Author: John Aldred

California wildfire ‘selfie’ arsonist gets 20 years and a $60 million fine

John Aldred

Selfies are just a part of our culture today, whether stills or video, but they have been known to land people in hot water a time or two.  Sometimes the consequences are simply a little embarrassment, sometimes very severe (and rightly so). In what seems more suited to ridicule on America’s Dumbest Criminals, California resident Wayne Allen Huntsman […]

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Is Travel Photography the latest victim in the Photoshop manipulation saga?

John Aldred

We’ve covered the “evils of Photoshop” as it pertains to human subjects a number of times, but the use of some photography and Photoshop techniques in travel photography are starting to cause concerns to grow that tourists will become disappointed upon arriving at their destination. Social Media’s constant pressure for “Shares” and “Likes” is only fuelling this […]

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Scientists have learned how to store images in DNA and then perfectly retrieve them

John Aldred

As our data creation and acquisition requirements soar, so must the technology to store it all, and a team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of Washington have seem to have made a bit of a breakthrough. In a paper presented in April at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming […]

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Model & Photographer couple travel the world creating amazing images as they go

John Aldred

Originally based on Florida, and drawn together by a common love of photography, Victoria Yore and Terrence Drysdale took their first trip together in June 2015 to Europe, and have been hooked ever since. Armed with little more than a couple of backpacks, some camera gear, and a one way ticket to Europe, the model […]

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Use this time stacking technique to create surreal landscapes

John Aldred

Stacking photographs made from a locked off tripod over a given duration is not a new technique, and has been commonly used for creating star trail images where single super long exposures can be troublesome, but this application of the process is particularly interesting and beautiful. An extension of timelapse photography, the Time Stack technique’s goal is to […]

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Hasselblad launches the completely redesigned H6D with touch screen LCD and 4K video

John Aldred

When Hasselblad founder, Victor Hasselblad was approached by the Swedish government in 1941 to see if he had the skills to produce a camera identical to one they had captured, his famous reply was “No, but I can make a better one”. Today, rather than taking the typical route of camera releases and simply updating the model […]

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Advertising Standards Authority bans Gucci ad after ruling that the model looks “unhealthily thin”

John Aldred

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), an advertising watchdog in the UK, yesterday presented a ruling upholding a complaint about a Gucci advert from December last year which describes the model as appearing “unhealthily thin” and “gaunt”. The complaint about advert labelled by the ASA as “irresponsible” mentions two models.  One model sat down on a couch and the […]

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This photographer needed 17 square meters of mirror to create this image

John Aldred

When photographer and retoucher Erik Johansson decides to create an image, he certainly makes an effort to push the boat out, quite literally in this case. In a project that took several months to complete, Erik used 17 square meters of mirror to help produce this extraordinary scene, and while there’s certainly a lot of post and retouching […]

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How to approach strangers on the a street for a portrait

John Aldred

Seeing a random person on the street that you’d love to photograph can rapidly become one of the scariest scenarios out there for many portrait photographers as soon as they start to consider how to approach them.  With “Don’t talk to strangers!” being drummed into us from a very young age, it’s just one of those […]

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This photographer filled a house with sand to exhibit her photos of houses filled with sand

John Aldred

Many of us have seen photographs of the abandoned mining town of Kolmanskop in Namibia.  Even if you don’t remember the name of the place, it’s difficult to forget photographs of houses, being reclaimed by the surrounding desert, flooded with sand. For most of us, that’s about as far as this story goes, but for Australian […]

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