Photography

We very rarely see the faces of the men and women working in the industries that quite literally power our economies, and perhaps even rarer is photojournalism documenting these laborers at work, especially those carrying out their jobs in remote, often dangerous places such as oil fields or deep underground. While challenging to create, this sort of photojournalism does exist and, for the first…

At first glance, one of NASA’s newest images looks like a crescent Moon – but look a little closer, and that crescent takes on a red tint. NASA recently shared a series of stunning images of Mars’ colorful surface, and it looks like space art worthy of a wall hanging. The images come from Psyche, a spacecraft that’s headed towards an asteroid by the same name, as researchers believe that…

Color Grading is widely used in video editing to create a consistent look across a series of clips, but it’s now common to find color grading tools in photo editors too, like here in Lightroom Classic. Color grading works by splitting the image up into three tonal regions – shadows, midtones and highlights – and then adjusting the hue, saturation and luminance values for each to produce a…

If you’ve had any training in a creative discipline, you’ve probably at least heard of the Bauhaus. Despite only being open for a few years (1919-1933), this groundbreaking German art school shaped modernist design and visual thinking and cast a long shadow over 20th-century photography. One of its students was Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish Austrian woman who studied there in 1928 and later…