It’s not a secret to most people visiting this website daily: I’m legally blind. Yes, the Editor in Chief of the Phoblographer is legally blind, yet somehow or another operates cameras, lights, lenses, and even edits the articles of the staff. The world looks like a painting, even with glasses on. And for years, I…
99 years ago, Man Ray photographed Kiki de Montparnasse in the studio, her back facing the camera and her head turned over her left shoulder. A few months ago, that portrait made history as the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, going for $12.4 million. Portraits have a unique ability to capture a specific…
What is digital noise? What causes it? How do we reduce it? We look into the answers. What is noise in photography? Digital noise is caused by the camera sensor amplifying the signal, resulting in random variations of either color or brightness. Regrettably, this causes irregular pixels that interfere with the luminance and tonality of…
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The presence of light while doing product photography is of the utmost importance. Photographers deploy different types of lights to lighten the product photography location. But the use of light depends highly on the time and place of your photography. If you shoot during the daytime, obviously there will be natural light. Depending on the…
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This is admittedly a rather specific DIY project, but hopefully, it fills a niche, however small that might be. I can’t take credit for this fine design. Night photographer Tyler Heibeck told me how to do this, showing this to me when we were traveling in Iceland. But it’s easy to do — it’s simply…
Here’s a question posed by Debbie this week: “Is there a good photo scanning app that you know of? I was just in the App Store and there are 1 million of them. My son wants me to scan some old photos for him and I was going to download some thing but I thought…
What I’m about to show you is my favourite discovery of the year in terms of my workflow. I tend to do a lot of the same kinds of adjustments to similar photographs, especially when creating a body of work. I might globally add some exposure and contrast, tweak some colours, and then apply a…
One of the most incredible gardens I think I have ever visited is Hamilton Gardens in New Zealand. Situated on the North Island, about 1.5 hours South of Auckland, you will find the most incredible, imaginative and creative gardens I have ever seen. One day, I will get back there. My thoughts turned recently to…
