Chris has been encouraging Leo to take some time off from photography because he's just not motivated. A "photographic cleanse" is often a good idea to reboot, refresh, and get the creative juices flowing again. And Leo says it works.
Here are three uses for a camera other than taking pictures:
Saving Money by Using Cameras Instead Lidar
Chris has got three workshop tours coming up in the first half of 2020:
Big Ice Journey ... Lake Baikal. Ten days in Siberia. Feb 2020
The Tribes of Ethiopa. Mar 2020
Bhutan ... Land of the Thunderdragon. April 2020
There's also still room to take his 2019 tours:
Silk Road Kyrgyztan June 2019
Romania ... Fall Colors Oct. 2019
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Chris says that sometimes, when you've lost your motivation, or feel discouraged with your photography, is to take a break from your camera. Put all the high performance stuff aside and just shoot with your mobile device for awhile.
Three Apps -
SPECTRE. A long exposure app.
Chris says that scientists have used computational photography to take the world's first picture of a black hole 53 light years away. The image was actually created using thousands of different images from the largest camera in the world, the Event Horizon Telescope. It's actually eight telescopes all around the globe, that create a virtual telescope the size of a planet. Then all those telescopes take pictures of the same spot over and over again, using the rotation of the planet, and then merge that image data to create this image of the black hole.
Chris says there's a new kind of photography called "Generational Photography" where you can generate photos of people who don't exist and they look realistic. It's done with artificial intelligence and was developed by NVIDIA. Chris says it looks pretty good and it's bound to get even better as time goes on, NVIDIA has also created a technique that lets you create photos of places that don't exist simply by sketching out a basic image. And that could put stock photographers out of business.
Chris Marquardt goes over a few submissions from the recent photo assignment, where photographers take a picture from an "ant's perspective". The new assignment is to take a photo of an apple. Not the tech company, but a real fruity apple!
Chris recently had one of his photos show up on Flickr Explore, and he got over 49,000 views in one day. It's a search algorithm that has a few conditions - 1) It has to have a lot of views, 2) the image has to be of a minimum size or above 3) Pro users are more likely to get highlighted 4) The more active you are on Flickr, the more likely your image will get chosen. On the other hand, the more groups your photo is featured in, the less likely it'll be featured. 5) Avoid Watermarks.
Chris joins us to talk about things that photographers learn, and then proceed to overuse them. Like a new fast lens... and suddenly, all your photos are shallow depth of field. Or drones... suddenly, all the shots you take are drone shots. After a while though, we end up moving on to something else. Balance is the key, use your gear for specific shots to tell a story.
Chris joins us to talk about the new triple camera feature of the Samsung Galaxy S10. Chris says that most smartphones have a basic focal length of 28mm, but the Galaxy S10 has a wider 16mm feature that can cause a lot of distortion. Users can zoom in to the medium or telephoto setting as well.
