The Future of Photography

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030 I’m a Luttite May 30, 2018

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Do you use LUTS? They are becoming all the rage and gaining far more technical support in photo editing where they used to be more just for video. So Ade has been trying a new tool called Image 2 LUT that can help you capture and refine looks from images that inspire you and can speed up workflow. What is a LUT? / LUTS in Affinity Photo. / Get some LUTs here. / A.I. update. Skylum buys Photolemur and invests in AI.

029 News Update (EarthNow, Flickr) May 23, 2018

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1) EarthNow (among others backed by Airbus, Softbank and Bill Gates) are planning to bring us (or rather big businesses and governments) real-time video of the earth from above. Is this beneficial or are we talking about Enemy Of The State territory? We discuss the benefits and the dangers. 2) Flickr was acquired by Smugmug. After Yahoo (and with it Flickr) were bought by Verizon last year, photographers were getting worried about the focus of their platform. We think this current development is a good move.

028 TFOStockP (The New York Episode) May 16, 2018

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Have you ever tried to find stock photography that really works? It's hard. A lot of stock images are so cheesy that this Hollywood movie made spoof images for promotion. How could it be made easier? Step in Pond5. Imagine you see a perfect shot for your commercial photo shoot or film but you know the subject is licensed - maybe the Empire State Building or something. Just take a photo with your phone, send it to Pond5 and they will send you back a whole list of of licensed images or video to use. Here is how it works. And a bit more on how it works. Oh, and it actually works!

027 The Vergence Accommodation Conflict May 09, 2018

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Out of sync sensory inputs can cause sickness. Car sickness and sea sickness for example. It happens when our vestibular system doesn't agree with our other senses. VR and AR will have the same issue, but for an additional reason: the vergence (angle) and accommodation (focus) of our eyes don't agree in those environments. Wired wrote about this.

026 Block Party May 02, 2018

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What if Instagram and Twitter paid you for your photos? Never happen? Well check out Steepshot and Zappl Credit to Lightstalking.com for the article that prompted this show.

025 Projection Mapping Apr 25, 2018

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Projection mapping is nothing new, but today's computers enable amazingly creative ways to project images onto anything from irregular screens to buildings to moving faces. Videos: Music video: Pomplamoose (Happy), Getting started in projection mapping (tutorial), VPT (projection mapping software), building mapping primer, augmented reality sandbox, projection mapping on a moving face, Omote, Box (advanced illusion) (behind the scenes).

024 Nabbing Our Space Apr 18, 2018

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NAB is a trades union for American broadcasters - which is a bit dull. But every year they have a big ol' party in Vegas and they all bring their new toys. This year's NABshow has just finished and some of the filmmaker's and video broadcaster's toys could have far reaching consequences for photographers. New BMPCC at just $1295 Apple ProRes Raw analysis from Noam Kroll Record what you like with the Atomos Ninja V Tiny camera shooting 4K raw from Indiecam Padcaster live broadcast kit More NAB2018 exhibitors

023 New Developments Apr 11, 2018

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We catch up on some recent development on things we have mentioned in previous episodes: Skydio R1 autonomous drone in-depth test (originally mentioned on TFOP 019) || Lytro is no more, Google buying Lytro?, Google's Light Field Experiments (TFOP 015) || NVIDIA's FastPotoStyle algorithm (scientific paper), Visual Poetry (TFOP 011) || Behind The Scenes of Apple's HomePod ad, showing how little CGI was used.

022 Mythbusting Videotography Apr 04, 2018

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People have been talking for years about extracting photos from video. Most people don't see it as currently viable because photo and video require very different camera settings and video footage is far less detailed than stills photos - until recently. Mythbuster Ade coined the term Videotography and got to work. Photos extracted from Ade's New York video, Chris' adventures on a ship in the arctic, Tips from the Top Floor 739: The Bumblebee Principle

021 Stabilization and Hyperlapse Mar 28, 2018

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In this episode we discuss image stabilization from mechanical to digital to optical, we touch on Steadycam, gyro-based stabilizers and dive into how Hyperlapse seems to manage to do all that with a simple smart phone camera. Comparison of image stabilizers, The Technology Behind Hyperlapse

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