The Future of Photography

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372 Portrait Dec 24, 2025

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The Wikipedia definition of a portrait is 125 words long. As you read it, it weirdly seems to get narrower rather than explaining multiple aspects of what portraiture means. So we take some time this week to share our thoughts and ideas on portraiture, what it means to us, to the subjects and to the viewer.

We share some of our own portraits which you can see here in our TFOP album.

We also answer the critical question of whether or not a photo of a sleeping dog can be a portrait? Or does it have to be a cat?

Picks of the week: Tyler Stalman: How I Connect Real Footage With AI Transitions Not Boring Camera Lens Culture Black & White Photography Awards 2025

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock @ade968@universeodon.com (Mastodon) @Ade968 (Twitter) https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

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371 The Art of Boredom Dec 17, 2025

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When was the last time a child really said "are we nearly there yet" on a long car journey? It's a cliche of course but it's got to be happening way less often now we have screens and streaming with instant access to the whole internet. But being bored is actually quite important. It helps us relax, it makes room for new thoughts and it can lead to big jumps in understanding, fantastic new ideas and spikes in creativity. Let's work this through!

Picks of the week: Shinrin Yoku Pavlos's Filters Vario watch strap Cal Newport books Wikiflix

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock @ade968@universeodon.com (Mastodon) @Ade968 (Twitter) https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

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370 Style Archaeology Dec 10, 2025

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This week we fearlessly take on one of the toughest subjects in photography - style! Do you craft your style? Can you chase it? Piece it together from emulating your heroes? And does it take 10 years or 10,000 hours? Or was it there all along if you only knew where to look?

Picks of the week: Mouse Camera Racing Unfiltered by Jamey Price Northwest Passage by Jeremiah Chechik

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock @ade968@universeodon.com (Mastodon) @Ade968 (Twitter) https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

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369 Acceptable Usage Policy? Nov 26, 2025

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This week, Chris shared a report on a company outputting 3,000 podcasts a week with no human in the loop at all apart from sample-based QA. So we ask what is the acceptable use policy for AI at each stage of a photo/video production?

Picks of the week: Fragments by Tomazs Trzebiatowski Paris Photo

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Adrian Stock https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios (Card)

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

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368 All The Edits Nov 19, 2025

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We often think of photo editing as that bit we do on computers - or phones or in the darkroom - at a point in time after we capture a photo. But actually the whole process of making photographic images includes editing. From what camera we pick up, what we choose to look for and how we compose, right through to printing, publishing and sharing, there are editing decisions everywhere.

So, inspired by this fstoppers article, it's time to talk about all the edits.

Picks of the week: WideluxX update Battle of Zonnebeke image

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios (Card)

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

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367 Merge It Nov 12, 2025

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A little way back, Canva bought Affinity. People worried. More recently, Affinity teased a big announcement. People really worried. But, as we talk a week following that announcement, Affinity is free forever and has added a million users.

And the Affinity apps are all updated and merged into a new Studio.

So this week we talk about the merger of companies, of products, of hardware and software. Mergers we like, mergers that failed, mergers we would like to see in the future of photography!

What do you think about all this?

Mentioned in the show: The Weird Death of User Interfaces

Picks of the week: Feline by Tim Flach Andrea Girones

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios (Card)

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo

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366 Two Things Nov 05, 2025

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A two-topic week with perhaps a little jeopardy. First - what app did Adrian actually decide to subscribe to and why? Second - an industry announcement that prompts an emotional response!

Picks of the week: This Way Up by the Map Men Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones Reflection Frame

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios (Card)

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo

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365 Embrace Winter Oct 29, 2025

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It was a dark and stormy night in the dead of winter. Villagers huddled round their fires. A few hardy ones ventured to the inn to swap stories of great exaggeration. It was a time to lay low and wait for the light to return.

Except if you are a photographer of course!

This week we talk nabout some great winter photo projects and how to get the best out of the dark days. And many apologies to souther hemisphere listeners for whom this is clearly - as usual - porrly timed 😀.

Mentioned in the show: Adrian's Snow Night Todd Hido Pentti Sammallahti

Picks of the week: Gandolfi Cameras Print Matters Nano Banana Caira camera

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock @ade968@universeodon.com (Mastodon) @Ade968 (Twitter) https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo

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364 Shooting Infrared With a Phone Oct 22, 2025

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Historically, Infrared (IR) photography has requried some special kit. Maybe film sensitive to the different frequencies or a digital camera converted to allow IR to hit the sensor. And after some time and effort you can get those nice images where the leaves are all white and the sky is a deep black colour.

But today, it is easier than ever to shoot IR and in fact you can do it on your phone. Chris tells us how it's done and shares his experiments.

Mentioned in the show: WRN Film inspiration Chris’s IR videos

Picks of the week: Affinity teaser Moft iPad mini case Arctic icebergs

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock @ade968@universeodon.com (Mastodon) @Ade968 (Twitter) https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo

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363 Infrared With a Phone Oct 08, 2025

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shoHistorically, Infrared (IR) photography has requried some special kit. Maybe film sensitive to the different frequencies or a digital camera converted to allow IR to hit the sensor. And after some time and effort you can get those nice images where the leaves are all white and the sky is a deep black colour.

But today, it is easier than ever to shoot IR and in fact you can do it on your phone. Chris tells us how it's done and shares his experiments.

Mentioned in the show: WRN Film inspiration Chris’s IR videos

Picks of the week: Affinity teaser Moft iPad mini case Arctic icebergswnotes

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock @ade968@universeodon.com (Mastodon) @Ade968 (Twitter) https://adrianstock.com/ (Home)

Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios

Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home)

All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo

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