Episode 510 – Photography is dead, and so is my mum
This week, Glynn gets all wound up (or is that jaded?) about WHY we shoot what we shoot.
Do we learn anything by creating images that others have created before us?
What about “transformative work”? Is that fair use? One photographer says no, and has slapped a $12M lawsuit on the table for a game developer who pinched a heap of her images.
In California, 1500 eggs of the Elegant Tern have been abandoned due (alledgedly) to a drone crash.
Google has just rolled out an update to the Pixel 4 and 5 phones.
The update allows Night Sight timelapse on your Pixel phone, and the ability to put images into a locked folder so no-one browsing your phone can see them.
Fuji says no to ransomware demands, and instead, just restores their servers from the backups. Well, that’s just way too easy.
Remember the epic ten pin bowling alley drone fly-through?
Well, now there’s 3 minutes of awesomeness as they do a wedding fly-through!
Paul Sutton told us about the fastest (mass-produced) lens; the Voigtlander 29/0.8, and the fastest (but NOT mass-produced) lens of all; the Zeiss 50/0.7, which was built for NASA. There was only 10 made, and one of them is up for sale. Raid your piggy bank NOW!
Glynn told us about the iOS15 update, which will bring image-to-text scanning to devices running it.
Capture One is apparently coming to the iPad early in 2022.
Some people with way too much time on their hands decided to shoot a music video, scan EVERY FRAME, print them with a cyanotype process, and then scan those 5000+ images to turn it back into a video!
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Glynn, I totally agree with you. My preference is to shoot totally submerged underwater. Broken bones, illness and pandemics have put the kibosh on this for a while, hopefully to be resolved soon.
Everyone tries to get the half / half – over / under shot, me included, that was invented by David Doublet who built his first underwater housing at 12, and has really done all the underwater things. He is a Nat Geo photographer, that everyone tries to copy.
The underwater photographers bible, by Martin Edge (The Underwater Photographer) essentially says, point up, and also get the black negative space by effective use of the strobes, and shutter speed. Every single photo that you like has this same elements, that are already created. Have a look, including my underwater shots.
However having said all this, what is the answer, how do we find something else or style no one else has done before? There is one I am trying to nail for my own personal satisfaction I am trying to nail a specific style of shot. One day I am sure I will. Yes I am guilty of exactly what you are saying and doing Glynn.
I would like to hire Glen to give his inspirational “Photography is dead, why bother” speech to my local photography club, please.