How do we make sure our digital images outlast us? Digital photography has made photography easier, there’s no doubt about it. Digital photographs are millions of different numbers in two-dimensional binary representing millions of pieces of data that make up one single digital image. These numbers represent pixels which translate into exact colors, shapes, objects, […]
What is The Best Way to Store Photos?
I often wonder about the life of photographs when file formats and containers change, computers degenerate and fail over time, external hard drives crash, and memory cards fail — it makes me want to discover the best way to store photos so they’re safe for the future. Digital photographs to me seem like vaporware that […]
The Paradigm Shift of Modern Photography
What is The Future of Photography? Photography is the examination and the documentation of our world, and the photographs we make reflect human life and the Earth as it is. Photography has the ability to stop time and capture significant moments. These photographs, whether they are of a child starving to death while a vulture […]
LensCulture’s 2015 Emerging Talent Photo Competition
Getting your work seen is one of the most important goals for any photographer wanting to advance their career. After all, we shoot images so that they can be seen, right? Photo competitions/contests are one of the best ways to receive exposure. LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards is one of the best photo competitions that helps […]
Pro Bono, Oh No!
When is it all right for a photographer to work Pro Bono? This is the age old question, and has become more prevalent during the massive paradigm shift in photography, i.e., digital photography bridging the gap between beginner, novice, hobbyist and professionals. There is a YouTube video making its rounds on the internet posted yesterday […]
The Moment of Capture Defined
The Moment of Capture Defined, or the experience a photographer has when they find the perfect moment to press the shutter has always intrigued me. I wanted explore the context of art in modern society, and to help determine the emotional connection we have with it. I wanted to know more about the role artistic […]
Caught Between Two Worlds: Still Life Photography of Dana Stirling
A poetic photographer is one who romanticizes photography and immerses themselves in the process of image making. In the case of still-life photographer Dana Stirling, her art is driven by a sincere passion to find her identity through photography, to capture moments in time that express more than meets the eye. Stirling has always found […]
Getting Lost is Wonderful
Photographs and text by Massimiliano Pugliese Obscurity as descent. An inner journey into unknown territories and mysterious dimensions—a place where darkness prevails. The photographer Massimiliano Pugliese got lost deliberately in these enigmatic parallel landscapes in order to look for images that registered deeply within his memory and in his Ego. The characters in these images […]
Artsy & The Artist Genome Project: New Way to Discover Art
Artsy.net is a new platform for artists, fans, galleries, and collectors, that provides visitors with an opportunity to discover, learn, research, and collect artwork. From the photographers’ perspective, we can access a massive amount of information on master photographers like Ansel Adams or Edward Weston, and use it to discover new photographers as a research […]
The Art of Photography
By Adam Crawford “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams It was photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Eugene Atget that ushered in photography as a viable art form at the beginning of the 20th century, and what came after was an amazing collective of photographers who shaped today’s photography landscape. The […]