Author: Liron Samuels

Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With The Sound of Film

Liron Samuels

Past and present film shooters will love this short video while newcomers to photography will scratch their heads wondering what’s going on. Robert Marshall of Round One Films captured the entire film process, step-by-step, from beginning to end. You’ll have to imagine the smell, but the sounds and sights of this critically endangered process were […]

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An Interview With Aerial Photographer Vincent Laforet about Air

Liron Samuels

Last time we featured Vincent Laforet’s work he had just finished photographing his AIR project in London and Barcelona and was preparing to shoot above Paris, Berlin and Venice. Now that he has completed the project and released a book containing high-altitude aerial night-time photos from 10 iconic cities, Leo Laporte of The New Screen […]

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An Interview With Aerial Photographer Vincent Laforet about Air

Liron Samuels

Last time we featured Vincent Laforet’s work he had just finished photographing his AIR project in London and Barcelona and was preparing to shoot above Paris, Berlin and Venice. Now that he has completed the project and released a book containing high-altitude aerial night-time photos from 10 iconic cities, Leo Laporte of The New Screen […]

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Photographer’s Tripod Mistaken for Machine Gun Leads to Police Search

Liron Samuels

Every once in a while someone talks about the violence in the realm of photography. We talk about the images used to ‘shoot’ photos, or ‘take’ photos, and if we’re lucky our gear can ‘fire’ 14 fps. This incident, though, takes it to a whole new level and while many photographers carry a Canon around […]

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The Problem with Wedding Guests with Cameras Perfectly Explained In A Single Photo

Liron Samuels

If you’ve been to a wedding recently you’ve probably noticed this; if you make a living photographing weddings you’ve definitely seen it: more and more guests these days watch weddings through their smartphone screens as they photograph and record every moment of it. God forbid Facebook won’t get to see the entire ceremony. While many […]

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DJI’s Concept Phantom X Presents the Future of Drones

Liron Samuels

The future has never seemed less exciting. A new video released by DJI presents the Phantom X Concept drone, including a bunch of new(ish) and (kinda) useful technology. Claiming to “turn wide-eyed dreams of future possibilities into fact”, the Phantom X includes multi-angle shooting, artificial intelligence, obstacle avoidance and free-flight object tracking. Enlisting help from […]

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Drone Maker DJI Buys ‘Strategic Minority Stake’ To Gain Hasselblad Technology

Liron Samuels

Chinese Drone manufacturer DJI and the Swedish medium format and aerial camera company announced earlier today that they have formed a ‘corporate partnership’ after DJI acquired a strategic minority stake in Hasselblad. As DPReview points out, the reason for this move is to help DJI dominate the aerial photography market in the movie-making and surveying […]

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6 Portrait Photographers Demonstrate the Power of (Our Own) Perspective

Liron Samuels

“A photograph is shaped more by the person behind the camera than by what’s in front of it,” Canon Australia says in a recent video. To prove this, Canon invited six photographers to take a portrait of a guy named Michael. This was not an ordinary shoot, however, as there was an interesting twist: Michael […]

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Mom’s Touching Wedding Photos Honor 8-Year-Old Dead Son

Liron Samuels

Anna Bozman’s wedding to her longtime boyfriend, Travis Thompson, had been put on hold for years while Anna’s son Lake battled cancer. Unfortunately Lake passed away in May, and last month the couple decided to finally get married knowing that’s what Lake would have wanted. “The thing I dreaded most was taking the pictures. I […]

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