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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Is This a Photography Industry or a Girls’ Middle School Bathroom

Missy Mwac

I watched a two hour Periscope yesterday. Okay, I didn’t watch all of it because, well, it was two hours. It wasn’t an instructional video or a behind-the-scenes of a photo shoot.  Rather, it was a workshop giver going into great detail about the current drama in her life with her workshop attendees. It sounded […]

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Photographer of the Day: Mary Hulett

Doug Daulton

Category: Nature Photographer: Mary Hulett There is much to like about Guadalupe Serenity, starting the use of the water as a leading line, which pulls the viewer through the frame. Next, I love the color palette. In so many autumn shots, the focus is on vibrant, contrasting colors. Here, the muted palette adds to the…

Meet the Orah 4i, a 360º camera capable of live-streaming 4K virtual reality content

Gannon Burgett

After years of prototypes and concepts, virtual reality headsets are finally starting to go mainstream with lower prices and better availability. One problem concerning a few in the tech industry is the lack of VR content. Already, companies like GoPro and Google are getting in on VR content creation. But they’re not the only ones. […]

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Lomography unveils Daguerreotype-inspired Achromat lens for modern-day DSLRs

Gannon Burgett

Lomography is at it again with Kickstarter. This time, they’re reviving the world’s first photographic optic lens from 1839, the Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens. Following in the footsteps of their Petzval and other lenses, Lomography is bringing back an iconic lens originally designed by Louis Daguerre and Charles Chevalier in the mid–19th century. The […]

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