website builder for professionals that was founded in 2009. With over a decade of experience in developing, tons of user feedback, and know-how of what works best and what Continue Reading
Canon Responds: There is No Delay in EOS R5 Shipments
Following yesterday’s reports from Canon Rumors and EOSHD about delays in shipping of the EOS R5 to retailers, Canon has released a statement to set the record straight. There is no delay, says Canon. The first shipment is going out this week, as promised. The statement was prompted primarily by Continue Reading
Boris FX Optics Brings Cinematic Visual Effects to Photoshop and Lightroom
Academy and Emmy Award-winning software developer Boris FX is dipping its toes in the world of still photography with “Optics”: a new standalone application and plugin suite that brings some of the company’s feature film visual effects to the world of photo editing. Optics is described as “the definitive digital Continue Reading
ShareGrid Quietly Suspends ‘Owner Guarantee’ (UPDATE: Program Reinstated)
Last year, peer-to-peer rental services KitSplit and ShareGrid both announced a nearly identical “Owner Guarantee” that protected users in case someone they’ve rented to walks away with up to $20,000 of gear. However, it seems ShareGrid has quietly suspended the policy due to COVID-19. We first became aware of the Continue Reading
7 Tips for Getting Started with Film Photography
The folks over at COOPH recently tamed up with Brooklyn-based freelance photographer Joe Greer to put together a helpful “beginner’s guide” of sorts for anybody who wants to get started with film photography. The short video consists of 7 quick tips that’ll help you get off on the right foot Continue Reading
Photographer Uses ‘Time Blending’ to Capture a Different Sort of Time-Lapse
In his TimeScapes series, photographer Martien Janssen has been “playing with the element of time,” combining images in creative ways to create “a new type of dimension” in his time-lapse photography. And there’s no better example of this than his film TimeBlend. Captured in Bagan, Myanmar, the time-lapse uses a Continue Reading