The Future of Photography

In the last few years we have seen many approaches to animating photos. Not video as such, more visual effects for impact and fun. Right now it is getting easier all the time. Chris and Ade discuss how we got here, what tools we can use today and the impact they have on our images. From cinemagraphs, through professional tools and now into consumer space, we have lots to play with. Animoto and Quik will help you with presenting photos to friends and family. And Apple Live Photos, along with Samsung, Google and others will help you get started in the glorious, occasionally cheesy, art of animation.

What if one photo could contain multiple focal lengths and treat the magnification of background and foreground in a fundamentally different way? Researchers at the UCSB (the University of California, Santa Barbara) have moved one step closer to this. Their research paper shows their algorithm allowing to take a stack of images that was taken from different perspectives and at different focal lengths and combining them into a single photo with variable focal lengths.

Are you deep? Depth has many meanings in photography. Specifically for computational photography it can involve calculating depth, blurring, focus stacking and more. Chris and Ade discuss all these things and the way our cameras can work it all out - so mostly yeh then and less on philosophy! Mamiya waist level finder Asus Zenfobe AR Apple ARKit Photogrammetry Bookmark the website here

So what exactly is computational photography? Chris and Ade discuss a range of examples including panoramas, HDR and lens correction. Do they nail the jelly to the wall? Not completely but it’s fun trying and the more they try the bigger the topic gets. More power is definitely good though! Wikipedia definition Bookmark the website here

Did you hear the one about the new podcast? Well this is it. Chris and Ade met, talked and found an enormous new area to podcast about. The Future of Photography includes computational photography, image making, smartphones, software, film and more Bookmark the website here