Photo Expert Stephen Mayes on the Changing Future of Photography © Woongjae Shin In a fascinating interview with Image Source Art Director Stephanie Cabrera, Photography expert Stephen Mayes explores the work of photo-journalist Tim Hetherington, the wider impact of stock imagery and the rapidly changing future of Photography There’s one name that connects many of the major players in photography over the last 25 years. Stephen Mayes is: a former Creative Director at Image Source; was part of the founding management team at Getty Images; was Creative Director at Eyestorm, the company that aimed to introduce Fine Artists such as Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, Richard Misrach to commercial and private clients; as Director of the Image Archive with Art + Commerce, he represented the archives of Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, David LaChapelle and others; in the world of photojournalism he was Director of Network Photographers in London and CEO of VII in New York. Sleeping Soldiers, Tim Hetherington Tim Hetherington Dan Pangbourne / Image Source RF
How To Filmmaker Magazine 10 Things Street Photographers Can Learn From Magnum Contact Sheets One of the most valuable books I currently have in my library is Magnum Contact Sheets. It is a book that was put out by Thames and Hudson in the last year or so, and contains over 139 contact sheets from 69 Magnum Photographers. For those of you who are not familiar with contact sheets, they are a direct print made from a roll or sequence of images of film. Before the days of digital, they were an invaluable tool to photographers to quickly look through and edit their work (choosing their best images). The book is a hefty behemoth full of knowledge, insights, and philosophies of the Magnum photographers within. What is a contact sheet? Henri Cartier-Bresson looking at contacts at the New York Magnum Office. 1959. © Rene Burri / Magnum Photos To clarify, a contact sheet is a direct print of a roll or sequence of images shot by a photographer on film. As Lubben explains, the contact sheet is a tool used by photographers in the days of film to look quickly at what they captured. 1. 2. 3. 4.
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18 Photography Apps Each Smartphone Photographer Should Consider If you stop to think about it, that little eye on the world on the back of your smart phone is a technological wonder– particularly if you grew up in an era when leaving the house or office meant nobody could reach you until you surfaced somewhere with a land line. Even when compared to point-and-shoot digital cameras of just a few years ago, these cameras which are constantly with us keep advancing at an incredible rate, creating images often indistinguishable from those taken with our DSLRs. But it’s not perfect– and never can be–.since perfection means drastically different things to different people, Thanks to ambitious app creators, though, we can trick out our smart phone cameras with a seemingly endless supply of options. From filtering and sharing, to editing and correcting, if there’s something you want your smart phone camera to do, chances are there’s an app for that. Instagram I guess this one goes pretty much without saying (yet I’m saying it anyway). Camera + Foto Meter Pro
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