Lets face it, tripods are not the most exciting accessory to talk about in the photography world. One thing that cannot be denied though is just how important it is to have a strong, sturdy tripod when you head outside to do landscape photography.
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Here’s my favorite quote from Jay Maisel, one of the legends in the world of photography: “If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.” As photographers, we often get bored in the place we live and we want to travel as much as possible to get different and more interesting pictures. We think that it is all about pictures. But I’ve found that for me, it’s exactly as Jay Maisel said: the more I know about life, about people, about art, the better and more interesting my pictures become to me. If I’m in the process of learning from some new artist or new philosopher, it will reflect in my work and in what I see in front of me. That’s a very obvious thing, of course, but what we forget to do is to constantly update our inner selves. We tend to think that what we know is enough and that we just need to go out and find the good pictures waiting for us. But that’s not true. All those motivations are enough for a time, but afterward they disappear and we need to update ourselves constantly. We need to dedicate way more time to those “updates” than to actual photography. I have one particular example I’d like to share with you. It’s an illustration of the behind-the-scenes thoughts that go on in my mind when I see something and take a picture. I took this following picture in the Baumanskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia: The man was Russian. He initially wanted to sit on a nearby bench, but homeless guys who were sitting there drove him away, telling him that he attracts police. Something told me to wait as I watched how he sat below this bench, where the light was much better. He laid his carpet out, placed all of his belongings on the ground, took out a book, and started to read. At that moment, I remembered some art, some painter. Something popped into my head. I couldn’t remember what exactly, but I decided to look it up later. Later on, I did remember what I was inspired by. It was this: This is a painting done in 1873 by Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin, titled “At the Door of a Mosque.” I took some pictures of this man while he was walking and I thought I was done, but something made me wait and continue watching. I don’t think I would have noticed the photo I captured above had I never seen the painting by Vereshchagin before. Many famous photographers (including Jay Maisel) say to “be open” and to “learn to see something you have never seen before.” That sounds like good advice, but is it true? By “something,” the photographers mean some gesture, event, people, emotions, etc. But let’s think of it as if it were a language — say… Vietnamese. If you don’t understand Vietnamese, the language won’t reflect with your existing knowledge in your brain, so you’ll only hear sounds, not words. I believe the same is true in photography — to be able to understand what’s in front of you, what you see has to reflect with your existing knowledge and experiences. So the more experience and knowledge you have, through seeing and living through more things, the more tools you have to use in your work. Be “open,” of course, but also be constantly updating your imagination with masterworks by great artists, keep talking to interesting people, keep reading books, and keep adding to your knowledge — it will lead to photographs with new dimensions. About the author: Alexander Light is a photographer focused on street, travel, and landscapes. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. You can find more of his work on his website, street photography portfolio, Facebook, and Instagram. from https://petapixel.com/2018/09/28/the-essence-of-photography-what-you-see-reflects-your-inner-world/
On the field, Beth Saravo is, quite literally, one of the boys. More often than not, the 24-year-old live music and lifestyle photographer from Los Angeles, California finds herself the only female in the pool of photographers shooting gigs, tours, and festivals.
from https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/09/28/beth-saravo-interview-music-photography-female-photographers/ Photographer Reuben Wu recently traveled to Pastoruri, one of the few glaciers left in tropical South America, and photographed it with lighting from an LED drone. “At 17,000ft [5,250m], it was a physical challenge to reach the glacier, compounded by the fact that I was shooting at night and under freezing conditions,” Wu tells PetaPixel. “This glacier is receding at a shocking rate due to climate change and as a result there has been a huge drop in tourism and an impact on the local community. “With this series, I felt like this was an attempt to document an endangered landscape which may not exist in a decade.” The extreme temperatures caused Wu to lose sensation in his fingers, making it difficult to fly his light drone and operate his camera. Both his camera and drone battery life was also significantly reduced by the cold. Wu was sponsored by Coors Lite for the project and the adventure was documented by Great Big Story in this 4-minute video: Titled Terminus, this project is a part of Wu’s larger Lux Noctis series that consists of landscapes illuminated by drones with powerful LED lights mounted to them. “I photographed the glacier with conflicting feelings,” Wu says. “I wanted to show evidence of its alarming retreat, yet I was drawn to the epic scale of the ice which remained. “In the end I leaned towards the latter, but each photograph represents a bleak reality, a fading memory of what once stood.” Image credits: Reuben Wu courtesy of Coors Light from its Great Big Story video series “Made From Mountains”. Reuben Wu’s “Coors Light: Made from Mountains” episode is featured on greatbigstory.com. from https://petapixel.com/2018/09/28/photos-of-glaciers-lit-by-a-drone-light/ Google is taking another big step in protecting photographers’ copyright through the Google Images image search engine: it just added image rights metadata to the photo search results on Google Images. Developed in collaboration with the photo industry consortium CEPIC and the media technical standards body IPTC, the new feature helps make it clear to Google search engine users who the copyright owner of a photo is. “It’s traditionally been difficult to know the creator of images on the web, as well as who might own the rights,” Google says. “This information is often part of image metadata, and is key to protecting image copyright and licensing information.” To see the Creator and Credit metadata for a photo, simply click on the “Image Credits” link to view it. Google says Copyright Notice metadata will also be added in the coming weeks for displaying notices such as, “©2008 Jane Doe.” “Google’ new development to show Author and Credit Line on Google Images is a very positive step forward for all visual content creators and their rightsholders,” CEPIC writes. “It is without a doubt a determined move showing that visual content is not an anonymous creation but the result of the creativity of an identifiable person.” Google says it’s also working with CEPIC and IPTC to advise photographers, photo agencies, and publishers in including copyright and attribution info in metadata. This latest move comes less than a year after Google removed the “View Image” button from image search results to make it harder for people to download full image files while bypassing the original websites they’re found on. from https://petapixel.com/2018/09/28/google-adds-image-rights-metadata-to-photo-search-results/
When it comes to landscape photography most people think about using wide, and ultra-wide lenses so that they can shoot images that show wide sweeping vistas, mountain ranges, or large portions of countryside, but sometimes focusing on one tiny area of detail can offer much more impact. Telephoto lenses are able to bring far away objects to us, and they offer amazing compression which can lead to some incredibly dramatic shots.
from https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/09/28/four-outstanding-telephoto-lenses-to-pack-in-your-bag-for-landscape-photography/ We’re just over a week away for the Worldwide Photo Walk (It’s Saturday, October 6th). It’s all coming together, and thanks to our friends from Canon USA (official sponsor of the 11th annual Photo Walk) we have some quick video tips today from Canon Explorer of Light, Rick Sammon on how to get some great shots during the Photo Walk. Note: If you haven’t signed on to a photo walk near you (they are in over 900 cities around the world), head over to the official Photo Walk site and sign up to walk with us a week from tomorrow (it’s free and open to everybody!). Thanks, Rick!!! :) :) :) Make sure you follow Rick on Twitter and Instagram – he has a really fun account (especially if you’re a photographer who loves music). I’ll be back on Monday, and my plan is to share some of my photos from my Travel Photography workshop in Rome, which wrapped up on Tuesday this week. Have a great weekend everybody! Best, -Scott The post Some Videos To Help Get You Ready For Next Week’s Worldwide Photo Walk appeared first on Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider. from https://scottkelby.com/some-videos-to-help-get-you-ready-for-next-weeks-worldwide-photo-walk/
Before the world all agrees with a sigh of relief, I think that Sigma should be given adequate amount of brownie points for keeping the Sigma SA mount alive for so many years. It is a mount that dates back to the film days as the company tried to create and push their own cameras. With the transition to the digital world, we saw that the Sigma SA mount cameras on the market just really couldn't keep up with the far less Jurassic feeling products made by a number of other companies. Sony, Canon, Nikon, and even Ricoh tended to run marathons around Sigma's autofocus and Sigma's battery life was just never all there. But now, there potentially is a large amount of hope.
from https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/09/28/sigma-thank-you-for-more-or-less-giving-up-on-the-sa-mount/
ZEISS unveiled yesterday at the Photokina 2018 its first Full Frame mirrorless camera, the sleek-looking ZEISS ZX1. It features a ZEISS lens and sensor developed in-house at ZEISS, and promises to deliver first-class image quality plus an intuitive operational concept, user experience, and connectivity like that of a smartphone. This camera concept, according to ZEISS, is " just the first step to opening up a new world of possibilities for ambitious photographers – from taking the shot to editing the image and sharing it on the web."
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This post is being written around Photokina 2018 and is in regards to a question that’s been quietly popping up amongst press and a number of other folks in the industry: what’s going to happen to Olympus. They’re a company that has been super quiet this year. There have been very few product announcements, their last major innovation was at last Photokina despite releasing some very nice lenses, and they seem to be the company who is sort of left in the dust. What do I mean by this? Well, look at Panasonic. They’re not giving up on Micro Four Thirds; the format in and of itself still has some merit despite what folks may moan about. But Panasonic’s cooperation with Leica and Sigma on the L mount combined with some serious competition for Sony is stealing the show in many ways.
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