The Future of Photography

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Hands up who's rugged, ready for anything, an explorer and adventurer. What are your top tips for tools and packing and photography gear on your travels? With the TFOP team having traveled recently, especially Jeremiah, we're here to share our hard-earned experience. Make sure you take a shower cap and electric gloves. But don't ever take a hiking pole that doubles as a monopod.

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DNG is now an ISO standard - https://www.cined.com/dng-is-now-an-international-iso-standard-what-it-means-for-filmmakers-and-raw-workflows/

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How good is your kit? Well, probably it's excellent. Even if it is not the current generation and not top of the range. This week we discuss the pros and cons of having top of the range kit for cameras, lenses, computers and more.

Picks of the week: Cleaning Shoes - Video editing before AI Irwin Workshop Simple 90

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What's your range? 5 stops? 12 stops? 25 stops? In a follow up to our conversation a few weeks ago about LOFIC sensors, it's time to consider the creative opportunities that very high dynamic range in our cameras might bring. What doors does this technology open for photography? Are there any unintended consequences? Are there stars in London at night?

Picks of the week: DIY: Digital Aperture Albert Watson

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Every time has it's aesthetic, its 'look' - and every 'classic look' was once a technical limitation that people learned to love or hate. Today we can create pristine imagery and yet, for some of us, that lacks something. Which is worth discussing!

Picks of the week: 10 Stops IBIS Now Possible Simple Asset Manager with 1970s slide viewer Hans P. Kraus Jr. gallery

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What if you could fix that little niggly tool you didn't like in your photo editor? Or maybe there is a tool you would love to have but don't? Hang on though, you pay money for those tools - what if they were free? And fully customised to your workflow. And only had the things you need and none of the things you didn't. And the UI was Goldilocks "juuusst right."

These sorts of things might be possible if you spend just a...

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What if your smartphone sensor could capture a genuine 20 stops? This is the promise of LOFIC (Lateral Overflow Integration Capacitor) technology which made the press last year but could come to market in 2026.

Could we see phones at the back end of the year released with 200MP 16-stop sensors? And what do we do with all that extra light?

Picks of the week: Smartphone cameras. Example: Aurora. WUBEN G5 flashlight

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Our creative endeavours are intensely personal. Luckily then, we have access to a vast array of tools, many of which are themselves almost infinitely configurable. So how do we manage that? How do we get the best out of our tools to support our creative vision without being blown away by the choices? Which options allow our creative experimentation to flourish and which should we set and forget?

Picks of the week: Why Tech Needs Personalization by Om Malik Apple Creator Studio

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Hands up who experiences some friction in getting going on a photo project? 🙋🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Yep, thought so. So consider today’s episode a little grease in the machinery, helping us all to reduce the friction, get going on stuff, and not be too precious about where it takes us!

Picks of the week: Example Glue Roller A3 Sketchbook Canon Selphy printers Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema

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Happy New Year! Do you have plans? Goals? Expectations? Or are you perhaps easing in gently, enjoying the seasonal break and hoping the feeling lasts long into the new year? What does you photography future look like for 2026? Time for the TFOP team to share some thoughts and ideas.

Picks of the week: Drawing Camera Project Don’t Burn Anyone At The Stake Today by Naomi Alderman OVER Journal

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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...

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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!

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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

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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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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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One effective way to make sure your software subscriptions don't rack up is to switch off the auto-renew. Adrian has actively built this into his photography hobby - choosing a new thing every year based on whatever creative whim takes him at the time. And it's come around again - time to choose a new app! With little help from Jeremiah and Chris that is.

Mentioned in the show: Davinci Resolve VSCO Polarr LD (Lens Distortions) Photopea Gemini Nano Banana

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A brave explorer traveled the North West Passage experiencing Greenland and Baffin Island, photographing polar bears and beautiful light. And having made it safely back home, our good friend Jeremiah tells us all about it!

Picks of the week: Pixboom Spark Pixless Camera Kickstarter, YouTube Instax Wide Evo

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What if the best way to consider newly relesed cameras was in order of size? Is it the only meaningful metric left? And if so, do you start small and go up or start big and go down?

Not in size order, the cameras we talked about in the show: Ricoh GR IV Hasselblad X2D II 100C Nikon ZR iPhone 17 Pro

Picks of the week: Ice...

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No CGI here boss, honest! Or is there... This week, inspired by Hollywood directors who "[do it all in camera](https://youtu.be/hniWOH_zwh8 )", we take a look at the spectrum from SOOC to Generated and explore our personal views on what impact that has on photography. What do you think?

Picks of the week: OKLCH colour model Aviary: The Bird in Contemporary Photography by William A. Ewing , Danaé Panchaud

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When a photographer and an idea love each other very much... this week we consider high concept photography. Inspired by Nadia Lee Cohen and Martin Parr's new book Julie Bullard, we discuss how work like this is even conceivable. And then with the help of YouTuber Tim Runia, how it is we can get started on projects of this kind.

Picks of the week: The Cult of Done Manifesto ABBA Voyage

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There’s a lot of commentary on social media at the moment about modern tools making us too comfortable to create and (of course) algorithms sundering our culture. But it’s a multi-dimensional thing for sure and each of those dimensions you could pick one side or the other.

So what happened to suffering for our art? What happened to 10,000hours? Are we all destined to morph into super-saturated influencers in sponsored bikinis? Or should we go back to pouring chemicals onto glass plat...

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Jeremiah and Chris have stories to tell about the things you can get away with when it comes to taking photos or shooting film or video. From Christmas Vacation and Benny & Joon to simple household items.

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All the making! Making friends, making prints, making photos, making whoopee, making book. This week we talk - and had to stop ourselves on time rather than topics 😀 - about making photo books. Zines, fine art, journals... It turns out Adrian even knows the difference between a monograph and a retrospective, well, at least after thinking it through.

Picks of the week: A life in Ten Pictures Publish Your Photography Book by Darius D. Himes, Mary Virginia Swanson

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Where do we go from here? No point in sharing our photos on socials anymore - they're dead, just an advertising feed. Or are they? But how should we discover new things? How do we get past the bots to engage with real humans?

Picks of the week: B&H Podcast with Edward Burtynsky VSCO Capture The Wayback Machine

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For a while now - actually quite a long while - we have been publishing our shows as video on YouTube. Recently, we have added Shorts to our channel as little samples of good the whole thing really is 😀. that could mean a whole lot of editing and publishing work for the team except that - because Chris is a genius (note from Chris: the robots deserve all the credit, I basically just yelled "enhance!") - it's all automated thorugh vibe coding with AIs. Tune in...

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Hopium - a hybrid of hope and opium. We all sometimes want stuff to happen, or be true, or to be as good as it seems. So Jeremiah and Chris have done some digging into UV printing to see how real the recent biggest ever kickstarter might be. And along the way, we smile fondly at the memory of some products that never quite made it - looking at you Light 16!

Picks of the week: How autofocus actually works chrismeetschris Project Indigo

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Every so often we like to ask the question “can we capture still photos from video?” For sure the arts of photography and filming require different camera settings to get desired effects - but what if you just shot video without an ND and let the shutter speed ramp up until you lose the motion blur? Or perhaps go the other way and optimise for video at capture and then process as still images?

We have a whole host of AI tools now to h...

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What if you were developing a creative tool that seemed to blend 2D and 3D printing? And then what if your kickstarter raised 93x (yes, 93 times) your funding goal. This week we discuss the eufyMake E1, the first personal 3D-texture UV printer.

Picks of the week: A visit at the world's largest camera Douglas Kirkland Jeremiah's image

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Jeremiah and Chris chart a rapid timeline: from 19th-century product photos to the large-format, chrome-gloss ads of the 1960-80s; through the 1990s digital pivot, when Photoshop and backs replaced film; to today’s virtual sets where most product images are CGI — see Zalando, IKEA, and modern car campaigns.

Despite AI and renders, authentic photos still outperform for trust. Technology changes the tools, not the vision—story-driven, light-savvy photographers remain essential, so keep shooting and experimenting.

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Show Notes – The Future of Photography

Show Notes – The Future of Photography

Show Notes – The Future of Photography

This week, Chris and Adrian talk about the rise of digital cameras that simulate the analog experience. From film advance levers and stripped-down interfaces to the absence of screens and menus, more photographers are embracing limitations to rediscover creative freedom. They discuss cameras like the Fujifilm X Half, the Yashica FX-D, and the Pixii Camera, and how these devices cater to a grow...

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It's an upbeat week! It turns out there is a whole lot of innovation going on in the world of photography...

Mentioned in the show: Fujifilm X-Half Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Xplorer Bundle 3D-Printed 135 Wide-Format Film Camera Falcon P-35 Project Hasselblad Xpan Davinci Resolve 20

Picks of the week: Insta360 Go 3S xpan mode ObscuraFlex

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What does a good photograph need? Light? A subject? And are there more nuanced needs like attention and noticing - elements related to the mind of the creative photographer at work?

This week, Chris is back from his annual Abbey Workshop with lots of great stories and some thought provoking discussion topics.

Picks of the week: Klostergeister 2025 video Calligraphy @ Klostergeister Blackmagicdesign Davinci Resolve 20

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"I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle."

Ok, we're not there yet. But how much do we trust the lenses, sensors and algorithms that we encounter in our everyday lives? Do we even notice them all? Have we outsourced the decisive moment?

Picks of the week:

Last Laughs by Elliott Erwitt

Everyday moments on Earth

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There has been a lot of hype recently about a new Canon Camera. Is it genuinely innovative? Does it move dials or change games or shift paradigms? Will it help anyone? Time to dive in. Adrian is unreasonably excited, Jeremiah considerably less so - he wants to destroy a bunch of them. Maybe Chris can help us find a balanced view!

This week we discuss the Canon V1.

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It's been a wee while since the team got together, so this week we are sharing some stories of things we did, stories we found and generally just enjoying ourselves. Join us 😀.

Mentioned in the show: Shooting lots of video - a photographer’s view K&F Concept combined VND, CPL and Mist filter Davinci Resolve Capcut Scientists "discover" a new color

Picks of the week: Spectacular ELT Photos Sennheiser MKE 400 Jesús Mascaraque’s Digital Artworks

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A mystery to solve! A collection of color slides and unprocessed film from the 1960s and 1970s was discovered in the 1980s. The images, separated from their photographer, were meticulously developed by two Bay Area historians. Recently they ran a kickstarter to help them fund the project of processing, curating and investigating all the images - including an objective to identify the photographer!

Picks of the week: Cameradactyl Master System Light in the Underworld: Diving the Mexican Cenotes by Martin Broen Erwin Blumenfeld<...