The Future of Photography

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 travel pods, Tips for winter photography.

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.

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.

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]( https://www.kunstmatrix.com/en).

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.

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 Chechik, Jerry Uelsmann.

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 week: Anticipation of getting a new camera - that point between ordering and receiving! Altered thrift store paintings, [Van Gogh museum eye tracking project](https://youtu.be/0_KaItdTkEM ).

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.

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 Sprocket Rocket, Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse, Nigel Danson on YouTube.

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)