Equipment
Last week, we shared some of our end of the year data for 2019, highlighting some of the many trends that are taking place in the photo and video industries. While I recommend you to look through the data presented in that article, some of the trends we saw were that the staple focal lenses […]
Equipment
As per tradition here at Lensrentals.com, at the end of the year, we go through all of our records and use that to provide the public with some insight on the industry and where it is going. Through this record-keeping, we’re able to provide some information on what is the most popular rented gear from […]
Podcast Episode
David Horan, who is a member of the photography faculty at The University of Memphis Department of Art is back in the studio with Roger discussing photography pioneers, Oscar Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson. Both of these men grappled with many of the questions debated online to this day: What is photography? What is technique? And what is science? Hear how they thought through the stances they took on realism vs staged productions.
Equipment
A few months ago, while testing out audio equipment for our now released podcast (available on iTunes, Youtube, and Spotify), we decided to take some of our most popular cameras into our sound booth, and give them the ASMR treatment. For those unacquainted, ASMR refers to autonomous sensory meridian response, or the tingling sensation that […]
Podcast Episode
David Carson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Carson’s images are featured extensively in the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography that was awarded to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch photo staff. In 2008, his multimedia project “Reporting for Duty” won a regional Emmy award for Advanced Media – Interactivity. We talk with David about his experience covering Ferguson, and how much of his team’s previous work prepared them to better understanding the issues that were front and center. David shares his take on newsrooms that have lost photojournalist, the future of staff photographers and why they matter even in our current visual age.
