The Future of Photography

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 episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock https://twitter.com/Ade968 Eimear King https://www.instagram.com/apostroph__e/ Jeremiah Chechik https://www.chechik.com/ Chris Marquardt https://chrismarquardt.com/ Listen to all podcast episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com All video episodes at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo Find us here: Discord: https://tfttf.com/jointfop Web: https://thefutureofphotography.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/tfopnow Instagram: https://instagram.com/tfopnow

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 gear to make your snapshots, Shin Noguchi, foundin_a_attic.

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.

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!

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 are the links we discuss in the podcast: lens smash, guacamole, TFOP Discord. See you on Sunday!!!

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.

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 please join in the conversation to help us further it. Links from the conversation: San Francisco recently banned facial recognition technology, Even in photocopying it can go wrong as Xerox found out to its cost, AI, Ain’t I a Woman? Joy Buolamwinithe algorithmic justice league. Picks of the week: Remembering Russell A. Kirsch, Pencil not Watch, Photorealistic Roman Emperors, Banana art.

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.

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 phenomenon - Mary McGill tedX talk, How artists are using the selfie as a radical weapon for change. Picks of the week: Photographer F.C. Gundlach, Website with great tips on phone photography including selfies, 10 masters of self-portraits. Selfie laughs, Societal impact of selfies.

Watch this episode on YouTube Have you ever tried to take a shot and thought "I wish that truck would move" or "I wish the light were different? It's coming! A new prototype software engine combines photo data sets to produce clean images with no obstacles, variable angles and even variable lighting conditions. It's crazy-clever and the video examples are amazing! Picks of the week: Software to remove obstacles, Lego Trevi Fountain, Portrait from CSS code.