Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat! Workflow: turns out this is a biggy! What we thought would be a nice light update on how we are all working at the moment is actually a big topic as we all work in such different ways. Lots to listen to, see and learn! Mentioned in the podcast : Halide , Hipstamatic , Canon Selphy Printer , Affinity Photo , Adobe (all the apps) , Snapseed , Focos and many more. Picks of the week : Life-size models with 1:6 scale props , Pixelmator Phot...
Mar 17, 2021•58 min
Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat! Join us for a display of carefree, delightful speculation on what photo editing might look like ten years from now. Will it even exist as a concept? Does your AI handle all that tedious effort? Who trains your AI? And do we get any fun toys to play with? Picks of the week: New DJI FPV drone , Desktop holographic printer , The battle for the future of photo editing, new release of Hipstamatic X . This is an episode of The Future of Phot...
Mar 11, 2021•52 min
+++ SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL +++ Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat! It's a challenge week! How to make a photo without a camera or a phone. Can we go "beyond cameras" yet? Four different approaches to meeting the challenge yield radically different results! Picks of the week: Insta360 Pro 2 , C-Scapes zine from Pixels and Grain , 3D micro art scanning , Pictures from words . This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock https://tw...
Mar 03, 2021•47 min
Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat! What is abstract photography? Is the intention maybe to generate feelings rather than information or story? Feeling not meaning? There is a whole world to explore here... Work discussed in the show: The Photo Argus | Barnett Newman | Man Ray | Wynn Bullock | Frances Seward | Maija Savolainen | Andrew S Gray | James Fox | How to tell if abstract art is good or not Picks of the week: Cinema Cartography , Ben Jaminbardou , Rationality tes...
Feb 24, 2021•44 min
Watch this on video – Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! Anyone for glitching? This week we have some fun with Decim8 - a glitch effect app we all love (except for one of us, listen in to find out who). What do we make with it all? Photos here . Also, news updates on flat lenses and the teleprompter moves from theory to experiment. Picks of the week: Camera monitor as tried by Adrian, Drive and listen , Lightleap , 3D Photo Stereo Image Maker ....
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Watch this on video | Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! Adrian launches a subject way deeper than he thought (he thought this was about shopping). In our new-style lives with primarily video connections to colleagues, friends, clients, how do we look them in the eye? Well, a teleprompter can help. Perhaps this is not a new idea but simply a new context. Errol Morris has been working this way for many years. Chris recently built himself an inverse teleprompter. So, should we all now have telep...
Feb 10, 2021•53 min
Watch this on video | Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! Who doesn't love a great print magazine? But many have now sadly dropped away and others have had to pivot to things we maybe don't remember them for. So what is the future for this paragon of publishing? Join the conversation to find out. Magazines we discuss in the show: LensWork , PhotoKlassik , c't Fotografie , Let’s Explore Magazine , Hunger , Aperture , Black+White Photography , National Geographic , Vogue , Article on crowdfunding...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Watch this on video Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! Most photographs are flat - right? Only most though. Even in the 19th Century people were experimenting with 3D imagery and it hasn't stopped. So this week we talk about stereoscopy , anaglyphs, holograms, viewers , cameras and even how to make 3D images yourself. Picks of the week: Great software offers from Serif, 3D scanning on iPhone 12 with LIDAR, Anaglyph Maker software, Stereo Master software. This is an episode of The Future of Pho...
Jan 27, 2021•56 min
Watch this on video Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! A proper geek out show this week, checking out the latest and greatest in computational image processing. Will Nerfies replace Selfies? Can you re-light 2D video realistically when you map in that new sky? How do you take a busy video clip and isolate all the moving parts onto different layers ? All this and more! Picks of the week: Camera shutter quiz , Gaffer and Gear , Space images from food , Remini AI enhancement app. This is an episo...
Jan 20, 2021•41 min
Watch this on video | Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! Adrian has an album called “Oddities”. It’s for images that don’t fit a category or project but that he finds compelling in some way. It can take any old nonsense shots and make them findable even much later. It came in very useful this week! So what does everyone else do? And what is in their oddities? Picks of the week: OBS Studio 26.1.2 , Blurb notebooks , Lumafusion 1-touch chroma key function....
Jan 13, 2021•45 min
Watch this on video Join our Discord for more TFOP chat!]( https://discord.gg/fnvpMC5 ) How do we discuss the problem with photography podcasts without torpedoing our own show? Tune in to find out. There's evolution, technical revolution, economics, history (from OG Chris) and much, much more! Picks of the week: The most enormous magnetic tape , photographing dark matter and Eimear's new project ....
Jan 06, 2021•43 min
Watch this on video Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! It's that time of year where we love to speculate frivolously! Join us to hear about audio-only social networks , flash cards for video meetings and designing homes for new use cases like video studios and home schooling. We also look back at 2020 to pick out highlights like Eimear's 366 project successfully completed, Chris' new role as TV news producer and making green screen movies with kids. Picks of the week: Studio Creator , Jupe tra...
Dec 31, 2020•55 min
Watch this on video | See the photos | Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! Happy Holidays everyone! As the northern hemisphere passes through midwinter, warm, life-giving daylight is but a dim memory for many of us. What better time to check out some computational night-mode goodness on you telling bone of choice? So that's what the TFOP team have been doing! Picks of the week: High quality phone stand and tripod mount , Alex Majoli , Spooky people ....
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Watch this on video | Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! Check out our headshots Headshots! Tricky yeah, a lot to get just right. Except now you can get a decent headshot as a selfie. So what is the future of headshots? We talk about the process, usage of headshots, tools to make them. All with a dose of lighthearted fun of course :-) Picks of the week: M1 MacBook Air , iPhone Stage Light Mono, DoF and Patch tools in Focos app , Daniel Wallace artificial people , Ruth Medjber ....
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr
Watch this on video | Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! A big topic to tackle - how do we present images, especially in a world where movement is highly restricted? We look at recent changes in galleries and museums , the film industry , how VR can display art , TV art frames as a subscription and the resurrection of drive-in movies (and more actually!). Picks of the week: iPhone 12 Pro Max is a huge leap forward for Adrian, Chris loves his new fairy lights, [Build your own gallery online]( h...
Dec 09, 2020•46 min
Watch this on video Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! See our photos for this episode This week the TFOP crew have taken on an assignment. Make three images, using a phone only, on the themes Action, Self-Portrait and Colour. What did they come up with? Picks of the week: Zeiss Ikon IKONTA camera, Gregory Heisler self-portrait , Election photo essay , Glorious old photos ....
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Watch this on video -- Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! From the Cottingley Fairies to recent fictional autobiography , there is a long and proud history of telling fictional stories through photography. We take a leisurely stroll through a whole bunch of fiction including: Mathew Brady , Chris Marker's LaJette , David Levinthal , Stephen Leslie , Jeff Wall , Kevin Moore , Cindy Sherman , Gregory Crewdson . Picks of the week: Co-manufacturing with Edelkrone , Claire Marie Bailey , Jeremiah C...
Nov 18, 2020•43 min
Watch this on video Join our Discord for more TFOP chat! What happens when AI starts to learn and interpret beauty? And how do you train it? From a lecture by EyeEm cofounder and CTO Ramzi Rizk , we discuss the consequences of working with AI systems trained to make judgements about beauty, to assign complex meanings as keywords and to surface image sets based on complex criteria. Is it all over for photographers making aesthetic decisions? And just what exactly is Visual Salience ? Picks of the...
Nov 11, 2020•49 min
Watch this on video The next in our mini-series of "Photos that changed my FOP". This time Adrian talks about two photos that shifted his thinking and practice of photography - describing photographic highs, lows, doldrums and the uphill climb to making photos again. Picks of the week: Clyde Butcher on Studio C-41 , Hipstamatic again, Gerbils , Cunning drone disguise , telling stories with one image ....
Nov 04, 2020•50 min
So what are the consequences of using AI to edit images? What does it do to the global aesthetic or the business of manipulating images? Can we celebrate that big companies like Adobe are finally considering user experience in their product development? In this week of Adobe Max and some big Photoshop updates , we consider all these questions. Way beyond sky replacement, what actually is happening here? Picks of the week: The movie Knives Out - specifically the lighting by DP Steve Yedlin , Lomo...
Oct 28, 2020•42 min
Watch this episode on video Photos that changed Chris' FOP: Shopping Center , Gruppenbild Absolut Analog Workshop Februar 2011 , Freiburg Münster . See also: Episode 124 Our Influences (pt 1)
Oct 21, 2020•34 min
Watch this episode on video A trio of technical updates this week from the TFOP team. Or more precisely, a potted history of technical updates including the latest in CCTV . This is followed by the latest from NVIDIA and then a Work From Home learning update on how actually to use a dedicated camera to improve your video conferencing. Picks of the week: New Adobe image authentication technology , Private Tour of the Eastman Technical Vault , a new light meter and Bad Lip Reading . This is an epi...
Oct 20, 2020•47 min
Watch this episode on video What exactly is a snapshot. Is it an aesthetic? A technique? A lack of contrivance perhaps? Today we discuss some famous snap-shooters, the overall concept and the future of snapshots. Is the future of snapshots the top of children's heads? And how can we try out some of those future things today? Mentioned in the show: Vivian Meyer , Stephen Shore , Martin Parr , Slim Aarons . Picks of the week: Estee Lauder at the ISS , A great service for buying and selling used ge...
Oct 07, 2020•50 min
Watch this episode on video Drones are toys, tech marvels, flying cameras, surveillance instruments, delivery vehicles and much more, in all shapes and sizes. So what is the impact of all these? Should we be scared or welcoming? Would it be nice if they were a bit quieter? Can they deliver medicine? All this and more on TFOP this week and some great drone-based picks of the week: Andromeda tilted , Bring droney home , Black Hornet PRS , Skydio Recon , Argentum app , Aideen Barry: Flight Folly ....
Sep 30, 2020•42 min
Watch this episode as a video Live lounge - sounds awesome doesn’t it. Makes you feel like you’re let of a happening. Well, that’s exactly what we did for The Photograohy Show. We may have been stuck at home but we have technology and we’re able to talk to each other and wax lyrical on what we saw. So many links it’s not possible to list them all - they are all here . Check out the man who lives on a narrow boat, the art of backlight, 360 cameras, copyright law, lockdown projects and many more!...
Sep 23, 2020•52 min
Watch this announcement on video Ladies and Gentlemen, we are excited to announce a brave new step in the future of The Future of Photography. On Sunday 20th September 2020 we will host a live conversation about what we have seen in our virtual visit to The Photography Show . Come and join us at our Discord server to see the streaming video, to chat and to interact live with the TFOP crew. We are looking forward to it enormously. It will be a bit of an experiment as well! To keep you going, here...
Sep 13, 2020•12 min
Watch this episode as a video Sometimes the future of photography is a personal thing and there is a story and influences. It's Eimear's turn this week to tell her story and it's a good one! Links to artists discussed in the show: Diane Arbus , Andy Goldsworthy , Dragana Jurišić 100 muses , Amanda Coogan . Picks of the week: Open Source photo editing hardware, Hipstamatic ,AI art from Daniel Wallace , Diane Arbus exhibition ....
Sep 09, 2020•42 min
Watch this episode as a video With all the facial image recognition now around, a real problem is false positives. False ID, false gender recognition, poor performance for people of colour - there are many problems. Inspired by a slightly humorous occurrence , we discuss some serious societal issues and one fascinating instance of someone actually doing something to improve the situation. CAVEAT: this conversation is clearly the tip of an iceberg, we have not attempted an exhaustive coverage so ...
Sep 02, 2020•43 min
Watch this episode on YouTube Join our discord for more TFOP fun! This week we have another instalment of our mini series on "10 years from now..." talking about how imagery will be presented at that time. Clearly some extrapolation and speculation is required so we cover micro LED walls, electronic paper, holograms and more. Some links from the discussion: E-ink , LED wall installations . Picks of the week: Big screen VR , Printing on marshmallows Atmoph windows , #tfopnow on Flickr ....
Aug 26, 2020•48 min
Watch this episode on YouTube It's impossible to discuss societal impacts of photography without considering the selfie - so this week we do just that. We all know the impact is huge but it has multiple dimensions, some quite serious, and we aim to cover those in this show and also consider (of course) the future of selfies and self-portraits. The links this week are well worth reading and watching... Vivan Maier self portraits , Lizzy Gadd Photography , Young women, narcissism and the selfie ph...
Aug 19, 2020•41 min
