Learn how you can be a photographer every day. Educator and media producer Andrew Haworth presents interviews, commentary, and practical advice to keep you motivated on your long-term photography projects.
The photographic industry once overlooked the importance of accurate skin tone reproduction for people of color. Now, new technology touted in Google’s latest smartphones promises to render darker skin tones in a more accurate way.
In this episode, we'll take a look back at some of the industry's problems with skin tone through the years, and discuss strategies for ensuring better color accuracy and exposure.
Topics discussed:
Google's Real Tone ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhUgcYw9cj4)
Google's official Real Tone page (https://store.google.com/intl/en/discover/realtone/)
Google rolls out Real Tone filters for Google Photos users (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/25/google-photos-new-real-tone-filters/)
An article on "Shirley Cards" from NPR (https://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363517842/for-decades-kodak-s-shirley-cards-set-photography-s-skin-tone-standard)
The Wall Street Journal tests Real Tone on the Pixel 6 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-built-the-pixel-6-camera-to-better-portray-people-with-darker-skin-tones-does-it-11635177665)
The X-Rite ColorChecker Passport (the color reference discussed on this show) (https://www.xrite.com/categories/calibration-profiling/colorchecker-passport-video)
How to use a vectorscope (https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-a-vectorscope-definition/)
Using incident light meters (https://thelenslounge.com/why-you-need-a-light-meter/)
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15 Mar 2022
Getting (literally) knocked out of a rut
It’s easy to get jaded after doing something for decades, months or even days. Then something unexpected happens. Sometimes a routine photo assignment turns out to be much more memorable – and maybe a little painful!
11 Jan 2022
Where do all the photos Gogh?
Collectively, humans are taking an estimated 1.4 trillion photos a year. In a single day, we shoot more photos than were taken during the first 100 years of photography. What are we losing when we’re constantly shooting, and where do the images eventually end up?
Topics discussed:
Astroworld 2021: Photographer Daniel Cavazos reports on the fatal events of that day (https://medium.com/@mr.minnow/astroworld-2021-408fb9da7c00)
How Many Photos Will be Taken in 2020? (https://blog.mylio.com/how-many-photos-will-be-taken-in-2020/)
Video Breaks Down the Sheer Number of Photos Uploaded Every Minute (This is an older article, but still very interesting.) (https://petapixel.com/2013/05/27/video-shares-interesting-facts-about-the-number-of-photos-uploaded-every-minute/)
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