Introduction As photographers, especially the ones professionally working in the industry, we know all too well how important accurate color is. Whether you are a portrait, fashion or travel photographer, preserving the original color from your subject to the final image is key to creating consistent and professional results on a regular basis. Most of [...]
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Datacolor Spyder Checkr Photo – Color Correction the easy way
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Art documentation using Spyder Checkr Photo
Datacolor Friends with Vision photographer Marcus Schwier focuses on two photographic genres in particular: architectural photography and art documentation. As different as both disciplines may seem, the step to art documentation was a very small one for the studied architect, because his colleagues from his student days at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf still like [...] More -
Bright colours in a simple location – a fashion shoot with Sascha Hüttenhain
Concept and idea: My idea was to play with the bright colours of pretty outfits in a very reduced location that is rather grey and definitely not playful. To make my vision realisable, I thought about a concept before the shoot and planned the implementation very thoroughly. Straight lines of the architecture, but also the [...] More -
Questions for André Boto
When did you start your photography? I started to photograph when I was 18 years old. My first camera (a 2 megapixel camera) was a birthday gift. In the beginning, photography helped me with my drawing. I started to photograph outside, so I could photograph my painting subject and look at my monitor inside, rather [...] More -
How Accurate is Your Camera’s Preview Image?
With digital photography, the first view of our images is on the screen on the back of the camera. But just how reliable is that image preview, as well as the histogram that can also be displayed on the camera? And, more to the point, are there times when it is giving you less than [...] More -
Spotlight On – Nicolas Alexander Otto
How did you get your start in photography? Even though I took my first photographic steps with analog cameras from my father and grandfather, both ardent hobbyists who took pictures on their countless trips across the globe, I only really learned to love photography in my early 20s. As the son of a biologist and [...] More -
Water: The Blue Planet
We live in a world of blue – so much so, that our planet is often referred to as the blue planet. Water encapsulates our world in many different aspects; oceans surround us, rivers meander through the landscape, and icebergs form dramatic shapes in our polar regions. Rain creates new life and sustains our existence. [...] More