Photography

The filter that lives on my favorite camera lens a majority of the time is a diffusion filter, which gives light sources a glow that feels like a retro film lens. But now a new slider from Adobe is mimicking that retro effect – and it’s a new launch hidden inside Adobe Camera RAW. While Photoshop got a major announcement last week with a new light adjustment layer, the new update to Adobe…

Thirty years ago, Leonard Jefferson took what turned out to be the last known photo of rapper Tupac Shakur. Jefferson is now back in the news, as a witness in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who stands accused of Shakur’s murder. And you don’t necessarily have to be a fan of hip-hop to find the details of his photograph fascinating. Jefferson, for one, wasn’t a…

Born in 1926, photographer Sal Veder died on 22 August, eight days short of his 100th birthday, at his home in El Dorado County, California. Even if his name is new to you, you’ll probably know his work. In particular Burst of Joy, which came to symbolize the emotions of Americans around the end of the Vietnam War. On 17 March 1973, working for the Associated Press at Travis Air Force Base…

For years, I thought finding your photographic style was something that happened naturally. You shot enough pictures, used enough cameras, tried enough lenses and, eventually, there it was. Your look. Your voice. Something that made an image unmistakably yours. But for me, that moment only really arrived when I stopped shooting in color. That decision was not some short-lived experiment either. I…