When did you get started in photography? My father loved photography and gave me my first camera when I was just 8 years old. I then bought my first SLR camera when I was 16 with money I had earned myself. Is photography your hobby or your profession? I am an amateur photographer and earn [...]
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Questions for Ralph Gräf – Photo Contest “Opposites”
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Video Color Correction – Part 2 – Color Reference Cards
Why does my picture look different on every monitor? And how do colorists manage to make it look good everywhere? Color correction, in particular "display-referred color grading", plays a decisive role in film and post-production. It refers to how colors are rendered on the screen and is in contrast to "Scene-Referred Color Grading", which refers [...] More -
Video Color Correction – Part 1 – LUTs
Part 1 - Look Up Tables (LUTs) In the big world of filmmaking and photography, where every image tells a story and colors have the power to open up different worlds and evoke emotions, there is one tool that makes a significant contribution to making it all work - LUTs. But what exactly are LUTs? [...] More -
Survey: Color management in video and film still has room for improvement
Datacolor hosted a free webinar series in November and December as part of the Spyder Checkr Video product launch, where top-class speakers from the film and video production industry demonstrated the Spyder Checkr Video in use with popular video editing programs. The webinar also included questions for participants to find out more about how they [...] More -
Travel Photography: Tips and Tricks for High Contrast Scenes
It’s summer, time for travelling and also peak season for nature and travel photography. Digital cameras are still getting better and better and easier to use. However, sometimes it is quite disappointing that a picture such as a historic city alley either is partly underexposed with huge dark shadow areas, or the roofs and the [...] More -
Color management and natural skin tones
The daily work of professional photographers delivers a large number of images. Therefore it is important to achieve consistent and non-varying image results and it is recommended to set up a suitable color management to keep the time for the post-processing workflow as low as possible. Fees are mostly paid for the shooting time and [...] More -
Autofocus: Razor-sharp images and high resolution sensors
Autofocus systems are an inherent part of modern digital cameras. Additional autofocus assistants like face- or eye-recognition support the photographer to accurately capture common subjects. However, in the field of creative photography there are a few possible autofocus pitfalls in combination with high resolution image sensors. This applies also to sport-, action and macro photography. [...] More -
Adjusting white balance, colors and saturation in DaVinci Resolve using Spyder Checkr Video
Spyder Checkr Video helps videographers optimize their video workflow. It ensures accurate video color and exposure and can be used in a variety of video editing applications. In the video below, Marco Schreiber explains how to use Spyder Checkr Video in DaVinci Resolve. Marco Schreiber is a professional videographer, cinematographer, colorist and DaVinci Resolve trainer [...] More -
Street & Travel Photography – 10 Images, 10 Behind-the-Scenes, 10 Tips
Klaus Wohlmann is a professional photographer and one of our Friends with Vision. He lives and works in Cologne, Germany, and has been a freelance painter and photographer since 1993. His two passions in photography are travel and street photography, two genres that can be combined easily. Most other areas of photography are not as [...] More -
Street and Travel Photography
Street and travel portraits In recent years many photographers discovered the exciting field of street and travel portraits. Street and travel portraits are associated with the genre of portrait photography and not street photography, as one might expect. For that reason, the rules for street and travel portraits are more connected to general portrait photography. [...] More -
The Colors in Black and White Photography
Black and white photography continues to be very popular. This is also reflected in the field of street photography, which takes on an important role in photo communities such as Flickr or 500px. Old masters like Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson or Ansel Adams, whose works still strongly influence modern photography, are certainly also responsible for [...] More -
Professional Color-Grading
Color-grading is a classic movie topic. The colorist is responsible for processing color corrections and for matching the final movie in terms of brightness, color, and gradation to achieve the mood desired by the director. Creating a "look & feel" The significance of the colorist has increased in the digital era. Advertising, music videos and [...] More -
Why I use color management
When did you start your photography? Oh gosh! I was a 9 year old kid running around trying to express herself with some old Kodak point and shoot my parents gave me. I was probably around 12 when I did my first ‘’editorial shoot '’ with the same Kodak. Had my beautiful long legged friend [...] More -
Questions for Marcus Westen
When did you start your photography? My father introduced me to photography when I was still in elementary school. Back then, I took my first pictures with an analog Yashica. As a teenager, I switched to my father's Minolta SRT and took pictures of theater and musical performances at school. Is photography your hobby or [...] More -
Back to Photographic Normality – Nicolas Alexander Otto
2022 was a fantastic year. After the Corona crisis, a lot of things got back on track; my photo workshops were better attended, and I had the opportunity to travel with my guests to many familiar and favorite places. One would think that after all these years of traveling to the same destinations, inertia and [...] More
