Episode 343 – The secret to better vacation photos
This week, Laowa launches a suspicious kickstarter campaign ahead of the release of their rectilinear 12mm f2 wide angle lens.
Carl told us about Lightroom being available for Apple TV,
and about Plotagraph, which will allow you to create an animated GIF from a single still image. This story was also supplied by Adam.
Steve Peters shared a blog post about photographic accessories you can find in your supermarket.
He also found this video of some clown who calls himself an Elinchrom Ambassador, whatever that is! š
Stave (and Adam again) also told us about the story of Getty on the wrong end of a $1B lawsuit for claiming copyright on 18,000+ images which were in the public domain.
Since we recorded this podcast, Getty have been slapped with ANOTHER lawsuit along similar lines. This will be an interesting story to watch over the coming months.
David Marland pops back in with another book review.
This week, Phaidon’s “The Photography Book“.
Glynn came across this white paper on a technology to improve the quality of your selfies by reducing the wide angle distortion so inherent with phone camera images.
He also came across some absolutely priceless info on how to take better vacation photos!
And once you’ve got those epic travel pics, this algorithm will assess the “memorability” of those images!
You’ve heard the adage of “the camera adds ten pounds”. Well, here’s why.
Want to be fully informed on the “full frame vs crop sensor” debate? Here’s some info on how the different sensors affect your portraits.
He also came across this interesting story about how RAW FILES of the SAME SUBJECT, taken at different ISO settings, will produce files of different sizes.
I disagreed with this in theory, and have shot 3 images (3200, 800 and 200 ISO) which do indeed have SLIGHT discrepencies in file size, but certainly not the 44% as quoted in the story.
Keen to know more on this one!
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Glynn’s condemnation of Googled street photos because most of them are black and white reminds me of the old lady watching the soldiers marching past on ANZAC Day and saying “Would you look at that – my son’s the only one in step!”