If commercial photography is what you do (or thinking about doing), sooner or later you will end up in front of a product table. After all, commerce is all about selling products, and your job as a photographer is to create visuals that represent those products just the way they are, […]
After almost two years of shooting with my Leica SL kit consisting of one body and two amazing zoom lenses, the only thing that I had wanted to expand the system with was some lighter and faster native optics. While both M and R lenses can be easily adopted and […]
From the moment Photography was invented in 1839 to the middle of the last century, had raged a heated debate on whether it is a form of art, or simply a way of using an optical-mechanical contraption to document reality. Now we know that photography is indeed an art form, […]
A few days ago sitting in a coffee shop I noticed that our barista was proudly wearing a black t-shirt sporting a slogan in a super noticeable bold face “I SHOOT RAW“. We talked, and I learned that the boy had been working on his fine art portfolio and wanted […]
On May 6, 1937 a German flagship Zeppelin Hindenburg was about to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey when it suddenly ignited and exploded taking 36 lives in a process. Pretty much everything that was onboard of the airship was incinerated with the exception of a few artifacts including this one […]
Micro-contrast, or as it also called lens plasticity is property of an optical system describing the lens’ ability to create an illusion of depth on the flat medium. It has been one of the most confusing terms in photography, as most photographers have a very hard time explaining its physical […]
If a word “Photoville”, does not sound familiar, you are not alone: I did not know what it was until a few weeks ago when I was invited by Leica to speak at its tent this Sunday at 4pm. Well, it turns out, this is a super cool and apparently […]
Shooting dance is never easy. What can make it even harder is all these new fancy green technologies like the Energy Star Compliant lighting. Mercury fluorescent lights are known to be pretty nasty when it comes to skin tones, but it is nothing compared to when they are mixed with […]
The Role Of Optics As we discussed in the first part of the article, we have a few techniques at out disposal that make still pictures look like movie stills. Some of them deal with image depth, others help the eye with wide aspect ratios of the motion picture. This […]
You’ve probably seen photos that make you want to scream: “Wow, how cinematic!” Perhaps you even did it a few times yourself. But why? What does it mean, “cinematic?” What makes a picture similar to a movie and different from “ordinary” photography? And in general, why and why, in fact, […]
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