New (free) Raw Editor

Filmulator is an open-source RAW photo editor based on the process of developing film, and while far more limited than software like Lightroom or Capture One (it lacks tags, for example) its tone mapping algorithm is supposedly designed to be faster and easier to get a good result that mirrors the depth of color film.  Filmulator...

QWD Film at Freestyle

Quiet We’re Dreaming (aka QWD) was started as a way to use motion picture film in a still camera to scout for motion-based projects. After years of trial and error, they figured out how to process ECN-2 on a small scale and can now share that knowledge with photographers and cinematographers around the world. Keeping...

Drone Photography

I found this article from Design You Trust while surfing photo contests.  Drone photography used to be grainy images or super expensive machines, and now they are commonplace enough we have whole photo awards for them! Most people don't know but we have drone photography classes at ARC.  A drone photographer has to have passed...

Netflix stole photographer’s work…

'They used my picture and I should've got paid for it' By Nell Mackenzie Business reporter, BBC News Sean Heavey recognised his photo the moment he saw it on Stranger Things.  “God, that storm looks familiar,” he said, as he and his son watched the hit Netflix show. When he watched a documentary about the making...

The Getty Challenge

Museums around the world have had to close due to the spread of the corona virus.  Many of them have online virtual tours and lectures that you can watch while we wait for the world to get back to normal. But we have reached a new level of art appreciation when the Getty Museum challenged...

Eye-Oriented Tech Tools

Now that all colleges are online (eep) something I've noticed as all of my communication is digital, is that I'm getting migraines WAY more often...so I went out spent more time online and bought some computer glasses. Computer/gamer Glasses There are certainly better and more expensive brands, but I looked around at what was well rated...