Reuben Wu is an artist with a profound interest in the ways that advancing technology can foster new forms of creative expression. Using a Fiilex AL250 in tandem with the 3DR Solo drone and Phase One XF 100MP ( yes a 100) camera system, Reuben has developed a method for selectively “painting” nocturnal landscapes with light via multiple exposures. The results are otherworldly. [via Fiilex ]
Michel Comte designed the Carl Zeiss Art Calendar 2013, which is the fourth calendar in the line. Film Director Wim Wenders and Photographer Ellen von Unwerth previously produced distinctive creations.
Watch automotive photographer Jeff Ludes in action, as he shoot magnificent print ads for the new Ford Fusion downtown Los Angeles. Working under the Ford brand concept, "go further", Jeff Ludes and his team worked towards creating art, not just an ad.
Watch how he uses the skills of Chinese street artist Liu Bolin and the image quality of the IQ160 and IQ180.
"So, this is a little different than what we usually do. What we do is, we get our camera angle, we put everything in place, plot out the hero car, we will shoot a blank frame, put the cars back in and then superimpose those on each other.
We set up our grid work, they paint those in matching textures. For example, the colors need to be accurate."
"We have got this digital back that is incredibly precise, incredibly sharp detail, and I think it is only going to enhance the effect."
Photographing wildlife that is not moving, may sound like an easy task. ButUri Golman's WILD project at the Natural History Museum posed another kind of challenge.
Uri Golman explains: "One of the challenges to the job was that the dioramas (A model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit.) are covered by a very thick layer of glass - and not only that. The glass is angled at approximate 70 degrees to the floor and is kind of scratched by the thousands of hands that have visited the museum over the years.
This extra piece of thick glass in front of the lens would normally make it hard to focus, but the precision focus feature of the 645DF made the work easy and I could work like I would have done in any studio.
The only problem being that the models could not hear what I said, so we had to invent a simple sign language!"
For the shoot I chose to use my Phase One 645DF camera with anIQ180 back. I have used this fantastic camera for the past 6 months and it never ceases to amaze me. The sharpness and details of the images and the 16 bit tonal range is a real plus when it comes to create creative imagery, so it was perfect for the job.
Follow Uri Golman on his shoot at the Natural History Museum
"The dioramas of the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark have always inspired me. I still remember looking at them when I was just a small kid. I would stand there dreaming of becoming a wildlife photographer, going on adventures into the wild and to photograph the animals that I saw behind the glass.
Go behind the scenes with fashion photographer Frederico Martins and see him work in his studio and on an outdoor location. He's based in London and Porto in Portugal and his work can be seen in magazines like Vogue accessory Italy, Vogue Portugal, Elle Portugal, Elle Indonesia, Maxim USA, Maxima, Bello Mag, GQ Portugal and many others.
Frederico Martins
Frederico uses the Phase One IQ camera system:
"For me it was quite easy to move from the P 40+ to the IQ140. Although the interface with the screen is completely different, the camera is still the same. The feel is still the same. The logic is the same, and the interface is quite similar to other things that we use with a touch screen."
"There is a huge gap between other systems and Phase One. It's very similar to the experience you get working with a 35mm with the bonus of having much better image quality. I think that it's almost a perfect camera."
Photographer Søren Jonesen is specialized in jewelry photography. In this video we go behind the scenes with Søren on a jewelry shooting for a catalog where he shoots with the new Phase One 120 mm Digital AF lens.
Photographer Nikolaj Møller wanted to put a face to the conflict in Afghanistan and tell the story of the Afghan forces. He travelled to Afghanistan's unruly Helman province, and there he shot a series of portraits of the Afghan National Police.
With him, he brought a Phase One P 40+ camera system because he knew it could cope with the brutal environment of heat, dust and lengthy travels while still delivering amazing quality in every capture. [via PHASE ONE]
On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean.
For me, kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. These birds reflect back an appallingly emblematic result of the collective trance of our consumerism and runaway industrial growth. Like the albatross, we first-world humans find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and our spirits. Choked to death on our waste, the mythical albatross calls upon us to recognize that our greatest challenge lies not out there, but in here.
~ Chris Jordan
