Category: Vintage Photo

“Fake It Until You Make It” to Outer Space?

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A popular idiom in the English language is “fake it until you make it,” but, if you are Samsung, it seems like that might be part of a marketing campaign – at least when it comes to showing off your smartphone’s moon capture capabilities. Phases of the moon in red and black. Photo by Zoltan Tasi The Verge is carrying a story today from Reddit of all places that claims Samsung puts its famous moon shots through a ton of processing in order to achieve the dynamic appearance we see in marketing photos. “Space Zoom” is one of Samsung’s more…Continue Reading

How I illuminated a vintage car in a foggy forest

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You can create a great sense of mystery by light painting old vehicles on foggy, misty nights. I describe how I light-painted this old Chevrolet car in six steps. A quick word about light painting Light painting is a term that is often used loosely to describe any addition of light to a night photograph. Really, though, light painting is a technique that uses a handheld light source to illuminate a scene or subject during a long exposure. You are quite literally painting the scene with light. Night photographers have used this technique for many decades. I used a handheld…Continue Reading

How To Shoot Infrared Photography

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Infrared photography is cherished for its surreal vibe – it can make trees glow pink or white and skies dark or with unusual color casts. This otherworldly quality can turn your landscapes into beautiful dreamscapes – infrared photography is definitely worth the effort! This type of photography captures the spectrum of light humans can’t detect with their eyes. This light range is between 700 – 1200 nanometers, requiring either an image sensor that is sensitive to infrared light or infrared filters. In this article, we will cover a little bit about its history and how to shoot and process dreamy…Continue Reading

10 Best Retro & Vintage Photo Apps

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Despite the great advancements made in digital camera technology in 2023, the retro aesthetic continues to be a popular trend. Whether using Instagram and Snapchat filters or other cool platforms that have made newer generations appreciate photographic qualities from a bygone era, giving a new image a black-and-white makeover or throwback sepia sheen has never been more appealing. Thankfully, there is no shortage of excellent retro and vintage photo apps currently available today that focus on specific filtering to give contemporary digital photos a romantically nostalgic artistic appeal. However, the best apps allow users to pre-set a filter before they…Continue Reading

the storied Figaro Café has reopened

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If you pass by the intersection of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets in Greenwich Village, a pretty restaurant glows on its southwest corner. If you click around Figaro Café’s website, you’ll find a claimed established date of 1957, cool black and white photos and the names of purported previous visitors like Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce and Bob Dylan. If you pop in—reservations do not appear to be necessary at this moment, abundant as they are—you might find some reasons to return, though they will not be related to the food. Only those first and third points are relevant to potential present…Continue Reading

How to Take Amazing Travel Portraits

Travel and portraiture are two separate disciplines that can combine to create beautiful images that tell a story. The key to travel photography is capturing the emotions and beauty of a location. Much of that emotion and beauty is created by the people who live there. Our job as photographers taking travel portraits is to convey both a sense of the location and the character of the person we are shooting. Get it right, and you can go home with some wonderfully emotive images. To take your portraits and people photography a step further, take a look at Joel Robison’s…Continue Reading

Huion Kamvas Pro 13 (2.5K) Review

Introduction This is not the first time that I have reviewed a Huion product. A few months ago, I looked at the Inspiroy Dial 2 and was impressed by it. In that article, I mentioned how Wacom had had its own way for many years. However, now there are a number of other companies competing in the same market, not only for graphics tablets but also for pen displays. The Wacom Cintiq Pro range has been the de facto standard for a number of years. However, these displays are relatively expensive, and there is an increasing number of better-value options…Continue Reading