My name is Pierre-Louis Ferrer, and I am a professional French photographer specialized in photography beyond visible for ten years now, including infrared and ultraviolet techniques. I spend a large part of my free time reading, experiencing, testing, and talking with experts in various domains linked with these techniques. My professional work is mostly divided […]
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Photographer Mathieu Stern recently got his hands on a handful of cheap expired film rolls to see what results he could get out of them. You can see his experiment in this 5-minute video. One commonly cited rule of thumb for shooting expired film is to add an extra stop of exposure for every decade […] petapixel.com »
2020-11-18 21:09
It should come as no surprise to long time readers of The Phoblographer that we're quite fond of shooting with film. Astronomical megapickle counts are all the rage these days. Improvements in computational photography are helping smartphone cameras punch well above their weight as well. thephoblographer.com »
2020-05-27 01:00
Say what you will about wedding photography, but few other gigs will allow you to drink on the job and party with beautiful people without having to even know a single dance move. My wife and I are freelance wedding photographers. petapixel.com »
2019-05-06 17:54
A year ago, I wrote an article over at 35mmc in which I discussed some of the jobs I had worked on using 35mm film and the way I handle a film workflow for assigned work. Since writing that piece I have taken on many more commissions for film-based work, and I thought it would […] petapixel.com »
2019-03-12 18:52
One of the many marvelous photography techniques provided by analog photography is the double (or multiple) exposure of film directly on camera. I’ve always been fascinated by the possibility of handling the negative from the moment of shooting, and this factor was the key one for me when it came the time to chose a […] petapixel.com »
2019-03-05 19:46
I’m sitting in the end zone and Tennessee’s quarterback is ready to throw for a touchdown against Missouri. There are only three frames left on my roll of film and I think to myself, “That’s more than enough. petapixel.com »
2018-12-06 21:10
One of the things keeping vegans from shooting film is the fact that medium uses animal gelatin as part of the emulsion coating on the plastic film base. The short answer is yes, film contains animal products, but Ilford attempts to explain this matter in a straightforward and honest FAQ. thephoblographer.com »
2018-04-25 19:00
It shouldn't be an issue anymore, but the case of film vs. digital cameras remains a long-standing topic for both beginner and intermediate photographers. Among the most debated aspects of this is which one is the least expensive. thephoblographer.com »
2017-12-03 08:00
If film is your chosen medium and flash photography is something you're yet to try, we have something that may be of interest to you. Sure, you could be shooting with your camera's built-in flash. thephoblographer.com »
2017-09-13 22:00
I hear a lot of photographers slamming others for not shooting RAW. So I decided to go against that for a month and shoot JPEG only using Fujifilm’s ACROS Film Simulation and share my results. petapixel.com »
2017-05-05 22:45
This is the story behind the world’s first wide-angle, head-on photographs of a fighter jet. In the video above, photographer Richard Cooke explains how he captured this incredible photograph remotely, on film, essentially shooting blind, back in 1977. petapixel.com »
2017-03-15 19:00
My interest in photography began about three years ago when I picked up a digital camera and starting taking the same images that any photography noob would take: long exposures, landscapes, still lifes, sometimes street photography. petapixel.com »
2017-02-02 00:45
For his project “The Spirit of Iron Man,” photographer Dan Votjech visited the world’s hardest triathlon, the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, and shot portraits of the competitors using a large format Polaroid camera. petapixel.com »
2016-11-11 22:55
Photographer Nils Karlson is a 41 year old creative living in Germany. "I started photography in my late 3's, almost a decade after I got a glaucoma diagnosis, which affects my eyesight – my right eye is useless for photography, so I adapted and became left-eyed. thephoblographer.com »
2016-10-04 07:02
For a recent project, I was tasked with shooting a hot rod. It was exciting from the beginning, because this particular kind of car is pretty rare here where I live. The owner also requested that their dog sit on the car’s fender, and for the photos to be huge — 100 megapixels were too […] petapixel.com »
2016-10-01 18:08
A researcher has used ultraviolet (UV) photography to locate a lost fragment of Biblical text nearly 1,500 years after it was originally written. UV photography equipment has looked beyond layers of text to find a "new" ancient translation of the Gospels. [Read More]
Hasselblad has announced a set of new lens filters that it says meet the same stringent optical standards and high-quality marks as its lenses. It also launched a brightly colored strap that it bills as "eco-friendly." [Read More]
Moment has launched a new line of CineClear UV Filters that promise to protect agains sun, dust, scratches, and spills without sacrificing image quality. Moment is more widely known for its smartphone camera lenses, but also makes accessories for full-size cameras — including filters — and backpacks (such as its recently announced Strohl Mountain backpacks). […]
Dropping colored milk into water and photographing the effects is nothing new – these experiments have existed for decades and can yield some very interesting abstract images. The technique can be brought into the “mad scientist” realm by switching gears slightly – using UV flashlights and fluorescing ink, we can make it glow! The ingredients […]
We photographers obsess about finding the right light. We understand how to use hard light, when to use soft light, and get excited by directional light. Portrait photographers learn how to control light using flashes and modifiers, and become experts in getting the most from natural light. Light is an electromagnetic wave, and the frequency […]
In this series, I pay tribute to "Neon". I use a DSLR and blacklight to capture the magic of Ultraviolet light, a phenomenon otherwise invisible to the naked eye. In "Neon", I build on the imagery developed in the 2017 series "MINX" and introduce a new medium, glitter.